Articles from 2018

Judge approves landmark $85 billion AT&T-Time Warner merger, paving way for T-Mobile-Sprint deal

The $85 billion merger between AT&T and Time Warner was approved by U.S District Court Judge Richard Leon on Tuesday, a… Read More

Live: Watch the raucous debate as Seattle City Council considers repealing new head tax

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dFy1lUXmbo Update: The council voted 7-2 to repeal the head tax. Read GeekWire’s full story here. Another heated debate is taking… Read More

Seattle studio’s ‘Tarot Cards of Tech’ help users see the future, slow down and ask better questions

Picture a scandal that has rocked the tech world in the past year or two and chances are the people… Read More

Elon Musk announces 9 percent job cut at Tesla in ‘difficult’ drive for profitability

Just days after promising he’d make Tesla profitable within months, CEO Elon Musk announced today that 9 percent of the… Read More

Tech Moves: Tableau adds Microsoft vet as VP of product marketing; New executives at RealNetworks; and more

Tableau, the Seattle maker of data visualization software, has quietly hired away a senior Microsoft marketing executive to lead product… Read More

E3 2018: Is this Nintendo’s next ‘Smash’ hit?

LOS ANGELES — At this year’s E3, Nintendo is coming in healthy. The Switch is selling like gangbusters; Nintendo still… Read More

National Academies call for systemwide steps to fight sexual harassment in science

A newly published report from the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine calls for dramatic steps to curb sexual… Read More

Don’t count Cortana out: Study predicts Microsoft’s digital assistant will rival Amazon and Google in business use

Cortana is getting serious traction in the enterprise world, according to a new study that predicts Microsoft’s digital assistant will… Read More

Google Translate gets smarter offline translation features that account for context

Google is beefing up Google Translate with more accurate offline translations in 59 languages. The new feature, offline Neural Machine… Read More

Get a sneak peek at Amazon Web Services’ latest infrastructure updates from Peter DeSantis at the GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit

As the man in charge of the public cloud leader’s sprawling computing resources, Peter DeSantis needs to have his finger… Read More

Brook.ai raises $4M seed round for diabetes management tech, announces new partnership

More than 100 million Americans are now living with type 2 diabetes or pre-diabetes and the disease’s health impacts, coupled… Read More

Fortnite arrives on the Nintendo Switch today; Super Mario Party and Super Smash Bros later this year

Fortnite has arrived on Nintendo Switch. The mega-popular battle royale game is launching on Nintendo’s newest console today at 10… Read More

Artist builds LEGO scene for a modern day Seattle, with iconic buildings — and tents on the streets

As an artist working with LEGO bricks, Iain Heath has created pieces that capture iconic figures of popular culture and… Read More

Petition to overturn Seattle head tax gets more than twice the signatures needed, as city prepares to repeal polarizing law

Monday afternoon, as organizers prepared to submit a petition for a ballot initiative to overturn Seattle’s new head tax with… Read More

E3 2018: Sony gets out of the way and lets the games do the talking

LOS ANGELES ― If you’d told me last week that one of the big moments of this year’s E3 would… Read More

At least one retailer — online outlet zulily — is still willing to sign up for Amazon Web Services

As Amazon has expanded its empire into nearly every aspect of commerce on the planet, retailers have been thinking twice… Read More

Seattle Children’s launches CureWorks, a project aimed at revolutionizing cancer treatment for kids

New cancer immunotherapies could revolutionize how we treat the disease, but for many children, those treatments are far out of… Read More

Sea-Tac Airport speeds to the top of the list in Ookla’s ranking of best free Wi-Fi in North America

When it comes to flying these days, few things are free anymore. But free Wi-Fi is still a perk worth… Read More

Seattle Council president on sudden head tax reversal: Why the city decided to hit ‘the reset button’

Seattle plans to vote on legislation that would repeal the city’s new head tax Tuesday, less than a month after… Read More

Teal Communications raises $1M to provide broadband connectivity for IoT devices

A Seattle-area startup has raised cash to fuel expansion of its mobile broadband service used by Internet of Things machine… Read More

Valve will launch ‘Steam China’ as it aims to attract more Chinese gamers

Valve today announced “Steam China,” a new video game marketplace that will help the Bellevue, Wash.-based company reach more Chinese… Read More

TLDR: Net neutrality ends, gender discrimination lawsuit against Microsoft, former Amazonian starts YouTube channel with daughter

[Editor’s Note: TLDR is GeekWire’s tech news rundown show, hosted by Starla Sampaco. Watch today’s update above, subscribe to GeekWire on YouTube, check… Read More