Articles from 2018 – Page 89 of 161

Boeing HorizonX joins in $5M funding round for Kittyhawk drone venture

Boeing says its HorizonX venture capital arm is investing in Kittyhawk, a San Francisco startup that provides end-to-end software solutions… Read More

Valve will stop removing controversial games on Steam unless they are ‘illegal or straight up trolling’

Valve will no longer remove games from its Steam game marketplace unless they are “illegal, or straight up trolling,” according… Read More

NetMotion launches an IT platform to keep tabs on corporate smartphones

Smartphones have been around for a while, but IT departments are still trying to grapple with a challenge they’ve created:… Read More

For the record, this state senator is fired up about the ‘power and possibilities’ of blockchain

Washington State Sen. Reuven Carlyle is all-in on blockchain. The former tech executive turned lawmaker was a keynote speaker at… Read More

TLDR: Elon Musk gets emotional at Tesla’s shareholder meeting, Microsoft’s underwater data center, Amazon’s $200 Echo Look

[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

Washington state makes its pitch for Boeing’s future 797 jet … with science!

Boeing hasn’t yet declared whether it will build a new breed of midsize passenger jet — variously known as the New… Read More

Why this former Microsoft distinguished engineer decided to build weed-zapping laser-armed robots

When Georgios Chrysanthakopoulos decided to launch a startup building small, weed-controlling robots, he wanted an enviro-friendly solution for flattening the… Read More

Podcast

Geared Up Podcast: Hands-on with iOS 12

iOS, Apple Watch, Siri — oh my! Apple just wrapped up its annual Worldwide Developers Conference, and it announced new features… Read More

Review: Take your best shot, but Harebrained’s ‘BattleTech’ is a punishingly difficult strategy game

I can’t speak to how faithful a replication BattleTech is of the franchise it’s based on. It was made by… Read More

GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit: Agenda released with top tech leaders from Apple, Google, Microsoft, Slack and Amazon

Our biggest technical conference of the year — the GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit — is coming up on June 27th… Read More

Alexa, play this ad for the Sonos Beam, which makes all other smart speakers just look dumb

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ2eUw6dG60 You might not need another smart speaker in your house, but a smart-aleck commercial about not-so-smart speakers is worth… Read More

Zillow and Redfin execs explain why they jumped into buying and selling houses directly

Both Zillow Group and Redfin have evolved from just trying to simplify residential real estate, to controlling the process from… Read More

Podcast

Doctors Without Data: Why one MD founded a startup just to get metrics on his own patients

Dr. Dan Low loves his job. It shows in almost everything he does. Low is a pediatric anesthesiologist — he’s in… Read More

Clouds under the sea: Microsoft deploys its Project Natick data center off the coast of Scotland

Microsoft kicked off the second phase of its experimental underwater data center project Wednesday, submerging a shipping-container sized data center… Read More

An international trio heads for the space station after picture-perfect Soyuz launch

News Brief: Three spacefliers from three different countries are on their way to the International Space Station for a nearly… Read More

Fashionably late: Amazon’s $200 Echo Look widely released more than a year after unveiling

Amazon made its $200 Echo Look generally available for purchase in the U.S. starting Wednesday morning, more than a year after… Read More

Portland-area pet care startup Vetsource raises $50M from Bain Capital

News Brief: Gresham, Ore.-based Vetsource has raised a $50 million investment from Bain Capital. Founded in 2005, the company provides… Read More

Destiny maker Bungie raises $100M from China’s NetEase to build new games

Bungie has reeled in a $100 million investment from Chinese gaming publisher NetEase, a key partnership that gives the company… Read More

Software automation platform Azuqua lands Adobe, Zendesk and others for new partner program

Say you’re a software company needing to roll out a bunch of new features — and fast. One big customer… Read More

Qumulo raises $93M to tackle hybrid cloud file storage, total funding now $230M

We are generating unprecedented amounts of data in our personal and professional lives on the internet, and the trend is… Read More

Microsoft shows new big-screen Windows Collaboration Displays for conference room computing

Microsoft is expanding its big-screen computing initiatives beyond its own Surface Hub, partnering with hardware makers to release a new… Read More

Microsoft adds decade-long Windows support and other services for IoT device makers

Microsoft is doubling down on its Internet of Things operating system, showing a new set of services designed to support… Read More

Nikki Krishnamurthy, Expedia’s chief people officer, to depart travel giant after 8 years

Expedia Chief People Officer Nikki Krishnamurthy is leaving the travel giant, GeekWire has learned. Krishnamurthy led the company’s global human… Read More

What caused 2014’s bird die-off on the Pacific coast? Scientists blame the Blob

Researchers have untangled the mystery behind a die-off that felled hundreds of thousands of tough seabirds known as Cassin’s auklets… Read More

How these entrepreneurs use phone calls to gain an edge in the digital age

In the digital world, it can be easy to forget the importance of human interaction. Jill Nelson, CEO of Ruby… Read More

Tesla turns back challenges at annual meeting, and Elon Musk bares his soul

Tesla shareholders at today’s annual meeting swatted down challenges to billionaire CEO Elon Musk, who laid out an admittedly optimistic… Read More

TLDR: Howard Schultz steps down as Starbucks chair, the state of bike share, new White House app uses Amazon Rekognition

[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

High-tech lubricant startup founder Amy Buckalter shares entrepreneurial lessons

It’s not often that a conversation about startup lessons goes from profit margins and hardware production to vaginal dryness and… Read More

Paul Allen’s Museum of Pop Culture expanding beyond Seattle with location in New York City

The Museum of Pop Culture, the Seattle-based institution founded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen in 2000 as a celebration of… Read More

Secretive group within Amazon reportedly conducting cancer research, launching health data venture

Amazon seems primed for a bold expansion into healthcare, after speculation in recent months that the Seattle-based company was interested… Read More