Articles from 2018

Tech Moves: Know Labs picks Package Guard founder as CBO; Former Avalara President becomes Shiftboard director; and more

Know Labs, the publicly-traded material identification technology company, has a new chief business officer. The company announced that Mike Grabham,… Read More

Fred Hutch becomes first Seattle organization in Lyft’s ‘Round Up & Donate’ program

Lyft, one of the top ridesharing programs in the U.S., announced Thursday that the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center will… Read More

FlyHomes raises $17M to purchase homes for buyers battling cash offers in hot housing markets

In Seattle, the nation’s hottest housing market for 19 straight months, frustrated buyers are losing out to all-cash offers left… Read More

Amazon, Microsoft, and more Seattle-area businesses donate $7M to Special Olympics ahead of the 2018 games

Seattle-area businesses — including Amazon, Boeing, and Microsoft — have given $7 million in cash and $2 million in in-kind donations… Read More

Tethers Unlimited delivers 3-D printer and recycler combo to NASA for space station

Tethers Unlimited Inc. says it’s delivered a combination 3-D printer and plastic recycler to NASA for testing on the International… Read More

TLDR: Amazon shareholders meeting, Valve removes school shooting game, new Pokemon products

[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,… Read More

Zillow’s Spencer Rascoff on tech’s naiveté toward evil, and how scandals are a wake-up moment

Zillow Group CEO Spencer Rascoff offered his take on tech’s troubles of late during an appearance at the Code… Read More

Amazon Web Services’ newest database, Amazon Neptune, is now generally available

After showing it off last year at AWS re:Invent 2017, Amazon Web Services announced Wednesday that its new cloud graph… Read More

Amazon’s impact on e-commerce, smart speakers and streaming quantified in Mary Meeker’s massive tech report

Amazon showed up all over tech expert Mary Meeker’s massive annual Internet Trends report this year, demonstrating how much the… Read More

Amazon’s board diversity policy stirs debate at annual shareholder meeting

Earlier this month, after Amazon’s board initially opposed a shareholder proposal requiring the company to consider women and minorities for… Read More

Did Amazon box up a T. rex? Not quite, but photos take hype for ‘Jurassic World’ film to next level

Amazon has dropped plenty of big boxes on doorsteps around the world, but this might be the biggest. Images shared… Read More

Jeff Bezos: Amazon deserves to be scrutinized as a giant company, aims to ‘pass with flying colors’

It sometimes feels that the “enemy hordes are at the gates,” in a way that Amazon hasn’t seen in years… Read More

Best Buy unveils new Amazon Fire-powered smart TV as part of partnership between oft-rival retailers

Best Buy showed off the first byproduct of its unusual partnership with Amazon, a new Toshiba 4K TV coming next… Read More

Boeing HorizonX invests in Agylstor to boost ruggedized data storage systems

The latest investment by Boeing’s HorizonX venture capital arm is going to Agylstor, a Silicon Valley startup that’s developing ruggedized… Read More

Microsoft’s Mark Russinovich: cloud-based blockchain services are ready for prime time, even inside Microsoft

Among the emerging technologies of our time, blockchain technology has somehow been the recipient of both the most hype and… Read More

Mobile marketing startup Tune trims staff as part of restructuring; key execs depart

Tune is going through more changes as the Seattle-based company continues to shift resources. The mobile marketing startup let go… Read More

‘Bezos needs a boss’: Protesters ask for CEO oversight outside Amazon’s shareholders meeting

Protestors made their return to Amazon’s shareholders meeting in Seattle, this year asking the tech giant to create more oversight… Read More

Gotta catch ’em all: New Pokémon games and a Poké Ball controller coming to Nintendo Switch

The Pokémon Co. and Nintendo showed a new slate of Pokémon products for the smash hit Nintendo Switch console, including… Read More

Microsoft’s Brad Smith fears these 3 things will happen under Trump administration this summer

Most Pacific Northwesterners spend long, rainy months pining for summer. But Microsoft President Brad Smith is having a hard time… Read More

Porch adds augmented reality tech to home improvement marketplace with Streem partnership

Porch is using augmented reality technology to help homeowners connect with service professionals. The Seattle-based startup is partnering with Portland-based… Read More

Avalara brings in former Oracle exec to be new CTO as sales tax automation company preps for IPO

Avalara hired Danny Fields, an experienced engineering leader and cloud tech veteran, to be its new chief technology officer and… Read More

Apple partners with Tune to share new data about why users reinstall apps

Knowing more information about how and why smartphone owners reinstall an app might be a bigger deal than most mobile… Read More

Biomanufacturing company AbSci raises $12M to scale synthetic biology platform

Vancouver, Wash.,-based biotechnology company AbSci has raised a chunk of new money. The company announced Wednesday that it has just… Read More

Vacasa hires chief legal officer as vacation rental company prepares for IPO

Portland-based vacation rental company Vacasa today announced the hiring of Lisa Jurinka as its new chief legal officer in preparation for an… Read More

Travel giant Sabre bets big on multicloud, signing deal with Microsoft Azure weeks after a new deal with Amazon Web Services

Thanks to investments in container technology and microservices, Sabre is ready to embark on a multicloud infrastructure strategy, signing a… Read More