Articles from 2018 – Page 94 of 161

TLDR: Starbucks stores close for racial bias training

[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

Vulcan Capital among investors in CTRL-Labs, a startup with a unique brain-computer interface

Paul Allen’s Vulcan Capital is among those raising an interested hand over a 3-year-old startup called CTRL-Labs, makers of a… Read More

Amazon patent covers how to signal a delivery drone (and how it signals back)

For an earlier generation, one of the sweetest sounds of summer was the music coming from an ice-cream truck. For… Read More

Healthcare startup Qliance files for bankruptcy, lists more than 100 creditors — including CEO’s new company

Qliance Medical Management — a Seattle-based healthcare startup that was embroiled in controversy when it suddenly shut its doors last year — has officially… Read More

Microsoft passes Google parent Alphabet in market value, now trails just Apple and Amazon

Microsoft passed Google parent Alphabet in market capitalization for the first time in three years on Tuesday, reflecting the company’s… Read More

AppSheet’s new ‘Spec’ feature aims to make apps easier to build using natural language, without code

Since launching in 2014, Seattle-based AppSheet has focused on helping businesses develop their own data-based apps without requiring those businesses… Read More

Salesforce posts 25 percent jump in Q1 revenue and raises full-year guidance

One week after it opened its new tower in downtown San Francisco, Salesforce showed why it felt confident making that… Read More

Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo fires up rocket for another step toward spaceflight

Virgin Galactic sent its VSS Unity space plane skyward for a second supersonic rocket-powered test flight today, bringing the company… Read More

Valve criticized for allowing distribution of game that simulates school shootings on Steam platform

Update, Tuesday evening May 29: Valve removes controversial school shooting game and denounces developer as ‘troll with history of customer… Read More

‘The Tip’ is history in Seattle as Richard Sherman works to unblock 49ers fans on Twitter

In Seattle, we loved Richard Sherman for “The Tip.” In San Francisco, they’ll come to love him for the unblock.… Read More

Portland immunotherapy startup tops $10M in funding as it launches first clinical trial

In 2008, Emmanuel Akporiaye left a tenured position at the University of Arizona to move across the country and launch… Read More

Historic population boom pushes Seattle to 19th month in a row as the nation’s hottest housing market

Seattle has earned a couple of titles that explain a lot of the tension going on in the city lately:… Read More

Check out this ‘Incredibles 2’ house on Zillow as super family moves into super new digs

This house has an Incredibles view. And an Incredibles kitchen and living room. And there are Incredibles amenities, too. In… Read More

Former Trump campaign manager tied to lobbying firm hired by T-Mobile ahead of Sprint merger

Corey Lewandowski, former campaign manager for President Donald Trump, is working with a lobbying firm hired by T-Mobile, according to… Read More

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Jeff Bezos: ‘We will have to leave this planet … and it’s going to make this planet better’

LOS ANGELES – Deep thinkers have been saying for generations that we have to get off this rock and head for the… Read More

After battling Microsoft in video games for years, Valve’s Steam is on a collision course with Apple

COMMENTARY: If you play games on your PC at all, you likely have a somewhat complex relationship with the Bellevue-based… Read More

Paul Allen marks Memorial Day with a look back at deep-sea gravesites he helped find

It’s traditional to revisit the gravesites of America’s fallen warriors on Memorial Day, but billionaire philanthropist Paul Allen is adding… Read More

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Seattle Art Museum’s first-ever CTO sculpts SAM’s technology future on a non-profit budget

Even in a region of technology giants and in an age of screens, it might be possible to overdo tech… Read More

Digital payments pioneer Lawrence Lerner bets on blockchain with $170M startup investment fund

Lawrence Lerner was working to integrate digital payments into our daily lives and build cryptocurrency before there was even such… Read More

GJ273 star system with radio transmission

How do we get our message across to the extraterrestrials? The answers are evolving

LOS ANGELES — Last year, scientists sent a binary-coded message telling the aliens what time it was. Next year, it’ll… Read More

New sign of the times? Imagining a modern version of Seattle’s iconic ‘turn out the lights’ billboard

It was fascinating to read that the creators of the “Will the last person leaving Seattle turn out the lights” billboard are… Read More

Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of May 20, 2018

See the technology stories that people were reading on GeekWire for the week of May 20, 2018. Read More

Jeff Bezos and his Blue Origin space venture go all in on moon settlements

LOS ANGELES — Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos says his Blue Origin space venture will work with NASA as well as the… Read More

SpaceX’s prototype internet satellites are good enough for gaming, Elon Musk says

It’s been three months since SpaceX launched the first prototype satellites for its Starlink broadband internet network, and there’s been… Read More

Astronaut Alan Bean, Apollo 12’s artistic moonwalker, dies at 86 after sudden illness

Artist-astronaut Alan Bean, the moonwalker who saw himself as different from the rest, died today at the age of 86… Read More

As Alexa’s Flash Briefing tops 5,000 skills, content providers learn more about what you want to hear

Smart home hub. Streaming music source. Dad joke repository. But Amazon’s Alexa has one skill that dates back to the… Read More

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Week In Geek Podcast: An epic week for startup funding, and the Space Needle gets a makeover

Seattle startups raked in hundreds of millions of dollars in the past week alone — for businesses as varied as… Read More

‘The Expanse’ is saved: Jeff Bezos says Amazon will pick up sci-fi TV saga, and the crowd goes wild

LOS ANGELES — I wanted to start out talking with Jeff Bezos tonight about his vision for settling outer space, but… Read More

Five ‘Martian’ miscues to fix in space flicks

LOS ANGELES — Planetary scientist Pascal Lee could give astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson a good run for his money when… Read More

Amazon drives another real estate record in Seattle

Five years ago an Amazon-occupied building in Seattle sold for a record price of $749 per square foot. This week,… Read More