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Articles from 2018

Thirsty for Seattle businesses, Phoenix uses head tax as recruiting tool

Phoenix is coming on strong. The Arizona city’s office of economic development has been hitting up Seattle companies with the… Read More

Starman game

Control Elon Musk’s SpaceX ‘Starman’ in quest to blow up Blue Origin’s Jeff Bezos in video game

It’s the Friday before a three-day weekend, and your head is probably already in the clouds, so here’s something to… Read More

Feds move to end International Entrepreneur Rule that lets foreign-born founders grow startups in US

The Department of Homeland Security is moving forward with its plan to rescind the International Entrepreneur Rule, which was enacted… Read More

David Winokur

Geek of the Week: He doesn’t have X-ray vision, but David Winokur is a director of medical imaging

Here’s the inside story on a guy who is responsible for everything that takes a picture of your insides. David… Read More

TableSafe raising more cash to expand reach of its restaurant payment devices

TableSafe is upping its most recent funding round as it continues to spread its restaurant payments device around the country… Read More

Pre-clinical drug screening startup A-Alpha Bio wins first place at Univ. of Washington Business Plan Competition

Pharmaceutical companies spend a lot of money and time developing new drugs. Now a new startup created by a group of… Read More

What entrepreneurs can learn from the journey of The Riveter CEO Amy Nelson

Throughout her career on Wall Street, in the courtroom, and at non-profits, Amy Nelson wondered where the women were. She… Read More

At odds with Seattle on head tax, Paul Allen’s Vulcan builds tiny-house village to shelter homeless people

More than 500 employees and volunteers organized by Paul Allen’s Vulcan Inc. will spend Friday hammering, sawing, painting, and assembling 30… Read More

Xbox 360 lives on with a surprising system update — the first in more than two years

Xbox 360 owners, Microsoft hasn’t totally forgotten about you even as it has moved on to bigger and better consoles.… Read More

Chest-thumpers vs. executors: The difference between Seattle and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, according to this VC

There’s a difference between entrepreneurs from Seattle and those from Silicon Valley and it goes beyond stereotypes about hairstyles, clothing, and… Read More

Amazon shuttering Seattle delivery support team, sending jobs to Arizona

Editor’s Note: This story has been updated with comments from Amazon Amazon is cutting a team in Seattle that supports… Read More

Tom Mueller

SpaceX propulsion guru Tom Mueller looks ahead to Raptor rocket engines for Mars

LOS ANGELES — SpaceX’s success owes a lot to the tenacity of the company’s billionaire founder, Elon Musk, but some of… Read More

Working Geek: HR guru Mikaela Kiner says #MeToo has triggered lasting workplace change

After nearly 20 years in the HR trenches, Mikaela Kiner is confident that the #MeToo movement has at last triggered… Read More

Office lunch delivery startup Peach cuts 33% of staff; CEO cites failed ‘sales experiment’

Lunch delivery startup Peach has laid off a third of its staff, eliminating several sales and account management roles as… Read More

Here’s what Amazon had to say after investigating an unusual case of Alexa eavesdropping

Amazon says it is taking steps to make sure that its Alexa-powered Echo home speaker devices do not secretly record… Read More

Valve vs. Apple: PC gaming giant cries foul after iOS App Store rejects Steam Link streaming app

Valve says Apple has revoked its original approval of the PC gaming giant’s new Steam Link app for the iOS… Read More

TLDR: How Europe’s new privacy law affects U.S. tech companies, Getaround expands to Seattle, ‘float’ above Seattle on the Space Needle

[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

An inside look at Zillow’s first home purchase: How the real estate media giant will buy and sell houses

The house at 6630 S. Nash Way in Chandler, Ariz., looks at first glance like any other upscale home in… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Education app from Bloomz gives parents a window into the classroom

When Chakrapani “Chaks” Appalabattula and his wife both got sick, their young children were stuck. There was no one to… Read More

Space Policy Directive 2 signed

President Trump signs off on directive to deregulate commercial space ventures

President Donald Trump has signed his administration’s second space policy directive, focusing on streamlining licensing procedures and turning the Commerce… Read More

Space Needle

Kiss the sky: First visitors ‘float’ on Space Needle’s new glass benches 520 feet above Seattle

Ed and Yvonne Senior of Scotland just got married on Saturday, but the honeymooners were truly floating on Thursday during… Read More

Best Buy Chief Digital Officer joins AT&T, leaving digital transformation legacy at big box retailer

Best Buy’s chief digital officer, Bala Subramanian, has left the company to serve as the chief digital officer of wireless… Read More

Microsoft streaming site Mixer marks one-year anniversary with website revamp, new features

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=39&v=HIgMcwvMv_w It’s been one year since Microsoft rebranded Beam, the game-streaming service it bought in 2016, as Mixer, and it… Read More

Race to the GDPR finish line: How US tech companies are preparing for Europe’s stringent new privacy law

For months, companies like Seattle-based mobile payments startup Remitly, have been mapping out their entire inventory of user data, updating privacy policies,… Read More

Box just made it a little easier to move data around the world with this addition to Box Zones

Box’s new data-management feature probably won’t bail you out if you’re still scrambling to figure out what to do about… Read More

Tech Moves: Suzi LeVine leading Wash. state workforce education; Diversity specialist joins uniquelyHR; and more

Washington Governor Jay Inslee appointed Suzi LeVine, a former ambassador and tech executive, to serve as the commissioner of the… Read More

Crowd Cow

Crowd Cow raises $8M from Ashton Kutcher, Joe Montana, Madrona and others to grow digital marketplace for craft meats

Three years after getting started with a plan to change how people shop for quality beef products, Seattle-based Crowd Cow… Read More

Rent a car from your neighbor? Getaround launches novel mobility service in Seattle

San Francisco-based Getaround is launching in Seattle today with a transportation service that’s a bit like Airbnb for cars. The… Read More

Once a startup runt, Rover laps up $155 million for tech-fueled pet care marketplace

When Rover started seven years ago, many in the startup community snickered. There was no real business model, they said. A… Read More

Wargaming Seattle to shut down, impacting 150 jobs in region’s latest game studio closure

Updated below with Wargaming statement. Wargaming Seattle, the Redmond-based game studio that started as Gas Powered Games and more recently… Read More

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