Get caught up on the latest technology and startup news from the past week. Here are the most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Dec. 15, 2019.
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High-tech football helmet maker Vicis is running out of money in sudden downfall for Seattle startup
Vicis, the high-profile Seattle startup that garnered support from the NFL for its high-tech football helmet, is in financial trouble. … Read More
Amazon is moving Project Kuiper satellite operation to huge Redmond facility
Amazon announced today that its Project Kuiper satellite operation has outgrown its current office space, and will move into 219,000 square feet of space that it’s leasing in Redmond, Wash. … Read More
Paul Allen’s research vessel surveys wreckage of ‘Asia’s Titanic’ — 1987 ferry sinking killed 4,300
The scene of the worst peacetime maritime disaster in history — known as “Asia’s Titanic” — has been surveyed by the Research Vessel (R/V) Petrel, the exploration ship owned and operated by the late Paul Allen’s Vulcan Inc. … Read More
What happened to Vicis: Inside the collapse of the high-tech helmet maker, as board decides its fate
Inside the lobby of Vicis‘ headquarters in Seattle this week, floor-to-ceiling images on the walls showed young football players wearing the company’s high-tech helmet. … Read More
SpaceX seeks to block Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellite broadband program from skipping a regulatory hurdle
A space battle is brewing over access to a limited slice of radiowaves between several companies that want to launch thousands of satellites into orbit to blanket the planet with high-speed internet. … Read More
F5 Networks will acquire Shape Security for $1 billion to bolster online fraud protection services
F5 Networks will pay approximately $1 billion to acquire Shape Security, a Santa Clara, Calif.-based company that sells a fraud prevention platform to banks, airlines, retailers, government agencies, and more. … Read More
Car-sharing boom goes bust: Surprise and dismay in Seattle as last free-floating service disappears
The car talk on the street was one of surprise Wednesday as Share Now, operator of car2go, announced that it will be pulling out of North America and leaving Seattle without any of the free-floating car-sharing services that the city helped to pioneer. … Read More
Car2gone: Share Now to exit North America, leaving Seattle with no free-floating car-sharing service
Share Now, operator of the car2go car-sharing service, will end operations in North America on Feb. … Read More
Console vs. cloud: What Microsoft’s new Xbox Series X says about the future of gaming
A few months after the announcement of Project Scarlett, Microsoft took to the Game Awards stage on Thursday night to debut the next Xbox by its new, official name: the Xbox Series X. … Read More
Convoy’s latest digital trucking breakthrough is 100% automation of the load pricing process
Convoy has reached another milestone on the long road toward complete automation of the trucking industry’s brokering process. … Read More