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Articles from 2020

Microsoft will remove user names from ‘Productivity Score’ feature after privacy backlash

Microsoft says it will make changes in its new Productivity Score feature, including removing the ability for companies to see… Read More

Tech CEO moves $9B cybersecurity company’s HQ to Seattle area, says S.F. is ‘not the city it was’

Orion Hindawi was born in the San Francisco Bay Area, and helped build two successful companies there. But the 40-year-old… Read More

Microsoft donates $7.5M to Code.org to help students learn about AI concepts and ethics

Code.org is teaming up with Microsoft again, this time to help K-12 students learn about artificial intelligence. The Seattle nonprofit,… Read More

Seattle startup Flexe raises $70M as e-commerce rise fuels demand for flexible warehousing platform

Flexe is raising more capital ahead of schedule as the pandemic-driven e-commerce boom spurs faster-than-expected growth for its warehousing technology… Read More

Startup founded by ‘Love Lab’ experts releases new platform and tech tools to assess relationships

Affective Software Inc., the startup founded by the leaders of the famed Gottman Institute, is releasing a new portal and… Read More

Amazon Web Services to offer macOS on-demand in the cloud, in new appeal to Apple developers

Amazon Web Services will provide software developers with access to macOS on-demand in the cloud for the first time, promising… Read More

Amazon to stream NFL game on Dec. 26 exclusively on Prime Video; playoff game also confirmed

Amazon’s streaming schedule is getting busier in the later weeks of the NFL season as the tech giant and the… Read More

Goodbye, Android: Why I’m switching to Apple’s iPhone after more than a decade with Google

Goodbye, Android. Hey, Siri. After more than a decade of dedication to Google’s mobile operating system, I’m leaving for Apple.… Read More

Amazon details cause of AWS outage that hobbled thousands of online sites and services

A “relatively small addition of capacity” to the Amazon Kinesis real-time data processing service triggered a widespread Amazon Web Services… Read More

WestRiver Group will sell debt investment business to SVB Financial Group

Seattle investment firm WestRiver Group agreed to sell its debt investment business to SVB Financial Group, the parent company of… Read More

Slack deal would pit Salesforce against Microsoft, with Tableau acquisition as a potential blueprint

Slack could gain new inroads to enterprise customers, and access to additional sales and marketing horsepower, if reports of its… Read More

Washington state launches COVID-19 exposure notification app using Google and Apple technology

Washington state unveiled a new app to inform residents if they’ve been exposed to someone diagnosed with COVID-19, as infection… Read More

With ability to fly anywhere in the world, ‘Microsoft Flight Simulator’ players choose this special place

Paris? New York? Hawaii? Over the Grand Canyon? If you could fly anywhere, even on an imaginary flight via “Microsoft… Read More

Seattle biotech firm Silverback Therapeutics sets terms for IPO, looks to raise up to $151M

Silverback Therapeutics plans to raise up to $151.8 million in its initial public offering, the Seattle-based company said Monday in… Read More

Tech and hockey vet Todd Humphrey on his dream job with Seattle Kraken, ‘the nirvana of all startups’

For all of the technology being developed and considered for Seattle’s new NHL team — from the mobile app that… Read More

MRZR and SUV

Kymeta rolls out its next-gen connectivity service, blending satellite and cellular links

Kymeta Corp., the Redmond, Wash.-based connectivity venture backed by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, is making the next generation of its… Read More

Solar power nonprofit goes digital to bring installation instruction to underserved communities

When COVID-19 grounded travelers in early 2020, Chris Brooks and his team had to cancel more than a dozen teaching… Read More

GeekWire Week in Review

Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Nov. 22, 2020

See the technology stories that people were reading on GeekWire for the week of Nov. 22, 2020. Read More

AOC returns to Twitch, playing more ‘Among Us’ with Jagmeet Singh, xQc, DisguisedToast, and more

U.S. Rep. Alexandria “AOC” Ocasio-Cortez returned to Twitch on Friday night for a 5-and-a-half-hour broadcast, where she played the interactive… Read More

Microsoft patents tech to score meetings using body language, facial expressions, other data

Microsoft is facing criticism for its new “Productivity Score” technology, which can measure how much individual workers use email, chat… Read More

Geek of the Week: Vulcan’s W. Andre Perkins uses machine learning to help predict climate change

Growing up outside a town in Wisconsin, out in the woods with dial-up internet and his parents, sister, cats, horses,… Read More

Tony Hsieh, former CEO of Zappos who sold online shoe retailer to Amazon for $1.2B, dies at 46

Tony Hsieh, a revered internet entrepreneur who led Zappos and sold the online retailer to Amazon for $1.2 billion, has… Read More

‘Top 100 Female Founder’ and CEO of Joylux on her audacious promotion of pelvic floors

Colette Courtion has staked her claim where tech innovation has largely feared to tread: women’s pelvic floors. “People want to… Read More

Holiday gaming gift guide: What to know about the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, and Nintendo Switch

This is the first holiday season for the ninth generation of video game consoles, as the PlayStation 5 and Xbox… Read More

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‘Superintelligence’ in Seattle: AI researchers do a reality check on a movie that adds romance to tech

Seattle, Microsoft and the field of artificial intelligence come in for their share of the spotlight in “Superintelligence” — an… Read More

With deep roots in Seattle, real estate brokerage Compass reportedly eyes IPO

Heavily-funded real estate brokerage Compass hired Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs to lead an initial public offering next year, according… Read More

Smartsheet sets sail in round-the-world race with female skipper, and its first sports sponsorship

For its first sports sponsorship, Bellevue, Wash.-based collaboration technology company Smartsheet chose an athlete, sport and event that underscore its… Read More

Amazon Web Services outage affects Adobe, Roku, Twilio, Flickr, others

Amazon Web Services suffered an outage Wednesday that affected several applications and services that rely on Amazon’s cloud computing platform.… Read More

Walter Isaacson likens Bezos to Einstein and Jobs, calls out Trump for ‘corrupt’ treatment of Amazon

Much of the content in the new book, “Invent & Wander,” will be familiar to those who follow Jeff Bezos… Read More

Junior Geek of the Month: Archika Dogra discovers how she can use tech to make a positive impact

Back in middle school, Archika Dogra considered herself a “humanities kid” who didn’t have a lot of interest in science,… Read More

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