Articles from 2021 – Page 18 of 77

Ex-Amazon designers dream up $148 cardboard bassinet, and sleep better with sustainable solution

Two industrial designers who helped create and launch the first Amazon Go cashierless convenience store have a new baby, as… Read More

Data Skrive, which sells content automation tech to news outlets and sportsbooks, raises $7M

Data Skrive, a Seattle startup that automates the creation of sports-related content, has raised $7 million in a round led… Read More

Ziply Fiber lands $350M to expand fiber internet service across Pacific Northwest

Ziply Fiber has raised $350 million in debt funding to fuel its fiber expansion projects in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and… Read More

Last chance for GeekWire Summit tickets: Get in-person or virtual access to our annual conference

Hear from leaders across tech, real estate, entertainment, and science. Bring back valuable lessons to your own organization. Meet your next… Read More

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Microsoft’s larger lesson from TikTok: Brad Smith on the future of U.S.-China tech relations

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella this week called the company’s unsuccessful efforts to acquire TikTok’s U.S. operations last year “the strangest… Read More

MagniX wins $74.3 million from NASA to demonstrate electric aviation technologies

Everett, Wash.-based MagniX will be getting $74.3 million from NASA over the next five years to demonstrate electric propulsion technologies… Read More

Seattle cutout artist Rudy Willingham teaming with singer Lil Nas X for TikTok’s first foray into NFTs

Rudy Willingham, the Seattle artist known for his colorful, stop-motion photo cutouts on social media, is teaming with rapper/singer Lil… Read More

Sign of the retail times: Macy’s sues to block Amazon from taking over signature NYC billboard

Macy’s is suing a real estate company to prevent Amazon from taking over the iconic billboard next to its landmark… Read More

Whole Foods co-founder and CEO John Mackey will retire in 2022, 5 years after Amazon acquisition

Whole Foods announced Thursday that its co-founder and CEO John Mackey will retire on Sept. 1, 2022. He will be… Read More

Two social media influencers enjoined from Amazon sales in settlement over counterfeit goods

Two people sued by Amazon last year for promoting counterfeit luxury fashion products on Instagram, Facebook and TikTok have settled… Read More

Blue Origin’s record on safety and sexual harassment comes under fire from within

A former employee of Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture has given up her anonymity to lead a campaign accusing… Read More

Mainstream media critic Project Veritas sues University of Washington and Stanford, alleging defamation by social media researchers

Project Veritas, a right-wing activist group with a history of trying to discredit mainstream media organizations, has filed a defamation… Read More

Junior Geek of the Month: Mona Li empowered girls in high school and seeks similar path in college

Mona Li was already a student leader during her time at Garfield High School in Seattle, where she helped empower… Read More

What will the future look like? Experts at GeekWire Summit will explore climate, cybersecurity, more

What’s driving the new surge of innovation in climate tech? How should companies protect themselves against ransomware? What do shifting… Read More

GeekWire interview: Seattle mayoral candidates on tech, talent, taxes, startups, homelessness, and favorite apps

The next Seattle mayor will take over a city going through historic transitions — from a pandemic shutdown to the… Read More

Amazon settles allegations of illegal retaliation in dispute over firing of activist employees

Updated with details of settlement and statement from former employees. Amazon has reached a settlement with two former employees who… Read More

Vancouver, B.C.-based Semios raises $100M for farming tech and services

Semios, a Vancouver, B.C.-based company that develops agriculture technology to assess crop status and risks, today announced a $100 million investment round.… Read More

How Amazon Web Services is helping Satellogic manage its whole Earth catalog

It’s one thing to send down more than a trillion bytes of satellite data every day, and quite another thing… Read More

Read the room — virtually: Seattle startup lands $10M to analyze your face and voice on video calls

David Shim, Elliott Waldron, and Rob Williams helped build location analytics startup Placed, which was acquired by Snap for more… Read More

Archera lands $7M to help AWS and Azure customers cut costs and optimize usage

Archera, a Seattle startup formerly known as Reserved.ai, announced a $7 million Series A funding round. Founded in 2019, Archera… Read More

Seattle healthcare data startup Truveta lands investment from Microsoft and forms partnership

Seattle-based Truveta will leverage Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform to analyze health data under a new partnership with the software giant… Read More

Tech Moves: Cloudentity names new CEO; Leafly appoints CFO; SeekOut adds Tableau vet; Tomo hires ex-Zillow economist

— Seattle startup Cloudentity appointed CloudCoreo co-founder Jason Needham as its new CEO and a member of the board. Needham… Read More

Salesforce chief Marc Benioff and Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke invest in reforestation startup DroneSeed

New funding: As wildfires continue to burn in the Western U.S., reforestation startup DroneSeed on Wednesday announced a $36 million… Read More

Elon Musk chats about Starship and space telescopes … and Jeff Bezos’ rocket envy

In the latest chapter of a long-running space spat, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk took aim at his billionaire rival Jeff… Read More

Amazon’s ‘New World’ is already Steam’s most-played new game of 2021

Amazon’s long-awaited New World launched on Steam on Tuesday morning, and in news that should have Amazon execs breathing a… Read More

Tech Moves: B.C. startup Thinkific adds CMO from Hootsuite; Amplero founder departs Zulily

— Vancouver, B.C.-based online education company Thinkific announced former Hootsuite executive Henk Campher as chief marketing officer. Based in Seattle,… Read More

Fred Hutch’s Trevor Bedford receives ‘genius grant’ for work on COVID and other viruses

In the earliest days of the COVID-19 pandemic, as we desperately flailed for reliable information to comprehend what had previously… Read More

Vancouver, B.C.-based workflow automation company Conexiom raises $130M

Sales order and invoice automation software company Conexiom has raised $130 million, the Vancouver, B.C.-based startup announced today. The company… Read More

Founded by Blue Origin veterans, Starfish Space raises $7M for satellite servicing tug

Kent, Wash.-based Starfish Space says it’s raised $7 million to boost its drive to develop a space tug capable of… Read More

Amazon’s new Astro home robot uses AI to navigate autonomously, with display and periscope cam

Amazon introduced a home robot called Astro, under development for the past several years, using artificial intelligence and other advanced… Read More