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Articles from 2021

BlackSky Global satellites

BlackSky satellite data venture glides into first day of public trading after SPAC deal

BlackSky, the geospatial data analysis company that got its start in Seattle, eased into its first day of public trading… Read More

Seattle startup City Pods aims to address homelessness with standalone indoor mini homes

When COVID-19 served up a global crisis that threatened to sink his startup, Keenan O’Leary shifted his plans to help… Read More

Tech Moves: Bill-Gates backed Kymeta adds new co-CEOs; ex-Zillow exec joins Roofstock board

— Former Zillow and OfferUp executive Chloe Harford joined the board of directors at Oakland, Calif.-based Roofstock. She also currently… Read More

Rep. Jayapal: Biden administration supports Amazon-busting ‘Ending Platform Monopolies Act’

Rep. Pramila Jayapal’s Amazon-busting legislation, the “Ending Platform Monopolies Act” that would potentially force the company’s dismantling, has earned Biden… Read More

University of Washington awarded $16M for ‘third phase’ of human genome research

University of Washington scientists will help decode how variations in DNA influence health and disease with $16 million in new… Read More

Rep. Adam Schiff rips Amazon and Facebook for ‘directly profiting’ on COVID-19 misinformation

Rep. Adam Schiff, in separate letters to bosses of tech giants Amazon and Facebook, criticized the efforts of both companies… Read More

Porch Group announces two more acquisitions for a total of more than $94 million

Add two more companies and another $94.45 million to the tally of recent acquisitions by Porch Group. The Seattle-based home… Read More

ROOT Sports and fuboTV reach deal to bring Kraken, Mariners and Trail Blazers to streaming TV

A major new player on the sports television landscape could be an MVP for fans of teams in the Pacific… Read More

Cyrus Bench on laptop

Seattle startup Cyrus inks protein-design deal with immune biotech Selecta worth up to $1.5 billion

Seattle-based Cyrus Biotechnology is entering a protein engineering collaboration with Boston-based Selecta Biosciences that could pull in up to $1.5… Read More

Amazon’s new co-op mode on Luna offers an interesting use case for cloud gaming service

Amazon announced a number of big additions to its cloud gaming service Luna on Thursday morning, including a new family-oriented… Read More

With $25M grant, Univ. of Washington to lead new ultra high tech optoelectronics center

The University of Washington will lead a cohort of researchers from 11 universities as part of a newly founded Center… Read More

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, pop superstar Ciara, and other luminaries to speak at GeekWire Summit

Andy Jassy will join us for an on-stage interview at the 10th annual GeekWire Summit in October in Seattle, making… Read More

Amazon to spend $1.2B to pay college tuition and expand skills training for operations workers

Amazon is increasing its investment in the education and training of its front-line operations workers, announcing Thursday that it will… Read More

Amazon is now selling its own branded TV sets embedded with Alexa

Amazon unveiled its first smart TVs on Thursday. The tech giant is selling the Amazon Fire TV 4-Series starting at… Read More

Seattle airport helping travelers avoid lines with mobile food ordering and delivery to gate via robot

Seattle-Tacoma International Airport is using tech to make it easier to eat on the fly. A mobile food ordering service… Read More

Study of Microsoft employees shows how remote work puts productivity and innovation at risk

A new study finds that Microsoft’s companywide shift to remote work has hurt communication and collaboration among different business groups… Read More

Microsoft nixes Oct. 4 return to office in latest rollback from COVID-19 Delta variant

Microsoft says it no longer considers early October a realistic timeframe for fully opening its U.S. offices, and it won’t… Read More

Robotics pioneer Yoky Matsuoka’s Panasonic venture debuts personal assistant service in Seattle

Yoky Matsuoka is known for her pioneering work in neurorobotics, assisting humans by connecting the central nervous system to the… Read More

Seattle startup AccelByte raises $10M to help developers build multiplayer online games

Seattle-based startup AccelByte has raised $10 million. Founded in 2016, AccelByte is a backend tools provider for “live service” video… Read More

Justice40 Accelerator program

Bezos Earth Fund highlights climate justice in $200M round of grants and pledges

The Bezos Earth Fund today announced $203.7 million in grants and pledges aimed at advancing climate justice, supporting climate-oriented economic… Read More

Punt or go for it? AWS’ latest analytics for NFL helps fans second-guess 4th down play calls

Second-guessing an NFL coach on whether he should have gone for it or kicked on fourth down is one of… Read More

Microsoft hires Google and Facebook product vet, building out ‘Teams for Life’ consumer group

Microsoft made another key hire for a new consumer technology group on Wedneday, adding former Facebook and Google product leader… Read More

Paul Allen-backed effort completes groundbreaking atlas of Earth’s coral reefs to aid conservation

After four years of collaboration, an international team of researchers and institutions has produced the Allen Coral Atlas, the first… Read More

Nabisco and Nintendo team up to release limited-edition ‘Pokémon’ Oreo cookies

The Pokémon Company, which manages the international brand operations behind the Pokémon series, announced Wednesday that it’s teamed up with… Read More

Sen. Elizabeth Warren concerned that Amazon is ‘peddling misinformation’ about COVID-19

In a six-page letter to Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, Sen. Elizabeth Warren expressed concerns that the “search and ‘Best Seller’… Read More

Atlas V launch for Amazon

Amazon fires back at SpaceX in regulatory war of words over satellite constellations

Amazon laid out out a laundry list of SpaceX’s regulatory tussles today in a letter sent to the Federal Communications… Read More

Whole Foods

From Go to go bigger, Amazon bringing cashierless ‘Just Walk Out’ tech to two Whole Foods stores

Amazon is bringing more of its technology to Whole Foods Market, announcing Wednesday that the “Just Walk Out” cashierless experience… Read More

Shutterstock pays $110M to acquire PicMonkey, a photo editing and graphic design software maker

Publicly-traded photography giant Shutterstock has acquired PicMonkey, a Seattle startup founded nine years ago that provides online photo editing and… Read More

Bill Gates’ Cascade Investment firm buying controlling stake in Four Seasons Hotels

Bill Gates’ Cascade Investment LLC is acquiring a controlling stake in Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, the company announced Wednesday.… Read More

Former Microsoft corporate vice president Phil Sorgen joins Tola Capital as venture partner

Phil Sorgen, a former Microsoft corporate vice president who was most recently chief revenue officer at RingCentral, is joining Seattle-area… Read More

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