Articles from 2021 – Page 25 of 77

Tech Moves: Azure GM joins Madrona; Microsoft promotes chief scientist; Esper adds exec; more

— Microsoft Azure General Manager and COO Aseem Datar is joining Madrona Venture Group as a partner. The Seattle investment… Read More

Putting the Nirvana in NFT: Photographer Charles Peterson digs into grunge archives for digital debut

The look on Kurt Cobain’s face might just say it all — like someone in 1991 just explained to him… Read More

AI-powered weed destroying startup harvests $27M round, farmers say laser-blasting machine saves time and cuts pesticide use

Investors are putting more cash behind the self-driving weed-zapping machines made by Carbon Robotics that are attracting attention from farmers… Read More

WTIA sues state labor department over alleged nonpayment for tech apprenticeship program

The Washington Technology Industry Association has sued the state’s Department of Labor & Industries over what it claims was nonpayment… Read More

Clickety, a ‘project management for people’ tool from Puppet founder Luke Kanies, is shutting down

Clickety, a Portland, Ore.-based startup that aimed to help CEOs and managers keep record of their relationships and conversations with… Read More

‘Compassion Seattle’ backers file appeal to get homelessness initiative back on November ballot

Backers of the Compassion Seattle measure reversed course Tuesday morning and decided to appeal a judge’s decision to remove the… Read More

Report: Amazon expanding into live audio

Amazon Music is leading an effort to expand the company into live audio, joining the likes of Clubhouse, Twitter, Facebook… Read More

Howard Schultz funding online learning program for small businesses using CreativeLive platform

Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz is launching a free online learning program designed to help small businesses gain the necessary… Read More

Tech Moves: Starbucks tech leader departs; former T-Mobile exec joins Ossia board; and more

— Starbucks Senior Vice President of Technology Wouleta Ayele has departed the Seattle coffee retailer to join California fast-casual restaurant… Read More

Fundraising startup Snap Raise raises $90M as it expands digital platform to aid high school teams

Talk about reaching your fundraising goal. Snap Raise, the Seattle-based startup that helps high school teams and clubs with digital… Read More

Windows 11 has a release date: Microsoft to start ‘phased and measured’ rollout Oct. 5

Microsoft announced this morning that it will release Windows 11 on Oct. 5 as a free upgrade for existing Windows… Read More

Money transfer startup Remitly reveals financial results in preparation for upcoming IPO

Seattle-based money remittance company Remitly disclosed key financial results on Monday afternoon in its Form S-1 registration statement, a key… Read More

Moz co-founder’s venture fund for women-led initiatives makes its first investment

Gillian Muessig isn’t angry about the gender gap in venture capital. She’s just done waiting around for change. “I have… Read More

The fight against ‘murder hornets’: Kevlar thread to tie on trackers, thick foam suits to prevent stings

The entomologists and researchers leading the fight against Asian giant hornets in Washington state have made some tweaks to the… Read More

A welcome interloper? Amazon Fresh opens in Seattle’s historic and changing Central District

To some longtime residents of Seattle’s Central District, a grocery store stocked like the one Amazon opened recently in the… Read More

Uber and Convoy vets land $5.3M for new startup Solo that helps gig workers make more money

Gig economy companies such as Uber, Instacart, goPuff and others have given workers a new way to earn money on… Read More

Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Aug. 22, 2021

See the technology stories that people were reading on GeekWire for the week of Aug. 22, 2021. Read More

Junior Geek of the Month: Orion Razat wrote the book on STEM jokes, and has whale of a new idea

Orion Razat is a busy kid. The newly turned 12-year-old is already an accomplished author who is working on his… Read More

Podcast

‘Our country is in a cyberwar’: Inside the White House summit with Hadi Partovi of Code.org

President Joe Biden brought together top executives from the nation’s biggest technology, financial services and energy companies this week to… Read More

Judge removes ‘Compassion Seattle’ charter amendment from ballot; initiative aimed to curb homelessness crisis

A state judge removed the “Compassion Seattle” measure from the November ballot on Friday, saying the proposal to change the… Read More

Washington state researchers get $2M grant to invent better ways of recycling plastic trash

Despite well-intended efforts to keep plastic water bottles, packaging and other items out of landfills, only 9% of plastics in… Read More

Amazon will offer ‘buy now, pay later’ option via partnership with Affirm

Customers shopping on Amazon.com will be able to buy more products in monthly payments thanks to a new partnership with… Read More

‘Unprecedented’ Microsoft Azure database vulnerability impacts thousands of customers, researchers warn

A series of flaws in Microsoft Azure’s Cosmos DB exposed the accounts and databases of thousands of the company’s corporate… Read More

Amazon-backed electric vehicle maker Rivian files to go public at reported $80B valuation

Rivian, the electric vehicle maker that has attracted huge funding from Amazon and others, announced Friday that it plans to… Read More

T-Mobile apologizes for data breach; carrier will invest in cybersecurity to ‘transform our approach’

T-Mobile is taking lessons learned from its recent data breach that affected millions of customers and vowed to invest more… Read More

Jeff Bezos’ mom did not email me: How I got a troll to apologize, and why we might be friends now

In my five-plus years at GeekWire, I’ve often wondered what it would take to get Jeff Bezos’ attention and how… Read More

Toyota, Casio, Shell and others are using this Seattle startup to train their employees

Companies today face a skilled worker shortage. The pandemic has also forced employers to rethink how they train employees. These… Read More

Amazon cloud exec Charlie Bell’s new Microsoft job puts non-compete deals back in the spotlight

What exactly will longtime Amazon executive Charlie Bell do at Microsoft? It’s possible that even Bell doesn’t know the precise… Read More

Former Amazon grocery leader Wei Gao lands at event management company Hopin

Wei Gao is hopping to Hopin. The longtime Amazon executive who helped lead the company’s grocery efforts just took a… Read More

Blue Origin’s New Shepard spaceship joins the pantheon of model rockets

Rocket fans will soon be able to follow in Jeff Bezos’ footsteps when it comes to ownership of a suborbital… Read More