Articles from 2021 – Page 31 of 77

Topgolf is officially bringing one of its high-tech sports and entertainment venues to Seattle area

Sports and entertainment company Topgolf is officially bringing a full-scale, high-tech golf and gaming complex to the Seattle area, with… Read More

Amazon pressured Alabama workers and union vote should be redone, labor investigator recommends

Amazon stepped outside allowable guidelines and improperly pressured Alabama warehouse workers against unionizing the Bessemer fulfillment warehouse in April, and… Read More

Tech Moves: Outreach adds CMO; new execs at startups ShelfEngine and Kaskada; and more

— Outreach, the Seattle sales enablement startup now valued at $4.4 billion, named Melton Littlepage as its new chief marketing… Read More

Microsoft releases Windows as a subscription, announces pricing, launching its ‘Cloud PC’ era

Microsoft released Windows 365 for business users this morning, making its flagship operating system widely available as a subscription for… Read More

Veteran software engineer launches AI startup Hal9 while battling long COVID and pandemic concerns

Is there ever really a good time to launch a startup? That’s the question Javier Luraschi was asking and sort… Read More

From hackathon to IPO: Pet sitting marketplace Rover is Seattle’s newest public company

It started as a simple pitch at a Seattle hackathon for a marketplace to facilitate matches between pet owners and… Read More

How Dance Church made a pandemic pivot and created a new online fitness subscription business

On a foggy Saturday morning earlier this month, I was among hundreds of people gathered at the Seattle Center lawn,… Read More

Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of July 25, 2021

See the technology stories that people were reading on GeekWire for the week of July 25, 2021. Read More

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Satya Nadella’s biggest success as Microsoft CEO; Inside GeekWire’s Great Race; Number of the Week

When Microsoft announced its acquisition of LinkedIn for more than $26 billion five years ago, there was lots of skepticism,… Read More

Junior Geek of the Month: Luna Abadía turned her climate change fears into action and solutions

As a child growing up in Portland, Ore., Luna Abadía was always curious about the nature around her. She carried… Read More

Smart-home device maker Wyze raises $110M as it plans to inject AI heavily into camera products

Smart-home device maker Wyze Labs has raised $110 million in new funding, GeekWire learned on Friday, boosting the Kirkland, Wash.-based… Read More

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Amazon earnings reveal major shift: Total services revenue on track to surpass retail sales

Direct retail sales are poised to represent less than half of Amazon’s business for the first time in its history… Read More

GAO denies Blue Origin’s protest of NASA’s lunar lander contract award to SpaceX

The Government Accountability Office today turned back protests from Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture and Alabama-based Dynetics, ruling that… Read More

Tech Moves: Portland’s Act-On adds two new execs; Tanium adds public sector SVP; and more

—Act-On, a Portland, Ore.-based marketing automation platform, added Gregg Ames as chief commercial officer and Syed Ahmed as senior vice… Read More

Amazon disputes record $885 million fine from European Union data privacy watchdog

Amazon has been fined a record 746 million euros, or $885 million based on current exchange rates, over alleged violations… Read More

GeekWire’s Great Race II: By taxi, Lyft, e-bike, bus and more — here’s who won in Seattle rush hour

We had a ton of fun testing Seattle’s transportation options through rush hour traffic during our inaugural GeekWire Great Race… Read More

ACLU of Washington: Port of Seattle’s facial recognition tech ‘ban’ misleading, inadequate

Accusing the Port of Seattle of making promises it can’t keep, the American Civil Liberties Union called on the port… Read More

Amazon boosting wages and hiring incentives to keep up in competitive labor market

Amazon is finding it necessary to boost wages and increase its use of incentives to fill some of its open… Read More

T-Mobile adds 1.3M customers in Q2, beats expectations with $20B in revenue

T-Mobile beat analyst expectations at the end of its second quarter, reporting $20 billion in revenue, up 13% year-over-year, and… Read More

Report details how Alaska Airlines is using AI to better map flight routes and save time and fuel

If you’ve ever stared out the window of a passenger plane, or tracked your flight as it moves across the… Read More

Amazon’s advertising business is surging amid industry-wide ad sales boom for tech giants

Amazon’s advertising business continue to grow rapidly as it is now one of the company’s key sources of revenue. In… Read More

Amazon sales of $113B disappoint Wall Street but profits of $7.8B exceed expectations

Amazon posted net sales of $113.1 billion for the second quarter, up 27%, but fell short of Wall Street expectations,… Read More

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy on the natural ‘tension’ in the company’s new leadership principles

Newly minted Amazon CEO Andy Jassy didn’t subject himself to an intensive round of press interviews upon taking over from… Read More

Compassion Seattle initiative qualifies for ballot: Will it change the downtown business outlook?

As downtown Seattle tech businesses implement plans to return to offices that have been vacant for more than a year,… Read More

Icosavax stock skyrockets 200% on first day of trading for newly public Seattle biotech company

Icosavax is having quite the debut as Washington state’s newest public company. Shares of the Seattle-based biotech firm surged more… Read More

Amazon Prime Day, AWS and jobs in the spotlight for Andy Jassy’s first earnings report as CEO

Amazon’s earnings report Thursday will be its first with CEO Andy Jassy at the helm. While it may be tempting… Read More

Melinda French Gates and MacKenzie Scott give $40M to boost groups working on gender equality

Melinda French Gates and MacKenzie Scott are sharing some of their immense wealth with organizations that want to empower other… Read More

Real estate riches: Paul Allen’s Hawaii estate sells for $43M; Oprah home gets $14M on Orcas Island

High-priced real estate with Northwest connections has changed hands for top dollar according to reports out of Hawaii and Orcas… Read More

Vacation rental giant Vacasa to go public via SPAC at $4.5B valuation, reveals revenue projections

Portland, Ore.-based vacation rental platform Vacasa is going public. The company announced Thursday that it will merge with TPG Pace… Read More

Washington state universities will lead AI research institutes funded by National Science Foundation

The University of Washington and Washington State University are adding artificial intelligence research institutes thanks to $40 million in funding… Read More