Articles from 2021 – Page 35 of 77

Purpose and profit: Why this venture capital firm became a ‘B-Corp’ and wants others to follow

Dan Levitan isn’t confident that the U.S. government can solve the country’s pressing problems, at a time when it needs… Read More

Amazon sued by U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission over defective products

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) on Wednesday sued Amazon in an attempt to force the retailer to accept… Read More

ProfoundBio, led by Seagen veterans and co-located in China and Seattle, raises $55M

ProfoundBio, based in Woodinville, Wash., and Suzhou, China, has raised $55 million in a Series A funding round to advance… Read More

Clippy’s comeback? Microsoft tweet promises return of software assistant as an Office 365 emoji

Welcome back, Clippy. Microsoft said Wednesday it would revive its often reviled animated software assistant Clippy as a replacement emoji… Read More

Jeff Bezos donating $200M to National Air and Space Museum in historic Smithsonian gift

Less than a week before he’s set to blast off on the first crewed mission of his Blue Origin spaceship,… Read More

Blue Origin shares multimillion-dollar spaceship ticket proceeds with 19 charities

There are only so many postcards you can send to space and back, even if you have $28 million to… Read More

With Windows 365, Microsoft realizes its vision for Cloud PCs, streaming its OS to any device

Microsoft will release Windows as a paid cloud service, promising to stream the operating system to any device in an… Read More

Microsoft to drop commercial marketplace fees to 3% (from 20%) in latest dig at platform rivals

Microsoft is escalating its campaign against the traditional business model of online marketplaces, reducing the fees it charges independent software… Read More

Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin New Shepard crew capsule

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Bezos, Branson and the billionaire space race: What to watch when Amazon’s founder blasts off

Sir Richard Branson added new fuel to the billionaire space race July 11 when he and his Virgin Galactic crewmates floated… Read More

The Seattle startup scene is sizzling with record funding, hiring surge, 12 unicorns

Huge fundings. New unicorns. More tech talent. Acquisitions. IPOs. The Seattle startup scene is booming. PitchBook and NVCA this week… Read More

An evening with Kindle Vella: First impressions of Amazon’s new attempt to reimagine reading

The serialized story is a mainstay of the literary world, a tried-and-true formula for creating a tantalizing tale, from opening… Read More

Facebook’s satellite connectivity team switches over to Amazon’s Project Kuiper

Facebook has struck a deal to have more than a dozen of its wireless internet experts move over to Amazon… Read More

Port of Seattle bans facial recognition tech by law enforcement; some private use remains permitted

The Port of Seattle Commission voted Tuesday to ban the use of biometric technology for surveillance and security purposes by government… Read More

Facebook inks another lease in Seattle area, where it now has 7K employees and 3.3M square feet

Facebook is grabbing more space in the sprawling Spring District development in Bellevue, Wash., securing a lease for Block 5,… Read More

Meet the 4 new startups joining a fintech incubator run by BECU and UW in Seattle

Four Seattle startups have won a slot in a financial technology incubator run by banking company BECU and CoMotion, the… Read More

Amazon picks up 20 Emmy nominations including best drama nod for superhero series ‘The Boys’

The streaming television services are running away from the rest of the broadcast pack once again as nominations were announced… Read More

Techstars and Filecoin launching new accelerator out of Seattle for blockchain startups

Techstars, a global network that supports entrepreneurs, is launching a new accelerator program out of Seattle. The Filecoin Techstars Accelerator… Read More

Nuclear thermal propulsion system in space

USNC-Tech and Blue Origin win a contract for nuclear thermal propulsion design

Seattle-based Ultra Safe Nuclear Technologies and its partners are among three teams winning $5 million contracts from NASA and the… Read More

Emails indicate Amazon’s use of force while seeking JEDI cloud contract, GOP lawmakers say

Previously undisclosed emails appear to indicate that as Amazon pursued the now-canceled $10 billion JEDI cloud contract, it enlisted such… Read More

Seattle leads nation in ‘brain gain,’ adds tech jobs faster than any other big U.S. market over 5 years

The Seattle region added more than 48,000 tech jobs from 2016 to 2020, an increase of more than 35% —… Read More

Cancer care and research in Pacific Northwest to be streamlined under proposed reorganization

Cancer care and research in the Pacific Northwest may undergo a shift next year with a new partnership structure among… Read More

ZoomInfo will pay $575M to acquire conversation intelligence startup Chorus.ai

ZoomInfo has agreed to acquire Chorus.ai for $575 million in cash, adding conversation analysis capabilities to the Vancouver-Wash.-based company’s offerings.… Read More

Moving services company Updater acquires Seattle startup Dolly

Seattle-based on-demand moving startup Dolly has been acquired by Updater, a New York moving services company. Terms of the deal… Read More

Sumo and Pipeworks open new Vancouver-based game studio, Timbre Games, led by EA vet

The Eugene, Ore.-based video game developer Pipeworks announced on Tuesday that it’s expanded into Canada by opening a new studio… Read More

Amperity is Seattle’s latest unicorn with $100M round to supercharge its customer data platform

Amperity is the latest company to join the Seattle region’s elusive club of unicorns, or privately held tech startups valued… Read More

Seattle startup Truveta raises $95M for ambitious vision to aggregate data across healthcare systems

Seattle-based health data company Truveta today announced $95 million in fresh funding and the addition of three new participating healthcare… Read More

OceanGate sub makes first dive to Titanic wreck site and captures photos of debris

After years of building, testing and dealing with setbacks, Everett, Wash.-based OceanGate has sent a next-generation submersible and its crew down… Read More

A tale of two spaceships: How Seattle tech titans helped launch suborbital space tours

The suborbital spaceships built by Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture and Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic spaceline may look totally… Read More

Tech Moves: DreamBox Learning appoints 5 execs; UW names new vice provost of research; more

— Education platform DreamBox Learning appointed five new executives: Lakshmi Nidamarthi as chief product officer. Nidamarthi was most recently director… Read More

How Penny Arcade is preparing for in-person PAX in Seattle, with lessons learned from virtual events

For the first time in two years, actual humans will physically descend on the Washington State Convention Center for four… Read More