Articles from 2021 – Page 36 of 77

Seattle startup AdaptiLab sells interviewing software to CoderPad as founders pursue new idea

Seattle startup AdaptiLab has sold its technical interviewing platform to CoderPad and its founders plan to launch another new company.… Read More

Seattle’s Barokas Communications acquired by NY’s Finn Partners after 23 years as indie tech PR firm

Barokas Communications, an independent public relations firm that has become a mainstay of Seattle’s technology community over the past two… Read More

Filings reveal Amazon’s plan to use radar for ‘sleep tracing’ and touchless device control

Amazon plans to use radar to help people monitor their sleep and control their devices using gestures, a Federal Communications… Read More

Ray Ozzie’s cellular IoT startup Blues Wireless raises $22M from Bill Gates and others

Blues Wireless, an IoT startup founded by former Microsoft exec Ray Ozzie, has raised $22 million from investors including Microsoft… Read More

Nordstrom buys stake in Topshop and Topman fashion brands in deal with UK online giant Asos

Nordstrom has acquired a minority stake in the fashion brands Topshop, Topman, Miss Selfridge and HIIT through a deal with… Read More

Microsoft to acquire cybersecurity startup RiskIQ; reports peg deal at more than $500M

Update, July 12: Microsoft on Monday confirmed the acquisition in a blog post. Original post: Bloomberg reported Sunday that Microsoft… Read More

Virgin Galactic’s Richard Branson takes suborbital space trip, stealing the spotlight from Jeff Bezos

Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson rode his company’s SpaceShipTwo rocket plane into the skies over New Mexico today and did… Read More

Tech helps reduce overcrowding at Washington state trails via new recommendation feature

Seattle-area hikers know that on weekend mornings, popular trails such as Mt. Si are bound to be packed. The Washington… Read More

Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of July 4, 2021

See the technology stories that people were reading on GeekWire for the week of July 4, 2021. Read More

Couple finally catches a surf break in dream to bring man-made wave facility to Seattle area

Surfing is not the easiest sport to learn. But getting financial backing, securing land and actually building a man-made, deep-water… Read More

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After helping Amazon reinvent commerce, Jeff Wilke turns attention to reviving U.S. manufacturing

Jeff Wilke did something unusual when he left his role as Amazon’s Worldwide Consumer CEO in March, after more than… Read More

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin fuels feud with Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic over suborbital space trips

Jeff Bezos has a longstanding rivalry with SpaceX’s Elon Musk, but now his Blue Origin space venture is upping the… Read More

New presidential order will push for net neutrality, limit large mergers, restrict non-compete clauses

In an effort to promote more business and labor competition, President Biden today will issue a sweeping executive order to… Read More

Amazon’s BigCommerce deal seen as ‘important signal’ of tech giant’s broader shipping ambitions

Look out, UPS and FedEx? A deal this week between Amazon and e-commerce platform BigCommerce is “a clear indication that… Read More

Trip down Microsoft memory lane leads to Clippy and more nostalgic images as Teams backgrounds

Maybe it’s time to ditch the beach backdrop. Everyone at work knows, after more than a year of this, that… Read More

Seattle set to add fourth scooter option as Spin offers high-tech model to improve rider habits

Seattle’s scooter share fleet is growing. Spin, the micromobility company backed by Ford Motor Co., is set to receive a… Read More

Puppet founder Luke Kanies wants to help leaders remember conversations with new startup Clickety

Luke Kanies loves tools. As a youngster, he learned why they matter while building homes with his father. He later… Read More

Wildfire forecast: How to stay safe and what to expect this summer in the Pacific Northwest

If you were in the Pacific Northwest during last September’s super smoky wildfires, it was a miserable, apocalyptic-hued experience that… Read More

No pie in the sky: Portland pizza is best in U.S., Nathan Myhrvold says in latest epic cookbook

If you think New York is a slam dunk as the best pizza city in the U.S., well, fuggedaboutit! According… Read More

Seattle studio Polyarc reveals ‘Moss: Book II,’ a sequel to its award-winning 2018 VR adventure

Polyarc, the Seattle-based team behind the award-winning 2018 VR adventure game Moss, is producing a sequel. The news came Thursday… Read More

How Bumble BFF helped this Kentucky transplant find friends and break The Seattle Freeze

“The Seattle Freeze.” The phrase is used so often, yet I’d never heard it before I landed in Seattle in… Read More

Microsoft giving employees $1,500 bonus in recognition of challenging pandemic year

Microsoft is giving employees $1,500 in bonus pay for weathering the “unique and challenging” circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic, according… Read More

Relish launches subscriber plan Relish+ with access to more online recipes and meal-planning help

Seattle-based recipe and meal-planning service Relish is boosting its food-preparation help with the launch of Relish+, a membership plan designed… Read More

Utah-based crypto tax software startup TaxBit opening second HQ in Seattle

TaxBit, a Utah-based cryptocurrency tax and accounting firm, is opening a second headquarters in Seattle. The company was founded in… Read More

Connected car company Xevo, owned by Lear, hit with layoffs in Seattle area

Bellevue, Wash.-based Xevo has laid off 97 workers, according to a new filing with the state of Washington. The company,… Read More

Naveen Jain’s microbiome startup Viome splits into consumer and research divisions

Bellevue, Wash.-based microbiome and RNA analysis company Viome, now called Viome Life Sciences, has split into two divisions: one focused… Read More

Absci’s IPO reflects booming biotech market and growing PNW life sciences industry

The upcoming public offering for Vancouver, Wash.-based biotech company Absci reflects a soaring IPO market and adds to the growing… Read More

Tech Moves: Edifecs names new CEO; Absci adds execs ahead of IPO; and more

— Biotech company Absci, which filed to go public last week, added Nikhil Goel as chief business officer and Sarah… Read More

Washington state joins antitrust suit against Google over app store management, commission fees

Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson on Wednesday joined a multistate, antitrust lawsuit targeting Google’s Play store as unfair to… Read More

Seattle-based Icosavax, which is developing COVID-19 vaccines, files for IPO 4 years after launch

Seattle-based Icosavax has filed to go public via an IPO, just four years after it launched out of the University… Read More