Amazon and NFL deal for ‘Thursday Night Football’ on Prime Video will begin year early, run 11 seasons Amazon and the National Football League have tacked on an extra year to a recent deal that makes Prime Video… Read More
John Oliver takes on COVID vaccine myths, and no, again, Bill Gates did not inject you with a microchip If you’re hesitant about getting a COVID-19 vaccination because you’re worried that Bill Gates is going to plant a microchip… Read More
Tech Moves: Ad Lightning CEO Scott Moore steps down; Amazon Prime Video adds Nike vet — Ad Lightning co-founder Scott Moore is stepping down from his CEO role for personal reasons but will remain on… Read More
Longtime Seattle gallery owner and tech vet team to offer artists and collectors a curated NFT portal A longtime leader in Seattle’s physical art scene is trying her hand at the digital world of NFTs, and she’s… Read More
Former Amazon exec Jeff Wilke on why he left, what it was like to work for Jeff Bezos, and more In March, Jeff Wilke quietly stepped away from Amazon, the company he was instrumental in building from an online book… Read More
Seattle startup Modica turns shipping containers into software-driven microfactories Watching stacks of shipping containers come and go from Seattle’s waterfront, you might wonder what’s in them, where they came… Read More
Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of April 25, 2021 See the technology stories that people were reading on GeekWire for the week of April 25, 2021. Read More
Zillow Group responds to lawsuit filed by Real Estate Exchange, denies antitrust claims The news: Seattle-based Zillow Group responded to an antitrust lawsuit filed by Austin-based real estate startup Real Estate Exchange in… Read More
Podcast How Starlink, Project Kuiper and other satellite broadband providers could change society Imagine a world where high-speed internet blankets every corner of the globe, transforming the way people access health care, education… Read More
How commercial space stations could become the final frontier for data and cybersecurity What will commercial space stations be good for? The application that typically comes up would be their use as space… Read More
NASA freezes SpaceX’s lunar lander cash due to protests from Blue Origin, Dynetics NASA says it’ll hold up on its payments to SpaceX for developing its Starship super-rocket as a lunar lander while… Read More
Marijuana data platform Headset raises $1.8M to expand into recently legalized markets Seattle startup Headset, which provides a business intelligence platform for the legal cannabis industry, announced $1.8 million in new funding.… Read More
Apple Maps finally adds cycling-specific routing for Seattle bicyclists For years, Apple Maps has lacked the cycling-specific routing that for a decade has made Google Maps the popular choice… Read More
Zulily co-founder’s SPAC raises $300 million Mark Vadon is on the prowl for the next e-commerce superstar. Vadon, who previously co-founded Zulily and Blue Nile and… Read More
Podcast Optimal Prime: Amazon’s big quarter reveals its post-pandemic potential Year-over-year quarterly growth of 44% would be significant for any company, but when the underlying numbers are this big, it… Read More
Junior Geek of the Month: Nigel Barnett will pursue engineering at MIT, and later, his astronaut dream Nigel Barnett has spent his childhood designing, building, destroying and tinkering. He started with LEGOs, moved on to DC motors… Read More
Viral sensation ‘Among Us’ is coming to PlayStation 4 & 5 later this year Last year’s viral hit Among Us is planned to debut on PlayStation 4 & 5 later this year. Announced during… Read More
Amazon plans to install smaller Elephant Car Wash sign outdoors on its campus ‘for everyone to enjoy’ This little pink elephant will stay outdoors where it belongs. Amazon’s plans to display the smaller Elephant Car Wash sign… Read More
Amazon sheds 27k employees in Q1 in return to traditional post-holiday jobs pattern Amazon’s total number of full- and part-time employees fell to 1.271 million people in the first quarter of 2021, down… Read More
‘We are airborne!’ Stratolaunch sends the world’s biggest plane on second test flight Stratolaunch, the aerospace company founded by the late Seattle billionaire Paul Allen, put the world’s biggest airplane through its second… Read More
Digital health startup Engage Technologies Group raises $15M for patient education tools Boise, Id.-based Engage Technologies Group closed a $15 million Series A funding round for its mobile patient platform targeted for… Read More
Microsoft ups the ante against Valve by offering more money to PC game developers In a move to compete with Steam, Microsoft plans to increase the money it pays to developers who publish their… Read More
GeekWire Awards 2021: Meet the remarkable STEM educators who are inspiring next-gen geeks Over the years, GeekWire has highlighted so many of the tireless folks who are nurturing the next generation of geeks.… Read More
Amazon crushes earnings estimates with $108.5B in Q1 revenue, up 44%, profits of $8.1B, up 224% Amazon blew past expectations for its first fiscal quarter earnings, posting revenue of $108.5 billion, up 44% year-over-year, and earnings… Read More
Remote cardiac monitoring startup Vector Remote Care raises $12.5M Vector Remote Care, a digital health startup for care teams to remotely monitor patients with implanted cardiac devices, closed a… Read More
Washington winery with tech connections hopes to uncork some of the hype around NFTs A Washington state winery with tech connections is getting into the NFT game with a sale of three unique digital… Read More
Microsoft acquires Kinvolk, the Berlin-based cloud startup behind Flatcar Container Linux Microsoft announced its acquisition of Kinvolk, a 6-year-old startup out of Berlin that develops open source cloud-based projects. Terms of… Read More
Excise or income? Washington state capital gains tax already faces a lawsuit — here’s what to know The conservative Freedom Foundation filed a lawsuit Wednesday in an effort to stop the capital gains tax approved by the… Read More
Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin promise details coming next week for how to buy first seat on spaceflight Step aside, Mannequin Skywalker. Blue Origin is getting ready for real humans to man its New Shepard spaceship and replace… Read More
Microsoft’s Brad Smith goes after Google again over web content and digital advertising revenue Microsoft President Brad Smith isn’t done battling with Google. Picking up where he left off last month during testimony in… Read More
