Articles from 2021 – Page 69 of 77

Warner Bros. roils game industry with patent on Nemesis gameplay mechanic by Kirkland’s Monolith

Analysis: In what has proved to be a controversial move among game developers, Warner Brothers has secured a U.S. patent… Read More

Seattle-area publisher tinyBuild acquires three more game development studios

Bellevue, Wash.-based indie game publisher tinyBuild has acquired three indie studios — We’re Five Games, Moon Moose, and Hungry Couch… Read More

Former Amazon board member Tom Alberg reviews the new book, ‘Working Backwards’

[Editor’s Note: Tom Alberg, managing director at Seattle-based venture capital firm Madrona Venture Group, was an Amazon investor who served… Read More

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Amazon’s business secrets: Former insiders explain how the tech giant really works in new book

How will Amazon maintain its culture as it approaches 1.3 million employees and prepares for its founder Jeff Bezos to… Read More

SPAC led by Seattle investor Erik Anderson inks $2.7B deal with fuel cell startup Hyzon Motors

Rochester, N.Y.-based fuel cell startup Hyzon Motors is set to go public in a SPAC deal that values the company… Read More

Seattle-area startup Fabric raises $43M to help retailers keep up with online shopping boom

New funding: E-commerce startup Fabric has raised $43 million to help mid-market brands that are trying to keep up with… Read More

Russell Wilson and Spencer Rascoff back MOJO, an app to help parent coaches find fun in youth sports

A search on YouTube for “youth sports drills” returns an endless scroll of every type of practice workout you could… Read More

Nuance acquires Seattle digital health startup Saykara to boost healthcare AI products

Nuance Communications has acquired Saykara, a Seattle health-tech startup that makes a voice assistant for clinicians. Nuance, based in Boston… Read More

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Advertising surge lifts Amazon’s ‘Other’ segment past subscription business, on pace to rival AWS

Amazon’s Q4 2020 earnings last week were understandably dominated by news that CEO Jeff Bezos is stepping down in Q3… Read More

Microsoft’s M12 venture fund chief Nagraj Kashyap departs for SoftBank

Nagraj Kashyap, the global head of Microsoft’s M12 venture fund, has taken a new job at SoftBank’s Vision Fund as… Read More

Washington Post editor talks Bezos and Amazon, and how billionaire owner reshaped newspaper

The editor who has been in charge of The Washington Post newsroom ever since Jeff Bezos bought the newspaper is… Read More

Seattle’s Porch marks new era as public company with first Super Bowl ad touting home services tech

Editor’s note: A previous version of this story incorrectly stated the amount Porch paid for a Super Bowl ad. The… Read More

From book club to bootcamp: How these Seattle tech veterans took bold action on racial inclusion

Femi Akinde and Mike Koss met a decade ago at StartPad, a former Seattle co-working space where Koss was director… Read More

Jeff Bezos-backed startup Nautilus Biotechnology set to go public via SPAC at $900M valuation

Nautilus Biotechnology, a Seattle-based biotech startup led by Isilon co-founder Sujal Patel, is the latest company to go public using… Read More

Zillow skit on Saturday Night Live goes viral as show pokes fun at house-browsing ‘fantasies’

Zillow Group didn’t have a Super Bowl ad, yet it may have come away from the weekend with the biggest… Read More

Seattle’s newest billionaire says tax talk will drive business away, claims Seattle freeze is ‘garbage’

Tanium co-founder and CEO Orion Hindawi may not be as well known as Jeff Bezos, Steve Ballmer, Bill Gates or… Read More

Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Jan. 31, 2021

See the technology stories that people were reading on GeekWire for the week of Jan. 31, 2021. Read More

How Promethean’s product chief adopted Amazon-inspired business practices at edtech company

Steven Halliwell, chief product officer for Promethean, calls himself a change agent. In his current role during the COVID-19 pandemic,… Read More

How digital networks and data help promote board diversity and bust the ‘pipeline problem’ myth

In the last year, protests against racial inequality and the uneven effects of the coronavirus pandemic have thrust the lack… Read More

Life sciences leaders see big opportunity for more collaboration across Seattle and Vancouver

In 2016, B.C. Cancer Agency chief Dr. Malcolm Moore traveled from Vancouver to Seattle and paid a visit to the… Read More

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GeekWire Podcast: Amazon, Andy Jassy and the cloud, with Corey Quinn of The Duckbill Group

What does Andy Jassy’s track record at Amazon Web Services say about how he’ll lead Amazon as the company’s next… Read More

Carbon-capture company Svante raises $75M to trap emissions at their source

Vancouver, B.C.-based Svante has closed a $75 million funding round. The company calls it “the largest private investment into point… Read More

Super Bowl ad roundup: Big names bow out, but Amazon and plenty of tech still playing on Sunday

The most important part of Sunday’s Super Bowl is already watchable as advertising for a variety of companies and products… Read More

Julie Larson-Green retires as Qualtrics CXO after IPO; Asha Sharma joins Instacart as COO; and more

Julie Larson-Green, an engineering leader and executive who spent more than 25 years at Microsoft, is retiring from her position… Read More

Microsoft: PAC won’t donate in 2022 cycle to politicians who sought to overturn election

Microsoft says its Political Action Committee (PAC) will suspend contributions for the 2022 election cycle to all members of Congress… Read More

NFL passes on T-Mobile Super Bowl ad featuring Brady and Gronkowski and a bad connection

The Goat got baaaaaaannnnned. T-Mobile’s Super Bowl ad featuring Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady (Greatest Of All Time?) won’t… Read More

Dispute between Elastic and AWS highlights ongoing battle over open source business model

Editor’s note: This is a guest post written by Daniel Li, partner at Madrona Venture Group, which first appeared in his… Read More

Here’s the biggest challenge facing Amazon’s Andy Jassy — at least in the words of one partner

Andy Jassy will have big shoes to fill when he takes over from Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos later this year.… Read More

T-Mobile adds another 1.7M customers and beats estimates for Q4 earnings with $20.6B in revenue

T-Mobile beat expectations for its fourth quarter earnings report, posting revenue of $20.3 billion and earnings per share of $0.60.… Read More

Techstars Seattle grad Insent raises $2M to take on Drift and Intercom with B2B marketing chatbot

Insent landed $2 million to help mid-market B2B companies improve how they identify and communicate with potential buyers. The Seattle-based… Read More