Articles from 2023 – Page 21 of 60

Amazon adds three execs to its senior leadership team — here’s how the list has changed this year

Amazon named three additional executives to its senior leadership team Friday: Andy Jassy, the Amazon CEO, announced the additions in… Read More

Pension fund’s lawsuit questions Amazon’s decisions on Kuiper satellite launch deal

An Ohio-based pension fund has filed a lawsuit alleging that Amazon didn’t give due consideration to SpaceX as a potential… Read More

Internal email: Expedia Group lays off some tech workers in latest move to reshape its workforce

Expedia Group informed an unspecified number of workers in its technology organization Thursday that it’s eliminating their positions, the latest… Read More

The wheels on the bus are battery powered as e-bus use surges ahead

The number of models of passenger electric vehicles keeps growing, and electric delivery vans are becoming a more common sight… Read More

Microsoft will unbundle Teams in Europe in response to antitrust probe

Microsoft will no longer include Microsoft Teams in Microsoft 365 and Office 365 for its primary business customers in the… Read More

T-Mobile’s recent layoffs impact 401 employees in Seattle area

T-Mobile’s decision to lay off nearly 5,000 employees will impact 401 workers in Bellevue, Wash. CEO Mike Sievert last week… Read More

Review in progress: ‘Starfield’ takes the ‘Skyrim’ formula out into the universe

I’ve spent roughly 20 hours on Starfield at the time of this review, which is nowhere near enough to feel… Read More

Ada Developers Academy ‘significantly’ reduces headcount, pauses admissions, names interim CEO

Seattle-based Ada Developers Academy has conducted another round of layoffs and named a new interim leader, a month after CEO… Read More

E-commerce rivals Amazon and Shopify reach truce on ‘Buy with Prime’ integration

Online merchants who use Shopify’s e-commerce platform will be able to natively integrate Amazon’s “Buy with Prime” program into their… Read More

Adam Wiener, Redfin president of real estate services, is departing

Longtime Redfin executive Adam Wiener is leaving the Seattle-based real estate giant, nearly 16 years after he joined the company.… Read More

Seattle clean tech startup lands $1.4M for eco-friendly soy-based suds for shampoos, detergents

The news: Seattle-based clean-tech startup Sironix Renewables raised $1.47 million in new funding. The tech: Sironix has developed a suite… Read More

Cloud automation startup SkyKick lays off 140 employees

Seattle-based cloud automation and migration startup SkyKick laid off 140 employees, including 98 in the U.S. Editor’s note: This story… Read More

Seattle-area startup Hyperproof lands $40M for risk and compliance software

Hyperproof, a Bellevue, Wash.-based startup that helps companies comply with state and international privacy and data protection law, raised a… Read More

Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant to be integrated on the same devices for the first time

Amazon and Google are putting their rival voice assistants on the same devices for the first time, allowing users to… Read More

Reading, writing, and ChatGPT: High school English teachers adjust to the new realities of AI

ORLAND, Calif. — As a new school year begins, teachers across the country are grappling with the rise of generative… Read More

Seattle VR studio Polyarc reveals its next game: ‘Glassbreakers: Champions of Moss’

Seattle-based virtual reality developer Polyarc Games unveiled its next project Tuesday morning. Glassbreakers: Champions of Moss is a multiplayer strategy… Read More

Lighter Capital raises $130M to fuel revenue-based financing model

Seattle investment firm Lighter Capital announced two new funding facilities: $100 million for U.S. and Canada-based startups, and $30 million… Read More

Recent grads working in tech are migrating to Seattle more than any other U.S. city

Seattle ranks No. 1 on a list measuring migration patterns of recent graduates in tech. A new CBRE study detailing… Read More

Amazon raises free shipping minimum order amount to $35 for some non-Prime customers

Amazon is testing a new minimum order amount of $35 for non-Prime members to qualify for free shipping, raising the… Read More

Spin control: Starfish Space makes use of magnetism to stop satellite’s death spiral

Two and a half months after Starfish Space’s first orbital mission teetered on the edge of failure because its Otter… Read More

Seattle-area edtech company DreamBox Learning acquired by Discovery Education

DreamBox Learning, a Bellevue, Wash.-based company that sells education technology software to K-12 schools, announced Tuesday it was acquired by… Read More

Grubhub adding Amazon’s ‘Just Walk Out’ tech to college campus dining experiences

Amazon is headed back to college for the new school year. The company’s cashierless “Just Walk Out” technology is being… Read More

Celebrity clone startup led by veteran entrepreneurs uses AI for 1-on-1 ‘human-like conversations’

Alex Lieberman, co-founder of newsletter startup MorningBrew, gets a lot of inquiries from entrepreneurs looking for advice. But he can’t… Read More

Compensation data from Blind app shows how much public tech giants pay engineers

Blind, the anonymous social network for verified corporate employees, released new compensation data for software engineers working at Amazon, Apple,… Read More

Notch Therapeutics closes Vancouver lab, will focus on Toronto and Seattle offices

Notch Therapeutics announced that it will shut down its lab in Vancouver, B.C., and lay off about 25 employees, with some… Read More

Amazon Web Services acquires Fig, a YC grad that boosts the command line for devs

Amazon Web Services has acquired Fig, a small San Francisco-based startup that helps developers be more efficient and collaborative while… Read More

GM-backed Cruise begins testing self-driving cars in Seattle to learn from hilly, wet environment

Cruise, the autonomous vehicle company backed by General Motors, will begin testing its cars in Seattle on Monday, the company… Read More

Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Aug. 20, 2023

See the technology stories that people were reading on GeekWire for the week of Aug. 20, 2023. Read More

Arc One electric boat at Carillon Point dock

Arc takes its electric boat on tour: Here’s what a ride feels like (and sounds like)

KIRKLAND, Wash. — Lake Washington in August may be known for its gas-fueled, ear-splitting thunderboats, but this week it also… Read More

Fusion cuisine: Zap Energy fires up BBQ grill built to look like one of its high-tech, superheated devices

Zap Energy, the Seattle-area startup that’s been cooking up a better way to generate fusion power, fired up a custom-made… Read More