Articles from 2023 – Page 3 of 60

‘Just infuriating’: Online retailer Zulily flip-flops, now plans to lay off employees amid holidays

Zulily employees received notice last week that they’d lose their jobs in February. But many of them were surprised Wednesday… Read More

Microsoft targets CAPTCHA-cracking bot ring allegedly responsible for 750M fake accounts

Microsoft secured a court order to seize and take down websites used by a group that it describes as the… Read More

Amazon brings back ability to use Alexa to thank and tip delivery drivers during holiday rush

Next time an Amazon package hits your front step, don’t just shout thanks through the door or at the van… Read More

Spendy and slow Tesla repairs frustrate drivers as automotive tech drives up cost of collisions

When Kelly Campbell bought a metallic gray Tesla last year, the Seattle resident was delighted. The luxury features, the stellar… Read More

Tech Moves: PNNL director returns to Wash. Dept. of Commerce; Seattle comms exec departs Forbes

— Joseph Williams is returning to the Washington state Department of Commerce to lead information and communication technology (ICT) sector… Read More

How Pfizer’s $43B acquisition of Seagen may impact Seattle and broader biotech market

Editor’s note: William Canestaro is managing director at Seattle venture capital firm WRF Capital and leads the biotechnology investment team. … Read More

Prenuvo bringing its celebrity-endorsed full-body MRI scanning to new Seattle clinic in 2024

Prenuvo, the celebrity-endorsed company offering $2,500 full-body MRI scans designed to detect cancer and other diseases early, is planning to… Read More

Combined visualizations of mouse brain cell types

Researchers map the entire mouse brain, cataloging 5,322 different types of cells

Neuroscientists have unveiled their most comprehensive and detailed map of cell types across the entire mouse brain, delivering the latest… Read More

Field operations software startup Zuper raises $32M

Zuper, a Seattle startup that sells software to help companies with field workers, raised a $32 million Series B round… Read More

Seattle approves ‘landmark policy’ requiring 4,100 buildings to slash carbon footprints by 2050

The Seattle City Council on Tuesday unanimously approved rules requiring roughly 4,100 existing buildings of more than 20,000 square feet… Read More

Blue Origin New Shepard suborbital rocket ship on launch pad in 2022

Blue Origin is ready to launch New Shepard spaceship after more than a year on hold

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture plans to send its New Shepard suborbital spaceship on an uncrewed research mission as… Read More

New round of layoffs at Hasbro impacts Wizards of the Coast — read CEO’s memo to staff

Employees at Renton, Wash.-based gaming giant Wizards of the Coast were affected by a new round of layoffs at its… Read More

Pfizer wins regulatory approval for its $43B acquisition of Seattle-area biotech giant Seagen

Pfizer’s plan to acquire Seagen for $43 billion has cleared the necessary regulatory hurdles, the pharma titan announced Tuesday. The… Read More

Nintex acquires Skuid, a low-code application development platform

Bellevue, Wash.-based workflow automation company Nintex has acquired Skuid, a Chattanooga, Tenn.,-based low-code application development platform.

AstraZeneca will pay up to $1.1B to acquire Icosavax, a Univ. of Washington biotech spinout

Seattle-based Icosavax, a spin-out from the University of Washington’s Institute for Protein Design, will be acquired by biotech giant AstraZeneca for… Read More

Zulily sues Amazon, alleging that price-fixing and supplier coercion sank its attempts to compete

Updated with Amazon statement. Less than a week after cutting hundreds of jobs and signaling its intent to go out… Read More

Seattle councilmember wants a federal recall of Kias and Hyundais that lack anti-theft technology

On Tuesday the Seattle City Council will vote on a resolution asking the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to recall… Read More

‘The epicenter of AI’: CNBC’s Cramer is mad about Seattle’s position in new wave of tech

Just a few months after it looked like Seattle was being left out of the national conversation about artificial intelligence… Read More

Zulily has seen better days: Co-founder Mark Vadon shares startup lessons from the online retailer

It’s been a wild past several days for Zulily. As we’ve reported, the online retailer is shutting down three offices,… Read More

Amazon asks court to toss FTC case, saying its practices are ‘the essence of competition’

Amazon defended the business practices targeted by the Federal Trade Commission as “the essence of competition” and asked a federal… Read More

TV shows, Taylor Swift, smoke shops and more top Seattle’s trending Google searches in 2023

The hottest television series and the biggest concert tour were among the top trending topics of the year when it… Read More

Google’s ‘Gemini’ bridges the AI divide, but artificial general intelligence remains elusive

In the past year, generative AI has taken the world by storm. The pace of advancement has been little short… Read More

Microsoft tries to address AI labor concerns with new AFL-CIO pact and ‘neutrality framework’

Microsoft announced a new agreement with the AFL-CIO, the country’s largest federation of unions, that seeks to address concerns about… Read More

Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Dec. 3, 2023

See the technology stories that people were reading on GeekWire for the week of Dec. 3, 2023. Read More

As Zulily promotes ‘going out of business sale,’ longtime employees reflect on retailer’s impact

A message on Zulily’s website this weekend confirms that the online retailer is closing its doors, the latest stage in… Read More

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How to be an ‘Uncommon Thinker’: What we learned profiling innovative leaders solving big problems

What does it take to create meaningful change in the modern world? A few ideas: Those are some of the… Read More

Tech Moves: Nordstrom names chief information security officer; Meta research scientist joins AI2

— Nicole Ford joined Nordstrom as chief information security officer. Ford previously served as vice president and CISO at Rockwell Automation,… Read More

Whoa, starry night! Astra Lumina installation in Seattle blends light, sound in feast for the senses

The endless rain in Seattle stopped long enough on Thursday night for the “stars” to come out — even if those… Read More

Zulily’s closure of fulfillment centers in Ohio and Nevada will impact more than 500 workers

Zulily will lay off more than 500 employees as part of its decision to close fulfillment centers in Lockbourne, Ohio,… Read More

Seattle startup Carbon raises $1.3M to help developers manage external data for LLMs

Carbon, a Seattle startup that helps companies connect external data sources to their large language models, raised a $1.3 million… Read More