Articles from 2024 – Page 42 of 56

Top 10 funding deals in Q1 for Pacific Northwest startups

Startup fundraising activity didn’t budge much in the first quarter of 2024 across the U.S. as the venture capital slowdown… Read More

Bill Gates really digs his visit to a hydrogen startup, filling a pothole with carbon-trapping asphalt

Bill Gates grabbed a wheelbarrow and shovel on Wednesday to fill a parking lot pothole with a new carbon trapping… Read More

Atlas V launch of Amazon Kuiper satellites in October 2023

Kuiper satellite network gets a big lift from Amazon’s CEO, but timeline is a bit hazy

In his annual letter to shareholders, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says the company’s Project Kuiper satellite venture will be “a… Read More

Thinking in primitives at the world’s biggest startup: Notes on Amazon CEO Andy Jassy’s annual letter

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy’s annual letters to shareholders haven’t yet reached the canonical business status of his predecessor’s essays, but… Read More

Seattle Public Schools piloting AI software from new startup for students and teachers

Seattle Public Schools (SPS) this month started rolling out new software from a startup called MagicSchool AI that sells generative… Read More

Amazon names business and tech leader Andrew Ng to its board, boosting AI expertise

Amazon’s newest board member is Andrew Ng, a business and technology leader, serial startup founder, investor, and educator who specializes… Read More

Tech Moves: UiPath CTO lands at Talkdesk; Elastic hires AWS vet; ex-Redfin leaders join LLM startup

— Munil Shah, a former engineering leader at UiPath who previously spent 23 years at Microsoft, has joined San Francisco startup… Read More

Exec pay: New filing shows how much Amazon CEO Andy Jassy made in compensation in 2023

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy’s compensation for 2023 totaled $29.2 million, including his base pay, the value of shares that vested… Read More

Vertex will buy Alpine Immune Sciences for $4.9B in another big Seattle biotech deal

Boston-based biotech company Vertex Pharmaceuticals agreed to acquire Seattle-based Alpine Immune Sciences for $65 per share, totaling about $4.9 billion… Read More

Seattle studio Mega Crit reveals sequel to surprise indie-game hit ‘Slay the Spire’

Slay the Spire 2, a sequel to the hit 2019 video game, is planned for release next year via Steam… Read More

Seattle firm Curious makes first acquisition, buying infrastructure platform Convox

Curious, a new Seattle investment firm that looks to buy software startups with limited funding options, acquired Convox, a 10-year-old… Read More

Nearly 1 in 5 new cars registered in Washington state last year were EVs or plug-in hybrids

Washington state car buyers are increasingly going electric. New data shows that 19% of new cars registered in Washington in… Read More

Building a more mature Seattle startup ecosystem: A conversation with Peter Mueller of Breakwater

Seattle, with its tech giants like Amazon and Microsoft, has the potential to be a top-tier startup ecosystem. However, according… Read More

Carbon, weeds and toxics are in the crosshairs for GeekWire Awards sustainability finalists

Increasing numbers of Pacific Northwest entrepreneurs are turning their significant talents to addressing serious environmental and climate problems impacting planet… Read More

This energy startup wants to make utility data more accessible — and spur creation of new companies

Seattle startup Bayou Energy has raised a $1.2 million pre-seed round. The company has developed technology that pulls customer data… Read More

UW joins $110M U.S.-Japan academic partnership for AI that includes support from NVIDIA, Amazon

A new partnership between universities in the U.S. and Japan backed by $110 million from tech corporations aims to boost… Read More

Workout training startup Volt Athletics acquires ZAMA Health

Seattle startup Volt Athletics announced the acquisition of ZAMA Health, a Washington D.C.-based company that provides mental health services to… Read More

Amazon Dash Cart vs. ‘Just Walk Out’: We put the tech giant’s new grocery strategy to the test

Amazon has been trying to reinvent the way people buy groceries for 17 years. But unlike e-commerce or cloud computing,… Read More

Former Bungie directors lead new unit within Seattle-area game studio ProbablyMonsters

ProbablyMonsters, a game studio collective headquartered in Bellevue, Wash., announced Tuesday that it’s founded a new internal development team called… Read More

PairTree, a Seattle startup that facilitates adoptions, raises more cash to fuel expansion

PairTree, a startup that matches expectant moms with families who are eager to adopt, is expanding into a full-service platform… Read More

Diamond-ring effect before total solar eclipse

A tale of three eclipse chasers: Despite technological gains, nature calls the shots

NASHVILLE, Ind. — There’s nothing like a total solar eclipse to remind you of the unstoppability of nature — and… Read More

Amazon’s total Washington state employment declines for the first time, new numbers show

Amazon’s employment in Washington state, including warehouse and corporate workers, fell by 3,000 people to 87,000 employees between early 2023… Read More

Health Innovation of the Year: 5 finalists at the GeekWire Awards use tech to improve healthcare

The five finalists for the Health Innovation of the Year at the GeekWire Awards highlight the multitude of ways that… Read More

New study for early detection of Alzheimer’s shows promising results

A new test for the early detection of Alzheimer’s Disease — potentially even before symptoms are present — show that… Read More

Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of March 31, 2024

See the technology stories that people were reading on GeekWire for the week of March 31, 2024. Read More

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Can AI save the world? New book from Microsoft aims to show the potential for positive change

A few years ago, Microsoft researchers and data scientists used machine learning to help marine biologists analyze patterns in underwater… Read More

Google giving $500K to expand robotics and AI education programs in Washington state

Google’s philanthropic arm is giving a $500,000 grant to expand access to robotics and artificial intelligence education programs across Washington… Read More

Where Amazon Web Services is still hiring after cutting hundreds of jobs this week

Amazon Web Services announced hundreds of job cuts this week, in areas including training, sales, and physical stores technology, but… Read More

Seattle-area mental health startup focused on serving first responders is raising cash

Mental health challenges can be doubly difficult for first responders such as firefighters and police officers. Their jobs have higher-than-average… Read More

Your (nearly) last-minute guide to getting the maximum out of the total solar eclipse

It’s prime time for eclipse-chasers: A total solar eclipse will trace a line from coast to coast on Monday, and… Read More