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Inside the plan to save Zulily: How ‘The Profit’ will try to revive a once high-flying e-commerce brand

This week on the GeekWire Podcast: The rise, fall, and revival of Zulily. We revisit one the most prominent e-commerce… Read More

Bellevue awarded $1.4M to test tech that adjusts traffic signals in real time for pedestrian safety

The City of Bellevue, Wash., has been awarded a $1.43 million grant from the U.S Department of Transportation to pilot… Read More

Tech Moves: Optimize Health names new CEO; Seattle-area marketing firm makes acquisition

Optimize Health, a Seattle-based startup that sells remote patient monitoring software, announced Ryan Clark as its new CEO. Clark, based… Read More

Smartsheet CEO Mark Mader on AI, hiring, and the new realities of tech spending

Business software company Smartsheet surpassed $1 billion in annualized recurring revenue in the fourth quarter, within the timeframe established by… Read More

Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez name latest recipients of $50M Courage and Civility Awards

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his fiancée Lauren Sanchez are giving $50 million to both actor and activist Eva Longoria… Read More

Entrepreneurs who used TikTok to help build their businesses blast potential ban in U.S.

Seattle-based money expert and self-described financial feminist Tori Dunlap credits TikTok with transforming her business, HerFirst100k, an education platform that… Read More

Seattle mayor proposes legislation to help convert commercial real estate for residential uses

Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell wants to make it easier for property owners to convert their commercial buildings for residential use,… Read More

TikTok ban faces uncertain fate in Senate; Washington state reps vote against House bill

While the U.S. House overwhelmingly approved a potential ban on the social media app TikTok on Wednesday, the measure now… Read More

Augmented writing startup Textio lays off 14 employees, or 16% of staff

Textio laid off 14 employees this week, or 16% of its workforce, as part of a restructuring. The company confirmed… Read More

‘Just watch us’: Gates-backed TerraPower is bullish on being the first next-gen nuclear plant in U.S.

Inside TerraPower’s cavernous 65,000 square-foot laboratory north of Seattle, there’s a suite of stations for experimenting with new materials and… Read More

Former Amazon and Microsoft exec Joseph Sirosh launches stealthy new generative AI startup

Joseph Sirosh, a former corporate vice president at Microsoft who was most recently at Amazon leading search and Alexa efforts,… Read More

Illustration: Interlune harvester on the moon

Interlune comes out of stealth with its plan to harvest helium-3 and more on the moon

Seattle-based Interlune officially lifted the curtain today on its plans to build a robotic harvester that could extract helium-3 from… Read More

2024 GeekWire Awards finalists revealed: Vote now for the best in Pacific Northwest tech

The voting is now open for the 2024 GeekWire Awards, and this is your chance to have a hand in… Read More

Former Microsoft deputy CTO Lila Tretikov joins NEA as head of AI strategy

Lila Tretikov, the former deputy chief technology officer at Microsoft, has joined SIlicon Valley investment firm NEA as partner and… Read More

Shift AI Podcast: Building confidence through AI with Varun Puri, CEO of Yoodli

After being tapped by Sergey Brin to run special projects at Google, Varun Puri found himself at Google X playing… Read More

Amazon’s latest AI feature will let sellers generate product listings from their existing websites

Amazon will offer sellers the ability to quickly create new product listings using generative AI by providing a URL for… Read More

Funding female founders: Former All Raise CEO on what needs to change

The tech giants known as The Magnificent Seven — Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Tesla — all share something… Read More

In fight against fentanyl and other drugs, police departments deploy handheld narcotics analyzer

The Redmond (Wash.) Police Department is deploying a new tool in its fight against illicit drugs. The agency announced Tuesday… Read More

Looking for non-dilutive funding? 5 tips for startups seeking small business grants

A good idea, preliminary data, and credentials in the field are all key components of landing a small business grant… Read More

Microsoft design exec turns to AI to illustrate son’s book about coping with anxiety

When Microsoft design chief Jon Friedman‘s son Judah needed help with a children’s book he wanted to write, Friedman went… Read More

Illustration: Lumen Orbit satellite in space

Lumen Orbit emerges from stealth and raises $2.4M to put data centers in space

Bellevue, Wash.-based Lumen Orbit, a startup that’s only about three months old, says that it’s closed a $2.4 million pre-seed… Read More

‘How do we tame it?’ AI tools are already changing art and illustration in the comic book industry

At this year’s Emerald City Comic Con in Seattle, one of the panel discussions brought together several working artists to… Read More

Seattle-area startup offering electronic medical records for long-term care raises $2.5M

DocNow, a Bellevue, Wash.-based startup, raised a $2.5 million seed round to expand its platform that provides electronic medical records,… Read More

Tech Moves: Former AMD named Kymeta CEO; GitHub exec joins Twilio; DocuSign security vet joins Proof; Fred Hutch adds VP

Rick Bergman, former executive vice president at semiconductor giant AMD, joined Seattle-area mobile connectivity company Kymeta as its new CEO,… Read More

Tech vets went to bat for Major League Cricket — now they have bigger goals for Seattle and beyond

When Sanjay Parthasarathy left his last tech job in February 2023, he figured he’d do what he could to help… Read More

Healthcare investment firm Patient Square Capital agrees to acquire NanoString assets for $220M

NanoString, the Seattle-based biotech company that initiated a Chapter 11 bankruptcy process last month, announced late Sunday it agreed to… Read More

Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of March 3, 2024

See the technology stories that people were reading on GeekWire for the week of March 3, 2024. Read More

Stratolaunch carrier airplane releases TA-1 test vehicle

Stratolaunch’s air-launched test vehicle goes supersonic in its first powered flight

Chalk up another milestone for Stratolaunch, the air-launch venture created by the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen: The company’s mammoth… Read More

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Seattle tech leaders launch nonprofit to push for greater transparency in AI training data

Artificial intelligence is a powerful technology that promises to reshape the future, but it also poses many challenges and risks.… Read More

OpenAI reinstates Sam Altman to its board, and adds former Gates Foundation CEO

OpenAI announced Friday that it is bringing CEO Sam Altman back to the board of directors following his dramatic ouster… Read More