GeekWire Logo
Menu
  • Home
  • News
    • Amazon
    • Artificial Intelligence
    • Civic
    • Geek Life
    • Health/Life Sciences
    • Microsoft
    • GeekWire Podcast
    • Space
    • Startups sponsored by Google for Startups
    • Positive Charge Podcast sponsored by Amazon Sustainability
    • Sustainability sponsored by Amazon Sustainability
    • Tech Moves presented by GeekWork Recruiting
    • Agents of Transformation presented by Accenture
  • GeekWork
    • GeekWork Recruiting
    • Job Board
  • Events
    • Community Calendar
    • GeekWire Events
  • Lists
    • GeekWire 200
    • GeekWire Startup List presented by ALLtech
    • GeekWire Startup Resources
    • GeekWire Startup Spaces
    • Layoff Tracker
    • M&As and IPOs
    • Northwest Women VC & Angel Investor List
    • Recent Fundings
    • Seattle Engineering Outposts
    • Venture Capital Directory
  • Members
    • Health Benefits
    • Memberships
  • Studios
    • GeekWire Studios: Let Us Tell Your Story
    • F5 30th Anniversary
    • AI Breakthrough Awards presented by UiPath
    • AI Innovators Spotlight Studio 2026 presented by AWS Marketplace
    • Nebius at NVIDIA GTC 2026
    • Acumatica Summit 2026
    • BMC Control Freaks Unite presented by BMC
    • AI Predictions Series 2026 presented by Unify Consulting
    • Guide to re:Invent 2025 sponsored by AWS
    • Remitly Reimagine 2025 sponsored by Remitly
    • Does Compute presented by Carnegie Mellon University
    • AWS Marketplace Seller Conference 2025 sponsored by AWS
    • ShopTalk 2025 powered by Amazon Ads
  • About
    • About GeekWire
    • Advertise
    • Contact Us
    • Email Newsletters
    • Reprints & Permissions
  • Podcast
  • LinkedIn
  • Newsletter
  • News Tips

What happens here matters everywhere.

  • Podcast
  • LinkedIn
  • Newsletter
  • News Tips
  • Amazon
  • Microsoft
  • Startups
  • AI
  • Science
  • Tech Moves
  • Sustainability
  • Civic
  • Geek Life

Articles from 2024

GeekWire Week in Review

Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Jan. 28, 2024

See the technology stories that people were reading on GeekWire for the week of Jan. 28, 2024. Read More

Seattle-area students use tactile tech to help visually impaired people get a new feel for art

A group of elementary and middle school students from districts east of Seattle are working together on a project to… Read More

Podcast

GeekWire Podcast: Apple Vision Pro, a developer’s take; Detecting and defusing AI deepfakes

First up this week on the GeekWire Podcast: an inside look at developing software for the Apple Vision Pro spatial… Read More

Apple Vision Pro buyers in Seattle wrap their heads around ‘the future’ of tech

There wasn’t a line stretching around the block the way there might have been for an early iPhone release. But… Read More

Okta layoffs impact employees in the Pacific Northwest; identity giant acquired Auth0 in 2021

Identity and access management giant Okta announced this week that it is laying off about 7% of its workforce, or… Read More

Apple Vision Pro: Why one longtime software shop is jumping head-first into spatial computing

Ken Case‘s dad worked for many years at Boeing in industrial engineering for highly complex projects such as the Boeing… Read More

Medsense Health, which sells sensors for remote medication management, raises $500K

Seattle-area startup Medsense Health raised $500,000 in new investment to fuel growth of its tech aimed at helping patients and… Read More

Amazon plans to ‘hold the line’ on job growth as hiring slowdown contributes to record profits

Amazon ended the fourth quarter with 1,525,000 employees, up by 25,000 people from the third quarter but down 1% from… Read More

Washington state awards $85M in grants to fund thousands of EV charging stations

Washington state announced $85 million in grants Thursday to fund thousands of new electric vehicle charging stations across the state… Read More

Point-of-sale tech startup CHEQ, which ran Bite of Seattle, acquired by Cantaloupe

CHEQ, a Seattle startup that sells point-of-sale software to sports stadiums and entertainment venues, announced Thursday it was acquired by… Read More

Amazon shares rise 6% as cloud and advertising power record Q4 revenue of $170B

Amazon topped expectations for its holiday quarter, reporting record revenue of $169.9 billion, up 14% year-over-year, and earnings per share… Read More

Amazon unveils ‘Rufus’ AI shopping assistant, rolling out in coming weeks in mobile app

Amazon is integrating an AI assistant called Rufus into its mobile shopping app. The new generative AI feature, just announced,… Read More

Zillow calls immersive home tours on Apple Vision Pro ‘the next best thing to being there in person’

Zillow is embracing the new Apple Vision Pro as the ultimate way to experience interactive home tours, launching its Zillow… Read More

As Bellevue’s tech boom cools, here’s why city leaders are welcoming the slowdown

In 2021, while much of the U.S. was recovering from the pandemic, Bellevue’s tech scene was flourishing as Amazon, Meta… Read More

Allen Institute for AI promises new insights into large language models with OLMo release

The Allen Institute for AI (AI2) on Thursday released a highly anticipated open-source large language model, along with the underlying… Read More

Payments company Blackhawk Network to acquire digital gift card startup Tango Card

Tango Card, a Seattle software startup that helps companies offer digital gift cards and rewards to customers and employees, agreed… Read More

Microsoft’s resurgence: Reflecting on Satya Nadella’s leadership, a decade after he became CEO

When I met Satya Nadella in 1992, we were both engineers at Microsoft, and I never would have guessed we’d… Read More

Starbucks mobile orders surpass 30% of total transactions at U.S. stores

Starbucks continues to see a steady increase in the number of customers using its mobile app to buy coffee and… Read More

Microsoft productivity apps and Copilot AI coming to Apple Vision Pro at launch

Despite their longstanding rivalry, Microsoft has made a tradition of developing software for Apple computers, stretching back to the early… Read More

Bellevue Police Dept. adding body cameras for first time, and upgrading Taser technology

The Bellevue (Wash.) Police Dept. is adding body-worn cameras on patrol officers for the first time in an effort to… Read More

Cuts at Jack Dorsey’s fin-tech company Block impact 43 workers in Washington state

Block, the financial services and mobile payments company founded by former Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, has laid off 43 workers… Read More

More than $85M in Zulily inventory and fulfillment center assets will be up for sale

Zulily’s going-out-of-business sale in early December didn’t entirely deplete the inventory of goods held by the Seattle-based online retailer that… Read More

Amazon earnings preview: AWS, advertising, AI in the spotlight for holiday quarter results

Amazon will report its holiday quarter 2023 earnings on Thursday. Wall Street expects earnings of $0.80 per share and record… Read More

Seattle startup Protect AI acquires Laiyer AI, makers of LLM Guard

Seattle cybersecurity startup Protect AI announced that it acquired Laiyer AI, which makes open source software called LLM Guard that protects… Read More

New nonpartisan AI nonprofit TrueMedia, led by Oren Etzioni, is making a political deepfake detector

A new nonprofit, nonpartisan technology organization called TrueMedia is developing an AI-powered tool to detect deepfake videos, photos, and audio,… Read More

Microsoft milestone: Games top Windows for first time, with addition of Activision Blizzard

Xbox is bigger than Windows. Revenue from Microsoft’s video-game business surpassed its Windows division for the first time in the… Read More

Microsoft Azure revenue up 30%, with help from AI, as tech giant beats overall expectations

Microsoft’s revenue from its Azure cloud platform and related services rose 30% in the quarter ended Dec. 31, including a… Read More

Washington governor signs executive order to develop guidelines for generative AI use

Washington became the latest state to issue an executive order related to generative AI as government agencies try to keep… Read More

microsoft

Microsoft AI engineer says company thwarted attempt to expose DALL-E 3 safety problems

This post has been updated with Microsoft and OpenAI comments, and additional context from Microsoft engineer Shane Jones in response… Read More

Amazon delivery gets faster, with 65% jump in number of same-day and overnight items in U.S.

Amazon continues to increase the speed with which it can get deliveries to customers, announcing Tuesday that it increased the… Read More

  • Older
  • Newer

Latest Stories

    Read All Stories

    GeekWire Newsletters

    Subscribe to GeekWire's free newsletters to catch every headline

    Send Us a Tip

    Have a scoop that you'd like GeekWire to cover? Let us know.

    Send Us a Tip

    A Word From Our Sponsors

    About

    • About GeekWire
    • Contact Us
    • Partner With Us
    • Become a GeekWire Member
    • Send Us a Tip
    • Join Our Startup List
    • Reprints and Permissions

    Follow

    • Facebook
    • X
    • LinkedIn
    • Instagram
    • RSS Feed
    • Podcast
    • YouTube
    • Bluesky

    GeekWire Newsletters

    Catch every headline in your inbox

    Read GeekWire

    • Apple News
    • Google News

    Legal

    • Privacy Policy
    • Terms of Use
    • Sponsored Content Policy
    Return to Top of Page
    © 2011-2026 GeekWire, LLC
    Do Not Sell or Share My Personal information
    Limit the Use Of My Sensitive Personal Information
    Consent Preferences

    Don't miss a headline!

    Sign up for GeekWire's newsletters today.

    Thanks for subscribing!
    Check your inbox to confirm your subscription.