Articles from 2024 – Page 6 of 56

Seattle mayor, who sits on a federal AI panel, says he’ll seek ways to work with Trump administration

Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell, a member of a key U.S. panel overseeing AI safety and security, is taking a diplomatic… Read More

CoreStack acquires Karthik Consulting to boost cloud governance platform

Seattle-area cloud governance startup CoreStack has acquired Karthik Consulting, a Virginia-based company that sells cloud-related services to federal government agencies.

Washington’s former chief privacy officer raises $2.2M for startup using AI to predict legal cases

A Seattle tech veteran who was Washington state’s first chief privacy officer is the co-founder of a startup using artificial… Read More

‘Quiet ICU’ startup CalmWave raises $5.2M to silence excessive patient alarms in hospitals

CalmWave, the Seattle health-tech startup that created a system for dealing with alarms from devices attached to patients in hospital… Read More

Bling Capital raises $270M fund, with an eye on Seattle startups

Bling Capital has raised $270 million for its fourth fund as the 6-year-old venture capital firm looks to invest in… Read More

Seattle lawmakers reject capital gains tax proposal ahead of final vote on the city budget

A Seattle City Council committee today narrowly rejected an effort to create a 2% capital gains excise tax on profits… Read More

Silicon Valley innovation group Plug and Play plants flag in Seattle region with new startup programs

Plug and Play, a Silicon Valley-based group that operates innovation programs in more than 60 locations worldwide, is coming to… Read More

Seattle sushi restaurant closes after popular TikTok food critic’s video sparks concerns of worm in fish

A TikTok star who reviews restaurants around the country did a swing through Seattle this month to critique a variety… Read More

WTIA CEO Michael Schutzler retiring after 11 years leading Washington state tech group

Michael Schutzler, CEO of the Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA), is retiring at the end of this year after more than a… Read More

Microsoft unveils its own Cloud PC: ‘Windows 365 Link’ device will sell for $349 to businesses

Microsoft will offer its own device that automatically connects to Windows 365, the subscription service that lets business users stream… Read More

‘Embrace the red’: Microsoft puts up another $4M for cloud and AI bugs in broader security push

If security is really more important than everything else, will it be in the keynote? Microsoft, under intense pressure to… Read More

Microsoft and Atom Computing leap ahead on the quantum frontier with logical qubits

Microsoft and Atom Computing say they’ve reached a new milestone in their effort to build fault-tolerant quantum computers that can… Read More

Influencing sales: Levanta, which helps Amazon sellers partner with creators, raises $20M

Levanta, a Seattle startup that connects sellers on Amazon’s marketplace with influencers and creators, raised $20 million in a Series… Read More

Monitoring global hotspots, Seattle media startup Factal lands key partnership to grow its business

In an increasingly volatile world, especially one now inundated with misinformation, Seattle-based risk-verification startup Factal is partnering with International SOS,… Read More

Energy demand, stoked by AI and expanding electrification, is outpacing supply

Washington state — a region once blessed with an overabundance of clean, affordable power thanks to its hydroelectric dams —… Read More

Amazon hires former Microsoft and SAP exec Julia White as new AWS marketing chief

Julia White, a longtime Microsoft executive who spent the past four years at SAP, has been named the chief marketing… Read More

Clean tech outlook: How investors are strategizing given Trump’s climate antagonism

Over the past five years, growth in climate tech has been so prolific that it has drawn comparisons to the… Read More

Seattle startup Seasalt raises $4.2M to help businesses answer customer messages with AI

Seasalt.AI, a Seattle startup that helps businesses use AI to communicate with customers, announced a $4.2 million seed round. The… Read More

Microsoft turns a new page in the book business with its own publishing imprint

Microsoft will attempt to find the sweet spot between the speed of social media and the lasting impact of books… Read More

Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Nov. 10, 2024

See the technology stories that people were reading on GeekWire for the week of Nov. 10, 2024. Read More

Podcast

How Amazon is adapting to the TikTok generation, and what it says about the state of Prime

This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we dive into Amazon’s new “Haul” discount storefront — a rival to Temu, Shein,… Read More

Internal emails: Elon Musk wanted to keep OpenAI from becoming ‘Microsoft’s marketing bitch’

Elon Musk, an original co-founder of OpenAI, attempted to keep the organization from becoming too cozy with Microsoft in an… Read More

From NASA to AWS to Momento: Seattle startup’s journey to reinvent cloud caching

We are in a world where we are consuming interactive applications and content from our mobile devices. But we rarely… Read More

Illustration: BlueBird satellites in orbit

AST SpaceMobile chooses Blue Origin’s New Glenn rockets for satellite launches

AST SpaceMobile plans to use Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket to launch some of the satellites for its space-based cellular… Read More

The Buzz at Seattle Auto Show: Test driving VW’s new van, plus more cool EVs not made by Tesla

As I pulled away from the Seattle International Auto Show on Thursday during a test drive of the highly anticipated… Read More

Tech Moves: Zillow Group names new COO as longtime execs depart

Seattle real estate tech company Zillow Group promoted Jun Choo to the role of chief operating officer. Choo replaces Jeremy… Read More

Osyte, a Seattle startup that helps multi-asset investors optimize portfolios, raises $4M

Seattle-based startup Osyte announced a $4 million seed round to fuel growth of its software used by investors who manage… Read More

Podcast: Revisiting Microsoft’s startup years, in search of new insights

Microsoft’s bet on a market that didn’t really exist at the time — personal computer software — paid off in ways that its founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen never imagined. Read More

University of Washington computer science professor wins $100K Infosys Prize

Shyam Gollakota, a University of Washington computer science professor and Seattle-based health tech startup founder, won a $100,000 award as… Read More

Hands-on with Amazon Haul: First impressions of the e-commerce giant’s new Temu and Shein rival

A week or more to get a bunch of stuff I don’t really need? Sign me up! With the debut… Read More