Every week, it seems, there’s a new announcement about a coding school opening, expanding, or graduating a class of students. These short-term training programs in software development, also known as development bootcamps,… Read More
There’s a new treatment option for women diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer. It’s called Breast Microseed Treatment and is a targeted radiation therapy that is being introduced in the U.S.… Read More
A demolition firm is blaming Google Maps for causing them to level the wrong house in Rowlett, Texas. Workers say that Google Maps showed them a duplex located at 7601 Calypso Drive instead… Read More
Last night’s GeekWire Bash, a celebration of all things geeky in Seattle, also marked the fifth anniversary of GeekWire. So we asked people to take a break from ping pong,… Read More
It’s March, the month of basketball, lions, lambs, and, now, the startup Centri Technology, which moved up 26 spots this month on the GeekWire 200. Along with it, Glowforge, Shippable, Peach,… Read More
DocuSign had a new CEO all lined up — and then something happened. The digital signature company had scheduled media briefings with its next CEO, in advance of an April 4… Read More
Mesosphere, a Silicon Valley cloud computing startup, announced today that it has raised a $73.5 million Series C funding round. The funding was led by existing strategic investor Hewlett Packard Enterprise with significant… Read More
Starbucks hired its new chief technology officer, Gerri Martin-Flickinger, just four months ago. While she’s new to the coffee chain, she already has a clear dream for its future — that every Starbucks… Read More
After competing against Rosetta Stone, criticizing the rival, and then being acquired by it almost three years ago, the online language community Livemocha is saying its last goodbyes. In an… Read More
— Ossia, a Bellevue, Wash.-based company that makes wireless charging technology, has appointed Didier Le Lannic as CEO. He will take on leadership of Ossia in its Bellevue offices and help the company bring its… Read More
Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz says U.S. political leaders have failed the country and made citizens lose faith in the nation and its future. In his closing talk at the Starbucks annual shareholders meeting… Read More
Starbucks today announced a new partnership with JP Morgan Chase to create a prepaid card that allows customers to earn Starbucks rewards points, called stars, every time they make a… Read More
Virtual reality is the new tech craze, but some fear the future it offers. Opponents conjure up a bleak world where people will waste away in headsets living virtual lives because they… Read More
When Anna Steffeney‘s Microsoft co-workers in Redmond, Wash., heard about her pregnancy, some told her to “keep it in as long as possible.” She left Microsoft not long after and did not return.… Read More
Women are rare in technology. They’re also are rare in upper management. And women in tech leadership? They’re practically unicorns. Women Who Code found some of these rare and magical women to… Read More
You’re at a park in Seattle and the the restrooms are gross — like seriously, maybe-I’ll-just-use-the-woods gross. Now imagine this: you can report their unsanitary state by pressing a button on… Read More
Siren, the Seattle-based dating app that lets women make the first move, has raised $500,000 of a planned $750,000 seed round. The lead investor was Blackrun’s new women-focused investment arm, Half the… Read More
F5 Networks, the Seattle-based company that offers application delivery and security services for enterprise customers, has leased new office space in Seattle. The space consists of 20,000 square feet in the Elliott Bay… Read More
Nandini Ramani is vice president of engineering at Twitter, but despite her high-ranking position, she says it hasn’t gotten easier to be a woman in technology. “People say, ‘Oh it must be… Read More
Front Desk, the Seattle startup that makes management, payment, and scheduling software used by a wide range of businesses, has raised an additional $1 million in funding from a new investor, Wave Maker Partners, a… Read More
Kiara, a patient at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, loves horses. She plays with toy horses, colors in horse coloring books, and wears a pink sweater with a big horse on… Read More
It can be difficult to be a woman working in technology. Men dominate the field, while women hover at about 20 percent of all employees in many big tech companies, despite making up 51 percent… Read More
The head of security operations at Facebook, Regina Wallace-Jones, is in charge of protecting 1.6 billion people. She’s an engineer who does math and science every day, but she doesn’t think those skills are… Read More
Employers are filling tech jobs in Seattle faster than ever, according to the chief economist of Indeed, based on her analysis of postings on the job aggregation site. And trends in the… Read More
Meld, the Seattle-based maker of smart knobs for the stove, was acquired last September, but declined to name the buyer at that time. However, based on a message to its former Kickstarter backers… Read More
— Bellevue-based corporate wellness technology company Limeade has appointed Mitch Risner as its new vice president of sales. Before Limeade, Risner was the Group VP of sales for SumTotal, a talent management solutions provider. At SumTotal,… Read More
The VP of Engineering at United Launch Alliance (ULA), Brett Tobey, has resigned after comments he made in a Tuesday talk at the University of Colorado-Boulder were made public. In… Read More
PATH, the Seattle-based global heath nonprofit, is opening a new Center for Vaccine Innovation and Access, funded initially through an $11 million dollar grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Within its… Read More
Uber, the on-demand ride-hailing service, today announced a new group feature called Family Profiles, allowing up to 10 people can sign into the same account, which is covered by a single… Read More
Motorola Solutions, the Schaumburg, Ill.-based telecommunications company, and Socrata, the Seattle digital government startup, are partnering to improve Motorola’s crime reporting software to rebuild public trust in law enforcement agencies. Across the board,… Read More