Slack, the business messaging and workplace collaboration startup, is in talks to raise at least another $150 million in an up round, the Wall Street Journal reported. The new investment would put… Read More
Jack Ma, founder and executive chairman of the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, is in talks to buy an undisclosed stake in the Chinese business and financial magazine, Caixin, through Alibaba’s financial arm, Ant… Read More
—ExtraHop, the Seattle-based IT operations analytics company, has appointed Mark Anderson to its board of directors. Anderson is the executive VP of worldwide field operations for Palo Alto Networks, an online security company. His focus… Read More
Tune, the Seattle-based mobile marketing analytics firm, is now accepting applications for its special interest, rent-free house that invites females studying computer science or informational technology at the University of Washington to join a residential community of likeminded… Read More
Smartsheet CEO Mark Mader sometimes commutes to work in a used Sea-Doo that he purchased to avoid traffic. So who better to share startup lessons from the sea? That was the theme of… Read More
PayScale, the Seattle-based company that manages an online database of salary and compensation information, released its annual report on top companies’ attitudes and practices around compensation, analyzing which approaches correlate with company success. Nearly 7,600 North American… Read More
Amazon announced today that Kindle eBooks and items Fulfilled by Amazon can now be used as contest prizes by users of Amazon Giveaway, a free service that helps organizers to run online promotional… Read More
Google’s self-driving car hit a public bus on a busy street last month in the company’s hometown of Mountain View, Calif. — perhaps the first incident of its smart cars causing an… Read More
NanoString Technologies, a Seattle-based company that researches how genetic and immune markers can be used to predict patient response to different cancer therapies, announced today that it will join pharmaceutical… Read More
Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce giant and Amazon rival, is seeking a loan of as much as $4 billion from at least eight banks, which it will use to fund its… Read More
Amazon and Brita are partnering on the first smart water pitcher that monitors its own filter use and then uses Wi-Fi to automatically order replacement filters via the Amazon Dash Replenishment… Read More
Ben Gilbert knows startups and he knows tech acquisitions. This week on the GeekWire podcast, we asked him about both, grilling him on the best and worst acquisitions, their characteristics,… Read More
Hyper Rabbit Power Go! (Hyper RPG!) is a new Redmond, Wash.-based Twitch channel debuting today, which will live stream shows about gamers, video games role-playing games and board games, along with behind-the-scenes game… Read More
Founders’ Co-op, a Seattle-based early-stage venture fund, has invested in Giftbit, a company that specializes in digital gift card campaigns for enterprise clients. Based in Victoria, BC, and co-founded by Leif Baradoy and… Read More
Code Builders, a new immersive coding school and associated software development consultancy located in Seattle’s Eastlake neighborhood, has opened its doors to its first cohort of six, who are set to graduate in… Read More
Redfin, the tech-powered real estate brokerage based out of Seattle, collects all kinds of data about cities, from the available housing, pricing, and what citizens want out of their city over the… Read More
February heralded some notable shifts in the GeekWire 200, our ranking of the top 200 privately-held technology companies in the Pacific Northwest, presented by EY. Gaming companies Fun Bits Interactive and PlayFab moved… Read More
Four citizens, each experts in different fields, met together on Wednesday evening to discuss whether the tech companies that have brought rapid economic change to Seattle also have a responsibility to… Read More
TopTopic is a new online community with two main features that make it unique among the Reddits, Facebooks, YouTubes, and Tumblrs of the world. First, people who post on TopTopic can make money from their… Read More
— Donuts Inc., the Bellevue-based Internet domain name registry, announced that a new board member and two new executives will join their team. Just last month, the company processed its 2 millionth domain name… Read More
Fraud protection company iovation has been granted a Nevada Gaming License giving it the ability to offer its cyber security software, including the location assurance services for which it required a gaming… Read More
The Keiretsu Forum Northwest announced today in a news release that its regional collective of angel investors poured $43.5 million into 57 companies this past year, making 2015 the biggest year for investments by… Read More
Language technology startup VoiceBox announced a partnership with Samsung to use VoiceBox’s Natural Language Understanding (NLU) technology for Samsung’s S Voice services, including Samsung’s intelligent personal assistant. Currently, S Voice can assist Samsung mobile users… Read More
Seattle-based location technology startup Glympse will have a key foothold on the new Samsung Galaxy S7 smartphone under a deal announced between the companies this weekend at Mobile World… Read More
Henry Albrecht, CEO of the Bellevue-based health and wellness technology company Limeade, believes that sales are the most important part of any startup’s success — a position he argued convincingly at his talk at the recent… Read More
In three years, everyone will be wearing virtual reality goggles and watching drone racing, wearing virtual makeup and commuting to work in a self-driving car. This was one of the… Read More
How should startups navigate turbulent economic times? That was one of the questions posed to a panel of investors at the recent GeekWire Startup Day. With China’s economy slowing down, gas prices dropping,… Read More
Amazon has the best corporate reputation among the 100 most visible companies in the United States, just ahead of Apple and Google, according to a new Reputation Quotient Summary Report, released by the… Read More
Amazon is expanding its online lead over Walmart, according to the latest results from the retail giants. The competition between the two companies is watched closely, since Amazon is the number… Read More
At some point, every startup will experience a failure. If the startup is lucky, that failure will be minor, and the company will survive. But if it’s unlucky, that failure can mean… Read More