Sean Turner was on his phone in the lobby of a downtown Seattle hotel last year when a woman slapped his iPad off a table, then took his AirPods case.… Read More
Retail software provider Swiftly raised $100 million in a Series C funding round, helping the company become the latest Seattle-area startup to reach a $1 billion valuation. The round, led… Read More
Aniran Chandravongsri, a Google Cloud software engineer who works in Seattle, says he isn’t interested in building products for the Israeli government. Yet, he said, that may be what he… Read More
When was the last time a total stranger, or even an acquaintance, gave you three minutes — three whole minutes — to share whatever was on your mind? In the… Read More
Imagine you’re playing Shrapnel, a first-person shooter due in late 2024 from Seattle game studio Neon. You’ve carefully plucked from your armory the right gear to carry into battle: A… Read More
At the height of the pandemic, as his competitors disappeared around him, Peter Chee wondered if his Seattle co-working business, Thinkspace, would survive. “It was brutal,” said Chee, who counted… Read More
From the stage at Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle, Acquired podcast hosts Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal discussed with a series of guests the gears of culture and commerce most… Read More
Swiftly, a Seattle startup that provides software to brick-and-mortar grocery retailers such as Family Dollar and The Save Mart Companies, raised $100 million in a Series B funding round. Swiflty’s… Read More
Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, the global supply chain has choked and sputtered, causing shortages of everything from computer chips to certain foods. Ports are so overrun that scores of… Read More
Microsoft chairman and CEO Satya Nadella described his company’s role in a new economy and society transformed by the pandemic in a keynote address on Tuesday kicking off Microsoft’s virtual… Read More
Microsoft laid out its latest vision for a post-COVID work world Tuesday, touching on a buzzword that’s become increasingly prominent in recent weeks: the metaverse. At its virtual Ignite 2021… Read More
Microsoft is aiming to solve a long-irritating problem that seemed to become more irksome as people began working remotely during the pandemic: Hunting through hard drives and cloud drives for… Read More
In 2001, Expedia Group embarked on a shopping spree. Over the course of nearly two decades, the Seattle travel platform snatched up more than 40 companies with a combined worth… Read More
At Amazon’s annual shareholders meeting last week, the company’s shareholders overwhelmingly shot down more than a dozen proposals aimed, proponents said, at making the company a more transparent and responsible… Read More
Amazon has been on a wild ride over the last year. The Seattle retail and tech giant’s profits and stock price have soared to record highs during the pandemic as… Read More
Expedia Group has hired top executives from Apple and Verizon Media as the company overhauls its leadership structure and brand after a long period of organizational disarray and declining revenues.… Read More
Amazon doesn’t know exactly who is using its name in an allegedly fraudulent text message advertising scheme, but the company is suing them anyway. The Seattle retail giant filed a… Read More
Amazon is hiring an additional 75,000 workers for its warehouse and logistics operations across the U.S. and Canada as the Seattle giant continues to grow at a whirlwind pace amid… Read More
In November 2015, Kisha Loomis signed on to Amazon and ordered her son a hoverboard, a two-wheeled vehicle popular with kids and balanced with gyroscopic gears. Just more than four… Read More
Cy Scott, Brian Wansolich, and Scott Vickers had just sold their popular cannabis directory Leafly to Privateer Holdings. As they plotted their next endeavor, one word kept coming up in… Read More
In what it calls an attempt to take on global enterprise software giants including Microsoft, Oracle and Sage, Bellevue, Wash.-based Acumatica announced this morning that it has been acquired by… Read More
Technologies such as artificial intelligence, IoT and blockchain should benefit not just wealthy countries, but the poorest and most vulnerable as well — particularly when it comes to solving the… Read More
Technology is pretty great, but it can come at a cost. Attention spans addled by screen time and that unreachable star known as multitasking; privacy invaded by web trackers and… Read More
The world’s seas are increasingly awash with data. There are sensors attached to buoys, autonomous sail drones, ships and satellites, each churning out a constant stream of information about water… Read More
If you happen to be searching for pot sales analytics today, on the annual 4/20 holiday celebrated by marijuana aficionados, look no further than the Pacific Northwest. Seattle startup Headset,… Read More
There’s a lot of stuff in the Bible — accounts of geography and warfare long past, layers of meaning translated from Greek and Hebrew, conflicting ideas, important historical figures. At… Read More
The annual Hopperx1 Seattle conference kicked off Friday with a stirring call to boost the number of women working in the tech industry, and the agenda revealed one of the… Read More
Dauntless, Inc., a Seattle-area software developer providing point-of-sale and tracking software to the cannabis industry, has acquired pot sales software company Soro. The combined companies aim to create an all-encompassing… Read More
Bellevue, Wash.-based workflow automation company Nintex has acquired EnableSoft, a Robotic Process Automation company that offers bots for handling a business’s basic, repetitive tasks. It’s Nintex’s second acquisition in seven months… Read More
Despite all its success, Seattle’s tech community needs an unprecedented win to take it to the next level — a fast-growing, world-changing startup that creates a huge return for its… Read More
