Jalice May is a busy mom who works almost full-time at her church. On Sundays, she oversees the nursery during services at Tibbetts United Methodist in West Seattle. Throughout the… Read More
In college, Washington State Sen. Patty Kuderer decided to take a programming class. She said she was excited about technology and created a simple program for the course, which she… Read More
Nintex, the Bellevue, Wash.-based workflow automation company, announced this morning that it is getting into the electronic signature business. In a direct challenge to electronic signature company DocuSign, which was… Read More
You knew this was coming. After Washington voters legalized pot six years ago, it was only a matter of time before it moved to the web. An online cannabis company… Read More
In 1982, the best toy you could get for Christmas was Kenner’s Death Star play set. It was big, rising seemingly to your waist, and included three floors upon which… Read More
Honestly, I don’t know what got into me. My old, blue Logitech mouse was showing its age. The scroll wheel was creaky. I’d put little round stickers on the bottom… Read More
Can a computer become God? Or, more to the point, could humans invent AI that can convincingly impersonate God — and if so, would humans bother to worship it? That… Read More
Microsoft, more than any other institution on earth, has shaped how we work and how we think about it. If you spend your days in an office (and often if… Read More
Bellevue, Wash.-based Nintex has acquired Promapp, a New Zealand firm that helps companies identify and automate their business processes. The companies did not disclose the terms of the deal. A spokeswoman… Read More
Seattle-based social media sales intelligence firm Socedo is shutting down next month, and its four-person engineering team will join Azuqua, the cloud software integration and automation company, also based in… Read More
Smartphones have been around for a while, but IT departments are still trying to grapple with a challenge they’ve created: In addition to their laptops, every single employee is writing… Read More
Say you’re a software company needing to roll out a bunch of new features — and fast. One big customer is threatening to walk. Others are trying in vain to… Read More
Google announced Monday morning that its enterprise video calling app, Hangouts Meet, will be capable of connecting directly to competing apps, including Microsoft Skype for Business. In doing so, Google… Read More
Amazon Web Services said Thursday that it will offer QuickSight, its data analytics and visualization software, to companies and organizations on a per-session basis, seeking to appeal to smaller businesses and… Read More
Since launching in 2014, Seattle-based AppSheet has focused on helping businesses develop their own data-based apps without requiring those businesses to hire a team of developers or requiring that users… Read More
LOS ANGELES — U2’s preoccupation with outlandish technology can probably be traced to Bono’s rushed limo ride to the hospital in 1987. The runaway success of the band’s fifth studio… Read More
Google and Microsoft both announced updates to their email services and apps recently, offering up a new crop of features and fresh designs. For consumers, the e-mail services are largely… Read More
Hackers have a better chance of getting into encrypted email than previously thought, according to a new paper released Monday by a team of European cybersecurity researchers. Efail, as the… Read More
In January, when Jesse Patel announced plans to overhaul WorkFlowy, his quirky-but-powerful outline app, he appealed for mercy. “If you are frustrated, just remember that we are trying really hard… Read More
In 1983, Microsoft developers Richard Brodie and Charles Simonyi wrote a UNIX program that would eventually become Microsoft Word. It did one thing: word processing. Late last year, entrepreneurs Alexandre… Read More
Kate Isler says her company, Daysaver, needs to start growing. Isler wants to show off her cloud-based patient scheduling software to gigantic healthcare providers — and she wants to prove… Read More
Microsoft on Thursday revealed additional details about the notorious Gamarue botnet, which was considered one of the world’s largest malware operations until it was disrupted late last year. Gamarue, also… Read More
Google is bringing Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) to Gmail, making it possible to update a meeting invitation, get updated flight information and fill out forms and questionnaires, among other tasks, without… Read More
Growing and selling legal pot isn’t like most other businesses. There are the state regulations, which require rigorous tracking of each plant from “seed to sale,” as they say in… Read More
Microsoft and Hewlett Packard Enterprise are launching a new six-month Cloud Accelerator Lab to help women start businesses in the cloud — providing mentorship, training and access to their formidable… Read More
Enterprise cloud software provider Acumatica unveiled a new suite of services Monday designed to help construction companies see and update financials and other data from the field in real-time. Acumatica… Read More
First, the bad news when it comes to Software as a Service in 2018: The market is maturing. Growth is expected to cool a bit. And artificial intelligence, according to… Read More
Tenta, the Seattle company behind an Android browser aimed at guarding the privacy of mobile web users, has built what it calls one of the first public DNS resolvers to… Read More