Jul 14, 2018, 6:30 AM Week in Geek Podcast with special guest, Sarah Lacy of Chairman Mom and Pando This week, we’re joined by a special guest for our regular Week In Geek news roundup. Sarah Lacy is a… Read More
Jun 30, 2018, 7:00 AM Week In Geek podcast: Under the hood of Amazon’s surprising new delivery service and $1B acquisition This week, like so many, was filled with big announcements from Amazon. First, the company unveiled a new last-mile delivery… Read More
Jun 25, 2018, 6:13 AM How science fiction can predict the future and help tech innovators make better decisions Organizations may do better in planning for the future by thinking less like business leaders and more like science-fiction writers.… Read More
Jun 23, 2018, 6:30 AM Week in Geek Podcast: Amazon health partnership’s CEO pick offers new clues about ambitious venture Amazon, JPMorgan Chase and Berkshire Hathaway have finally picked a CEO for their ambitious health venture. Unlike most healthcare executives,… Read More
Jun 16, 2018, 8:38 AM Week in Geek Podcast: The story behind the dramatic reversal of the ‘Amazon tax’ in Seattle The fight over taxing big businesses in Seattle took a dramatic turn this week. The Seattle City Council voted to… Read More
Jun 9, 2018, 10:41 AM Week In Geek Podcast: Why Redfin and Zillow might want to buy your home Right now, plenty of people use Redfin and Zillow, two of Seattle’s more prominent tech companies, to find homes. But… Read More
May 29, 2018, 6:55 AM Jeff Bezos: ‘We will have to leave this planet … and it’s going to make this planet better’ LOS ANGELES – Deep thinkers have been saying for generations that we have to get off this rock and head for the… Read More
May 28, 2018, 9:32 AM Seattle Art Museum’s first-ever CTO sculpts SAM’s technology future on a non-profit budget Even in a region of technology giants and in an age of screens, it might be possible to overdo tech… Read More
May 26, 2018, 7:00 AM Week In Geek Podcast: An epic week for startup funding, and the Space Needle gets a makeover Seattle startups raked in hundreds of millions of dollars in the past week alone — for businesses as varied as… Read More
May 17, 2018, 2:32 PM Week in Geek Podcast: Seattle is taxing big business and tech is pissed — what happens now? The Seattle City Council passed a controversial head tax on big businesses, prompting outcry from the city’s tech giants and… Read More
May 8, 2018, 12:30 PM GeekWire Podcast live from Microsoft Build with Cloud + AI chief Scott Guthrie GeekWire is spending the week at Microsoft’s annual Build developer’s conference, where the company is pitching its cloud and enterprise… Read More
May 4, 2018, 2:20 PM Amazon’s tax fight explained, and why it could have a huge effect in Seattle and among HQ2 hopefuls There’s a rumble in the concrete jungle. A conflict between the Seattle City Council and Amazon boiled over this week,… Read More
May 1, 2018, 3:09 PM Interview: Sen. Maria Cantwell on the fight for net neutrality, Facebook hearings and T-Mobile merger Senate Democrats are planning to force a vote to overturn the Federal Communications Commission’s net neutrality repeal and Sen. Maria… Read More
Apr 28, 2018, 6:00 AM Inside MoPOP’s world-premiere Marvel exhibit: The human sides of heroes and their creators If you only know Marvel from the movies, you don’t really know Marvel. That’s the sense you get when you enter… Read More
Apr 24, 2018, 4:32 PM Painful honesty for startups: Rand Fishkin’s ‘Lost and Founder’ is an exercise in radical transparency Lots of startup leaders talk about transparency. Rand Fishkin lives it. The co-founder and former CEO of Seattle-based marketing technology… Read More
Apr 21, 2018, 6:00 AM Week In Geek Podcast: Amazon cozies up with Best Buy, and trouble for Donkey Kong champion Amazon made a surprise move this week: A new partnership with longtime retail rival, Best Buy. The companies are partnering… Read More
Apr 14, 2018, 5:30 AM Week in Geek Podcast: What’s next for Facebook? The fallout around data privacy scandals has put Facebook in a tough spot. After CEO Mark Zuckerberg spent two days… Read More
Apr 7, 2018, 7:49 AM GeekWire Podcast: ‘Parallel reality’ displays show different content to multiple people, simultaneously After a decade-and-a-half covering the technology industry, it takes a lot to impress me, but the demo I saw with… Read More
Mar 31, 2018, 8:13 AM Week in Geek Podcast: Trump vs. Bezos, and the next wave of Seattle tech IPOs President Trump went on the attack against Amazon and Jeff Bezos again this week, making veiled threats to regulate the… Read More
Mar 24, 2018, 7:15 AM Week In Geek Podcast: What will it take for us to quit Facebook? Facebook is still reeling from the revelation that a British firm, Cambridge Analytica, improperly used millions of its users’ data.… Read More
Mar 20, 2018, 10:29 AM The tipping point on cancer treatment, from research labs to the top of Mount Everest Luke Timmerman started climbing mountains with college buddies when he was in his 20s. He’s climbed Mount Rainier in Washington… Read More
Mar 17, 2018, 7:30 AM Week In Geek podcast: A time machine back to the ’80s, and a juicy dispute over a new apple On this episode of the Week In Geek podcast, we take a trip back to the heyday of Walkmen and the… Read More
Mar 14, 2018, 12:00 PM Library of Congress saves the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus and other online ‘web cultures’ If you had to describe the unique “culture” of the web by highlighting a bunch of websites, would you choose… Read More
Mar 10, 2018, 7:00 AM Week In Geek Podcast: Uber and Lyft meet healthcare, and is Amazon good for Seattle? Is Amazon good for Seattle? That’s the question a community forum asked this week, with civic leaders arguing both sides.… Read More
Mar 8, 2018, 10:35 AM Outreach, training and ‘culture add’: How tech can turn the corner on diversity and inclusion Inclusion. Culture fit. Unconscious bias. These words are buzzing through the technology industry as the “Me Too” movement and a… Read More
Mar 3, 2018, 7:30 AM Week In Geek Podcast: Common sense for AI, Amazon vs. Google in smart-home security It was a big week for AI. Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen announced he’s putting $125 million towards a new initiative… Read More
Feb 24, 2018, 7:00 AM Week In Geek Podcast: Tech tangles with politics over net neutrality and government incentives The tech industry’s entanglements with politics were on full display this week. Washington and other states are fighting the FCC’s… Read More
Feb 21, 2018, 7:02 PM GeekWire Podcast: MIT’s president on human intelligence and the quest for smarter machines Can a better understanding of human intelligence make for smarter machines? We explored that topic this week with Rafael Reif,… Read More
Feb 18, 2018, 8:00 AM Dystopia or utopia? Author and futurist Ramez Naam revisits his 2015 predictions for the world At GeekWire, we don’t mind being held accountable for our predictions. But if we can hold others accountable — well,… Read More
Feb 17, 2018, 7:07 AM Week in Geek Podcast: Why Amazon cut hundreds of jobs the same week it became a $700B company Amazon cut hundreds of jobs this week, but the company is still increasing its workforce overall, and market value continues… Read More
