GeekWire Podcasts – Page 19 of 37

Sep 3, 2018, 6:46 AM

Behind the scenes at Cinerama: Landmark movie house becomes an international pop culture draw

You may think of Seattle’s Cinerama theater as just a cool place to watch movies. Yet for some, it represents… Read More

Sep 1, 2018, 7:20 AM

Funding trends reveal how Seattle startups are starting to rival their Silicon Valley counterparts

Seattle is sometimes called the younger sibling of Silicon Valley when it comes to startups, and it’s true that Seattle’s… Read More

Aug 25, 2018, 7:55 AM

Inside the coworking boom: How these emerging communities are reshaping the startup world

Coworking. Accelerators. Virtual offices. The nature of work is changing rapidly, and the communities built around these new workplaces are growing… Read More

Aug 24, 2018, 10:46 AM

GeekWire Live: Highlights and pics from Thursday’s podcast and rooftop meetup in Seattle

We had a great time last night recording the GeekWire podcast at NeighborHub at Columbia Bank, before hanging out on… Read More

Aug 15, 2018, 11:22 AM

Week in Geek Podcast: The saga of the stolen plane — and the flaws it revealed in airport security

After his shift last week, Horizon Airlines employee Richard Russell successfully stole a medium-sized plane and flew it across Western Washington,… Read More

Aug 14, 2018, 12:00 PM

How this workshop creates some of the world’s top sci-fi and fantasy writers, inside a Seattle house

This and every summer around the first of August, 18 students leave a house in Seattle’s University District, after an… Read More

Aug 4, 2018, 6:00 AM

Week In Geek Podcast: How blueprints for 3D printed guns turned into a national lawsuit

A legal battle over 3D-printed guns is heating up once again. Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed a new lawsuit this… Read More

Jul 28, 2018, 6:00 AM

Week in Geek Podcast: A reckoning for Facebook and the life-changing tech of Microsoft’s Imagine Cup

Facebook settled a lawsuit filed by Attorney General Bob Ferguson this week, and as part of the deal, the company… Read More

Jul 21, 2018, 6:00 AM

Week In Geek Podcast: Facial recognition enters grade schools and Bird scooters landing in Seattle

It was quite a week for controversial news. First up: Would you let a facial recognition program track your kids… Read More

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