Mar 22, 2017, 12:07 PM Geared Up: Apple tweaks iPad lineup, unveils new Clips app, and introduces Red iPhone Apple came out with a flurry of announcements this week — unveiling a cheaper 9.7-inch iPad, more storage in the iPad mini… Read More
Mar 18, 2017, 6:21 AM The Week in Geek: AmazonFresh Pickup, a world without Uber, and Xbox 360 at the Supreme Court You might have noticed GeekWire has been reporting — rather a lot — on a pair of secretive drive-up grocery store… Read More
Mar 17, 2017, 1:06 PM GeekWire Podcast: Inside the Slack Wars, as Microsoft and Google get serious about enterprise chat If you’re not familiar with Slack, odds are you don’t work at a startup. This messaging platform has been taking… Read More
Mar 17, 2017, 8:58 AM Geared Up: Nintendo Switch sees early success, fast food goes high tech, and the next iPad It was a busy week in gadget news. The Nintendo Switch scored an early win as the best console launch in the… Read More
Mar 10, 2017, 8:12 AM A conversation with Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen: ‘It really is a golden age of what’s possible’ If Paul Allen were just starting out in computer science today, he might not know where to start. Robotics, artificial intelligence, computer… Read More
Mar 7, 2017, 9:29 AM A little moment in GeekWire history: Watch us launch your favorite tech news site six years ago today Six years ago today, GeekWire was born. It may sound cliché, but it is hard to believe that six years… Read More
Mar 6, 2017, 3:04 PM Geared Up! The new Xbox Game Pass, and the future of smartphone design It’s going to be a formative year for smartphones: the highly anticipated Samsung S8 and the upcoming LG G6 are just two… Read More
Mar 3, 2017, 10:48 AM The Week in Geek: To Snap or not to Snap? Plus, how AWS broke the internet If you tried to use any service on the internet Tuesday, you likely discovered it was down. Now we know… Read More
Mar 2, 2017, 1:10 PM Hands-on with the new Nintendo Switch and ‘Zelda: Breath of the Wild’ It’s here! Nintendo’s long-awaited console, the Switch, officially goes on sale Friday, March 3, but we got our hands on… Read More
Feb 22, 2017, 4:57 PM ‘Upstarts’ author Brad Stone on Uber’s scandals, Airbnb’s regulatory fight, and lessons from Amazon When it comes to disruption, Brad Stone wrote the book. Twice. The best-selling author of The Everything Store, a detailed account… Read More
Feb 21, 2017, 12:49 PM Interview: ‘American Spies’ author Jennifer Granick on the quest for privacy in the age of surveillance The internet has made information easily accessible, and we normally see that as a good thing. Making bank transfers online… Read More
Feb 16, 2017, 10:30 AM Geared Up! Apple Music’s new TV deals, the war over wireless data plans, and a PC the size of an iPhone Apple Music isn’t the place you would expect to find reality TV. But this week, the music streaming service announced… Read More
Feb 15, 2017, 3:40 PM Full Interview: Bill Gates on global health, clean energy, Trump, Microsoft and the future of the world Nearly a decade after leaving his full-time job at Microsoft, Bill Gates sat down with GeekWire for an extensive interview… Read More
Feb 10, 2017, 5:12 PM Week in Geek: NBA goes big into eSports, and free shipping is costing Amazon big time If you’re an eSports skeptic, hold onto your hats: the NBA announced this week that it is adding eSports teams… Read More
Feb 10, 2017, 1:30 PM GearedUp gets dressed up with a pair of Seattle’s first Snap Spectacles and a smart bike helmet They’re here! Snapchat’s mysterious vending machine, the “Snapbot,” finally made an appearance in Seattle this week. The machines are the… Read More
Feb 10, 2017, 8:56 AM Q&A: Tech evangelist Robert Scoble predicts mixed reality devices will largely supplant smartphones Virtual and mixed reality technology is developing even more rapidly than many anticipated. For some, that’s a nightmare scenario, a… Read More
Feb 7, 2017, 11:15 AM Q&A: Concur co-founders on their new venture, and the transformation of Seattle’s startup scene When Raj Singh and Mike Hilton co-founded Concur with Steve Singh more than two decades ago, the technology startup scene in Seattle… Read More
Feb 3, 2017, 11:59 AM Week in Geek: Tech vs. Trump While the tech industry had never been particularly warm to candidate or President Trump, industry leaders made it clear after… Read More
Jan 31, 2017, 12:23 PM Concur co-founders on their new healthcare tech adventure, and why the space is so interesting to disrupt Raj Singh and Mike Hilton are best-known for Concur — the travel and expense management company they co-founded with Steve Singh… Read More
Jan 27, 2017, 3:12 PM Week in Geek: Microsoft takes on the DOJ, inside Amazon’s giant post-holiday party, and more Microsoft and the U.S. Department of Justice are once again battling things out in court. But unlike their duel back… Read More
Jan 25, 2017, 12:21 PM GearedUp! What really happened to the Note 7, a way to locate lost AirPods, and the tangled world of music streaming Eight months after reports began circulating of Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 catching fire, the company has released a detailed report… Read More
Jan 20, 2017, 11:30 AM Week In Geek: Snapchat’s new Seattle office, legal drama for drones, and more It was quite a week for Seattle’s commercial real estate world. Snap Inc., the parent company of popular messaging app… Read More
Jan 19, 2017, 10:23 AM ‘Last Week in Trump’: Newsletter distills the hyper-partisan news to create empathy on both sides Sol Villarreal knows a thing or two about socio-political bubbles. He grew up in rural Texas as a religious conservative… Read More
Jan 18, 2017, 3:14 PM GearedUp! Nintendo Switch is filled with fun gadgetry, but is it worth the price? Last week, we finally got hard details on the launch of Nintendo’s newest game console, the Nintendo Switch. And while… Read More
Jan 13, 2017, 11:23 AM The Week in Geek: Envelop VR closes its doors; drone crashes into the Space Needle; and more Seattle is proud of its growing virtual reality community and already boasts several promising VR and AR startups. But the young… Read More
Jan 11, 2017, 2:41 PM GearedUp! Our 10 favorite products and technologies from CES 2017 CES was a wonderland of gadgetry and shiny new tech. And while some devices were gimmicky flops, other will doubtlessly find their… Read More
Dec 31, 2016, 8:11 PM Top Tech of 2016: The best phones of the year, and more of our favorite technologies A year-end tradition on our GeekWire radio show and podcast is to bring in tech reviewer Andru Edwards of Gear Live… Read More
Dec 29, 2016, 9:46 AM The state of Seattle startups: Silicon Valley tech giants are sucking up entrepreneurial talent “It’s not a real sexy story right now.” That’s how GeekWire co-founder John Cook described the Seattle startup scene during… Read More
Dec 28, 2016, 10:26 AM Microsoft in 2016: Surging stock, new devices and a huge new AI team Satya Nadella’s third year as CEO of Microsoft turned out to be a pretty good one. Microsoft closed the year… Read More
Dec 27, 2016, 7:48 AM The Year in Amazon: How the tech giant redefined itself in 2016, and where it’s headed next The rise and expansion of Amazon Prime, the continued dominance of Amazon Web Services, the surprise emergence of Amazon Alexa,… Read More
