Andy Jassy runs the world’s largest cloud computing business. He also just joined an NHL franchise ownership group trying to bring professional hockey to Seattle. So the new team operations… Read More
Today’s featured stories Amazon’s record quarter: $2.5B in profits is biggest ever as tech giant comes up just short on sale Trump targets Twitter, his favorite communication platform, following reports… Read More
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Deeper stats, predicted pitches, and live commentary produced by robots in the voice of iconic announcers — it could all be coming to Major League Baseball broadcasts soon. MLB re-upped… Read More
Visual strategist Guillaume Wiatr has become a mainstay at GeekWire conferences, partnering with us to sketch out drawings and notes based on the talks, panels and fireside chats as they’re… Read More
More and more companies have realized that the cloud is a journey, not necessarily a destination. Once it becomes clear that approach makes the most sense for your company and… Read More
Amazon is helping to power a new app which offers virtual tours of the White House as well as a unique experience that will match a user’s selfie with the… Read More
There’s just one more day left to take advantage of the early-bird pricing for the GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit, which will showcase some of the top leaders in cloud computing… Read More
Mike Hilton, the longtime Seattle tech executive best known as the co-founder of expense management company Concur, has signed onto the board of directors of mobile tech startup Apptentive, the… Read More
Former Orbitz CEO and longtime Seattle technology leader Barney Harford has been named the COO of Uber, marking yet another Seattle leader who has joined the embattled ride-hailing company. Former… Read More
Signal acquisition, content ingestion, transcoding, ad insertion, playback optimization, and end-to-end monitoring probably weren’t top of mind for NFL fans who watched Thursday Night Football this season on Amazon. But… Read More
[Love sports and technology? Sign up for our sports tech newsletter to receive this rundown from GeekWire’s Taylor Soper via email every week.] TAYLOR’S TAKE ON THE WEEK IN SPORTS TECH: Amazon Web… Read More
Amazon is preparing to bring its Alexa voice-based assistant into the workplace, according to a report by CNBC this afternoon. The news could be announced as early as Thursday at… Read More
The National Football League is tapping Amazon Web Services to help power its “Next Gen Stats” platform. The NFL announced Wednesday that it will use machine learning and data analytics… Read More
Amazon’s newest hardware product is meant to help developers run deep learning and image recognition models directly from a video camera. At its annual re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, Amazon Web… Read More
Amazon Web Services, aiming to boost its reach among big corporate customers, announced major expansions of its relationships with the National Football League, Walt Disney Company and Expedia this morning.… Read More
Amazon Web Services made the first major announcement of its re:Invent cloud conference in Las Vegas overnight: a new service called Sumerian that the company touts as the “fastest and… Read More
Type 2 Diabetes has become a health crisis in the U.S. The rate of type 2 diabetes has nearly doubled in the last twenty years and the disease is now… Read More
Pay by the hour for cloud computing? That’s so last decade. Amazon Web Services today announced a new pricing structure that lets users pay by the second for Linux instances… Read More
As thousands of scientists work to improve Zillow’s Zestimate, the company said today its home valuation tool is more accurate than it has ever been. Zillow said it released a… Read More
Amazon is looking to staff up a “New AWS/Alexa Service” focused on enterprise collaboration, communication and document sharing, according to postings on its jobs website. “This effort is in direct… Read More
Amazon is staffing up its big new Bellevue, Wash. office building, which looks ready for the coming deluge of badge-wearing, coffee-toting techies. Amazon’s jobs site shows 85 open positions in… Read More
It might have been a holiday week, but it was still a busy one for the Seattle tech scene. First up: Microsoft finally confirmed a big sales reorganization that will cut… Read More
Syntonic, a Seattle-based mobile services startup, announced a new chairman of the board Thursday: former AT&T and Sprint executive Steve Elfman. Elfman has a storied career in the mobile world, including… Read More
Amazon is building a new “two pizza team” within Amazon Web Services focused on mixed-reality technology, another sign that the cloud powerhouse is expanding its reach and branching out into… Read More
It was a busy week for Amazon: on Friday, the company announced plans to buy Whole Foods for $13.7 billion, it’s the biggest acquisition yet. But before that news broke,… Read More
Cambia Grove, a hub for healthcare startups and entrepreneurs, announced Wednesday that founder and executive director Nicole Bell is leaving the company to join Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a… Read More
A King County Superior Court Commissioner sided with Amazon in the opening salvo of a court battle over Smartsheet’s hiring of a former Amazon Web Services executive earlier this month.… Read More
Smartsheet has some serious momentum. Fresh off a $52 million funding round, the Bellevue-based collaborative work management technology company brought in Gene Farrell to be its senior vice president of… Read More
NASA and AWS Elemental showed off something completely different from the International Space Station today: the first live video in ultra-high-definition 4K detail beamed down from space. The technical achievement was… Read More