The Bellevue (Wash.) Police Dept. is adding body-worn cameras on patrol officers for the first time in an effort to “bolster transparency, accountability and safety” within the community, the agency… Read More
Axon, the company that develops Tasers, body cameras, and other law enforcement technologies, is pausing work on a project to develop a Taser-equipped drone that it believed could be used… Read More
— Former Zillow Chief Economist Svenja Gudell is now chief economist at Indeed, leading the job search engine’s research team. “The labor market is a fundamental building block to the… Read More
— Law enforcement technology company Axon added former HTC Vive exec Chris Chin as vice president of immersive tech. In his new role, Chin will be responsible for Axon’s virtual… Read More
— Margaret Arakawa has left her role as chief marketing officer at sales automation startup Outreach. Arakawa spent nearly 20 years at Microsoft before joining Outreach in July 2019. In… Read More
For the past few months, Axon has been reviewing its products and internal policies with an eye toward racial equity, diversity, and inclusion. Companies across the tech industry undertook similar… Read More
— Peter Marquez has joined Amazon Web Services as the first head of space policy. “There are many exciting things happening in the space community and this is going to… Read More
— Zillow Group co-founder and former CEO Spencer Rascoff joined the board of Palantir Technologies, a big data company backed by PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel. The notoriously secretive Silicon Valley… Read More
— Seattle-based venture capital firm Madrona Venture Group announced that Anu Sharma is joining its investment team as a principal. Sharma was most recently a senior product manager at Amazon Web… Read More
Seattle venture capital investor and business leader Adriane Brown last week joined the board of directors for Axon, a company that develops body cameras, tasers, and other law enforcement technologies.… Read More
—The Allen Institute, a nonprofit research organization founded by the late Seattle billionaire philanthropist and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, announced three new additions to its board: • Former Washington State… Read More
Police officers equipped with Axon’s next-generation body camera will be able to automatically live-stream shooting incidents using technology similar to the Amazon Echo smart speaker. Like smart speakers, the devices… Read More
Editor’s note: Story updated with FTC comment at 3 p.m. PT Axon is taking on the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, alleging in a new lawsuit the regulator is operating an… Read More
Axon, the police tech company formerly known as Taser, will add automatic license plate readers to its cop car dashboards. The Seattle and Scottsdale, Ariz., based company said Wednesday that… Read More
As surveillance technology is rapidly advancing — including facial recognition and devices such as Amazon’s Ring doorbell cameras — the ability to regulate these tools is not keeping pace, agreed… Read More
— Axon landed former Amazon executive Jeff Kunins as chief product officer and executive vice president of software. Kunins was most recently vice president of Alexa Entertainment and previously was… Read More
Axon is banning facial recognition technology from the products it develops for law enforcement agencies because of “serious concerns” about the technology’s accuracy, the company said Thursday. The announcement comes… Read More
Away from his day job as president of Axon, makers of police body cameras and other products, Luke Larson has been busy creating another universe in the form of IGIST,… Read More
Axon, which makes body cameras and smart weapons, will now let its employees bet parts of their compensation on company growth milestones such as revenue, profits and market capitalization, in… Read More
Many people concerned about gun violence want to alter laws. Rick Smith is focusing on a tech solution. “Our track record for solving major problems with technology is really good,” said… Read More
Axon, the make of police body cameras and other law enforcement technology with headquarters in Seattle and Scottsdale, Ariz., is teaming up with Chinese drone maker DJI for a new… Read More
Axon has acquired Vievu, its main competitor in the police body cam industry. The deal brings together top U.S. police body cam suppliers and ends a tumultuous relationship between rivals. Vievu… Read More
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Gaurav Oberoi, an entrepreneur and startup executive known for co-founding Precision Polling, BillMonk and SurveyMonkey Audience, has joined the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) as an entrepreneur in residence, GeekWire… Read More
Police body camera maker Axon is expanding its Seattle office to accommodate a growing headcount. The company said it recently picked up an additional floor at the Metropolitan Park West… Read More
Four years after Axon acquired their startup, the founders of Familiar are ready for their next adventure. Marcus Womack, Josh Hepfer, Mike Bohlander and Ray Fortna are leaving police body… Read More
Some of the most interesting technological innovations today stem from artificial intelligence and machine learning. Seattle’s Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2), founded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, is working… Read More
Mobile devices provide millions of data points to app publishers every day, but without some help, that data is useless. That’s where PushSpring steps in. The company builds products that… Read More
Axon, the maker of Tasers, body cams and other technology products for law enforcement, is seeking a number of front-end engineers to develop the company’s consumer-facing applications. Based in Scottsdale,… Read More
Taser International, makers of law enforcement technologies including body cameras, supporting software, and data storage, announced a new program and a change in identity on Wednesday. The company will now… Read More