Editor’s note: This story and headline were updated to reflect the WARN notice. ArenaNet, the video game maker behind Guild Wars and Guild Wars 2, is laying off 143 employees… Read More
Hidden Path Entertainment, headquartered in Bellevue, Wash., announced on Wednesday that it will release a remastered edition of Defense Grid 2 on the Nintendo Switch on February 7th. Defense Grid… Read More
Amazon will take another high rise tower in Bellevue, Wash., according to a real estate brokerage report, and because of the tech giant’s rapid growth, the downtown area is virtually… Read More
BELLEVUE, Wash. — My wife was a VR virgin. Tonia Boyle isn’t exactly a thrill-seeker. Skydiving, bungee jumping and zipline rides have never been her cup of tea. But when it… Read More
The latest milestone for the Global Innovation Exchange (GIX) came Sunday as the U.S.-China tech institute celebrated the graduation of its first cohort of 37 students. GIX is a partnership… Read More
Epic Games, the video game developer behind Gears of War, the Unreal Engine, and the Fortnite franchise, announced on Tuesday morning with a post on its website that it will debut its own… Read More
“Hidden object” games are probably easiest to define by comparing them to the popular Where’s Waldo line of children’s books. In digital format, you play by diligently searching a cluttered… Read More
Facebook already has a large presence in Seattle’s urban core, but the company is increasingly expanding its operation to other parts of the region. In two newly confirmed deals, the… Read More
Google has reportedly inked a big lease in an office building in Bellevue, Wash., while at the same time embarking on a massive expansion of the huge campus under construction… Read More
This week, bright green Lime bikes will begin appearing on Bellevue, Wash., streets. The city just announced a one-year dockless bikesharing pilot, similar to the one Seattle just concluded but with… Read More
For nearly seven years, Luum has been quietly helping big Seattle-area employers reshape the commuting habits of their employees. But the privately funded startup has opted to fly under the… Read More
Seattle-based sales automation startup Outreach announced a new $65 million funding round Monday — but its CEO, Manny Medina, also had another issue on his mind when GeekWire caught up with… Read More
Speculation that Seattle’s new head tax could be a boon for neighboring cities has been swirling since before the City Council approved the controversial legislation Monday afternoon. After all, what’s… Read More
Amazon is gearing up for a potentially major expansion in Bellevue, Wash., Seattle’s neighbor to the east, at the same time that it has paused growth in its hometown to… Read More
Dockless bike-sharing is picking up speed in the Pacific Northwest and across the country. Transportation officials in Bellevue, Wash., are planning a small dockless bike-sharing program, which allows residents to… Read More
There hasn’t been a new high-rise condominium development in Bellevue, Wash., in nearly a decade, but when One88 eventually opens, it’ll be a showcase for how much the Seattle region… Read More
Amazon’s quest to become a powerhouse in brick-and-mortar retail continues, with the company opening new book stores in Bellevue, Washington and San Jose, California this week. The opening of the… 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
OfferUp is more than quadrupling the size of its headquarters in Bellevue, Wash. as the mobile marketplace begins to put the $130 million it raised last year to work. OfferUp… Read More
Kemper Development‘s Lincoln Square and Bellevue Square projects played an important role in Bellevue’s emergence as a city that attracts top tier tech companies and the well-paid employees that come… Read More
Gone are the days where Seattle’s streets were flooded with Pokémon GO players, pointing their phones at augmented-reality beasts and trying to “catch ’em all.” But true fans are coming… Read More
In the U.S., car crashes kill roughly 40,000 people a year. That’s a loss of life equivalent to four to five 737 airplanes crashing every week. “In no other setting… Read More
More than two decades ago, long before Amazon was the king of online retail and cloud computing, the company ran out of Jeff Bezos’ garage in Bellevue, Wash., across Lake… Read More
Amazon has confirmed previously-reported plans to open a big new office in downtown Bellevue, Wash. GeekWire reported last year that the online retail giant had leased all 354,000 square feet… Read More
As many of the world’s biggest urban centers implement Internet of Things (IoT) technologies in a quest to become “smart cities” — making greater use of connected cameras, sensors and more —… Read More
Amazon is opening another brick-and-mortar bookstore in 2017 — its 10th such retail location — in downtown Bellevue, Wash. Building permits, first uncovered by Recode, give the address as 104… Read More
One of the world’s fastest growing enterprise software companies today opened the doors to its new home in the Seattle area. San Francisco-based cloud services giant Salesforce on Wednesday officially cut the ribbon… Read More
WeWork, the fast-growing operator of shared workspaces with more than 70,000 members worldwide, is expanding its footprint in the Seattle area in a big way. The New York-based company today… Read More
Amazon, which originally started out of Jeff Bezos’ Bellevue, Wash., garage before permanently planting its flag in Seattle, is poised to open a huge new office in the city where it was… Read More
Microsoft unveiled its newest Microsoft Technology Center Wednesday night, a facility designed to show off the company’s newest innovations to customers and partners. The 18,000-square-foot facility on the 22nd floor of the Lincoln… Read More