Top officials in 27 cities across the country are backing a lawsuit over the FCC’s repeal of net neutrality, claiming that removing those protections makes it more difficult for municipal governments to… Read More
Seattle startup CityBldr has raised $4.3 million of a $4.5 million round, according to a new filing with the SEC. CityBldr founder Bryan Copley confirmed that he signed the SEC… Read More
In crowded cities like Seattle, employers are coming up with creative ways to get employees out of single-occupancy vehicles when they commute. For big companies, like Microsoft and Seattle Children’s… Read More
Seattle’s tech industry and the rest of this booming city are at odds like never before, and tech leaders acknowledge that any efforts to mobilize the tech community to solve… Read More
Driving around Seattle, you might’ve noticed an uptick in Texas license plates. That’s what prompted us to look at drivers license data and find out which states the region is… Read More
Google’s sister company, Sidewalk Labs, is reconceiving urban planning with one big, high-stakes experiment on Toronto’s waterfront. The company is partnering with Toronto’s government to build Quayside, an innovation district… Read More
In its hometown, Seattle, Amazon benefits from a well-educated, tech-savvy pool of talent. The company is looking for another city that attracts that type of worker for its next home:… Read More
Seattle’s tech industry titans are joining forces to advise the city on some of the pressing challenges that have arisen as a result of booming growth. Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan… Read More
Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan is tapping problem solvers in the tech industry to develop solutions to some of the city’s greatest challenges. She plans to sign an executive order creating… Read More
Nick Hanauer was the first outside investor in Amazon and he has watched the company transform its hometown, Seattle, over the past decade. The venture capitalist and activist has witnessed… Read More
Amid a steady drumbeat of attacks from President Trump that probably don’t make Amazon feel particularly loyal to the leader of the United States, new statistics have emerged that paint… Read More
Homelessness is a complex, thorny, and heartbreaking crisis that all of us are trying to better understand. A few weeks ago, GeekWire and The Evergrey started asking readers to share… Read More
Columbus, Ohio and Seattle, Wash. have more in common than you might think. They’re similar in population size: about 800,000 people live in Columbus proper while about 700,000 live in… Read More
More than 2,000 GeekWire readers told us which of the 20 cities in the running for Amazon’s second headquarters they would live in — and the answer was a surprise.… Read More
In Amazon’s remarkable second headquarters competition, talent is the name of the game. That’s why we want to find out which city in the running for Amazon HQ2 has the… Read More
Housing in America is getting more expensive, disproportionately burdening middle- and low-income people, and perpetuating wealth inequality. Those dynamics are felt acutely in West Coast tech hubs, like San Francisco and… 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
Three days after the Seattle City Council passed a head tax on large businesses, the editorial board of The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, thousands of miles away, made the extraordinary decision to weigh… Read More
Like many entrepreneurs, Bryan Copley had an ambitious — and slightly naive — idea. He thought he could make a dent in Seattle’s housing affordability crisis by showing some 56,000… Read More
Activists from Chicago to Atlanta held demonstrations and town halls Wednesday to demand more transparency from their cities, as local leaders try to land Amazon HQ2. Twenty cities are in… Read More
The mayors of New York, San Francisco, Portland, and a handful of other cities across the country are banding together to pressure internet providers to respect net neutrality standards. New… Read More
Let’s play a game of “would you rather.” You can’t afford to rent an apartment in the booming city where you work. Would you rather sacrifice urban life, move to… Read More
Amazon is on tour. The Seattle tech titan is visiting the 20 cities competing for its second headquarters, collecting data and touring potential sites for the project to inform the company’s… Read More
After a long history skirting municipal regulations and evading local law enforcement, Uber is ready to make peace with cities. So said Rachel Holt, Uber’s general manager of U.S. and… Read More
Cities with booming tech economies around the country face an existential crisis. How can they maintain their cultural identity and diversity amid job growth that contributes to wealth inequality and… Read More
In this period of political, economic, and technological upheaval, Bruce Katz believes we should look to cities to solve societal challenges. Katz is The Brookings Institution’s first Centennial Scholar and author… Read More
Ever wondered what it’s like to be the richest person on the planet? Here’s your chance to find out (sort of). GateHouse Media, a publisher of local news publications, created… Read More
PITTSBURGH — Sonja Finn doesn’t think we should be fighting over one slice of the pie. That maxim dictates just about everything Finn does. It’s why tipping is verboten at… Read More
Over the past year, analysts from a Sidewalk Labs spinout called Coord have been playing a game of “would you rather?” with Seattle drivers. Would you rather shoot for rockstar parking… Read More
A top Amazon official reportedly told more than a dozen Newark, N.J., representatives what to expect during the remainder of the competition for HQ2, a $5 billion second headquarters that… Read More