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Amazon launches AWS IQ, a marketplace of third-party cloud experts for on-demand projects

Amazon.com opened up its online retail marketplace to third-party sellers early on, shaking up the e-commerce industry and extending the… Read More

Tech company Chef won’t renew U.S. immigration contracts, changing course amid employee activism

Software engineers are powerful players in the technology industry. Typically, they exercise that power to negotiate sky-high salaries that companies… Read More

Oracle adds its digital assistant to Microsoft Teams, building off new cloud alliance between tech giants

Oracle and Microsoft’s cloud partnership took another step forward Tuesday. Oracle announced that its digital assistant can now be used… Read More

Skytap partners with Microsoft, brings its cloud service for legacy apps to Azure

Skytap today announced a partnership with Microsoft Azure as the company continues its shift to becoming a capability within public… Read More

Cloud services company Skytap lays off 25 workers in first major change under new CEO

Enterprise cloud services company Skytap is laying off 25 employees, or around 12 percent of its workforce, in an effort… Read More

Report reveals new details about Bezos’ influence on Amazon bid for Pentagon cloud contract

Amazon’s bid to build the Pentagon’s war cloud has been mired in accusations of favoritism since the beginning. But a… Read More

Amazon seeks to root out any ties to 8chan, as tech firms grapple with implications of extremist sites

Amazon’s cloud powers vast swaths of the internet, so perhaps it was only a matter of time until the debate… Read More

Pentagon reconsiders $10B cloud contract as Trump sounds alarm over alleged Amazon favoritism

The Department of Defense announced Thursday it is reviewing a $10 billion, 10-year contract to build the military’s war cloud.… Read More

Amazon sues former AWS exec for joining rival Google division as cloud wars escalate

Amazon’s pioneering cloud business gave the company an early lead in an emerging and lucrative industry but competition is heating… Read More

Amazon acquires enterprise flash storage startup E8 Storage

Amazon has acquired enterprise flash storage startup E8 Storage. Founded in 2014, the company sold a rack-scale software storage solution… Read More

AppViewX raises $30M to grow networking infrastructure automation software platform

Seattle-based company AppViewX just raised $30 million to help expand its networking automation technology, GeekWire has learned. Brighton Park Capital,… Read More

Amazon’s bid for $10B Pentagon cloud deal faces friction as it battles with Microsoft

Amazon and Microsoft are locked in a battle for a massive contract to build cloud infrastructure for the Department of… Read More

Microsoft and Providence St. Joseph Health team up to improve healthcare efficiency

Microsoft and Providence St. Joseph Health announced a new partnership Monday designed to bring the healthcare institution’s vast clinical data… Read More

Hey Siri, meet Alexa: Rival AI assistants become neighbors as Apple doubles down on Seattle

For years, fixtures in the Bay Area tech industry have been migrating to Seattle in search of comparable jobs with… Read More

DHS moving biometric screening system to Amazon Web Services amid debate over government tech

The Department of Homeland Security is migrating the system it uses to search for people using biometric data to Amazon’s… Read More

GeekWire Cloud Summit FAQ: What to know for Wednesday’s conference featuring tech leaders from Slack, Microsoft, AWS and more

Our biggest technical conference of the year — the GeekWire Cloud Summit — is taking place Wednesday. Here’s everything you… Read More

AWS Ground Station satellite control system is officially open for business

Six months after a sneak preview, Amazon Web Services has just raised the curtain on AWS Ground Station, its cloud-based… Read More

Cloud Constellation chooses LeoStella to build cloud data satellites in Seattle area

Cloud Constellation Corp. has chosen LeoStella, the U.S.-European joint venture based in Tukwila, Wash., to build satellites for its cloud-based… Read More

Seattle startup AppSheet raises $15M for no-code app development platform, will open Portland hub

Seattle startup AppSheet has raised $15 million to fuel growth of its platform that helps businesses develop their own data-based… Read More

Lockheed Martin joins the discussion about cloud computing services in space

Is the final frontier the next frontier for cloud computing? One of the presentations planned for Amazon’s re:MARS conference in… Read More

Working Geek: David Aronchick’s new Microsoft job packs everything cool into one role

When David Aronchick returned to Microsoft last fall, I suspect that many folks there did a little happy dance. A… Read More

Spiral Genetics re-launches, inks Microsoft deal to predict heart disease with the human genome

It’s Day 1 again for Seattle-based Spiral Genetics. The decade-old DNA analysis startup has left its parent company Fabric and… Read More

Seattle startup Igneous raises $25M to help companies manage their unstructured data

Seattle startup Igneous has reeled in a $25 million investment round to fuel growth of its software that helps companies… Read More

Amazon fuels Harvard hospital’s machine learning research program

Amazon thinks the cloud can make hospitals run better. The company’s Amazon Web Services unit is sponsoring a program at… Read More

Nintex acquires business bot company EnableSoft, filling a key gap in its workflow automation platform

Bellevue, Wash.-based workflow automation company Nintex has acquired EnableSoft, a Robotic Process Automation company that offers bots for handling a business’s… Read More

Microsoft earnings preview: What to watch as the most-valuable U.S. company discloses new results

Microsoft is again the most-valuable U.S. company — holding a slight lead over Amazon, at least for now — and the company is… Read More

‘We cannot let the next generation down’: Women in Cloud Summit rallies crowd to turn the tide in tech

In college, Washington State Sen. Patty Kuderer decided to take a programming class. She said she was excited about technology… Read More

As Amazon becomes world’s most valuable company, analyst sees ‘mostly unconstrained’ opportunities

As the closing bell rang Monday, Amazon had surpassed fellow Seattle-area tech giant Microsoft to become the world’s most valuable company.… Read More

Geek of the Week: Kevin Lin walks the talk as he left Amazon to launch startup and host his own podcast

Kevin Lin is computer software engineer who has an endless curiosity about technology and people and he likes to keep… Read More

Azure vs. AWS for startups: Microsoft’s top marketing exec explains its strategy in the cloud

Startups were key to the early success of Amazon Web Services and most still favor the platform for cloud infrastructure.… Read More