Yahoo’s sale to Verizon could be in jeopardy or severely discounted due to its recent disclosure about a 2013 data breach. This isn’t just a big company problem; smaller firms… Read More
For the past eight years, Katie Bardaro has been working her way up PayScale’s ladder. Today, she’s vice president of data analytics for the Seattle-based compensation data company. “In my… Read More
As a father, president and CEO of BoldIQ, and a member of the UW Global Business Advisory and WTIA boards, Roei Ganzarski’s time is in high demand. At BoldIQ, a Seattle… Read More
In the tech industry, hiring and retaining top talent is essential to thrive. Companies are offering more and more extravagant perks to gain a competitive edge in the recruiting game and hold… Read More
Nearly 500,000 people in Washington were affected by data breaches in the past year, according to a new report from Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson. The vast majority resulted… Read More
(Monday at 7:45 a.m. with comments from Uber.) Uber and Lyft are suing the city of Seattle as part of an ongoing legal crusade to prevent public records requests from… Read More
The FCC today ruled that when it comes to your personal information, Internet service providers (IPS) are more like telephone companies and less like websites — and so it has… Read More
Embed from Getty Images Seattle Seahawks coach Pete Carroll admitted earlier this week that Sunday night’s overtime game in Arizona — in which his team played to a 6-6 tie after… Read More
Microsoft is continuing to invest in its Power BI platform and today the tech giant released a new pilot program dedicated to journalists. Microsoft unveiled its Data Journalism Program, which at… Read More
TJ Houk leads data and analytics for Trupanion, a Seattle-based health insurance service for pets. “We study trends to make sure our prices are accurate across the many characteristics of… Read More
Glenn Kelman, the CEO of Seattle-based Redfin, posted a revealing look Tuesday at the real estate company’s own data related to how it does when it comes to race, ethnicity… Read More
A report from The Stranger today accuses the Seattle Police Department of violating the law and infringing on citizens’ privacy by purchasing social media monitoring software in secret. In 2013, SPD… Read More
To satisfy the voracious energy appetite of Amazon Web Services’ cloud data centers and other parts of Amazon’s business, the company is building its largest wind farm to date. The… Read More
Another day, another reminder that companies don’t really have to abide by promises to not share your personal information. They have a big “but” in their contracts. Last week, it was WhatsApp… Read More
Sasha Pasulka has never worked on a political campaign. For the past four years, she’s held product marketing leadership roles at Tableau, a Seattle data software company. But she’s leaving… Read More
The first Seattle DevRel Summit kicks off on Thursday, Aug. 11, with a day of events focused on developer relations. Speakers include Kate Edwards, executive director of the International Game Developers Association, and Cynthia Tee of… Read More
Two decades in the big data and analytics space revealed a problem that Versium co-founders Chris Matty and Kevin Marcus believed they could solve. They observed the huge volume of data… Read More
When Moz CEO Sarah Bird isn’t leading a team of over 200 employees she dedicates her time to civic initiatives. She wants to make the Seattle tech scene a more diverse… Read More
Algorithms. Cloud. Internet of Things. Data. No one can predict the future of technology with 100 percent accuracy. But these four pillars are certainly at the forefront of innovation in the… Read More
While noodling on startup ideas last year, Brad Heller and Alex Bilmes made a serendipitous discovery. They realized they were independently developing front and back-end technology for the same product. They… Read More
The amount of data that businesses and individuals produce is growing exponentially. While the ability to track virtually ever aspect of an organization can be powerful, the sheer volume of information… Read More
2016 is well on its way to becoming the year of ransomware, which should come as no surprise to anyone following the threat landscape. Cyber-extortion’s newest kid on the block… Read More
Popular opinion about big data is not all that rosy. Most people don’t completely understand or care about the subject too greatly, and yet they know enough to be wary… Read More
Do you dig data? IBM’s Datapalooza tour hits Seattle Feb. 9 – 11 at Galvanize Seattle. The 2.5-day experience brings together the data science community with music and creative data… Read More
Shares of Tableau Software fell more than 35 percent in after-hours trading Thursday after the data visualization company reported a $41 million loss for the fourth quarter. (Update 9:30 a.m. Friday:… Read More
While Comcast moves ahead with its plan to add cell-phone-like data usage fees to home Internet service, consumers like Kimberly Richardson are feeling the pain. And if you are a… Read More
Comcast is slowly expanding data caps for its home internet users, with many Xfinity Internet users in the southeast U.S. now limited to 300 GB of data use per month.… Read More
[Editor’s Note: Ben Marwick is an Associate Professor of Archaeology at the University of Washington. This article was originally published on The Conversation. It’s republished here under a Creative Commons license. Also read the original… Read More
While data caps are now common for mobile users, many home broadband internet connections have been seen as unlimited gateways to the Internet. However, Comcast is testing a limit to internet data in… Read More
When wildfires blaze, the smoke matters. It matters to firefighters battling the flames on the ground and those pouring water and flame retardants from helicopters or planes. It matters to… Read More