Articles about Pittsburgh

Cleveland mayor responds to GeekWire guest column, calls Ohio city a ‘case study of what’s possible’

Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb responded to a GeekWire guest column by Charles Fitzgerald warning Seattle not to repeat the Ohio city’s mistakes — but they may agree more than the headline suggests. Read More

How this Amazon engineering outpost is translating its unique geographic position into growth

PITTSBURGH — When we last visited Amazon’s engineering center in this city, back in 2018, the company had just announced… Read More

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How Jeff Wilke’s industrial roots guided him at Amazon, and inspired him to help revive U.S. manufacturing

PITTSBURGH — In his 22 years at Amazon, including his role as the first CEO of the company’s Worldwide Consumer… Read More

It’s such a good feeling, a very good feeling, for Pittsburgh to know it didn’t win Amazon HQ2

PITTSBURGH — It would have been fun for me if Amazon’s HQ2 had ended up here, not only for the… Read More

‘We’ve literally run out of human beings’: Robots rise in wake of pandemic and labor shortages

PITTSBURGH — Looking out the window of the Boeing 737 this week after landing at Pittsburgh International Airport, gateway to… Read More

Seattle investment bank Cascadia Capital has its eye on Pittsburgh for SPAC acquisition target

Pittsburgh’s tech scene is getting some more love from Seattle. Cascadia Capital, a Seattle-based investment banking firm founded more than… Read More

Year in pictures: Amazon’s amazing growth, SpaceX blasts off, the passing of Paul Allen and more

2018 was a year of acronyms. We witnessed an overhyped search for HQ2, a flurry of IPOs and the passing… Read More

Drone deliveries are ‘going to happen’ despite regulatory hurdles, says drone mapping startup CEO

Drone deliveries are coming. While some autonomous transportation technologies like self-driving cars are still years or even decades away from… Read More

Pittsburgh Postscript: Surprises, gripes, memorable characters and epic experiences from GeekWire’s month in the Steel City

PITTSBURGH — What an incredible experience. A rotating cast of GeekWire reporters and editors spent the month of February 2018… Read More

Can a city facing a tech boom keep its soul? What Pittsburgh’s mayor learned from GeekWire HQ2

Cities with booming tech economies around the country face an existential crisis. How can they maintain their cultural identity and… Read More

Pittsburgh Profile: Seattle theater vet Marya Sea Kaminski brings a fresh act to a new tech city

PITTSBURGH — Marya Sea Kaminski loved her first date with Pittsburgh. The associate artistic director at Seattle Repertory Theater had… Read More

Ready or not: Tech boom brings complex changes to Pittsburgh’s real estate market

PITTSBURGH — It’s Sunday morning and the Strip District sizzles with tourists hitting up President Obama’s favorite breakfast spot. Others… Read More

Saving a seat for tech: Historic theater strives to set the stage for inclusion in booming neighborhood

PITTSBURGH — Janera Solomon was raised in Pittsburgh from the age of 10, and left after college to pursue a… Read More

‘Feeding the spirit, soul and stomach’: Inside Pittsburgh’s famous fish fries and the online map that fuels them

PITTSBURGH — At 5:24 p.m. on the first Friday of Lent, the Immaculate Heart of Mary Church runs out of… Read More

Pittsburgh goes to court to keep Amazon HQ2 proposal secret

Pittsburgh officials are pushing back on a ruling demanding the city release its proposal for Amazon’s second headquarters. Late Friday… Read More

The Wizard of Arts: Karla Boos and the Quantum Theatre Company use tech to stage plays anywhere

PITTSBURGH — Karla Boos describes herself as a high-level, outside-the-box wizard. For the past 27 years, as the founder and… Read More

Inside the mind of Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn as $700M language learning startup eyes IPO in 2020

PITTSBURGH — At times, it’s hard to keep up with Luis von Ahn. The Duolingo CEO and co-founder speaks quickly,… Read More

From Campbell’s to Commodore: How the Warhol Museum uses tech to illuminate the iconic artist

PITTSBURGH — Andy Warhol made his mark as a pop artist throughout the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s, but his pioneering spirit… Read More

Our robot neighbors: Hanging out with the mechanical inhabitants of ‘Robotics Row’

PITTSBURGH — I’m sitting on the floor of a small office in the Lawrenceville neighborhood surrounded by machines that would… Read More

Pittsburgh Profile: BEST Robotics Director Rosemary Mendel works to get kids into STEM

PITTSBURGH — Rosemary Mendel’s job is getting kids excited about robotics, a technology at the heart of her city’s innovation… Read More

The price is right: What if I left Seattle and had Amazon money to shop for a home in Pittsburgh?

I bought my house in Seattle way back when people who didn’t build software for a living were still able… Read More

What Seattle can learn from Indianapolis, Pittsburgh and Copenhagen about navigating economic upheaval

In this period of political, economic, and technological upheaval, Bruce Katz believes we should look to cities to solve societal… Read More

Is this really a tech ‘tahn’? Pittsburghers talk Seattle, Amazon HQ2, Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos

PITTSBURGH — Longtime residents of this city like the idea of Amazon HQ2 in their city, have strong impressions of… Read More

Peter S. Beagle Photo by Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ [CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

Seattle and Pittsburgh’s fantastic connection: a new ‘grand master’ of science fiction and fantasy

Looking for a literary tie between Seattle and Pittsburgh? It may seem as hard to find as a unicorn. But… Read More

Art, affordability, Amazon and more: Pittsburgh’s Vanessa German makes a vital human connection

PITTSBURGH — In a room full of people at Concept Art Gallery in this city’s Regent Square neighborhood, Vanessa German… Read More

Photos: New vs. old Pittsburgh quickly comes into focus — and tells a story that’s familiar in Seattle

PITTSBURGH — My favorite thing to do when I get to any new city is to wake up relatively early… Read More

Pittsburgh Profile: Katrina Flora is a boomeranger, UW grad, and urban planner for Hazelwood Green

A year and a half ago, Katrina Flora returned to Pittsburgh after a decade away from her hometown. She first… Read More

I went one-on-one with Carnegie Mellon’s champion poker bot and did NOT get crushed

PITTSBURGH — In preparing for this story, I was all set to describe in detail how I had been soundly… Read More

Slice of Pittsburgh life: Pizza, politics, and renewal on the menu with activist chef Sonja Finn

PITTSBURGH — Sonja Finn doesn’t think we should be fighting over one slice of the pie. That maxim dictates just… Read More

Could Pittsburgh’s resurgent airport be the key to landing Amazon’s HQ2?

PITTSBURGH — Deep within Amazon’s request for proposals for its second North American headquarters, in a section about logistics, is… Read More