Pennsylvania’s Office of Open Records sided with journalists this week, ruling that Pittsburgh’s Amazon HQ2 bid is a public record and should be released within 30 days. The decision, in… Read More
Julia Erickson has found her calling in Pittsburgh, both as an artist and entrepreneur. The Seattle native moved to the Steel City in 2001. After graduating from the University of… Read More
After more than 15 years away — most spent working for Amazon in Seattle — Mark Stabingas returned to Pittsburgh to find a city transformed. He was born and raised… Read More
Decades before the NBA and Shark Tank, years before making his fortune in tech, Mark Cuban was a kid growing up in Pittsburgh, selling garbage bags to scrounge together enough money… Read More
Very few people are in a better position to explain Pittsburgh to a bunch of Seattle-based technology journalists than Siddhartha “Sidd” Srinivasa. The robotics expert founded Carnegie Mellon University’s Personal… Read More
There’s already been a lot of buzz this week about HQ2. But Amazon is not the only Seattle upstart that’s making waves with a second headquarters. Here at GeekWire, we’re… Read More
Microsoft has reached an agreement to acquire Avere Systems, a Pittsburgh-based company that leverages flash storage to optimize the process of saving and retrieving files in the cloud and other… Read More
You got to know when to hold ’em, and know when to fold ’em — and when it comes to betting on human superiority in the game of poker, it may… Read More
Curious how GeekWire decided to plant its flag in Pittsburgh for the month of February? Several members of the team sat down Tuesday to talk about how we narrowed down… Read More
From the “Portal to the Pacific” to the “Paris of Appalachia,” we’re packing our bags for Pittsburgh. That’s right, we’re bringing our unique brand of tech, science and innovation news… Read More
Alaska Airlines announced Wednesday morning that it will begin offering daily, nonstop service between Seattle and Pittsburgh — further connecting the two cities and their shared interests in tech and… Read More
Pittsburgh was Mister Rogers’ neighborhood, but a couple key connections could make it a front runner to become Mr. Bezos’ second neighborhood. Some of Amazon’s top executives have close ties… Read More
Folks still getting used to the fact that they can relinquish their driving responsibilities to other humans can now start wrapping their heads around the idea of someday catching an… Read More