— Leafly General Counsel Yoko Miyashita will take over as chief executive officer from outgoing CEO Tim Leslie. Miyashita joined the Seattle-based online cannabis platform last year and previously spent… Read More
Panos Panay’s well-known passion for technology apparently extends beyond computers and tablets to wireless home speakers. Microsoft’s chief product officer, the longtime leader of its Surface hardware group, was named… Read More
Speaker-maker Sonos, which has a large presence in downtown Seattle, announced Tuesday that it is cutting 12 percent of its global workforce due to uncertainty and challenges stemming from the… Read More
Businesses looking to enhance the ambiance of a space with music can take advantage of a new subscription program being launched in Seattle by Sonos, the multi-room wireless audio company.… Read More
Editor’s note: The GeekWire Awards are now virtual on July 23. It takes more than a ping-pong table to attract the next talented tech professional. Office spaces across the Seattle region… Read More
Amazon’s head of devices is maintaining an amicable tone toward Sonos despite accusations of stolen technology and bullying from the speaker company. In an interview with GeekWire at the Consumer… Read More
Is this why Sonos decided to sue Google rather than going after Amazon? Our search of U.S. patent records this afternoon, following news that the high-tech speaker maker is suing… Read More
For 17 years, Sonos has been working to perfect what it calls the “sound experience,” with its commitment to multi-room wireless home audio. In an expansive new office space in… Read More
— Jill Keto signed on to be chief marketing officer at Easy Metrics, a supply chain operations startup that helps companies manage labor costs. Keto came from Apptio, where she… Read More
When Jillian Garber was studying physics in college, she learned how to break down and approach problems in general, not just execute the specific challenge at hand. She applied that practice to… Read More
Bose today showed off a new smart speaker and pair of soundbars powered by Amazon’s digital assistant Alexa as it battles other high-end speaker makers like Sonos. Bose paints the… Read More
WeWork is in the midst of a massive expansion that will more than double its presence in the Seattle area and make the co-working giant one of the biggest tenants… Read More
Amazon and Sonos are more friends than enemies, according to a top executive with the smart speaker company. Sonos has integrated Alexa into two of its products so far, leveraging… Read More
Sonos’ engineering center in Seattle has grown to nearly 120 people, emerging as the smart-speaker maker’s fastest-growing office and a linchpin of its strategy as newly public company. Executives with… Read More
Sonos revealed new details of its delicate detente with competitor and partner Amazon as part the smart speaker maker’s filing for a $100 million IPO Friday. In a filing with… Read More
You might not need another smart speaker in your house, but a smart-aleck commercial about not-so-smart speakers is worth your time. The folks at Sonos are touting the new Sonos… Read More
Sonos today showed off the fruits of a partnership with Amazon first announced last year. At an event in New York City this morning, the speaker maker debuted a new… Read More
Amazon announced a new feature for its Alexa voice assistant: multi-room audio that synchronizes music playback across multiple Amazon Echo devices, with plans to add Sonos, Bose and other third-party speakers… Read More
Sonos, the high-tech connected speaker maker that opened a Seattle office about two years ago, is turning up the volume on its local presence. Sonos established its Seattle presence at the Bullitt… Read More
If you can’t make it to Seattle Center this weekend for Bumbershoot, the annual music and arts festival, Sonos is powering Bumbershoot Radio to at least let you listen in.… Read More
Sonos is opening up. The at-home connected speaker maker today made two key announcements related to Amazon and Spotify. Sonos is partnering with Amazon to let people control their tunes via… Read More
Marc Whitten, a longtime Xbox Live leader who was most recently chief product officer at Sonos, is now working as an executive at Amazon, GeekWire has confirmed. Whitten spent 17 years… Read More
The bad news: Sonos, the privately held maker of wireless audio gear, is cutting jobs. The good news for the downsized workers: maybe they can join Amazon. The retailer is hiring… Read More
Sonos, the maker of high-end, connected stereo systems loved by discriminating audiophiles everywhere, finally offers Apple Music starting today. The company began testing the streaming-music offering in December but as of… Read More
A Sonos software update coming next week will keep users from playing Audible audiobooks through their wireless speakers, according to an email sent to Sonos owners. The problem stems from a… Read More
Sonos announced today that Amazon Prime Music subscribers can start streaming tunes to their Sonos speakers. The WiFi-enabled speakers already support streaming from Spotify, Google Play Music and Rdio, but the… Read More
Another tech company is opening an office in Seattle. This time it’s Sonos, the Santa Barbara, Calif.-based company that makes smart wireless speakers for the home. Sonos will base its new… Read More
Sonos pioneered the networked, multi-room home audio market 10 years ago. After nearly $400M in venture funding in the past few years, they’ve made big steps to enter the mainstream with a… Read More
Dear Santa Tech, I won’t humblebrag: I’ve been good this year. Very good. I didn’t click on links in email sent by people I don’t know, I maintained unique passwords… Read More
When talking about the competitive landscape for Microsoft’s Xbox One, the conversation is nearly always about the console wars and how it stacks up against the PlayStation 4. But yesterday’s… Read More