The Tacoma Maritime Innovation Incubator, an initiative of Washington state’s Maritime Blue economic program, has announced its second cohort. The incubator selects companies that can provide innovation and jobs for… Read More
The news: Founded two years ago, Tacoma Venture Fund has made several investments in early-stage startups across the Pacific Northwest, with a particular focus on the Tacoma, Wash., area south… Read More
TACOMA, Wash. — One tour of the International Space Station is not enough, even if you do the tour in virtual reality. I found that out when I explored “The… Read More
Throughout his career, Shadrach White has participated in hundreds of successful government IT projects. While more often than not we hear about the failed IT projects, White thinks little credit is… Read More
Seattle was the first city in the nation to embrace dockless bike-share — but it may be one of the last to allow free-floating, rentable electric scooters on its streets.… Read More
The Seattle Reign FC, the professional women’s soccer club that has played for five seasons at Memorial Stadium, is dropping Seattle from its name and heading south to Tacoma, the… Read More
Birds are arriving in Tacoma, Wash. this weekend. The Santa Monica, Calif., electric scooter share company plans to launch a fleet in the Tacoma, which neighbors Seattle to the south.… Read More
Lime — the San Francisco company that operates shared bright green bicycles and scooters in cities throughout the country — is launching a pilot program in Tacoma, Wash., Friday. The… Read More
The Fullbright Company, a Portland-based independent studio, was founded by several veterans of Irrational Games who worked on the “Minerva’s Den” DLC for Bioshock 2. Fullbright tends to make well-written,… Read More
Pierce County on Tuesday plans to introduce a new tax incentive program for employers looking to bring jobs to the county — a direct slap at the City of Seattle… Read More
Four unusual seafarers are arriving in Washington’s Puget Sound today after a long journey from China. At 434 feet tall with their booms up, the container cranes are the largest on… Read More
Seattle’s neighbor to the south, Tacoma, Wash., formally announced its plans to respond to Amazon’s second headquarters request for proposals today. The Economic Development Board for Tacoma-Pierce County confirmed it… Read More
Like the overlooked heroine in an ’80s teen movie, Tacoma is writing a love letter to Amazon. It says, in effect, “Don’t worry about feeling rejected by your first crush. I’ve… Read More
Pop culture geeks who love a good trip to the mall will have a new destination come Friday, when ThinkGeek opens at the Tacoma Mall. It’s the second Puget Sound… Read More
ThinkGeek fans who prefer not to brave the traffic and head north to Seattle hit up one of their favorite stores will soon be able to do their shopping at… Read More
Bay Area network services company Infoblox is expanding its footprint in the Northwest by doubling the size of its Tacoma, Wash., office. Infoblox, a company that monitors DNS, DHCP and IP… Read More
The latest accelerator to hit the Pacific Northwest is giving startups up to $80,000 in seed funding and pairing them with the likes of Gary Rubens and community partners like… Read More
The City of Tacoma wants Bay Area tech companies moving to the Pacific Northwest to take a look at opening their satellite offices within its confines rather than taking a… Read More
Two former Amazon.com employees are merging their cloud computing startups, hoping to grab a bigger pool of clients that need help transitioning to cloud-based infrastructure. Tacoma-based Options I/O — started… Read More
With new startups like Uber and Lyft entering markets without regulation, taxi drivers often tell lawmakers that they want a “level-playing field.” Well, they’re getting one in Tacoma, Wash. UberX, Lyft, and… Read More
Tacoma may not be the first place you think of when biotechnology comes to mind, but one company from the city is raising some serious dough to help people affected… Read More
While Seattle has been trying to figure out how to regulate companies like UberX, Lyft and Sidecar for well over a year, Washington’s third-biggest city is just getting started. Just a 45-minute… Read More
Heads up, Tacoma taxi drivers: You’re about to have new competition. Just weeks after Lyft and Sidecar began offering their transportation service in Washington’s third-largest city, Uber announced today that… Read More
While the debate rages on in Seattle over the legality of app-based transportation companies like UberX, Lyft and Sidecar, it looks like Tacoma may soon have to deal with the… Read More
As its service is set to be capped by city leaders in Seattle, it looks like Uber has plans to offer its transportation service 35 miles down Interstate-5 in Tacoma.… Read More
What is the proper role of the arcade in modern society? Should it be a place for boozing adults, or screaming kids? And can it be both? That is the question… Read More