After more than two weeks of discussions, Tesla CEO Elon Musk says feedback from shareholders and experts has convinced him that “the better path is for Tesla to remain public”… Read More
When Tesla CEO Elon Musk chokes up, Tesla’s stock price gets depressed as well. The link between public perceptions of the tech billionaire’s mental state and the financial state of… Read More
Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan is tapping problem solvers in the tech industry to develop solutions to some of the city’s greatest challenges. She plans to sign an executive order creating… Read More
Boeing says it’ll be moving into a 100,000-square-foot research and lab space in Cambridge, Mass., that will focus on the design and development of autonomous aircraft. Boeing’s Aerospace and Autonomy… Read More
The White House has confirmed that Boeing won a firm, fixed-price contract from the U.S. Air Force to deliver two Air Force One presidential jets for $3.9 billion, more than… Read More
BMW-owned ReachNow is bringing its ride-hailing and car-sharing services into one app as it takes on Uber, Lyft, and traditional rental companies in the rapidly-changing transportation industry. ReachNow originally launched… Read More
Boeing says it’s aiming to create a traffic management system for drones that makes use of artificial intelligence, blockchain technology — and one of the companies in its investment portfolio. SparkCognition… Read More
Today’s featured stories Inside Amazon’s Prime photo op: A secret bus ride, a spectacular Seattle view — but alas, no drones Amazon’s new blue crew: Tech giant enlists entrepreneurs to… Read More
Boeing HorizonX Ventures has taken the lead role in a $16 million Series A funding round for Matternet, a California company specializing in drone delivery operations in urban environments. Other… Read More
Grid battery storage projects like Tesla’s 100-megawatt installation in Australia may be getting lots of press, but behind the scenes, hydrogen fuel-cell systems are carving out a niche in applications… Read More
Seattle startup Dolly is suing the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission in a case with potentially far-reaching implications for gig economy companies. Dolly operates a website and app that connects… Read More
Uber is eagerly awaiting final bike-share regulations from the Seattle Department of Transporation so it can deploy JUMP — its competitor to Lime, Spin, and Ofo — in the city.… Read More
Boeing hasn’t yet declared whether it will build a new breed of midsize passenger jet — variously known as the New Mid-Market Airplane, NMA or 797 — but Washington state officials are… Read More
Tesla shareholders at today’s annual meeting swatted down challenges to billionaire CEO Elon Musk, who laid out an admittedly optimistic plan for the crucial months ahead. “This is going to… Read More
When Mighty AI CEO Daryn Nakhuda spotted a runaway JUMP bike on a ferry in Seattle, he put GeekWire on the case. The dockless bike-share service, recently acquired by Uber,… Read More
Over the past decade, we’ve been conditioned to be comfortable with the notion of spending the night in a stranger’s home, or renting out our own living space to random… Read More
San Francisco-based Getaround is launching in Seattle today with a transportation service that’s a bit like Airbnb for cars. The car sharing service allows people to rent their cars to… Read More
Zunum Aero says its first hybrid-to-electric airplanes will wear the colors of JetSuite, a private aviation company that’s a partner of JetBlue Airways. Kirkland, Wash.-based Zunum Aero, which has financial… Read More
Billionaire Elon Musk is talking up his tunnel-boring vision at a public forum in Los Angeles tonight, and hinting that the Boring Company’s Hyperloop system could eventually whisk travelers to… Read More
Microsoft is committing an additional $300,000 to continue studying whether a high-speed train between Seattle and Vancouver, B.C., is possible. The funds are in addition to Washington state’s $750,000 contribution… Read More
The U.S. Department of Transportation has selected 10 state, local and tribal governments to oversee pilot projects that will go where no drones have gone before. But this time around,… Read More
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The stylish Italian restaurant Masseria is easy to miss, hidden between a construction site and an industrial lot in D.C.’s Union Market district. But if you were… Read More
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A newly reported investment round has brought in $112.5 million for the Boring Company, the venture that billionaire techie Elon Musk created last year to build transit tunnels. And most… Read More
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Uber is questioning the motivation behind a plan to raise the rates of its service in Seattle after a City Council meeting Tuesday suggested increasing driver compensation is not the… Read More
Dara Khosrowshahi has become one of the world’s most influential technology executives by spending more than a decade thinking about how people get around. It’s fitting, then, that The New… Read More
The future of transportation will be in Seattle. That’s a proclamation Washington Gov. Jay Inslee made at an event Wednesday evening celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Alliance of Angels… Read More
Dockless bike-sharing is picking up speed in the Pacific Northwest and across the country. Transportation officials in Bellevue, Wash., are planning a small dockless bike-sharing program, which allows residents to… Read More
Seattle’s economic growth, largely driven by the tech boom, is creating serious traffic problems, as the region’s population continues to increase. Can technology help? Waze thinks so. The Google-owned company —… Read More