Tech Moves: Remitly exec to step down; Yoky Matsuoka named CEO of new Panasonic division — Kim Vu, vice president of environmental social governance at Seattle digital remittance giant Remitly, will step down from her… Read More
After Seattle launch, personal concierge service Yohana goes nationwide to help more busy families Yohana, the personal concierge service launched in Seattle by a robotics pioneer juggling life as a busy mom, is expanding… Read More
Podcast GeekWire Podcast: Andy Jassy on Amazon’s future; Yoky Matsuoka on Google and Apple; Ciara on music and business creativity This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we’re sharing a few highlights from the GeekWire Summit, our annual business and technology… Read More
Robotics pioneer Yoky Matsuoka on the human touch in her new personal assistant venture Yohana Yoky Matsuoka has served as head of innovation at Google and as chief technology officer at Nest, and she won… Read More
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, pop superstar Ciara, and other luminaries to speak at GeekWire Summit Andy Jassy will join us for an on-stage interview at the 10th annual GeekWire Summit in October in Seattle, making… Read More
Robotics pioneer Yoky Matsuoka’s Panasonic venture debuts personal assistant service in Seattle Yoky Matsuoka is known for her pioneering work in neurorobotics, assisting humans by connecting the central nervous system to the… Read More
Tech Moves: Rhapsody adds CCO as ‘Powered by Napster’ formally launches; DreamBox hires CFO following cash infusion; and more Napster parent company Rhapsody snagged Angel Gambino as its chief commercial officer. Gambino founded and was CEO of Sensai, which… Read More
Alphabet re-hires former UW robotics professor Yoky Matsuoka as new Nest Labs CTO Yoky Matsuoka is back at Google. The robotics and AI guru was just re-hired at Alphabet, Google’s parent company, to be… Read More
Report: Health tech exec and former UW robotics professor Yoky Matsuoka leaves Apple After just five months at Apple, Yoky Matsuoka is reportedly leaving the company. Bloomberg reported Friday that Matsuoka, a former… Read More
Apple hires robotic hand pioneer Yoky Matsuoka, former UW professor and Nest exec Apple is getting a hand from robotics pioneer Yoky Matsuoka. The Google X co-founder and robotic hand pioneer, formerly of… Read More
Former UW robotics prof joins Twitter as VP of Technology and Analytics Yoky Matsuoka, a former computer science professor at the University of Washington, announced that she has joined Twitter as its… Read More
Robotics pioneer Yoky Matsuoka leaving Google’s Nest to join Twitter, report says Yoky Matsuoka, the former University of Washington computer science professor who rejoined Google with its $3.2 billion acquisition of Nest last… Read More
How Yoky Matsuoka created the modern robotic hand, and what the rest of us can learn from her Editor’s Note: Yoky Matsuoka, the former University of Washington computer science professor, is one of the subjects of the new book,… Read More
Nest tech chief Yoky Matsuoka officially flying the coop at UW Yoky Matsuoka, the vice president of technology for Silicon Valley startup Nest, won’t be returning to the University of Washington,… Read More
Newsmakers 2011: Yoky Matsuoka links humans to devices, from thermostats to robots Yoky Matsuoka has long been interested in the frontiers of human interaction with machines, exploring new ways for the nervous… Read More
