Tech

Oct 10, 2017, 8:30 AM

Tableau unveils new products to speed up and simplify data visualization at Las Vegas customer conference

Tableau Software is holding its annual customer conference in Las Vegas this week, and the data visualization company showed off… Read More

Oct 10, 2017, 8:00 AM

Bloomberg TV broadcasts live from the GeekWire Summit, showcasing top names in tech

The GeekWire Summit kicks off today, with more than 900 business, tech, media and government leaders joining us to talk… Read More

Oct 9, 2017, 10:40 AM

More than 100 out-of-town tech companies set up shop in Seattle region, doubling in less than 3 years

Less than three years ago, GeekWire started a database to track the staggering number of out-of-town tech companies setting up engineering… Read More

Oct 9, 2017, 7:00 AM

Chinese tech powerhouse Baidu opens Seattle-area office, expanding its reach in AI and the cloud

China’s Baidu is opening an engineering office in the Seattle region, giving the Beijing-based Internet powerhouse an additional U.S. outpost… Read More

Oct 9, 2017, 5:00 AM

Chef releases Habitat Builder, speeding up the packaging of cloud applications for delivery

Chef is ready to release a commercial version of the Habitat open-source project — Habitat Builder — that lets software… Read More

Oct 8, 2017, 4:25 PM

Museum as mobile game: Pacific Science Center pilots unique ‘Tomorrow Corps’ challenge

The next time you visit Pacific Science Center in Seattle, you’ll be able to explore it with a scientist in… Read More

Oct 7, 2017, 10:00 AM

Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman talks about maintaining company values and his ‘theory of human happiness’

There’s a lot of talk about culture in the tech world these days, and sticking to core values as a… Read More

Oct 7, 2017, 7:55 AM

Mattel cancels ‘Aristotle’ smart hub for kids amid concerns about AI parenting and data collection

Mattel’s voice-activated smart hub for kids, Aristotle, first caught our attention at CES this year. Powered by Microsoft’s Cortana, the… Read More

Oct 6, 2017, 1:55 PM

‘Pop!’ figure maker Funko files for IPO, seeking to raise up to $100M

Funko, the Everett, Wash. company behind the popular vinyl Pop! figures, today filed paperwork for an initial public offering, with… Read More

Oct 5, 2017, 5:01 PM

Costco debuts new grocery delivery service and expands partnership with Instacart

Costco is making it easier for customers to buy groceries online and have them delivered to a doorstep. The Issaquah,… Read More

Oct 5, 2017, 3:47 PM

Seattle’s Onvia snapped up by enterprise software vendor Deltek for $70 million

Onvia, which provides business intelligence services to companies looking to sell Uncle Sam their technology, was acquired Thursday by Deltek… Read More

Oct 5, 2017, 6:00 AM

Nvidia to open robotics lab near University of Washington, expanding Seattle-area footprint

Nvidia already has an engineering center in Redmond, Wash. Now the tech giant is looking to tap into the engineering… Read More

Oct 4, 2017, 2:54 PM

Scientists point to dust rather than aliens as cause of star’s odd behavior

Are aliens building a huge energy-generating megastructure around a weirdly dimming star? That way-out hypothesis has suffered another blow, thanks… Read More

Oct 4, 2017, 12:34 PM

Tune House welcomes new tech-minded women scholars at UW and Melinda Gates pays a visit

Melinda Gates is obviously a champion of creating opportunities for women in technology. On Wednesday morning she was in Florida… Read More

Oct 4, 2017, 10:21 AM

Google moves into premium laptops with new $999 Pixelbook Chrome OS notebook

Google unveiled a new laptop called the Pixelbook this morning, expanding the Chromebook line well beyond the budget pricing that… Read More

Oct 4, 2017, 6:54 AM

Melinda Gates on women in tech, her first love, and the origins of Comic Sans

Melinda Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, opened a revealing speech Wednesday by talking about her first love,… Read More

Oct 3, 2017, 7:00 PM

GeekWire Podcast: Why this early Essential Phone buyer is giving up on Andy Rubin’s dream device

In a smartphone market dominated by two giant, multinational corporations, Apple and Samsung, it’s exciting to see a new name… Read More

Oct 3, 2017, 5:13 PM

Six tips from Seattle Startup Week for fostering women in engineering

BELLEVUE, Wash. — The title of the panel was “Women in Hardware,” but the focus turned out to be more about… Read More

Oct 3, 2017, 11:13 AM

Veteran entrepreneurs and investors share the best advice they’ve ever received

Five veteran entrepreneurs and investors shared the stage on Monday at Seattle Startup Week on a panel called “navigating the… Read More

Oct 3, 2017, 10:56 AM

‘Fake news’ video game HEADLINER lets players destroy society with propaganda

I can’t decide if I like HEADLINER or not. It’s an addictive game — when I sat down to try it… Read More

Oct 3, 2017, 9:59 AM

Former Intel CEO Paul Otellini, key figure of the Wintel era, dies at the age of 66

Paul Otellini, who steered what was then the world’s largest chip maker through the decline of the Wintel duopoly and… Read More

Oct 3, 2017, 9:24 AM

New images show design for Space Needle’s glass restaurant floor in remodel 500 feet above ground

Looking down is part of the point of going up in Seattle’s Space Needle. For visitors to the landmark’s restaurant… Read More

Oct 3, 2017, 5:18 AM

Boeing borrows a tech tradition to build airplanes more efficiently

Hackathons have become commonplace at Google, Microsoft, Facebook and other tech companies, bringing together employees from different groups to identify… Read More

Oct 2, 2017, 10:25 AM

Jeff Bezos muscles way to top of Vanity Fair’s ‘New Establishment’ list again above other tech big shots

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has retained his top ranking on Vanity Fair magazine’s annual “New Establishment” list which weighs the… Read More

Sep 29, 2017, 6:00 AM

Wave Broadband completes underground Oregon fiber line, providing a gateway to top Asian markets

Wave Broadband said it has finished a 97-mile underground fiber line between its network of data centers in the Portland… Read More

Sep 27, 2017, 3:11 PM

Melinda Gates says the modern workplace isn’t suitable for America’s modern workforce

Her own husband was a self-professed workaholic in his early days at Microsoft, but in a new essay on LinkedIn,… Read More

Sep 27, 2017, 10:21 AM

Here are the world’s most innovative universities in 2017, according to Reuters’ annual list

The University of Washington was the top ranked American public university among the top 10 in Reuters’ annual list of… Read More

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