Tech – Page 25 of 319

Feb 8, 2024, 1:25 PM

Expedia CEO Peter Kern to step down later this year, replaced by longtime exec Ariane Gorin

Expedia Group CEO Peter Kern will step down in May, the travel giant announced Thursday. He will be replaced by… Read More

Feb 6, 2024, 8:57 AM

DocuSign laying off 6% of workforce; Seattle-based employees impacted

E-signature giant DocuSign announced Tuesday it is cutting 6% of its workforce, or about 400 employees, becoming the latest tech… Read More

Feb 5, 2024, 8:52 AM

New jewel in wearable tech: UW researchers create smart earring to monitor body temperature

Researchers at the University of Washington have a new jewel in the realm of wearable technology. A smart earring prototype… Read More

Feb 5, 2024, 8:02 AM

NanoString stock sinks 70% as Seattle biotech company enters bankruptcy process

Seattle-based publicly traded biotech company NanoString Technologies announced Monday that it has initiated a Chapter 11 bankruptcy plan and is exploring… Read More

Feb 2, 2024, 8:35 AM

Okta layoffs impact employees in the Pacific Northwest; identity giant acquired Auth0 in 2021

Identity and access management giant Okta announced this week that it is laying off about 7% of its workforce, or… Read More

Feb 1, 2024, 8:49 AM

Allen Institute for AI promises new insights into large language models with OLMo release

The Allen Institute for AI (AI2) on Thursday released a highly anticipated open-source large language model, along with the underlying… Read More

Jan 31, 2024, 12:50 PM

Starbucks mobile orders surpass 30% of total transactions at U.S. stores

Starbucks continues to see a steady increase in the number of customers using its mobile app to buy coffee and… Read More

Jan 31, 2024, 10:12 AM

Cuts at Jack Dorsey’s fin-tech company Block impact 43 workers in Washington state

Block, the financial services and mobile payments company founded by former Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, has laid off 43 workers… Read More

Jan 31, 2024, 9:37 AM

More than $85M in Zulily inventory and fulfillment center assets will be up for sale

Zulily’s going-out-of-business sale in early December didn’t entirely deplete the inventory of goods held by the Seattle-based online retailer that… Read More

Jan 29, 2024, 10:15 AM

Nominations open for 2024 GeekWire Awards, honoring the best in Pacific Northwest tech

The 2024 GeekWire Awards are set for May 9 in Seattle, and nominations opened today as we seek your help… Read More

Jan 29, 2024, 8:00 AM

Thinking outside of the Seattle box: Here’s why a startup is buying up billboards in San Francisco

A Seattle-area startup that builds tools to help product teams experiment with new features is doing some experimenting in San… Read More

Aerial view of Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Jan 26, 2024, 2:00 AM

Zeno Power partners with U.S. Department of Energy to recycle radioactive material

Zeno Power says it has gained access to radioactive material destined for its first full-scale radioisotope power systems under the… Read More

Jan 25, 2024, 8:00 AM

Home-building software startup Digs lands $7M

Digs, a Vancouver, Wash.-based startup that sells software for homebuilding, raised $7 million. The 2-year-old company is an AI-powered collaboration… Read More

Jan 24, 2024, 8:18 AM

Microsoft hits $3 trillion market valuation for the first time ever

Microsoft, welcome to the $3 trillion club. The Redmond tech giant reached a milestone Wednesday as its market capitalization reached… Read More

Cutaway view of Zeno Power's radioisotope power system

Jan 23, 2024, 3:06 PM

Zeno Power teams up with Westinghouse on radioisotopes for nuclear power system

Zeno Power says it has selected Westinghouse Electric Co. to process the radioisotopes for its heat sources — creating a… Read More

Jan 23, 2024, 7:33 AM

Walmart lays off 62 people in Seattle area as part of innovation unit shutdown

Walmart is laying off 62 corporate workers in Washington state as part of the closure of Store No8, its innovation-related… Read More

First Mode diesel-electric hybrid vehicle undergoing test drive

Jan 16, 2024, 11:27 AM

First Mode reduces workforce as it revises its vision for lower-emission heavy trucks

Editor’s note: This story and GeekWire’s Layoff Tracker were updated to reflect that 42 U.S.-based employees were laid off. Seattle-based… Read More

Jan 16, 2024, 8:32 AM

Blackstone’s $2.3B acquisition of Rover clears regulatory hurdle

Seattle-based publicly traded pet sitting giant Rover announced that its $2.3 billion acquisition to Blackstone took a key step toward… Read More

Jan 16, 2024, 8:00 AM

Zulily’s downfall: How the high-flying online retailer soared, sank, and shut down

For hundreds of people once associated with Zulily, their time at the Seattle-based online retailer was meaningful and formidable —… Read More

Jan 11, 2024, 8:03 AM

Travel planning startup led by longtime tech investor combines human insight and AI

Kirkland, Wash.-based travel tech company Steller raised $5 million to launch a new planning feature in its app called “Trips”… Read More

Jan 9, 2024, 10:45 AM

Cybersecurity company ExtraHop raises $100M, names new execs

Cybersecurity company ExtraHop announced $100 million in new funding from existing investors, as well as the hiring of two C-suite… Read More

Jan 8, 2024, 10:26 AM

BMW tests Amazon’s Alexa LLM for ‘car expert’ that answers questions and changes drive modes

Can artificial intelligence replace the owner’s manual? At the CES trade show in Las Vegas this week, BMW is demonstrating… Read More

Jan 8, 2024, 8:41 AM

Astound Broadband outage impacts Seattle-area customers

Astound Broadband customers in the Seattle area were left without internet over the weekend after the company said power pole… Read More

Jan 6, 2024, 8:40 AM

NanoString Technologies to cut 9% of workforce, gets delisting notice from Nasdaq

Seattle-based publicly traded biotech company NanoString Technologies said in a filing Friday that it plans to cut about 50 positions,… Read More

Jan 4, 2024, 9:15 AM

Univ. of Washington set to break ground on 69-acre redevelopment to create Seattle innovation hub

The University of Washington this year expects to break ground on a new building that will anchor an ambitious, innovation-focused… Read More

Dec 29, 2023, 8:00 AM

I had a blast playing ‘Squid Game Virtuals’ at a VR arcade — but here’s why I likely won’t return

After years of hype, virtual reality still hasn’t achieved mainstream consumer adoption. But it sure helped my group of friends… Read More

Dec 23, 2023, 9:40 AM

Zulily transfers assets to professional liquidator as failed retailer unable to issue refunds

The latest chapter in the meltdown of Zulily is reading like a bad holiday fairy tale. The Seattle online retailer — battered… Read More

Dec 22, 2023, 9:35 AM

Meet Ramberto Torruella, a former Navy submarine officer who is now CTO at famed radio station KEXP

As a teenager growing up in northern Virginia in the late 1980s, budding saxophonist and composer Ramberto Torruella faced an… Read More

Dec 20, 2023, 10:36 AM

Zulily lays off more employees as website and app remain offline

Zulily made more job cuts Wednesday, GeekWire has learned, the company’s second round of layoffs in the past two weeks… Read More

Dec 20, 2023, 8:11 AM

These computer science seniors defied tradition to win the first hackathon they ever entered

Once a staple of the startup world, the in-person hackathon was one of the collective habits that fell out of… Read More