Microsoft, welcome to the $3 trillion club. The Redmond tech giant reached a milestone Wednesday as its market capitalization reached $3 trillion for the first time ever, reflecting investor confidence… Read More
Zeno Power says it has selected Westinghouse Electric Co. to process the radioisotopes for its heat sources — creating a partnership that adds a key puzzle piece to its plan… Read More
Walmart is laying off 62 corporate workers in Washington state as part of the closure of Store No8, its innovation-related business unit. A new filing with the Washington state Employment… Read More
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 First Mode says it’s cutting back on its workforce as… Read More
Seattle-based publicly traded pet sitting giant Rover announced that its $2.3 billion acquisition to Blackstone took a key step toward completion as the waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements… Read More
For hundreds of people once associated with Zulily, their time at the Seattle-based online retailer was meaningful and formidable — which is why many are bemoaning the tech company’s recent… Read More
Kirkland, Wash.-based travel tech company Steller raised $5 million to launch a new planning feature in its app called “Trips” that combines human experiences with artificial intelligence to help travelers… Read More
Cybersecurity company ExtraHop announced $100 million in new funding from existing investors, as well as the hiring of two C-suite executives. The company also said that it ended the year… Read More
Can artificial intelligence replace the owner’s manual? At the CES trade show in Las Vegas this week, BMW is demonstrating a future version of its in-car personal assistant that uses… Read More
Astound Broadband customers in the Seattle area were left without internet over the weekend after the company said power pole damage impacted its fiber network. In a statement published to… Read More
Seattle-based publicly traded biotech company NanoString Technologies said in a filing Friday that it plans to cut about 50 positions, or 9% of its workforce. The company also reported that… Read More
The University of Washington this year expects to break ground on a new building that will anchor an ambitious, innovation-focused redevelopment called Portage Bay Crossing. The project will cover 69… Read More
After years of hype, virtual reality still hasn’t achieved mainstream consumer adoption. But it sure helped my group of friends have a ton of fun earlier this month. We spent… Read More
The latest chapter in the meltdown of Zulily is reading like a bad holiday fairy tale. The Seattle online retailer — battered after weeks of layoffs, website outages and management reversals — posted… Read More
As a teenager growing up in northern Virginia in the late 1980s, budding saxophonist and composer Ramberto Torruella faced an important choice. Take a full ride scholarship to study music… Read More
Zulily made more job cuts Wednesday, GeekWire has learned, the company’s second round of layoffs in the past two weeks and the latest move toward an apparent shutdown. Affected employees… Read More
Once a staple of the startup world, the in-person hackathon was one of the collective habits that fell out of favor during the pandemic — so much so that a… Read More
Kaspien Holdings, a publicly traded company that helps online brands boost sales on Amazon and other e-commerce platforms, is closing up shop. The Spokane, Wash-based company said in a filing… Read More
Self-driving technology company Cruise is laying off 67 employees at its Bellevue, Wash., engineering center, part of widespread cuts at the GM-backed firm. Cruise on Monday submitted a WARN notification to Washington’s… Read More
Follow-up: Zulily lays off more employees as website and app remain offline Zulily’s website was “down for maintenance” Monday in the latest sign of the retailer’s collapse. Zulily.com redirects to… Read More
The Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is shining a brighter spotlight on artificial intelligence by creating the Center for AI @PNNL, but don’t expect the lab’s researchers to… Read More
Jeff Bezos sat down for an extensive and wide-ranging discussion with Lex Fridman about his life, work, the future of humanity and what’s next for technology on an episode of… Read More
Zulily employees received notice last week that they’d lose their jobs in February. But many of them were surprised Wednesday to get an email notifying them that today would be… Read More
A message on Zulily’s website this weekend confirms that the online retailer is closing its doors, the latest stage in the rapid downfall of a once high-flying retail brand. “All… Read More
Zulily will lay off more than 500 employees as part of its decision to close fulfillment centers in Lockbourne, Ohio, and McCarran, Nev., according to a new filings with state… Read More
Zulily is laying off employees and closing three offices — including its Seattle headquarters — according to internal communications obtained by GeekWire and a new filing with the state of… Read More
FOLLOW-UP: Zulily shutting down offices and laying off 292 employees in Seattle Zulily is laying off more employees and facing two lawsuits over alleged unpaid invoices, in the latest signs… Read More
[This story originally appeared on Real Estate News.] Imagining what a home might look like can be tough for would-be buyers. However, a new tool from Redfin — powered by AI, of course… Read More