Tech – Page 33 of 319

Mar 13, 2023, 12:40 AM

Qualtrics to go private in $12.5 billion deal with Silver Lake

Experience management company Qualtrics will become a private company again. Silver Lake plans to buy the company in a $12.5… Read More

Mar 12, 2023, 12:30 PM

Investor on SVB collapse: ‘A crisis of confidence isn’t necessarily a crisis of fundamentals’

Editor’s note: GeekWire reached out to Will Canestaro, managing director of Washington Research Foundation and WRF Capital, on Friday to… Read More

Mar 11, 2023, 8:09 AM

Lessons from WaMu: Historic financial failure offers clues to what’s next for Silicon Valley Bank

The government takeover and subsequent acquisition of Washington Mutual in 2008 could serve as a potential blueprint for the future… Read More

Mar 8, 2023, 10:48 AM

‘It’s war. It’s real. Real people die.’ Tech company grapples with loss of colleague in Ukraine

Software engineering company Akvelon, based in Bellevue, Wash., is mourning the loss of a colleague who was killed while serving in… Read More

Mar 7, 2023, 4:32 PM

Zulily lays off employees for the second time in a year amid revenue declines

Zulily laid off an undisclosed amount of corporate employees as the Seattle-based online retailer and its parent company Qurate navigate… Read More

Mar 6, 2023, 5:26 PM

Filings: Microsoft job cuts in Seattle area reach 2,184 people, as part of 10,000 layoffs globally

Microsoft gave layoff notices to another 689 people at its Redmond, Wash., headquarters and nearby cities, according to a filing… Read More

Mar 6, 2023, 1:31 PM

The Riveter adds new exec with acquisition of freelance work marketplace platform

The Riveter has a taken on another champion for working women with the acquisition of a marketplace platform originally geared… Read More

Mar 3, 2023, 11:54 AM

Rover unleashes new pet gear — including a patent-pending dog poop carrier

Seattle-based company Rover is expanding beyond its pet sitting marketplace with a new line of consumer products. The initial Rover… Read More

Mar 1, 2023, 1:55 PM

Salesforce stock spikes 14% after beating Q4 estimates; Tableau revenue grows 6% to $636M

Salesforce stock was up more than 14% in after-hours trading Wednesday as the company beat expectations for its fiscal fourth… Read More

Mar 1, 2023, 1:27 PM

Book excerpt: Ex-Google manager’s ‘cautionary tale’ details alleged pregnancy discrimination

Editor’s note: Chelsey Glasson is a researcher and writer who spent the past two decades working in the public policy… Read More

Visualization of electric field energy density for metamaterial waveguide

Feb 22, 2023, 5:36 PM

Quantum bits: AWS releases hardware design tool; Google reduces error rates

Today’s news from the frontier of quantum computing includes Amazon Web Services’ release of cloud-based simulation software for modeling the… Read More

Feb 20, 2023, 10:32 AM

Redfin and Zillow Group financial reports reveal broader housing market trends

The latest financial reports from Zillow Group and Redfin demonstrate ongoing wariness within the U.S. real estate market. Both companies… Read More

Feb 16, 2023, 1:49 PM

Redfin Q4 revenue drops 25% to $479M as company winds down home-flipping business

Redfin’s revenue fell 25% in the fourth quarter amid a housing market slowdown that has hampered its growth over the… Read More

Feb 16, 2023, 10:30 AM

Zillow CEO says company is attracting talent at a ‘much greater rate’ thanks to flexible work model

Zillow Group is receiving four times as many applicants per job posting compared to 2019, thanks in part to its… Read More

Feb 15, 2023, 1:11 PM

Zillow Group beats Q4 estimates with $435M in revenue

Zillow Group beat fourth quarter earnings expectations as it continues to navigate the housing market slowdown. The Seattle real estate… Read More

Feb 15, 2023, 7:28 AM

Electronic bag tags are ready for take-off: Here’s what we learned on multiple flights with one

Walking into Sea-Tac Airport for a Friday afternoon flight, I glanced smugly at the people huddled around the Alaska Airlines… Read More

Feb 13, 2023, 8:11 PM

Walmart says Seattle ‘remains core’ as retail giant closes 3 tech offices

Walmart is consolidating its tech office real estate footprint, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday, closing hubs in Austin, Carlsbad,… Read More

Feb 13, 2023, 3:35 PM

‘Tableau has been killed by Salesforce’: Past and current Tableau employees gather at ‘Irish wake’

On an otherwise run-of-the-mill weeknight at Fremont Brewing near Lake Union in Seattle, the line for beer stretched past the… Read More

Feb 7, 2023, 7:54 AM

Google’s exit from big Seattle-area project shows fleeting relationship between tech and communities

In the suburban community of Kirkland, Wash., where Google established its original beachhead in the Seattle area, the tech giant… Read More

Feb 6, 2023, 12:17 PM

Google teases ChatGPT rival and AI search tools, one day before previously secret Microsoft event

Artificial intelligence and internet search just got a lot more competitive. Google today announced the upcoming rollout of an “experimental”… Read More

Feb 4, 2023, 8:10 AM

Are quantum computers for real? So far, the uncertainty principle rules the day

Do full-fledged quantum computers already exist, or will it be a decade before they come into being? Will they have… Read More

Feb 2, 2023, 7:23 AM

DARPA boosts Microsoft’s far-out effort to build topological quantum computer

The Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is laying down a bet on Microsoft’s long-running effort to create an industrial-scale… Read More

Feb 1, 2023, 4:30 PM

Crypto exchange Bittrex lays off more than 80 employees

Prominent cryptocurrency exchange Bittrex laid off employees Wednesday. The Bellevue, Wash.-based company slashed 83 positions, according to a Washington state… Read More

Jan 31, 2023, 2:52 PM

Boeing pays tribute to its last 747 jumbo jet — and vows to keep its story going

Boeing gave its iconic 747 jumbo jet a grand sendoff today, marking the end of a 55-year era for airplane… Read More

Jan 30, 2023, 3:38 PM

Tech office leases slow to a ‘trickle’ in Seattle as real estate braces for impact of layoffs

Office building attendance in downtown Seattle this past November increased year-over-year from 15-20% to 35-60%, as more companies establish in-office… Read More

Jan 24, 2023, 8:28 PM

Tech report lays out a fuzzy roadmap for Washington state’s quantum industry

A newly issued report says Washington state provides one of America’s best settings for expanding the frontiers of quantum information… Read More

Jan 24, 2023, 5:38 PM

First Mode, Anglo American wrap up $1.5B transaction for zero-emission mining

Seattle-based First Mode and Anglo American have closed a complicated $1.5 billion transaction that will remake First Mode as a… Read More

Jan 24, 2023, 1:36 PM

F5 to acquire computer networking startup Lilac Cloud

Seattle application security and delivery giant F5 will acquire Lilac Cloud, a small computer networking startup based in Silicon Valley.… Read More

Jan 24, 2023, 1:31 PM

Microsoft cloud revenue up 22%, Windows business plunges 27% in first report since job cuts

Microsoft’s revenue rose 2% to $52.7 billion in its second fiscal quarter, just missing Wall Street’s expectations, and profits dropped… Read More

Jan 24, 2023, 10:45 AM

Alaska Airlines and Intelsat to roll out next-gen satellite WiFi on regional jets starting in 2024

Alaska Airlines will invest $25 million to upgrade its regional jets with a new WiFi system from Intelsat capable of… Read More