Tech – Page 39 of 319

Jun 23, 2022, 9:24 AM

SAP cuts staff as part of ‘restructuring program,’ fewer than 30 impacted in Pacific Northwest

SAP has laid off employees based in the Pacific Northwest as part of what the tech giant describes as a… Read More

Jun 21, 2022, 8:14 AM

You didn’t get into the University of Washington’s acclaimed computer science program. Now what?

You’re young, you’re ambitious, you love tech. Your heart is set on the nationally ranked Paul G. Allen School of… Read More

Jun 16, 2022, 9:02 AM

T-Mobile’s latest ‘Uncarrier’ move targets people on the move with inflight and overseas perks

T-Mobile is targeting travelers — in the air, on the ground and out of the country — with its latest “Un-carrier”… Read More

Jun 16, 2022, 8:23 AM

A trio of founders offer lessons on ‘fundraising while Black’ in Techstars panel discussion

For many Black entrepreneurs, getting funding for their business is a daunting and disproportionately difficult task. Only about 1% of… Read More

Jun 15, 2022, 3:16 PM

Women are ‘abrasive,’ Asian men ‘brilliant’: Report reveals bias in workplace feedback

Textio, an augmented writing platform, has completed a review of written, job performance feedback from more than 25,000 employees at… Read More

Jun 15, 2022, 11:06 AM

Oren Etzioni stepping down as CEO of Allen Institute for AI after nine years at research hub

Oren Etzioni, the founding CEO of Seattle’s Allen Institute for AI, is stepping down from the artificial intelligence research organization… Read More

Jun 14, 2022, 10:58 AM

Microsoft to acquire cyber threat analysis startup Miburo

Microsoft announced Tuesday that it will acquire Miburo, a small company that helps customers detect and respond to foreign information… Read More

Jun 14, 2022, 10:20 AM

Redfin laying off 8% of workforce due to ‘market conditions’ as real estate demand cools

Seattle real estate company Redfin announced Tuesday that it is cutting about 8% of its workforce, acknowledging that a housing… Read More

Jun 13, 2022, 8:33 AM

Online jewelry retailer Blue Nile is going public again through a SPAC deal

Blue Nile, the online jewelry retailer founded 23 years ago in Seattle, is going public — again. The Bellevue, Wash.-based… Read More

Jun 7, 2022, 8:56 AM

Yohana expands beyond Seattle, bringing $249/month membership service for families to LA

[Keerthi Vedantam is a reporter for dot.LA] Who do you call when three simultaneous Zoom meetings have throttled your internet… Read More

Jun 6, 2022, 10:00 AM

5 books Bill Gates recommends for the summer

While compiling books for his annual summer recommendations, Bill Gates realized that the topics in his list were hardly the… Read More

Jun 2, 2022, 7:45 AM

Elon Musk’s back-to-office edict reignites debate on remote work — here’s what other tech leaders say

If you work for Tesla and you’ve been doing that job from home since the pandemic started, be wary if… Read More

Jun 1, 2022, 7:41 AM

‘It is not acceptable’: UW computer science program can’t keep up with record demand from undergrads

Before enrolling last fall in the University of Washington’s Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, Mya Baker… Read More

Jun 1, 2022, 7:00 AM

Microsoft upgrades processor, storage, colors, and starting price for new Surface Laptop Go 2

Microsoft announced its Surface Laptop Go 2 on Wednesday morning, with a newer Intel Core i5 processor and twice the… Read More

May 31, 2022, 3:18 PM

Salesforce revenue up 24%; Tableau up 18%; Benioff sees little impact from economic turmoil

Salesforce revenue rose 24% to $7.4 billion in quarterly results that investors were watching closely for clues about the direction… Read More

May 25, 2022, 10:00 AM

AI2 researchers win ‘Test-of-Time’ award that honors long-lasting influence for AI-related papers

The fields of artificial intelligence and computational linguistics have seen tremendous advances in recent decades. Because of this, once novel-approaches… Read More

May 24, 2022, 8:00 AM

Microsoft Build: New AI dev tools turn pictures into apps, summarize text, and write code automatically

Microsoft’s annual Build developer conference, which starts Tuesday morning, will provide a new glimpse of the ways that artificial intelligence… Read More

May 21, 2022, 9:13 AM

A ‘Gates tax’ on robots? ‘Email From the Future’ imagines a world without ultra-rich tech titans

Visions of Utopia go back to the year 1516, when Thomas More literally wrote the book on the subject —… Read More

May 20, 2022, 12:14 PM

Our robot partners: Inside a research lab exploring the future of human-machine collaboration

PITTSBURGH — The biggest potential for robots and automation isn’t taking jobs from humans, but instead making those jobs better… Read More

May 19, 2022, 8:24 AM

Starbucks’ app is down and coffee drinkers are freaking out

It was a rough Thursday morning for Starbucks customers who rely on the company’s app to order their Frappuccinos and… Read More

May 17, 2022, 8:31 AM

Tableau adds data storytelling and AI predictions as its annual revenue nears $2B under Salesforce

Tableau Software showed a new storytelling feature that automatically explains data from Tableau dashboards in plain language, building on the… Read More

May 16, 2022, 1:18 PM

Online retailer Zulily lays off corporate workers as parent Qurate aims to cut expenses

Online retailer Zulily laid off corporate employees last week as its parent company looks to cut costs amid broader industry… Read More

May 16, 2022, 9:52 AM

White House and Jeff Bezos continue to trade jabs in dispute over inflation claims

The White House returned fire and Jeff Bezos took another swing Monday in a back-and-forth dispute between the Amazon founder… Read More

May 13, 2022, 11:28 PM

Bezos vs. Biden: Amazon founder calls out president over inflation and corporate taxes

Jeff Bezos spent a good chunk of Friday tweeting about everything from his critique of slidedecks to heartfelt remarks about… Read More

May 12, 2022, 7:48 AM

GeekWire Awards FAQ: Meet the finalists and tune in tonight to our annual celebration of PNW tech

The GeekWire Awards are here! Our annual celebration of Pacific Northwest tech takes place later today, May 12, at the… Read More

May 11, 2022, 2:32 PM

Jonathan Burstein, 1976-2022: Engineer, investor and entrepreneur was a natural problem-solver

Jonathan Burstein, who co-founded voice technology startup Jargon and made a lasting impact at Seattle-area tech companies including Microsoft, Amazon,… Read More

May 11, 2022, 7:58 AM

Commentary: Why the courts are right to rule against LinkedIn in battle over data scraping

The common practice of “scraping” a website’s publicly available data has come under legal attack. A landmark court decision (HiQ… Read More

May 9, 2022, 8:32 AM

Facing NASDAQ delisting, RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser makes bid to take company private

Nearly 25 years after streaming media pioneer RealNetworks went public in one of the hottest IPOs of the dot-com era,… Read More

May 6, 2022, 2:43 PM

Backed by Amazon and newly public, Aurora accelerates self-driving tech, starting with trucks

PITTSBURGH — On our last trip to the Steel City, we took a ride in one of Uber’s self-driving vehicles. It… Read More

May 5, 2022, 1:51 PM

Redfin posts $597M in revenue, tops expectations, stays optimistic in uncertain housing market

Seattle-based online real estate brokerage Redfin surpassed expectations in the first quarter and expressed optimism about its prospects for gaining… Read More