Alan Boyle 2021-07-21 23:38:09 www.geekwire.com Jeff Bezos gets a custom-designed Blue Origin astronaut pin from former NASA astronaut Jeff Ashby, who now serves as Blue Origin’s chief of mission assurance. (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle) Hundreds of deep-pocketed tourists…
Todd Bishop 2021-07-21 15:25:53 www.geekwire.com Alexa users will be able to access content from third-party skills on the Echo Show home screen later this year, under a new developer feature announced by Amazon today. (Amazon Photo) Amazon will offer…
Mike Lewis 2021-07-21 12:53:57 www.geekwire.com The Seattle skyline and Walt Disney World in Florida. (Canva Pro Photos) An effort by Disney’s Parks, Experiences, and Products division to consolidate operations in a “business-friendly climate” could result in the transfer of…
Taylor Soper 2021-07-21 11:39:12 www.geekwire.com (Core Scientific Photo) Core Scientific is going public. The blockchain infrastructure company announced that it will merge with a SPAC called Power & Digital Infrastructure Acquisition Corp., and go public on the NASDAQ at…
Todd Bishop 2021-07-20 10:38:43 www.geekwire.com Max Welling will lead the new Microsoft Research Amsterdam lab. Microsoft Research will open a new lab in Amsterdam led by Max Welling, a physicist who specializes in molecular simulation, looking to further unlock…
Todd Bishop 2021-07-20 11:40:00 www.geekwire.com The Wyze Robot Vacuum. (Wyze Photo) Smart-home device company Wyze Labs is suing Chinese consumer electronics giant Xiaomi and robot vacuum maker Roborock in federal court Seattle, seeking to invalidate their 2019 patent for…
Cara Kuhlman 2021-07-19 13:36:20 www.geekwire.com Christine Weber. (Twitch Photo) — Amazon-owned live streaming platform Twitch named Christine Weber as its new CTO. Weber was most recently chief information officer and interim chief technology officer at communications company Liberty Latin…
Alan Boyle 2021-07-18 14:04:22 www.geekwire.com Suborbital space crewmates Oliver Daemen, Wally Funk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Bezos face the camera in front of a Blue Origin New Shepard booster. (Jeff Bezos via Instagram) Jeff Bezos and his crewmates are…
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Taylor Soper 2021-07-17 11:00:39 www.geekwire.com (BigStock Image) Most of us have had the experience of sending a text or email that came across sounding insensitive or angry, even though that wasn’t our intent. Unfortunately, the lack of social cues…
Todd Bishop 2021-07-17 09:00:28 www.geekwire.com Washington state’s direct tech employment jumped by more than 70% from 2013 to 2019, but workers haven’t benefited equally from the sector’s growth, a new report finds. (Graphic: OneAmerica) A new report details extensive…
Kurt Schlosser 2021-07-16 18:33:32 www.geekwire.com Fakespot’s online shopping review tools as seen on the company’s website. (Fakespot Image) Fakespot, a mobile app that analyzes customer reviews on Amazon and other online retailers, disappeared from Apple’s App Store on Friday…
Mike Lewis 2021-07-15 17:07:01 www.geekwire.com Bigstock Photo At the outset of Microsoft’s Inspire partner conference this week, co-hosts Aliesha Pulliam, a communications manager, and broadcast journalist Elise Hu, offered two public disclosures that are becoming increasingly common in regional…
Taylor Soper 2021-07-15 10:40:27 www.geekwire.com The Maveron team. (Maveron Photo) Dan Levitan isn’t confident that the U.S. government can solve the country’s pressing problems, at a time when it needs help more than ever. “Sadly, I think more and…
Kurt Schlosser 2021-07-15 13:18:09 www.geekwire.com The next-generation Formula 1 race car. (Formula 1 Photo) Amazon’s interest in sports has taken the tech giant from NFL stadiums to NHL hockey arenas and now onto the racetracks of Formula 1 as…
Alan Boyle 2021-07-15 10:57:01 www.geekwire.com Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital spaceship lifts off for a 2019 test flight. (Blue Origin via YouTube) Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture says the beneficiary of the $28 million auction for a spot…
Todd Bishop 2021-07-14 13:02:23 www.geekwire.com Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks during the company’s Inspire virtual partner conference. Microsoft will release Windows as a paid cloud service, promising to stream the operating system to any device in an attempt to…
Todd Bishop 2021-07-14 11:00:05 www.geekwire.com Nick Parker, Microsoft corporate vice president of Global Partner Solutions, speaks at an earlier conference. (Microsoft Photo) Microsoft is escalating its campaign against the traditional business model of online marketplaces, reducing the fees it…
Kurt Schlosser 2021-07-13 20:01:20 www.geekwire.com A rendering of the Block 5 office building planned for Bellevue’s Spring District. (Image via SpringDistrict.com) Facebook is grabbing more space in the sprawling Spring District development in Bellevue, Wash., securing a lease for…
Mike Lewis 2021-07-13 20:22:26 www.geekwire.com (Port of Seattle Photo / Don Wilson) The Port of Seattle Commission voted Tuesday to ban the use of biometric technology for surveillance and security purposes by government and law enforcement on all its properties,…
Laurel Deppen 2021-07-13 17:59:17 www.geekwire.com From top left, clockwise: Henny Damian, co-founder and CEO of Joola; Stacie Whisonant, co-founder of PYT Funds; Will Rush, co-founder and CEO of Stack; and Luke Moberly, CEO of Bumper. Four Seattle startups have…
Laurel Deppen 2021-07-13 13:58:48 www.geekwire.com Techstars Seattle Managing Director Isaac Kato. (Techstars Photo) Techstars, a global network that supports entrepreneurs, is launching a new accelerator program out of Seattle. The Filecoin Techstars Accelerator is partnering with Protocol Labs to…
Alan Boyle 2021-07-13 13:58:48 www.geekwire.com An artist’s conception shows a spacecraft with a nuclear thermal propulsion system. (NASA Illustration) Seattle-based Ultra Safe Nuclear Technologies and its partners are among three teams winning $5 million contracts from NASA and the…
Mike Lewis 2021-07-13 13:21:18 www.geekwire.com The Pentagon. (GeekWire File Photo) Previously undisclosed emails appear to indicate that as Amazon pursued the now-canceled $10 billion JEDI cloud contract, it enlisted such an array of Defense Department influencers that a pair…
Laurel Deppen 2021-07-13 11:38:57 www.geekwire.com ZoomInfo CEO Henry Schuck. (ZoomInfo Photo) ZoomInfo has agreed to acquire Chorus.ai for $575 million in cash, adding conversation analysis capabilities to the Vancouver-Wash.-based company’s offerings. ZoomInfo, which went public last year, is a…
Thomas Wilde 2021-07-13 09:00:34 www.geekwire.com The founding of the new Vancouver-based company Timbre Games, as depicted by creative director Geoff Coates. (Geoff Coates image) The Eugene, Ore.-based video game developer Pipeworks announced on Tuesday that it’s expanded into Canada…
Cara Kuhlman 2021-07-12 18:38:13 www.geekwire.com Clockwise from top left: Lakshmi Nidamarthi, Michael Savitz, Tracy Kleine, Ronit Peled, and Jason Sinquefield. (DreamBox Learning Photos) — Education platform DreamBox Learning appointed five new executives: Lakshmi Nidamarthi as chief product officer. Nidamarthi…
Taylor Soper 2021-07-12 14:33:55 www.geekwire.com AdaptiLab co-founders James Wu (left) and Allen Lu. (Techstars Photo) Seattle startup AdaptiLab has sold its technical interviewing platform to CoderPad and its founders plan to launch another new company. Founded in 2018, AdaptiLab’s…
Todd Bishop 2021-07-12 14:17:48 www.geekwire.com Barokas Communications Founder Howie Barokas, left, and CEO Karli Barokas are joining Finn Partners as managing partners and Global Tech Practice leadership team. All of Barokas Communications’ 20 employees are expected to make the…
Todd Bishop 2021-07-10 09:30:09 www.geekwire.com Jeff Wilke was CEO of Amazon’s Worldwide Consumer business until earlier this year. (Photo by Dan DeLong for GeekWire) Jeff Wilke did something unusual when he left his role as Amazon’s Worldwide Consumer CEO…
Kurt Schlosser 2021-07-09 11:41:23 www.geekwire.com Spin’s Insight Level 2 scooter uses AI and computer vision to monitor where riders are riding and parking. (Spin Photo via SDOT) Seattle’s scooter share fleet is growing. Spin, the micromobility company backed by…
Laurel Deppen 2021-07-08 17:11:24 www.geekwire.com Bumble BFF helped GeekWire intern Laurel Deppen find a hiking buddy this summer in Seattle. “The Seattle Freeze.” The phrase is used so often, yet I’d never heard it before I landed in Seattle…
Taylor Soper 2021-07-08 10:46:11 www.geekwire.com (Xevo Photo) Bellevue, Wash.-based Xevo has laid off 97 workers, according to a new filing with the state of Washington. The company, acquired by global automotive giant Lear in 2019, develops connected-car software…
