Kurt Schlosser 2021-01-16 10:55:29 www.geekwire.com President Donald Trump in Texas on Tuesday, boarding Air Force One en route to Maryland. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead, via Flickr.) Twitter didn’t set out to ban Donald Trump. The president…
Kurt Schlosser 2021-01-15 12:45:03 www.geekwire.com Bill Gates during a talk in Seattle last year. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) A new report on the largest holders of private farmland in the United States reveals that Bill and Melinda Gates…
Todd Bishop 2021-01-15 11:02:33 www.geekwire.com Matt Ehrlichman, Porch founder and CEO. (Porch Group Photo) Three weeks after its stock market debut, Seattle-based home services technology company Porch Group announced four acquisitions, including an agreement to buy Irving, Texas-based insurance…
Taylor Soper 2021-01-14 16:08:41 www.geekwire.com Keith McCall. (GeekWire Photo / Dan DeLong) Keith McCall is diving deeper into the intersection of wine and tech. The Seattle tech vet recently acquired and took over operations at everyvine, an 8-year-old site…
Lisa Stiffler 2021-01-14 13:04:24 www.geekwire.com Roshanak Roshandel, former chair of Seattle University’s Computer Science and Software Engineering Department. (Yosef Kalinko / Seattle University Photo) Amazon is making a significant donation to Seattle University to create an endowed chair to…
Lisa Stiffler 2021-01-13 14:29:25 www.geekwire.com OwnTrails co-founders Kt McBratney (left) and Rebekah Bastian. Bastian has proposed a new term for capturing an emerging tech business model called “authentech.” (OwnTrails Photo) The world of tech loves innovation and thinking outside…
Lisa Stiffler 2021-01-12 19:19:51 www.geekwire.com Michael “Luni” Libes, founder of Fledge. (Fledge Photo) Folks curious about making angel investments in promising startups can sign up for online training through the new Angel Accelerator program. The training is offered through…
Taylor Soper 2021-01-11 19:22:56 www.geekwire.com (GeekWire File Photo) Amazon is the latest corporation to pause political contributions following the riot at the U.S. Capitol last week. The Seattle tech giant announced Monday it will suspend spending to any Member…
Kurt Schlosser 2021-01-11 14:34:03 www.geekwire.com The first Amazon Fresh grocery store opened in California last summer. (Amazon Photo) Amazon’s brick-and-mortar grocery footprint is expanding in the Seattle area as the tech giant confirmed it is opening two new Amazon…
Kurt Schlosser 2021-01-11 13:25:23 www.geekwire.com Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) Microsoft has halted its political contributions in the wake of the riot at the U.S. Capitol last week. The move comes after some employees objected…
Taylor Soper 2021-01-10 03:34:59 www.geekwire.com AWS re:Invent. (GeekWire Photo) Amazon’s cloud unit will no longer provide services to Parler, the social media platform popular with conservatives and extremists. BuzzFeed first reported that Amazon Web Services will suspend Parler on…
Kurt Schlosser 2021-01-08 20:35:55 www.geekwire.com A tweet from the main Microsoft Twitter account on Friday afternoon. (Twitter screenshot) At the end of what’s certainly been a rough week, logging off for the weekend is probably something lots of people…
Kurt Schlosser 2021-01-08 14:57:31 www.geekwire.com FOX Sports camera operator Mike Smoles with the rig that captured unique images for an NFL broadcast. (Photo courtesy of FOX Sports) The NFL Playoffs kick off this weekend and FOX Sports is bringing…
Taylor Soper 2021-01-08 15:41:57 www.geekwire.com Casual game maker DoubleDown Interactive this week laid off 55 employees at its Seattle office. The company said the cuts mostly affected engineering and product development functions. They were made as DoubleDown moves development…
Alan Boyle 2021-01-07 18:59:47 www.geekwire.com Ethiopian Airlines Group CEO, Tewolde GebreMariam, visits the site of a catastrophic 737 MAX airplane crash Ethiopia just after the March 2019 incident. (Ethiopian Airlines Photo via Twitter) Boeing says it’s entered into a…
Thomas Wilde 2021-01-07 19:02:16 www.geekwire.com Fortnite is one of Epic Games’ top titles. (Epic Games Image) Epic Games, the company behind Fortnite and the Unreal Engine, has acquired the game development toolset creator RAD Game Tools, headquartered in Kirkland,…
Kurt Schlosser 2021-01-07 13:51:50 www.geekwire.com (Simple Photo) Simple, the Portland-based online banking company with a presence in Seattle, is shutting down due to the sale of banking giant BBVA, The Oregonian reported on Thursday. Founded in New York in…
Taylor Soper 2021-01-07 11:19:34 www.geekwire.com Spectrum Effect CEO Charles Immendorf. (Spectrum Effect Photo) Spectrum Effect, a Seattle-area startup that sells analytics software to mobile operators, has raised $9.5 million to fuel growth. Founded in 2015, Spectrum Effect helps customers…
Kurt Schlosser 2021-01-06 18:45:52 www.geekwire.com A Twitter warning posted on a tweeted video by President Trump on Wednesday. The video was later removed by Twitter and Facebook. (Twitter screenshot) Chaos unfolding in Washington, D.C., as supporters of President Donald…
Emil Protalinski 2021-01-05 11:00:39 www.geekwire.com Yesler founder and CEO Matt Meyers, left, and CTO Jeff Lubetkin. (Yesler Photo) Matt Meyers can build anything he wants, thanks to his decades in the lumber and building materials (LBM) space. Instead of…
Taylor Soper 2021-01-04 13:21:20 www.geekwire.com Dr. Atul Gawande stepped down as Haven Healthcare CEO in May, but remained as chairman. (Haven Photo) Haven, the healthcare joint venture led by Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JP Morgan Chase, is shutting down…
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Taylor Soper 2020-12-30 16:43:38 www.geekwire.com Madrona Venture Group managing directors from L to R: Tim Porter, Matt McIlwain, Len Jordan, Tom Alberg, S. Somasegar (Soma), Hope Cochran, Steve Singh, Scott Jacobson, and Paul Goodrich. (Madrona Photo) Madrona Venture Group…
Taylor Soper 2020-12-30 16:43:38 www.geekwire.com Madrona Venture Group managing directors from left to right: (Tim Porter, Matt McIlwain, Len Jordan, Tom Alberg, S. Somasegar (Soma), Hope Cochran, Steve Singh, Scott Jacobson, and Paul Goodrich. (Madrona Photo) Madrona Venture Group…
Kurt Schlosser 2020-12-30 12:00:44 www.geekwire.com Richard Sherman. (Luminosity Gaming Photo) Richard Sherman always talked a good game, and backed it up, especially during his years with the Seattle Seahawks. Now the cornerback for the San Francisco 49ers is talking…
Taylor Soper 2020-12-29 18:02:04 www.geekwire.com (GeekWire File Photo / Nat Levy) Tax automation software provider Avalara is buying another company. This time it’s INPOSIA Solutions, a Germany-based company that helps more than 700 customers manage and meet compliance requirements…
Kurt Schlosser 2020-12-29 16:59:10 www.geekwire.com (Justice.gov Image) The perpetrators of an online tech-support fraud scheme, originally brought to the attention of U.S. authorities by Microsoft, have been shut down by a federal court for allegedly trying to scam hundreds…
Alan Boyle 2020-12-29 13:04:27 www.geekwire.com Kymeta’s next-generation antenna can fit on top of a vehicle to provide hybrid cellular-satellite connectivity. (Kymeta Photo) Hanwha Systems, a smart-technology company headquartered in South Korea, has agreed to make an $30 million investment…
John Cook 2020-12-28 17:49:47 www.geekwire.com Qualtrics has expanded its footprint significantly in Seattle. (Qualtrics Photo) Qualtrics, which splits its headquarters between Seattle and Provo, Utah, is aiming to go public at a valuation of $12 billion to $14.4 billion,…
Christopher Budd 2020-12-23 13:45:08 www.geekwire.com GeekWire Illustration / Canva Image [Editor’s Note: Independent security consultant Christopher Budd worked previously in Microsoft’s Security Response Center for 10 years.] Analysis: To understand where the SolarWinds attackers are going next, and how to…
Taylor Soper 2020-12-21 19:07:58 www.geekwire.com The Microsoft campus in Redmond. (GeekWire File Photo) A group of tech companies including Microsoft today filed an amicus brief in a case brought by WhatsApp against NSO Group. The brief outlines how private-sector…
Lisa Stiffler 2020-12-21 07:00:02 www.geekwire.com Rick Luebbe, CEO and co-founder of Group14 Technologies. (Group14 Photo) Woodinville, Wash.-based Group14 Technologies has raised $17 million to expand development and sales of its silicon-carbon composite material that can replace the graphite anodes…
Alan Boyle 2020-12-20 23:49:45 www.geekwire.com Aerojet Rocketdyne employees and VIPs, including representatives from Lockheed Martin, gather for a group picture in 2017 at Aerojet’s Redmond facility with a banner that says, “The Road to Mars Goes Through Redmond, WA.”…