Todd Bishop 2021-10-22 17:35:46 www.geekwire.com Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, right, speaks with Amazon VP Dharmesh Mehta during the company’s Accelerate seller conference this week. (Amazon via YouTube.) Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says online sellers should consider the implications of…
Kurt Schlosser 2021-10-21 21:18:12 www.geekwire.com The SEA 2026 logo for Seattle’s bid to be a host city for international soccer’s 2026 World Cup. (SEA 2026 Image) Seattle is among the contenders to be one of the host cities in…
Thomas Wilde 2021-10-21 14:08:33 www.geekwire.com (Bigstock Photo) Electronic Arts is opening a new office in the Seattle area, with former V1 Interactive head and Halo co-creator Marcus Lehto as its game director. The new studio is working on “first-person…
Todd Bishop 2021-10-20 13:34:48 www.geekwire.com The Amazon Appstore preview on Windows 11. (Microsoft Photo) Microsoft is releasing a preview of Android apps running on Windows 11 starting today. It’s a first for Windows, made possible by a Microsoft partnership…
Kurt Schlosser 2021-10-20 10:32:36 www.geekwire.com The arches at Pacific Science Center in Seattle are lit with the colors of the city’s new hockey team, the Seattle Kraken. (Pacific Science Center Photo) When the Seattle Kraken “light the lamp” by…
Taylor Soper 2021-10-19 22:36:56 www.geekwire.com Facebook’s Arbor Blocks office in Seattle. (GeekWire Photo / Nat Levy) Face? Metaverse? Horizon? Facebook is getting a new company name, according to a report from The Verge, which noted that the rebrand will…
Charlotte Schubert 2021-10-19 13:16:22 www.geekwire.com Sana CEO and president Steve Harr. (Sana Photo) Sana Biotechnology has a new $50 million tool in its toolbox. Sana signed an agreement with Beam Therapeutics for non-exclusive commercial rights to the Cambridge, Mass.-based…
Todd Bishop 2021-10-19 16:13:56 www.geekwire.com A “Just Walk Out” sign at an Amazon Fresh store in Bellevue, Wash. (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle) Could Starbucks give Amazon’s retail technology a jolt? A report this afternoon by the Insider news…
Mike Lewis 2021-10-18 19:30:24 www.geekwire.com Andy Jassy, new Amazon CEO, speaks at the 2021 GeekWire Summit. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) Citing news reports indicating that Amazon gamed its marketplace to favor its own products, U.S. Rep. Pramila Jayapal…
Todd Bishop 2021-10-18 13:42:32 www.geekwire.com A Zoox test vehicle drives past Seattle’s Pike Place Market. (Zoox Photo) Zoox, the robotaxi company acquired by Amazon last year, will start testing its autonomous driving technology in Seattle for the first time…
Todd Bishop 2021-10-18 16:28:13 www.geekwire.com Bill Gates in 2013, at his final shareholder meeting as Microsoft chairman. (GeekWire File Photo) Messages from Bill Gates to a female Microsoft employee were deemed “inappropriate” by the company in 2008, prompting two…
GeekWire 2021-10-17 11:01:11 www.geekwire.com Get caught up on the latest technology and startup news from the past week. Here are the most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Oct. 10, 2021. Sign up to receive these updates…
Thomas Wilde 2021-10-16 17:46:29 www.geekwire.com (BigStock Photo) Games and other applications that involve minting or trading cryptocurrency or non-fungible tokens are no longer allowed on Steam. The company behind Steam, Bellevue, Wash.-based Valve Software, quietly updated its content rules…
Kurt Schlosser 2021-10-15 13:16:48 www.geekwire.com While the Seattle Seahawks work out some of the kinks in their on-field game play this season, the team announced a new initiative this week to attract fans to some gaming off the field.…
Todd Bishop 2021-10-16 11:36:18 www.geekwire.com GeekWire Illustration Plenty of well-known tech leaders have jumped from Microsoft to Amazon over the years. So what does it say about the evolution of the companies that one of Amazon’s most senior executives…
Thomas Wilde 2021-10-15 15:15:08 www.geekwire.com So I guess this is happening now. (Xbox Image) Paying off on a running joke from last summer, Microsoft’s Xbox-themed mini-refrigerator is coming to retail in December. Pre-orders open next Tuesday, Oct. 19. The…
Mike Lewis 2021-10-15 01:52:38 www.geekwire.com Bruce Harrell, left, and Lorena Gonzalez, right, take part Thursday, Oct. 14 in the first of two debates in Seattle scheduled before the November election for the office of Mayor. (AP Photo /Ted S.…
Todd Bishop 2021-10-14 17:54:08 www.geekwire.com Carlos Rodriguez Carlos Rodriguez, the CEO of payroll services giant ADP, has been nominated to Microsoft’s board of directors. Microsoft’s board would expand to 12 members if his selection is approved by the company’s…
Taylor Soper 2021-10-14 17:00:48 www.geekwire.com The Graham & Walker team, from left to right: Amanda Eldridge, vice president of business development; Rohre Titcomb, COO; Leslie Feinzaig, founder & managing director; Es Famojure, program manager; and Divya Kakkad, vice president…
Taylor Soper 2021-10-14 12:00:50 www.geekwire.com SpiceAI co-founders Luke Kim (left) and Phillip LeBlanc. (SpiceAI Photo) The news: Spice AI, a new Seattle startup that aims to help developers quickly build AI-powered software applications, raised a $1 million pre-seed round. The…
Taylor Soper 2021-10-14 10:57:55 www.geekwire.com (LinkedIn Image) Microsoft said Thursday that it will pull LinkedIn from China later this year as it faces a “significantly more challenging operating environment and greater compliance requirements” in the country. LinkedIn launched a…
Taylor Soper 2021-10-08 11:21:46 www.geekwire.com Chronosphere co-founders Martin Mao (left, CEO) and Rob Skillington (CTO). (Chronosphere Photo) Chronosphere has reached unicorn status in less than three years. The company this week announced a $200 million Series C round, propelling…
Todd Bishop 2021-10-09 09:47:58 www.geekwire.com Engineer and entrepreneur Yoky Matsuoka, entertainer and entrepreneur Ciara, and new Amazon CEO Andy Jassy at the GeekWire Summit in Seattle this week. (Kevin Lisota and Dan DeLong Photos) This week on the GeekWire…
Kurt Schlosser 2021-10-14 06:00:55 www.geekwire.com Ross Lipson, left, and brother Zach Lipson, co-founders of Dutchie. (Dutchie Photo) Dutchie is rolling in the green. The Bend, Ore.-based creators of technology to help facilitate legal cannabis orders has raised $350 million…
Taylor Soper 2021-10-11 11:47:39 www.geekwire.com iSpot CEO Sean Muller. (iSpot Photo) Seattle-area startup iSpot has acquired DRMetrix, a Southern California-based company that specializes in measuring TV ad performance for direct-to-consumer TV advertisers. DRMetrix has eight employees who will join iSpot,…
Todd Bishop 2021-10-11 16:11:00 www.geekwire.com Charlie Bell (LinkedIn Photo) Microsoft and Amazon reached an agreement that clears the way for former Amazon Web Services executive Charlie Bell to start his new job leading a newly formed cybersecurity engineering organization…
Cara Kuhlman 2021-10-12 09:00:46 www.geekwire.com From top left, clockwise: Sanjay Shah, Dan Beranek, Komal Kashiramka, Mike Caulfield, Lauren Woodman and Vinayak Hegde. — Heavily-funded delivery service Gopuff hired three more Seattle-based leaders: Former Beyond Meat COO Sanjay Shah as…
Taylor Soper 2021-10-12 13:00:02 www.geekwire.com (GeekWire File Photo) Seattle sales automation company Outreach announced the acquisition of Canopy, an Indianapolis, Ind.-based startup that aims to help companies analyze revenue operations and forecasting. Outreach said it will use the deal…
Kevin Lisota 2021-10-12 13:11:30 www.geekwire.com The Northern Lights are a mesmerizing but infrequent occurrence at our latitude in Seattle. Stargazers got a treat Monday night if they were looking northwards, as a moderate G2 geomagnetic storm from the sun…
Todd Bishop 2021-10-13 13:29:45 www.geekwire.com Microsoft’s Redmond, Wash. campus in December 2020. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Microsoft will commission an independent human-rights review of its technology contracts with government and law enforcement agencies, seeking to address concerns from…
Lisa Stiffler 2021-09-22 08:00:44 www.geekwire.com Mark Liffmann, founder and CEO of Omnidian. (Omnidian Photo) New funding: Seattle-based Omnidian announced a $33 million investment round today, bringing the climate tech company’s total funding to $53.4 million. The company operates software…
Taylor Soper 2021-09-21 17:42:00 www.geekwire.com Blink co-founders Karen Clark Cole, left, and Kelly Franznick, right, with Nitin Rakesh, Mphasis CEO. (Blink Photo) Seattle-based UX and design firm Blink has been acquired by Mphasis, a publicly-traded IT services giant based…
Mike Lewis 2021-09-21 18:15:39 www.geekwire.com With the trestle as its crowning feature, Eastrail will eventually offer 42 miles of uninterrupted trail from Renton to Snohomish County with a spur to Redmond. (King County Image) Amazon contributed $7.5 million to…