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Todd Bishop 2023-02-07 13:59:09 www.geekwire.com Microsoft executive Yusuf Mehdi unveils the new AI-powered Bing and Edge experiences. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) REDMOND, WASH. — Microsoft unveiled new versions of its Bing search engine and Edge web …
Todd Bishop 2023-02-06 15:17:39 www.geekwire.com Google CEO Sundar Pichai. (Flickr Photo / Maurizio Pesce) Artificial intelligence and internet search just got a lot more competitive. Google today announced the upcoming rollout of an “experimental” conversational AI …
GeekWire 2023-02-05 11:01:06 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 Jan. 29, 2023. Sign up to …
Todd Bishop 2023-02-02 20:32:49 www.geekwire.com Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says the company will “continue to invest for the long-term” even as it deals with economic uncertainty. (GeekWire File Photo / Dan DeLong) Amazon CEO Andy Jassy …
Nate Bek 2023-02-02 17:42:33 www.geekwire.com From left, clockwise: Elisa La Cava, Aviel Ginzburg, Sara Lindquist, and James Newell. Whether or not the economy is in recession is still up for debate. But the startup world is …
Nate Bek 2023-02-02 13:18:08 www.geekwire.com (Highspot Photo / David Kennedy) Highspot is laying off about 100 employees, or 10% of its workforce, becoming the latest well-funded Seattle company to cut employees in response to economic uncertainity. …
Todd Bishop 2023-02-02 12:27:00 www.geekwire.com BigStock Photo Tech layoffs are impacting women at a disproportionately higher rate than men, representing a possible setback for the industry’s efforts to improve its gender diversity, according to research by …
Alan Boyle 2023-02-02 09:00:00 www.geekwire.com Spaceflight CEO Tiphaine Louradour has more than 15 years of space industry experience. (Spaceflight Photo) Space industry veteran Tiphaine Louradour is taking the helm as CEO of Spaceflight Inc., a launch …
Taylor Soper 2023-02-01 19:30:48 www.geekwire.com (Bigstock Image) Prominent cryptocurrency exchange Bittrex laid off employees Wednesday. The Bellevue, Wash.-based company slashed 83 positions, according to a Washington state filing. “Unfortunately, due to market conditions, Bittrex was forced …
Nate Bek 2023-02-01 17:36:21 www.geekwire.com A pizza being built by a Picnic Pizza System. (GeekWire File Photo) Food automation startup Picnic is laying off employees, becoming the latest tech company to trim staff amid the tech …
Nate Bek 2023-02-01 13:00:00 www.geekwire.com Digs co-founders Ty Frackiewicz (left) and Ryan Fink. (Digs Photo) A pair of real estate startup vets are revealing a new company that aims to limit the amount of back-and-forth slog …
Alan Boyle 2023-01-31 13:43:06 www.geekwire.com Boeing built jumbo 747 jets for more than 50 years, but that era is ending. (Boeing Illustration) Boeing is giving its iconic 747 jumbo jet a grand sendoff today, marking the …
Sonali Vaid 2023-01-30 11:00:00 www.geekwire.com (Bigstock Photo) A wildlife research nonprofit backed by the Paul G. Allen Foundation is embarking on a new study to learn more about how the Pacific Northwest lynx population is affected by …
GeekWire 2023-01-29 11:00:38 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 Jan. 22, 2023. Sign up to …
Kurt Schlosser 2023-01-27 17:04:08 www.geekwire.com (Amazon File Photo) Amazon is tacking on new service fees for Prime members who get less than $150 worth of groceries via the company’s Amazon Fresh delivery service. In an email …
Todd Bishop 2023-01-27 15:07:14 www.geekwire.com Former VMware CEO and longtime Microsoft executive Paul Maritz is a major investor in True, a social app that vows not to sell or monetize user data. (Photo courtesy True) Veteran …
Nate Bek 2023-01-27 11:52:36 www.geekwire.com SVB Private’s Chief Investment Officer Shannon Saccocia at the Aerlume Seattle restaurant. (GeekWire Photo / Nate Bek) After startup exit activity took a nose dive in 2022 amid inflation, rising interest …
Nate Bek 2023-01-27 07:03:00 www.geekwire.com POSaBIT’s new mobile payment device. (POSaBIT Photo) POSaBIT has reached a deal with Akerna to acquire three cannabis compliance companies in an all-cash deal, broadening the suite of software products it …
Taylor Soper 2023-01-26 15:50:10 www.geekwire.com Babak Parviz. (Madrona Venture Group Photo) — Babak Parviz, a former director at Google and vice president at Amazon, joined Seattle-based firm Madrona Venture Group as a venture partner. Parviz departed Amazon …
Lisa Stiffler 2023-01-26 09:41:17 www.geekwire.com Group14’s headquarters in Woodinville, Wash. (GeekWire Photo / Lisa Stiffler) Across the highway from battery startup Group14 Technologies is the Maltby Cafe, a decades-old institution dishing up cinnamon rolls the size …
Thomas Wilde 2023-01-25 17:22:30 www.geekwire.com Tango Gameworks’ Hi-Fi Rush made a surprise debut during Xbox’s Developer_Direct on Jan. 25. (Xbox Image) Microsoft aired a 44-minute pre-recorded presentation Wednesday to announce several release dates for upcoming games …
Kurt Schlosser 2023-01-24 11:34:20 www.geekwire.com “All Quiet on the Western Front.” (Netflix Image) Amazon Studios earned a single Academy Award nomination Tuesday morning, with “Argentina, 1985” getting a nod for best international feature film. Netflix stole …
Alan Boyle 2023-01-24 23:28:44 www.geekwire.com This cryostat creates ultra-cold temperatures for quantum experiments. (Microsoft Photo / John Brecher) A newly issued report says Washington state provides one of America’s best settings for expanding the frontiers of …
Alan Boyle 2023-01-24 20:38:43 www.geekwire.com A two-megawatt hydrogen-fueled powerplant, designed and built by First Mode in Seattle, is installed in this Anglo American haul truck at their platinum mine in Mogalakwena, South Africa, creating the world’s …
Todd Bishop 2023-01-24 13:45:47 www.geekwire.com An electronically steered antenna, the flat structure atop the fuselage of the jet in this photo, will connect with both geostationary and low-Earth orbit satellites to enable high-speed internet service on …
Alan Boyle 2023-01-24 18:12:25 www.geekwire.com An artist’s conception shows a nuclear-powered demonstration rocket in space. (DARPA Illustration) The Defense Advanced Research Project Agency has taken on NASA as a partner for a project aimed at demonstrating …
Todd Bishop 2023-01-24 16:31:40 www.geekwire.com GeekWire File Photo Microsoft’s revenue rose 2% to $52.7 billion in its second fiscal quarter, just missing Wall Street’s expectations, as profits dropped 7% to $17.4 billion, not counting a special …
Charlotte Schubert 2023-01-24 13:53:01 www.geekwire.com Kristina Behr. (LinkedIn Photo) — Kristina Behr, a former exec at Microsoft, joined Google as vice president of product management for collaboration and apps at Google Workspace. Behr spent 17 years …
Taylor Soper 2023-01-24 13:00:51 www.geekwire.com DevZero founders Debo Ray (left) and Rob Fletcher. (DevZero Photo) DevZero, a year-old Seattle software development startup led by former Uber engineers, announced $26 million in funding and general availability of …
Todd Bishop 2023-01-23 11:42:02 www.geekwire.com Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says AI will continue to be a growth area for the company, driving “the next major wave of computing.” (GeekWire File Photo) Microsoft is making a big …
Nate Bek 2023-01-21 13:58:11 www.geekwire.com (Bigstock Image) Moonstone Bank, the digital lender with ties to FTX, announced this week it will wind down plans to offer banking services for industries such as crypto and cannabis. The …
Todd Bishop 2023-01-21 12:20:56 www.geekwire.com One of the defining tech industry trends of the past decade, along with the meteoric expansion of big companies and their insatiable appetite for talent, was the growing influence of engineers …
Kurt Schlosser 2023-01-20 18:11:37 www.geekwire.com Karat co-founders Mo Bhende, left, and Jeff Spector. (Karat Photo) Karat, the Seattle-based startup that helps companies conduct technical interviews, has laid off 47 employees, citing the need to sharpen its …
