David Rosenthal (left) and Ben Gilbert, co-hosts of the Acquired podcast. (Acquired Photo) The hosts of the popular business and technology podcast Acquired are raising a new fund to invest in growth-stage tech companies. GeekWire spotted a new SEC filing today that revealed the fund. Ben...
Zillow Group CEO Rich Barton. (Zillow Group Photo) [This story originally appeared on Real Estate News.] SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — When looking toward Zillow’s future, CEO and co-founder Rich Barton emphasized the company’s tech-influenced past — and tech-heavy present — while speaking at the T3...
LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman — the entrepreneur, author, podcaster, venture capitalist and Microsoft board member — is on the front lines of the artificial intelligence revolution. Even as a pioneer in the AI field, it was a bit unusual (yet informative) today to see Hoffman sit down...
Electronic Good to Go! tolling on the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. (WSDOT File Photo via Flickr) The Washington State Department of Transportation is warning Good to Go! customers to be on the lookout for fraudulent emails or texts seeking payment for past due toll bills. In an email to customers...
Amazon has gone to court several times in the past to enforce non-compete agreements with departing employees in Washington state, home of its Seattle-area headquarters. (GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Like it or not, the Federal Trade Commission’s ban on non-competition agreements could...
Gov. Jay Inslee in Tukwila, Wash., on Tuesday announcing program that will provide instant rebates for low-income consumers who are buying or leasing electric vehicles. (Governor’s Office Photo) Washington leaders on Tuesday announced a $45 million program aiming to make electric vehicles more...
Radical’s co-founders, CTO Cyriel Notteboom and CEO James Thomas, carry a solar-powered demonstrator aircraft that flew continuously for more than 24 hours during a test flight last year. (Radical Photo). Seattle-based Radical says it has raised $4.5 million to support the development of...
(98point6 Photo) Seattle-based digital healthcare startup 98point6 has conducted a new round of layoffs, the company confirmed Tuesday. 98point6 did not provide details on the number of employees affected. A number of posts from affected workers began showing up on LinkedIn last week. One...
Arisa Chattasa Photo via Unsplash. Goodbye, non-competes. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission today released its final rules addressing non-compete clauses by banning all future agreements. Non-competes have traditionally restricted workers from taking jobs with a competitor or starting a...
Totally Reliable Delivery Service. (tinyBuild Image) Bellevue, Wash.-based game publisher tinyBuild has sold the rights to Totally Reliable Delivery Service to the French corporation Atari, which intends to use the acquisition to revive a legacy brand. The game, which tinyBuild published for...
Scala Advisors co-founders Chad Cohen (left) and Ryan Domyancic. (Scala Photos) Longtime technology industry leaders Chad Cohen and Ryan Domyancic unveiled Scala Advisors, their new Seattle-based advisory firm designed to help growth-stage companies in the public and private markets. Cohen...
Satya Nadella speaking at Microsoft Ignite 2016. (GeekWire File Photo / Kevin Lisota) How many points will AI add to Microsoft’s financial scoreboard? That’s the big question going into the Redmond company’s earnings report on Thursday afternoon, for the third quarter of the company’s 2024...
(Uber Photo) After a controversial minimum wage law for food delivery drivers in Seattle went into effect in January, tech giants including Uber and DoorDash made it clear they weren’t happy. They immediately added substantial new delivery fees for consumers, which caused demand to drop. They...
Amazon announced a series of new features for its AWS Bedrock service. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Amazon Web Services is releasing new capabilities for its Bedrock artificial intelligence service, including the ability for customers to import their own custom AI models to run alongside...
(Outpost Photo) Outpost, an Austin, Texas-based trucking parking facility operator that has an engineering center in Seattle, announced a $12.5 million Series A investment round. The company was founded two years ago under the name Semi-Stow. It operates 18 properties and 8,000 parking...
(Amazon Photo) Amazon Prime members in more than 3,500 U.S. cities can now get free unlimited grocery delivery for orders over $35 — if they pay $9.99 per month. The service initially rolled out to select cities in December, and is now widely available. Prime members — who already pay...
Artwork shows two views of the Bifröst orbital transfer spacecraft. (New Frontier Aerospace Illustration) Two Washington state aerospace companies — Tukwila-based New Frontier Aerospace and Spanaway-based HyBird Space Systems — are among 95 ventures that have won project development funding from...
People use the newly opened Redmond Technology Station Bridge spanning SR 520 between Microsoft’s east and west campuses on Monday in Redmond, Wash. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) People on foot, riding bicycles, and even those cruising on electric skateboards crisscrossed over a busy highway...
Jason Taylor. (LinkedIn Photo) Jason Taylor, the former vice president of infrastructure at Meta, joined Microsoft as corporate vice president and deputy CTO for the company’s AI supercomputing efforts. Taylor spent more than 13 years at Meta, where he led various infrastructure projects....
Fishing buoys line the community bar at the WeWork co-working space in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood. (WeWork Photo) WeWork is looking to hold onto another location in Seattle, negotiating new terms with its landlord and filing a court motion Monday to remain in the 15th and Market building in...
Amazon says its next-generation MK30 drone will start making deliveries later this year. (Amazon Photo) Amazon says it’s gearing up to add a community in Arizona to its list of Prime Air drone delivery zones. Later this year, customers in the West Valley region of the Phoenix metro area will...
Melissa Hutchins, co-founder and CEO of Certifi AI. (Certifi AI Photo) In January, pornographic deepfake images of Taylor Swift were viewed by millions of people on X and other social media platforms before the sites took action. No one has been identified and prosecuted for using artificial...
Atomo’s new coffee roastery in Seattle. (Atomo Photo) Atomo, the Seattle-based beanless coffee maker, is marking Earth Day with the grand opening of a new roastery in its hometown that will produce the company’s grounds for coffee shops around the country. The 33,547 square-foot facility...
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 April 14, 2024. Sign up to receive these updates every Sunday in your inbox by subscribing to our GeekWire Weekly email newsletter. Most popular stories on...
This week on the show, we offer a sneak preview of the GeekWire Awards, at the Showbox SoDo in Seattle on Thursday, May 9. We look back at the past winners of the Next Tech Titan title in the awards, and consider the event’s track record in predicting major companies to emerge from Seattle...
The BWB Drumline performs before speakers take the stage at an event focused on artificial intelligence at the Museum of History and Industry on Thursday in Seattle. Performers include, from left: Saire Williams-Bullen; 9 Coleman-Harvey; Tahlia Price; and RaNiyah Cooper. (GeekWire Photos / Taylor...
The 13 Seattle-area students awarded “Amazon Future Engineer” scholarships by the company this week during an event at a Prime Air drone facility in Seattle. (Amazon Photo) The future is bright — and partially paid for — for 13 students from across the Seattle region after Amazon surprised them...
AI and Biotech panel at Life Science Innovation Northwest 2024. From left: Danielle Greenawalt, Lynda Stuart, Sean McClain, Jonathan Cohen and moderator Joseph Sirosh. (GeekWire Photo / Charlotte Schubert) The culture of collaboration in the Pacific Northwest, the impact of AI on biopharma, and...
Dr. Burkhard Englert. (Seattle University Photo) Seattle University named Dr. Burkhard Englert as the new Department Chair and Amazon Endowed Chair of Computer Science. Englert is currently the computer science department chair at Norfolk State University in Virginia. He previously held the...
Attendees at a hackathon presented by AI Tinkerers in Seattle last summer. (Photo courtesy of Joe Heitzeberg) Seattle tech veteran Joe Heitzeberg remembers seeing a random, AI-related tweet in September 2022. “Still not enough tinkering happening, for whatever reason,” former GitHub CEO Nat...
Travis Rush, co-founder and CEO of Reperio Health. (Reperio Photo) Travis Rush grew up in the tiny seaside town of Gold Beach in Southern Oregon. With a population of only 1,576 — as was proudly proclaimed on the sign coming into town — healthcare resources there were limited. The nearest...
Charging stations at Seattle’s Shilshole Bay Marina. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Washington is leaning into the fight against climate change. Seattle-area tech giants Microsoft and Amazon have set ambitious carbon reduction targets and invested millions to meet those goals. The state...
Cynthia Williams, soon to be former president of Wizards of the Coast. (Wizards of the Coast image) A new SEC filing reveals that Cynthia Williams plans to step down as president at Hasbro-owned game company Wizards of the Coast. No specific reason has been publicly offered for Williams’...
NanoString’s GeoMX Digital Spatial Profiler was at the heart of a patent lawsuit filed by 10x Genomics. (NanoString Image) NanoString announced Wednesday that it will be acquired by Bruker, ending the company’s restructuring process that included a Chapter 11 bankruptcy plan. Bruker, a...
Shein, the fast-fashion e-commerce retailer that recently announced plans to open an office in Bellevue, Wash., is hosting a pop-up experience in Seattle next week. The event will take place April 26-29 at the O’Shea Building at the corner of Fifth Avenue and Pine Street in downtown Seattle....