Macy's is suing a real estate company to prevent Amazon from taking over the iconic billboard next to its landmark department store at West 34th Street and Broadway in Manhattan, citing the terms of a… | Continue reading
The University of Washington’s Institute for Protein Design has won an $11.3 million grant from the Open Philanthropy Project to cook up a universal flu vaccine | Continue reading
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella offered new details about the company's unsuccessful attempt to acquire TikTok a year ago on Monday night at the Code Conference. "It's the strangest thing I' | Continue reading
In 2011, the world was still recovering from the financial crisis a couple of years earlier. The startup economy wasn't in full swing yet. SaaS, pre-seed, or even mobile-first weren' | Continue reading
The Bezos Earth Fund pledged $1 billion to conserve and protect vulnerable areas of the world, focusing initially on the Congo Basin, the tropical Andes, and the tropical Pacific Ocean. | Continue reading
The majority of Seattle tech workers don’t expect to ever return to their offices full time and the effects of that transition could alter everything from commercial real estate, to what social issues… | Continue reading
Programmers looking to experiment or get better at the tools and technology that they use for their day jobs are turning to a competitive game called "Battlesnake" — made by a company of the same name… | Continue reading
Microsoft confirmed that it has hired longtime Amazon Web Services leader Charlie Bell to lead a newly formed engineering organization to address cybersecurity and related issues, but said it has so… | Continue reading
Microsoft President Brad Smith says the U.S. government appears to be repeating, in the digital realm, one of the key missteps that preceded the Sept. 11 attacks. Tightly controlled silos of… | Continue reading
Auth0, the billion-dollar Seattle-area startup that is a leader in identity authentication software, is being acquired by Okta, another leader in the space, the companies announced Wednesday. | Continue reading
Few lawmakers have gotten Amazon's attention like the one who hails from the company's hometown, Rep. Pramila Jayapal. The 7th Congressional District Democrat has made the powerful tech industry a… | Continue reading
Longtime Amazon Web Services leader Charlie Bell has reportedly taken a job at Microsoft. Bell, a member of Amazon’s senior leadership team and a longtime linchpin of the company’s cloud business… | Continue reading
Clearbrief is attracting more investor interest for its AI-powered software that gives legal professionals a way to automatically spot misrepresentations in litigation documents. | Continue reading
[Updated below with Microsoft confirmation and related announcements from Amazon, Google, and Code.org.] Microsoft reportedly plans to quadruple its cybersecurity spending to $20 billion over a five… | Continue reading
Amazon has a "dominant share" of the U.S. market for smart speakers, accounting for 69% of devices sold over the past five years, according to a new report from Consumer Intelligence Research Partners… | Continue reading
Is there ever really a good time to launch a startup? That's the question Javier Luraschi was asking and sort of answering for himself in discussing his effort to "democratize artificial intelligence" | Continue reading
The Seattle region added more than 48,000 tech jobs from 2016 to 2020, an increase of more than 35% — growing at a faster rate than any other large U.S. tech market, according to a new analysis by the… | Continue reading
Seattle-based online cannabis marketplace Leafly has closed $23 million in new funding, GeekWire confirmed with the company. The fresh cash infusion comes as the cannabis market sees an increase in… | Continue reading
New funding: Seattle startup Arrived Homes raised $10 million in equity and $27 million in debt financing to help scale its tech-infused real estate model that lets people invest in single-family… | Continue reading
Sustainable Living Innovations, a Seattle tech company that's created a new way to build commercial structures, broke ground Thursday on a 15-story development that's pegged as the world's first " | Continue reading
Amazon has adjusted its return-to-work plans for corporate employees, issuing new guidance on Thursday that will allow for a mix of remote and in-person work. The Seattle-based tech giant said that it… | Continue reading
The Playdate, a new portable gaming device produced in Portland, Ore., will finally be available for pre-order next month. It will ship with twice as many exclusive games as were previously announced. | Continue reading
SEO software startup Moz has been acquired by email marketing company iContact, a subsidiary of J2 Global. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Rand Fishkin and his mother Gillian Muessig launched… | Continue reading
In an effort to lessen concerns about privacy and civil liberties, Amazon will require police departments seeking Ring doorbell video data to make public requests for the information in the open user… | Continue reading
Twilio, a communications software company with Seattle roots, is acquiring Seattle-based business-texting startup Zipwhip for approximately $850 million in a cash and stock deal… | Continue reading
As part of a continued effort to show that it's serious about cracking down on counterfeit goods sold on its platform, Amazon said Monday that it blocked more than 10 billion suspected bad listings… | Continue reading
Bill and Melinda Gates have announced that they are ending their marriage after 27 years. In a tweet on Monday from Bill Gates' account, and signed by the couple, the Gateses said that the decision… | Continue reading
With time running out on the legislative session, Washington state lawmakers approved a $59 billion state budget including a tax on capital gains that has divided the region's tech community. | Continue reading
Collaboration software pioneer and former Microsoft executive Ray Ozzie has raised $11 million for his latest startup, Blues Wireless, an IoT company that aims to make it easy to connect almost any… | Continue reading
Amazon issued a rare apology Friday night, stepping back from comments made on Twitter last week in a response to Rep. Mark Pocan of Wisconsin over whether its delivery drivers felt the need to… | Continue reading
The news: Common Room, a year-old startup based in Seattle, is coming out of stealth mode in a big way. The company revealed $52 million in total funding and big-name customers using its software that… | Continue reading
Don't try adding Jamal Crawford to the group text. The NBA star and Seattle basketball legend admitted Thursday night that he's still rocking a Blackberry phone, much to the giggling delight of the… | Continue reading
Seattle-based Rec Room has raised $100 million in new funding. The game development startup is now valued at $1.25 billion after an explosive year of growth in which players used the platform to… | Continue reading
Tableau Software CEO Adam Selipsky will be the new CEO of Amazon Web Services, replacing Andy Jassy, who will take over as Amazon's CEO later this year. Selipsky is a familiar face at Amazon as a… | Continue reading
Tickets to PAX Prime are becoming increasingly hard to come by. Two years ago, the Seattle event sold out in six hours. Last year, it took about an hour and fifteen minutes. This year the massive… | Continue reading
Where do you start when shopping for something online? For a majority of people, it's Amazon — not Google. That's one finding from a recent research report from Raymond James that surveyed 587 people… | Continue reading
Researchers at the University of Washington have figured out a way to use machine-learning algorithms to turn smart speakers into sensitive medical devices that can detect irregular heartbeats. | Continue reading
The Amazon vs. Shopify battle just got a little more juicy. Shopify's sassy social media team — or, SaaSy, if you will — has been firing off some pointed tweets this week, subtly and not so subtly… | Continue reading
Amazon is being called out again for allegedly copying the product of a company that sells on Amazon, but rather than taking legal action, San Francisco-based Peak Design is taking to YouTube. | Continue reading
Renton, Wash.-based Stoke Space Technologies has attracted $9.1 million in seed investments for extending rocket reusability to new frontiers. | Continue reading
Fry's Electronic's, the big-box chain that was a longtime, one-stop shop for tech enthusiasts, is shutting down after 36 years in business. The company cited "changes in the retail industry and the… | Continue reading
A bill that would give local governments and public agencies the ability to offer retail internet services appears headed to a floor vote in the Washington state House of Representatives. | Continue reading
Amazon is making a $15 million donation to Code.org to help the Seattle nonprofit launch a new Advanced Placement computer science programming course aimed at underrepresented groups of students. | Continue reading
Chris Young took the temperature on current kitchen innovation and decided the time was right to get back to the business of inventing devices to make home cooks smarter and food taste better. | Continue reading
Redfin is making a major push into the residential home rental market, announcing Friday morning that it is paying $608 million in cash for Atlanta-based RentPath. The deal, approved by the boards of… | Continue reading
On a rainy, foggy night in Seattle, an incident in a crosswalk changed the path that Janie Bube was on. A University of Washington student at the time, Bube was walking near the Burke-Gilman Trail… | Continue reading
Energy consumption by the new Xbox gaming console could cost new owners of the Microsoft device more than $500 million on their electricity bills over the next five years, according to a new report by… | Continue reading
A new proposed wealth tax in Washington state would impose a 1% tax on billionaires, affecting Seattle-area tech and business leaders such as Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates… | Continue reading