Amazon says it is ready to turn its facilities into COVID-19 vaccination sites and is offering other resources to the U.S. government. In a letter addressed to President Joe Biden on Wednesday… | Continue reading
A new report on the largest holders of private farmland in the United States reveals that Bill and Melinda Gates are atop the list, with the billionaire Seattle couple amassing 242,000 acres of land. | Continue reading
Hillrom, a publicly-traded medical device and digital health company based in Chicago, will pay $375 million to acquire Seattle startup Bardy Diagnostics. Founded in 2013, Bardy set out to change the… | Continue reading
Marketing giant Mailchimp has acquired Chatitive, a Seattle startup that helps businesses communicate with customers via text messaging. Terms of the deal were not disclosed but a person familiar with… | Continue reading
Haven, the healthcare joint venture led by Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JP Morgan Chase, is shutting down next month. Unveiled three years ago by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos… | Continue reading
The cost of an Uber trip in Seattle will jump about 24% starting Friday as the ride-hailing company is raising its prices in response to a new law requiring drivers to be paid the city's minimum wage. | Continue reading
U.S. livestreamers may see major changes to their business model as a result of legislation in Congress's latest COVID-19 relief bill. The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021, which passed late… | Continue reading
Peloton announced Monday that it is acquiring Precor, the longtime Woodinville, Wash,-based makers of commercial fitness equipment, in a deal valued at $420 million. Peloton has been riding a wave of… | Continue reading
[Editor's Note: Frances McCue is a poet, writer, co-founder of nonprofit community writing center Hugo House, and a teaching professor at the University of Washington. She reads this piece in a… | Continue reading
Symbl has raised more cash to fuel growth of its enterprise software that helps companies transcribe real-time conversations and pull more insights from internal meetings, customer care interactions… | Continue reading
The University of Washington computer science department denounced comments made online by a retired professor over a debate about AI ethics, Timnit Gebru's controversial exit at Google… | Continue reading
“Now witness the firepower of this fully armed and operational Battle Station.” – Emperor Palpatine, Return of the Jedi This week Microsoft took a series of dramatic steps against the recent… | Continue reading
When Jasper Kuria considers strategies for addressing racial inequity and social injustice in the U.S., he puts support of Black entrepreneurs at the top of the list. "It’s really about wealth… | Continue reading
U.S. Rep. Alexandria "AOC" Ocasio-Cortez returned to Twitch on Friday night for a 5-and-a-half-hour broadcast, where she played the interactive mystery game Among Us with Jagmeet Singh, a member of… | Continue reading
Microsoft is facing criticism for its new "Productivity Score" technology, which can measure how much individual workers use email, chat and other digital tools. But it turns out the company has even… | Continue reading
Jeff Bezos on Monday announced the 16 environmental organizations that will receive $791 million as the first round of grantees for his $10 billion Bezos Earth Fund. The list is dominated by well… | Continue reading
Fees charged to restaurants by delivery companies will be capped in Washington state as the food industry is placed under new restrictions amid another COVID-19 surge. Services such as Uber Eats… | Continue reading
After making the decision to roll its own infrastructure and reduce its dependence on Amazon Web Services, Dropbox reduced its operating costs by $74.6 million over the next two years… | Continue reading
An ex-Microsoft engineer was sentenced to nine years in prison for 18 federal felonies after he stole more than $10 million worth of digital currency from his ex-employer and used the funds to finance… | Continue reading
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture is keeping its options open to deliver a ton of cargo to the lunar surface in 2023. | Continue reading
Washington State Department of Agriculture entomologists have successfully located an Asian giant hornet nest on a property in Blaine, Wash., the agency reported Friday. It's the first such nest ever… | Continue reading
A Seattle startup led by cloud computing veterans has quietly attracted big-name users and top venture capital firms as it aims to help improve developer productivity. Temporal announced a $20 million… | Continue reading
Seattle mountaineering guide Garrett Madison and Silicon Valley tech CEO Zachary Bookman were set to take on the world's tallest mountain peak together. Instead, they're mounting arguments against… | Continue reading
Amazon released figures on Thursday that for the first time detail the spread of the coronavirus among its employees. The tech giant revealed that more than 19,000 workers have tested positive or been… | Continue reading
Seattle became the second big city in the nation to establish a minimum wage standard for Uber and Lyft drivers on Tuesday. The Seattle City Council unanimously voted to adopt new regulations designed… | Continue reading
Microsoft this week gained an exclusive license to OpenAI's GPT-3, the state-of-the-art language model garnering attention across the tech industry. Other companies will still be able to access the… | Continue reading
Update, Tuesday, 7:30 p.m. PT: A stationary bicycle made by the exercise gear company Echelon and sold on Amazon as an exclusive "Prime Bike" has been pulled by the tech giant after a day in which it… | Continue reading
For all the remembrances tied to the passing of Bill Gates Sr., who died Monday at age 94, perhaps no story is more surprising or entertaining than one told over the years by Howard Schultz… | Continue reading
Seattle-based retailer Archie McPhee's slogan, "we make weird," usually applies to the products they sell, such as mac & cheese-flavored candy canes or their internet-famous horse head mask. | Continue reading
Oracle — yes, Oracle — is now a potential acquirer of TikTok. The Financial Times, CNBC, and Reuters reported that the Redwood City, Calif. | Continue reading
Amazon’s longtime robotics leader Brad Porter has left the company, according to a report from Business Insider. Porter joined Amazon in 2007 and became a distinguished engineer in 2014… | Continue reading
Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan unveiled a new proposal to increase pay for Uber and Lyft drivers and cover expenses such as gas. Durkan wants drivers to be paid at least the Seattle minimum wage, or $16. | Continue reading
Lighter Capital cut half of its workforce in another round of layoffs. The Seattle-based “alternative VC” firm recently laid off 22 people, a company spokesperson confirmed. There are 23 employees… | Continue reading
The Federal Communications Commission has authorized Amazon’s Project Kuiper to provide satellite broadband access, but under strict conditions. | Continue reading
The seemingly unstoppable trend of tech companies and talent concentrating in a few cities hit a brick wall in March. As the first-known U.S. cases of the coronavirus emerged in Seattle and the San… | Continue reading
Obsess over the customer. Resist proxies. Embrace powerful, external trends. And make high-quality and high-velocity decisions. These are some of the ways a company can avoid becoming a “Day 2” | Continue reading
Amazon has reached a confidential legal settlement with Brian Hall, a former Amazon Web Services vice president of product marketing who was sued by the company after taking a job with Google Cloud in… | Continue reading
Amazon will allow employees who can work from home to do so through Jan. 8, 2021, according to an internal policy page obtained by GeekWire. Amazon’s corporate offices are open now but the company… | Continue reading
Despite the pandemic, funding for Seattle tech startups remains robust in the first half of 2020. … Health benefits platform Accolade became Seattle’s first IPO of the year. … GeekWire’s events are back, virtually. | Continue reading
A new Amazon service called Honeycode promises to let non-developers quickly create interactive web and mobile apps without knowing how to develop software. Announced in beta on Wednesday afternoon… | Continue reading
Like many startups, Uplevel is adapting as the economic crisis changes how its customers work. The Seattle company emerged from stealth mode earlier this year, revealing its software tools that… | Continue reading
Amazon is seeking a court order to keep Brian Hall, former Amazon Web Services vice president of product marketing, from editing and summarizing keynote speeches and slides for the upcoming Google… | Continue reading
A lawsuit filed by Amazon against Brian Hall, former Amazon Web Services vice president of product marketing, alleges that his new role at Google Cloud violates the terms of his non-compete agreement… | Continue reading
As part of its vaunted leadership principles, Amazon likes to say it starts with the customer and works backwards to shape its business and products. Jeff Bezos is finding that the mantra has its… | Continue reading
Slack will shift to Amazon Web Services’ Chime infrastructure for voice and video calls on its platform under an expanded partnership announced by the companies Thursday afternoon. In addition… | Continue reading
Baoke Zhang, a 35-year-old software engineer at ride hailing giant Lyft, is facing bank and wire fraud charges for what federal prosecutors called a “brazen scheme” to defraud the U.S. government’s… | Continue reading
Attached to one of Amazon’s downtown Seattle office buildings, in the heart of the tech giant’s headquarters campus, a new homeless shelter built by the company is now open and servicing people in… | Continue reading
Microsoft is not taking the same financial beating as many of its peers due to the pandemic. Revenue jumped 15% in the first quarter of 2020, Microsoft Teams users increased by more than 70% in April… | Continue reading