Tom Alberg with Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. (Madrona Venture Group Photo)Seattle-based investor and business leader Tom Alberg, who died last week at the age of 82, was a key figure in the e-commerce and wireless industries, and in the Seattle startup community, as an early Amazon investor and...
Co-founder and CEO Andrew Crowell. (KeySavvy Photo)You receive a link from a seller to pay for the car you are about to buy. Should you trust it?
Seattle startup KeySavvy wants to help by tackling fraud and simplifying private party vehicle transactions.
Co-founder and CEO Andrew Crowell...
GeekWire IllustrationAmazon has been targeting alleged sellers of fake product reviews for the past seven years, starting with the first suit of its kind in 2015. A new wave of suits this week shows the company isn’t giving up, and the issue isn’t going away.
The company filed separate...
GeekWire IllustrationAmazon has been targeting alleged sellers of fake product reviews for the past seven years, starting with the first suit of its kind in 2015. A new wave of suits this week shows the company isn’t giving up, and the issue isn’t going away.
The company filed separate...
Amarjit Kaur Sandhu. (Ozette Photo)
— Amarjit Kaur Sandhu joined Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center spinout Ozette Technologies as vice president of engineering. She previously was director of software engineering at Nuance Communications, which acquired Seattle digital health startup Saykara...
Amarjit Kaur Sandhu. (Ozette Photo)
— Amarjit Kaur Sandhu joined Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center spinout Ozette Technologies as vice president of engineering. She previously was director of software engineering at Nuance Communications, which acquired Seattle digital health startup Saykara...
Some of Polite’s founders, left to right: Mary Brown Szomjassy, chief clinical officer; Yung Tan, CEO; Sue Tan, chief creative officer; Adam Melero, chief innovation officer; and Jeffrey Freeman Jr, chief growth officer. (Pax Bradford Photo) The co-founders of Seattle-based cannabis and hemp...
Some of Polite’s founders, left to right: Mary Brown Szomjassy, chief clinical officer; Yung Tan, CEO; Sue Tan, chief creative officer; Adam Melero, chief innovation officer; and Jeffrey Freeman Jr, chief growth officer. (Pax Bradford Photo) The co-founders of Seattle-based cannabis and hemp...
A new regulatory filing details Amazon’s behind-the-scenes talks for One Medical, leading up to the Seattle tech giant’s agreement to acquire the primary care company for $3.9 billion, announced by the companies July 21.
The filing confirms that Amazon wasn’t alone in bidding for One...
Activision’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2022) is almost certain to be the best-selling game of the year, on every platform where it appears. (Activision Image)In a filing to Brazil’s national competition regulator, Microsoft has claimed that Sony pays unnamed video game developers to...
A new regulatory filing details Amazon’s behind-the-scenes talks for One Medical, leading up to the Seattle tech giant’s agreement to acquire the primary care company for $3.9 billion, announced by the companies July 21.
The filing confirms that Amazon wasn’t alone in bidding for One...
Outreach CEO Manny Medina. (GeekWire Photo / Nat Levy)
Seattle-based Outreach is laying off about 5% of its workforce, a move that comes at a time when many startups are being advised to reduce costs and extend runway by trimming staff counts.
A company spokesperson confirmed the cuts to...
Activision’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2022) is almost certain to be the best-selling game of the year, on every platform where it appears. (Activision Image)In a filing to Brazil’s national competition regulator, Microsoft has claimed that Sony pays unnamed video game developers to...
Inrix sells location analytics software products to retailers such as Starbucks and Chick-fil-A. (Inrix Image)Inrix, the Kirkland, Wash.-based transportation software and data provider founded in 2004, has raised $10 million from investors, less than a year after the company nearly went public. ...
Outreach CEO Manny Medina. (GeekWire Photo / Nat Levy)
Seattle-based Outreach is laying off about 5% of its workforce, a move that comes at a time when many startups are being advised to reduce costs and extend runway by trimming staff counts.
A company spokesperson confirmed the cuts to...
The Anchor Community Initiative team with A Way Home Washington captured their reaction to Spokane’s significant decline in youth and young adult homelessness, as revealed through their data analysis. (A Way Home Washington Photo)A Washington state organization is using data and analytics to...
Inrix sells location analytics software products to retailers such as Starbucks and Chick-fil-A. (Inrix Image)Inrix, the Kirkland, Wash.-based transportation software and data provider founded in 2004, has raised $10 million from investors, less than a year after the company nearly went public. ...
The Anchor Community Initiative team with A Way Home Washington captured their reaction to Spokane’s significant decline in youth and young adult homelessness, as revealed through their data analysis. (A Way Home Washington Photo)A Washington state organization is using data and analytics to...
HDT Bio CEO Steve Reed. (HDT Bio Photo)
Seattle startup HDT Bio will develop a nasal spray designed to counteract a wide range of respiratory viruses with a nearly $1.8 million grant from the U.S. Army.
“We hope to address not only disease progression, but transmission,” chief operating...
HDT Bio CEO Steve Reed. (HDT Bio Photo)
Seattle startup HDT Bio will develop a nasal spray designed to counteract a wide range of respiratory viruses with a nearly $1.8 million grant from the U.S. Army.
“We hope to address not only disease progression, but transmission,” chief operating...
Microsoft executives Brad Smith, Satya Nadella and Amy Hood take questions from shareholders at the company’s annual meeting in 2018. (GeekWire File Photo / Nat Levy)“As we manage through this period, we will continue to invest in future growth while maintaining intense focus on operational...
Rendering of planned apartment complex Grand Street Commons. (Amazon Photo)Amazon is investing $23 million to support the construction of 568 homes in Seattle as part of its Housing Equity Fund to build or preserve housing for moderate- to low-income earners.
The $2 billion fund, announced last...
An AWS Snowcone SSD on the International Space Station during the Axiom Space Ax-1 mission. (NASA Photo via Amazon)LAS VEGAS — Axiom Space tested an Amazon Web Services Snowcone cloud device in orbit in April during the first privately funded crewed mission to the International Space Station,...
Esper co-founders Yadhu Gopalan (left) and Shiv Sundar. (Esper Photo)Esper, a Seattle-based startup that operates a DevOps platform for customers that manage fleets of company-owned Android devices, has laid off 12% of its staff.
The company confirmed the cuts to GeekWire. It did not provide a...
Swami Sivasubramanian, AWS VP, announces the new CodeWhisperer service at re:MARS in Las Vegas. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop)LAS VEGAS — Amazon Web Services showed a new service that uses machine learning to generate code suggestions for software developers, stepping up its efforts in the...
(Bigstock Photo)SAP has laid off employees based in the Pacific Northwest as part of what the tech giant describes as a “restructuring program” related to its product engineering organization that includes more than 6,000 workers.
A company spokesperson confirmed the cuts, which impact...
An artist’s rendition shows the NOAA-18 satellite in orbit. (NOAA Illustration)What do you do with an aging weather satellite? If you’re the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, you turn to Microsoft Azure and a Seattle-area startup called Xplore to find out if there’s a cheaper...
Bacteriophage as seen by electron microscopy. (National Cancer Institute Image / Manoj Rajaure)
A Seattle DNA analysis startup is taking on a project with global ambitions with $5.5 million in new funds from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the U.S. National Institutes of...
Rohit Prasad, Alexa AI senior vice president and head scientist, discusses the voice synthesis technology at Amazon re:MARSLAS VEGAS — A short video of a child asking Alexa to have his grandma read the Wizard of Oz is generating more than its share of buzz after Amazon explained that the voice...
Rohit Prasad, Alexa AI senior vice president and head scientist, discusses the voice synthesis technology at Amazon re:MARSLAS VEGAS — A short video of a child asking Alexa to have his grandma read the Wizard of Oz is generating more than its share of buzz after Amazon explained that the voice...