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Would you like an NFT with your Starbucks latte? The coffee giant this week announced its plans to enter the web3 space with the launch of its own NFT collection later this year, where the individual digital collectibles also provide their owners with access to exclusive content experiences and...
Would you like an NFT with your Starbucks latte? The coffee giant this week announced its plans to enter the web3 space with the launch of its own NFT collection later this year, where the individual digital collectibles also provide their owners with access to exclusive content experiences and...
Depending on your age, getting from point A to point B might have involved paper maps — what we called an “atlas,” the giant book that lived in the pocket behind the passenger seat of the car. As maps went digital, you might have relied on MapQuest to help plot the fastest route to your...
An anti-tech sticker borrowing off Amazon’s smile logo, on a light pole in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser)Within the span of an hour last weekend, I went from holiday shopping at several small businesses in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood to getting...
An anti-tech sticker borrowing off Amazon’s smile logo, on a light pole in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser)Within the span of an hour last weekend, I went from holiday shopping at several small businesses in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood to getting...
An anti-tech sticker borrowing off Amazon’s smile logo, on a light pole in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser)Within the span of an hour last weekend, I went from holiday shopping at several small businesses in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood to getting...
An anti-tech sticker borrowing off Amazon’s smile logo, on a light pole in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser)Within the span of an hour last weekend, I went from holiday shopping at several small businesses in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood to getting...
An anti-tech sticker borrowing off Amazon’s smile logo, on a light pole in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser)Within the span of an hour last weekend, I went from holiday shopping at several small businesses in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood to getting...
This morning, dozens of warehouse workers at two Amazon facilities near Chicago staged a pre-Christmas walkout during the busiest time of the year to demand better treatment and higher wages. “We have been passed over for raises. We are being overworked, even when there is sufficient people to...
This morning, dozens of warehouse workers at two Amazon facilities near Chicago staged a pre-Christmas walkout during the busiest time of the year to demand better treatment and higher wages. “We have been passed over for raises. We are being overworked, even when there is sufficient people to...
Amazon offices in downtown Seattle. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Three years after choosing Arlington, Va., as the winner of its high-profile HQ2 search, Amazon is speeding forward to build facilities to accommodate 25,000 workers in the Washington, D.C. suburb. But that East Coast growth is...
Amazon offices in downtown Seattle. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Three years after choosing Arlington, Va., as the winner of its high-profile HQ2 search, Amazon is speeding forward to build facilities to accommodate 25,000 workers in the Washington, D.C. suburb. But that East Coast growth is...
Amazon offices in downtown Seattle. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Three years after choosing Arlington, Va., as the winner of its high-profile HQ2 search, Amazon is speeding forward to build facilities to accommodate 25,000 workers in the Washington, D.C. suburb. But that East Coast growth is...
A variation on the “internet ends” signs popping up around Seattle. This one was along the Burke-Gilman Trail in Fremont. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop)If the internet ends this week, this story and any proof that I bothered to think about this, is going to go with it. But for now, while the...
Facebook has bought several virtual reality game studios over the past couple years, and they added one more to their portfolio Friday with the acquisition of Seattle-based BigBox VR. The studio’s major title, Population: One, was one of the big post-launch releases for Facebook’s Oculus Quest...
Last year, Seattle-based network security startup ExtraHop was riding high, quickly approaching $100 million in ARR and even making noises about a possible IPO in 2021. But there will be no IPO, at least for now, as the company announced this morning it has been acquired by a pair of private...
Rome wasn’t built in a day, the saying goes. But hey, Seattle was built in a month! At least a big chunk of it was — in Minecraft. An impressive effort by a collection of geeks who are into Microsoft’s block-by-block video game can be seen in new videos that popped up on Reddit this month....
Renovating a home is an exciting, yet often fraught-filled, endeavor. One startup that aims to help make the process simpler, cheaper and less stressful by helping people manage the home renovation process has raised $6 million to help it grow even faster. Builders VC led the round, which included...
E-commerce is booming, but among the biggest challenges for entrepreneurs of online businesses are finding a place to store the items they are selling and dealing with the logistics of operating. Tyler Scriven, Maxwell Bonnie and Paul D’Arrigo co-founded Saltbox in an effort to solve that...
We all know the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated digital adoption in a number of areas, particularly in the financial services space. Within financial services, there are few spaces hotter than B2B payments. With a $120 trillion market size, it’s no surprise that an increasing number of...
Google is announcing a handful of major updates to Google Maps today that range from bringing its Live View AR directions indoors to adding weather data to its maps, but the most tantalizing news — which in typical Google fashion doesn’t have an ETA just yet — is that Google plans to bring a...
GeekWire’s Civic Conversations panel on Thursday, clockwise from top left: Jane Broom of Microsoft Philanthropies; Kris Hermanns of Seattle Foundation; Monica Nickelsburg of GeekWire; Gordon McHenry Jr., CEO of United Way King County; Chris Gregoire, CEO of Challenge Seattle and former Washington...
People in the Pacific Northwest were treated to quite a light show in the sky on Thursday night shortly before 9:00 p.m. local time, midnight ET. Social media users from Oregon to Canada reported seeing strange lights, and we have plenty of angles from last night’s display that have been uploaded...
The partners at MaC Venture Capital, the Los Angeles-based investment firm that has just closed on $103 million for its inaugural fund, have spent the bulk of their careers breaking barriers. Formed when M Ventures (a firm founded by former Washington DC mayor Adrian Fenty); the first Black talent...
Amazon is apparently pleased with how its Amazon Care pilot in Seattle has gone, since it announced this morning that it will be expanding the offering across the U.S. this summer, and opening it up to companies of all sizes, in addition to its own employees. The Amazon Care model combines...
OctoML, a Seattle-based startup that offers a machine learning acceleration platform build on top of the open-source Apache TVM compiler framework project, today announced that it has raised a $28 million Series B funding round led by Addition Captial. Previous investors Madrona Venture Group and...
Cloud Paper, the startup whose bamboo toilet paper (and celebrity and billionaire backers including Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Marc Benioff, Dara Khosrowshahi, and Mark Cuban) made a splash last year, is getting into the paper towel racket. Starting today, the company is taking pre-orders...
Google continues to bet heavily on Google Cloud and while it is seeing accelerated revenue growth, its losses are also increasing. For the first time today, Google disclosed operating income/loss for its Google Cloud business unit in its quarterly earnings today. Google Cloud lost $5.6 billion in...
A rendering of the new 17-story tower office tower leased by Amazon in Boston, slated to open in 2024. (Amazon / WS Development Image.)Amazon plans to add 3,000 jobs in Boston over the next several years, leasing a new 17-story office tower in the Boston Seaport project to accommodate the further...
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry is as hot as ever, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last...
