Amazon’s Rivian electric delivery vans. (GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Amazon says it’s investing another $2.1 billion in its Delivery Service Partner program, including steps to boost financial outcomes for independent delivery firms and the drivers they employ to deliver its packages....
Living Computers: Museum + Labs on First Avenue South in Seattle opened in 2012. The nonprofit closed in 2020 just before the pandemic and never reopened. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Living Computers: Museum + Labs will live on, in spirit, far from Seattle. The Paul Allen estate announced...
Microsoft Xbox has been looking to reduce expenses since bringing on game giant Activision-Blizzard. (GeekWire File Photo / Nat Levy) Microsoft continued the cost-cutting in its Xbox and video games division Thursday morning following its $68.7 billion Activision-Blizzard acquisition, laying off...
The rooftop party scene at Slalom Hawk Tower in Seattle during the GeekWire summer rooftop BBQ on Wednesday. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) High above Seattle in the Slalom Hawk Tower, overlooking the sports stadiums and Elliott Bay, GeekWire once again partied with the tech community on...
Carolina Dybeck Happe, Microsoft’s new executive vice president and chief operations officer, was senior vice president and chief financial officer at General Electric from 2020 to 2024. (Microsoft Photo) Microsoft named General Electric’s former chief financial officer, Carolina Dybeck Happe,...
(Amperity Photo) Seattle startup Amperity is laying off 13% of its workforce, the company confirmed Thursday. “We are streamlining our operational and corporate functions while better prioritizing our investments on our go-to-market strategy,” Amperity interim CEO Chris Jones said in a...
ZeroAvia CEO Val Miftakhov in front of a massive ground-test truck with two of its 900-kW (kilowatt) engines and a Q400 propeller. The startup gave a demonstration of its engine on May 1, 2023 at Paine Field. (GeekWire Photo / Lisa Stiffler) Sustainable aviation startup ZeroAvia on Thursday...
Ashley Vaughn, the founder of EVALV (Electric Vehicle Adapter Lease Vending), presenting their idea at an event hosted by 45Camp in March. (VertueLab Photo) Ashley Vaughn last year found themselves in an electric vehicle driver’s nightmare. Vaughn’s Tesla died in a rural area outside of Seattle,...
Outreach CEO Manny Medina. (GeekWire File Photo) Manny Medina has stepped down as CEO of Outreach, the Seattle-based sales automation software company he helped start a decade ago. Abhijit Mitra, who joined the company last year as its president of product and technology, will replace Medina...
United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket lifts off with two prototype Amazon satellites in October 2023. (ULA Photo) A newly published market analysis of Amazon’s Project Kuiper effort to create a global satellite broadband network estimates the cost of getting the project off the ground at $16.5...
Highline Public Schools, a district south of Seattle, was hit on Sunday by a cyberattack. (GeekWire Photo / Taylor Soper) Highline Public Schools announced that it will welcome students back to school on Thursday, after canceling classes for three days this week due to a cyberattack. “We...
(Port of Seattle Photo) Nearly three weeks after identifying unauthorized activity on its network, the Port of Seattle continues to recover from a suspected cyberattack that impacted various operations. The travel experience at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport is now “normal,” the...
OpConnect CEO and founder Dexter Turner. (OpConnect Photo) Portland, Ore.-based OpConnect raised nearly $5.26 million to expand its sales of hardware and software for electric vehicle charging stations. CEO Dexter Turner launched the company in 2016. It has raised $14 million in total....
Mox Boarding House team members, from left: Head chef Dustin Horn, restaurant general manager Summer Romao, and retail manager Evan Welsh, in front of the new Chandler, Ariz., Mox location. (Mox Boarding House Photo) Mox Boarding House, the tabletop game store and dining experience that started...
“It’s an incredibly complex conversation,” Jon Stewart said near the conclusion of just that on Tuesday night after a “Daily Show” deep dive on government policy and efficacy with Steve Ballmer, the former Microsoft CEO and founder of USAFacts. On the same night presidential hopefuls...
Todd Schwartz (left) and Evan Richman, co-founders and co-CEOs of Skykick. (Skykick Photo) ConnectWise, a Tampa, Fla.-based IT management company, announced that it acquired SkyKick, a Seattle-based cloud automation, migration, and security company. Terms of the deal were not...
Peter Kern. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Former Expedia Group CEO Peter Kern stepped down as vice chairman and is leaving the company’s board, the travel giant said Wednesday in a new regulatory filing. Expedia announced in February that Kern would resign as CEO in May. Kern, a board...
Highline Public Schools announced on Tuesday that classes will be canceled again tomorrow. The district, located south of Seattle, disclosed on Sunday that it had “detected unauthorized activity on our technology systems and have taken immediate action to isolate critical systems.” The...
New Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol, photographed in Seattle this week with enough coffee for four CEOs. (Starbucks Photo / Joshua Trujillo) Coffee is serious business in Seattle. Whether or not you drink it, where you buy it, how you take it, what your vessel of choice is — all of that can say a...
We’re excited to welcome the Seattle community to our sold-out annual summer rooftop party on Wednesday at Slalom’s spectacular new headquarters in Pioneer Square. The event, sponsored by Microsoft, gets going at 3:30 p.m. and features cold beverages, great networking, and more. After the...
Two of the leading items in Tuesday’s live auction of Paul Allen items included a 1976 Cray-1 supercomputer, left, and a 1939 letter from Albert Einstein to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. (CHRISTIE’S IMAGES LTD. 2024) Rare computing artifacts, space-related objects, documents,...
Liz Shuler, AFL-CIO president, speaks at Microsoft on Monday with Microsoft President Brad Smith, at left. (Photo by Scott Eklund/Red Box Pictures for Microsoft) Organized labor has arrived at Microsoft headquarters. A two-day AI Labor Summit between AFL-CIO leaders and Microsoft executives...
Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol in Seattle on Monday, his first day leading the company. (Starbucks Photo / Joshua Trujillo) In his first public comments as Starbucks’ new CEO, Brian Niccol published an open letter Tuesday laying out his initial plan to help the Seattle coffee giant curb slumping...
A new feature coming to Amazon’s main Thursday Night Football broadcasts will add a red orb to players that may blitz the quarterback. (Amazon Photo) AI seems to be everywhere these days — even on the screen during live NFL games. Amazon is kicking off another slate of...
Kal Raman, chief operating officer for Viome. (Viome Photo) Viome, a company selling microbiome products and health diagnostics, announced Tuesday that it raised $25 million from investors and hired Kal Raman as its chief operating officer. The Bellevue, Wash.-based startup plans to ramp up...
The packaging for the new Amazon Saver private-label brand. (Amazon Image) Amazon is lowering prices on thousands of grocery items and rolling out a new private label food brand called Amazon Saver. The discounts come as Amazon aims to offer more products at a lower prices across its entire...
Oracle chairman and CTO Larry Ellison. (Oracle Photo) Oracle announced a strategic partnership with Amazon Web Services on Monday afternoon that will further integrate its database offerings and cloud infrastructure with the Seattle tech giant’s cloud platform. It follows earlier...
IBM announced Monday that it plans to acquire Accelalpha, a Bellevue, Wash.-based services provider that specializes in managing Oracle Cloud applications. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The acquisition will help boost IBM’s Oracle consulting expertise, and Accelalpha employees will join...
A portion of the Earth Finance team. The Seattle company employs about 40 people. (Earth Finance Photo) Earth Finance, a Seattle-area company founded last year that helps businesses globally reduce their climate impacts, announced Monday that it acquired Water Foundry, which helps clients manage...
Highline Public Schools, a district south of Seattle, was hit by a cyberattack and shut down classes on Monday. (GeekWire Photo / Taylor Soper) The frequency and severity of cyberattacks against K-12 schools are increasing, with a new incident affecting a school district south of Seattle being...
Visitors inside the full-scale TESSERAE module. (Aurelia Institute Photo) Visitors to Seattle’s Museum of Flight will be able to step into a mock-up of what a futuristic space habitat could look like with the arrival later this month of TESSERAE, a life-size space station module. The 20-foot...
The Nori team at a Techstars demo day in 2019. (Nori Photo) Seattle-based carbon removal startup Nori has shut down after operating for seven years and raising $17.25 million from investors. Nori managed an online marketplace for buying and selling carbon credits generated by farmers who used...
Outside Starbucks HQ in Seattle. The company’s new CEO, Brian Niccol, officially starts Monday. (GeekWire Photo / Taylor Soper) It’s the first day on the job for new Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol. After spending the past six years helping Chipotle recover from a food safety crisis and reimagine...
Highline High School, located south of Seattle. (GeekWire Photo / Taylor Soper) FOLLOW-UP: ‘They’re attractive targets’: Cybersecurity attacks on schools are becoming more frequent and severe Highline Public Schools, a 17,500-student district south of Seattle, canceled classes for Monday due...
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