SpaceX filed a lawsuit against the federal government, apparently protesting a contract bidding process — but asked the court to keep the proceedings under seal. | Continue reading
Microsoft will spend more than $100 million over the next five years to open its first development center in Africa and hire 500 people within four years. The Redmond, Wash.-based tech giant announced… | Continue reading
GitHub is expanding the scope of its code repository to include support for publishing software packages, the company plans to announce Friday afternoon. After teasing an announcement all week on… | Continue reading
U.S. presidential candidate Andrew Yang, a startup entrepreneur from New York known for his data-driven approach to challenges facing the country, told GeekWire during his Seattle stop that he wants Amazon to own up to its impact on jobs and the economy through AI and automation. | Continue reading
Microsoft continues to look for ways to help companies that are investing in application containers take advantage of the principles of serverless computing, introducing a new open-source project… | Continue reading
For the first time in Amazon’s history, the company’s first-party online retail sales represented less than half of its overall net sales last quarter, even as both measures continued to grow… | Continue reading
Longtime Microsoft executive Bob Muglia, who oversaw five years of strong growth and enormous fundraising at data warehousing startup Snowflake Computing, is out as CEO, the company announced… | Continue reading
A federal jury sided with T-Mobile in a long-running dispute with Chinese telecom giant Huawei over a smartphone-testing robot. | Continue reading
Founded in 2015, Seattle startup Arivale aspired to pioneer a new sector called scientific wellness, combining genetic testing with personal coaching to improve the health of its members, with ambitions of being “the Google or Microsoft of this whole arena.” It wasn’t to be. This … | Continue reading
The Federal Communications Commission today approved SpaceX’s proposed revisions in its plan to put thousands of satellites in orbit to provide global broadband connectivity. | Continue reading
Artificial intelligence often works in mysterious ways, so Microsoft is building explainability into its machine learning tools to shed light on AI’s black-box algorithms. | Continue reading
Cloud computing has changed so many things about how the business world uses information technology, and one of the biggest differences is how money flows between buyers of information technology and their suppliers. GeekWire analyzed how the impact of those changes has materiali … | Continue reading
Game on at the University of Washington. A state-of-the-art Esports Arena & Gaming Lounge at the UW’s Husky Union Building is up and running after an official ribbon cutting on Thursday and a week… | Continue reading
In a non-descript, four-story building, around the corner from Seattle’s iconic Pike Place Market, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos once sat in a tiny office with stained carpets. His view from the cluttered… | Continue reading
Amazon is joining the race to provide affordable broadband internet access around the globe via thousands of satellites in low Earth orbit. | Continue reading
Amazon plans to relocate its entire Seattle-based worldwide operations team to Bellevue, Wash., by 2023. The migration adds weight to the theory that Amazon is shifting its focus to Bellevue and other cities across the country amid ongoing tensions between the tech giant and its … | Continue reading
Tabs or spaces? Only the Pope knows. Pope Francis tapped his way into computer history on Thursday by joining three young women from around the world to contribute a line of code to an app aimed at… | Continue reading
You can put huge amounts of DNA-based information in a test tube, but who wants to carry around a test tube? Microsoft and the University of Washington have a better idea. | Continue reading
Jeff Bezos likes to talk about his company’s focus on invention and Amazon’s willingness to embrace failure on the path to success. The 52-year-old CEO noted this again in Amazon’s annual shareholders… | Continue reading
OK, so my 10-year-old kid could board an advanced U.S. Navy submarine and operate the periscope? That seems to be the pretty cool assumption based on the fact that sailors are now using Xbox 360… | Continue reading
Zillow CEO Spencer Rascoff delivered the keynote address this morning at the TechNW event in Seattle, discussing the process by which the online real estate company went public and dishing on the recently approved JOBS Act. | Continue reading
One of the cool things about covering the tech industry in Seattle is being on the front lines of the changes occurring in the real estate business. I’ve written hundreds, possibly thousands of… | Continue reading
An ambitious plan from a Seattle-area real estate developer to build and operate a network of high-tech water taxis, ferrying passengers between its Southport megaproject in Renton, Wash., and the… | Continue reading
Two mini-rovers have sent their first pictures back from the surface of the asteroid Ryugu, a day after they were dropped off by Japan’s Hayabusa 2 spacecraft. | Continue reading
The question of equity brings out the most fundamental differences, perceptions, and values in an aspiring startup. In fact the equity question, more than any other, may strangle a young company before it can even get started. And that’s a damn good thing. | Continue reading
TAE Technologies, the fusion energy venture backed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and other heavy-hitters, is elevating Michl Binderbauer to CEO. | Continue reading
Nathan Myhrvold, former Chief Strategist & Chief Technology Officer at Microsoft, and present Cofounder of Intellectual Ventures, a $6 billion, 40,000 asset Intellectual Property portfolio/patent… | Continue reading