Jay Parikh will lead the new CoreAI — Platform and Tools division at Microsoft. (Microsoft Photo) Microsoft is creating a new engineering division, led by the former global head of…
The Truveta team at its Bellevue, Wash., headquarters last year. (Truveta Photo) Seattle-area health data company Truveta announced $320 million in fresh funding and an ambitious new initiative to create a…
Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket stands on its Florida launch pad. (Blue Origin via YouTube) Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture counted down to the final hour tonight, but in…
Tune Therapeutics’ co-founders, from left: Akira Matsuno, chief financial officer; Charles Gersbach; and Fyodor Urnov, who also serves on the startup’s scientific advisory board. (Tune Photos) Tune Therapeutics, a biotech…
Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket stands on its Florida launch pad. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture is once again gearing up for the first-ever…
Now matter how you take notes now, artificial intelligence is poised to radically improve the process. (BigStock Image) How do you take notes? What do you do with them? If…
Get caught up on the latest technology and startup news from the past week. Here are the most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Jan. 5, 2025. Sign…
Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket stands on its Florida launch pad. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) UPDATE: Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture is delaying the planned debut of its…
Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket stands on its Florida launch pad. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) Blue Origin is counting down to the debut of its heavy-lift New Glenn rocket,…
Patrick Husting of Ghostwriter AI in the GeekWire offices in Seattle this week. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) This week on the GeekWire Podcast, Seattle-area software developer and AI entrepreneur…
JD Kaim, University of Washington computer science student and HuskySwap app developer. The University of Washington resolved a disagreement with a computer science student who went viral on LinkedIn for…
T-Mobile’s support trucks hit the streets in fire-threatened neighborhoods of Los Angeles. (T-Mobile Photo) T-Mobile has opened up direct-to-cellular emergency texting over SpaceX’s Starlink satellite network on a temporary basis…
Pandion’s technology assets include a universal label technology designed to enable for flexible delivery times and logistics. (Pandion Photo) Pandion, a Bellevue, Wash.-based delivery startup that got its start during…
Prakash Panjwani, CEO of WatchGuard Technologies, (WatchGuard Photo) Seattle cybersecurity company WatchGuard Technologies has acquired ActZero for an undisclosed sum, the parties announced this week. WatchGuard has bought numerous companies…
(BigStock Photo) Seattle-based real estate company Zillow Group laid off an unspecified number of employees, the company confirmed Friday. According to a statement from Zillow to GeekWire, the cuts impacted…
Kelly Goetsch, chief operating officer of Pipe17. (Pipe17 Photo) Pipe17, a Seattle startup that built a platform to manage e-commerce operations, announced today that it has raised a $15.5 million…
Mike Maples Sr. led Microsoft’s applications division in the late 80s and early 90s. (Photo courtesy Maples family.) Mike Maples Sr. faced no shortage of skepticism when he joined Microsoft…
As of the most recent Circana charts, Black Ops 6 was the No. 2 best-selling game of 2024, behind EA’s College Football 25. (Activision Image) It’s been a long, strange…
An Amazon data center in Oregon. (AWS Photo) Artificial intelligence and the data centers that drive the technology are booming with no end in sight. That’s putting mounting pressure on…
(GeekWire File Photo / Nat Levy) Redfin laid off 46 employees on Thursday, in another round of job cuts at the Seattle-based real estate company. A spokesperson confirmed the layoffs,…