Emery Wager, back right, with fellow U.S. Marines during one of his tours of Afghanistan. (Photo courtesy of Emery Wager) [Editor’s note: “Tech Vets: Profiles in Leadership and Innovation,” is a…
Starbucks’ headquarters in Seattle. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Starbucks is cutting 1,100 corporate positions as part of a bid to create “smaller, more nimble teams,” CEO Brian Niccol wrote…
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 Feb. 16, 2025. Sign…
Qualterra’s carbon-trapping biochar being applied to an apple orchard. (Qualterra Photo) There’s a pleasing circularity to Qualterra’s ag-tech operations. The Eastern Washington company takes crop and forestry wastes, applies a…
This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we discuss Microsoft’s quantum breakthrough; a Washington state bill to regulate Uber and Lyft surge pricing and driver pay; the latest update to the…
Kapta Space co-founders Adam Bily (left) and Milton Perque. (Kapta Photo) Kapta Space, a radar technology startup based in Seattle, raised $5 million in a seed round led by MetaVC…
Michael Sherman, SVP of Zillow Rentals, and Cynthia Taylor, Zillow VP of agent software and advertising. (Zillow Photos) — Seattle’s Zillow Group promoted two leaders to senior vice president positions.…
Ali Farhadi, CEO of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, speaks at the Tech Alliance State of Technology annual luncheon in Seattle, May 2024. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop)…
Clockwise from top left: Privacy License founder Nabanita De; Mvue founder Payal Tiwana; Saturday founder Michelle Howe; and Pansophy founder Anshu Dwibhashi. We’re back with another spotlight on new startups…
The actors who have portrayed James Bond over time, from left: Roger Moore, George Lazenby, Daniel Craig, Pierce Brosnan, Timothy Dalton, and Sean Connery. (Image via Amazon) Will James Bond…
Amazon introduced its Chime meeting app in 2017. (Amazon Image) There will be no more apologies about Chime from Amazon employees to outsiders joining their meetings. That ritual of logging…
Elvert Barnes photo via Creative Commons. After a big sporting event or arena concert, fans flood city streets in search of a Lyft or Uber ride. To help meet demand,…
Inside Overland AI’s new factory in south Seattle. (Overland Photo) Seattle startup Overland AI is bringing manufacturing operations close to home with the opening of a 22,000 square-foot facility that will help…
The latest update to the GeekWire 200 reveals which companies are growing quickly and making moves up our list of top-ranked Pacific Northwest tech startups. Sales software company Highspot (No.…
Pinch offers in-home medical-grade concierge aesthetics services such as tox, chemical peels and microneedling. (Pinch Photo) Pinch, a Chicago-based, tech-enabled service that facilitates in-home medical spa treatments, has expanded to…
Edge Delta CEO Ozan Unlu accepts the GeekWire Award for CEO of the Year in 2024. (GeekWire File Photo / Kevin Lisota) Time’s running out to help us select the…
Over 1 billion images and controller actions from players of Bleeding Edge were used as training data for Muse, a new genAI model from Microsoft that could be a game-changer…
Microsoft’s new “Majorana 1” processor (pronounced my-or-ana) is the first quantum chip powered by a topological core based on a new class of materials. (Photo by John Brecher for Microsoft)…
Lumotive CEO Sam Heidari. (Lumotive Photo) Lumotive, a Redmond, Wash.-based startup that manufactures semiconductor chips tailored for 3D sensors, raised $45 million in a Series B round. Gates Frontier, an…
In practice, taxes on short-term rentals are typically passed on to the guest as part of the total booking cost. Short-term rentals in Washington state are being targeted for funds that…