Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is the seller of a $63 million mansion in Hunts Point, Wash., just east of Seattle, the Puget Sound Business Journal reported Thursday. The newspaper, which… Read More
[Editor’s Note: This story has been updated to reflect the circumstances under which each employee’s employment ended.] Microsoft fired a software engineer who disrupted the Friday event in Redmond where… Read More
President Trump’s recent tariff announcements have roiled global markets and left companies scrambling to adapt, including online retailers that ship products across borders. Seattle startup FlavorCloud is meeting the moment.… Read More
Microsoft and CO280, a Vancouver, B.C.-based startup, today announced a 12-year deal to capture and store carbon emitted from a U.S. pulp and paper mill. The tech company will pay… Read More
Startup radar time! Our latest spotlight on burgeoning startups out of Seattle includes companies developing real estate software, AI for consumer packaged goods brands, and kid-focused smartphones. Read on to… Read More
Seattle-based Brinc announced $75 million in new funding and a strategic alliance with Motorola Solutions, aiming to expand production and accelerate deployment of its emergency response drones for police and… Read More
Seattle startup Avalanche Energy plans to open a first-of-its-kind facility for commercial-scale testing of radioactive fusion technologies in Eastern Washington. The envisioned center, called FusionWERX, is a public-private partnership offering… Read More
Longtime Seattle-area investor Brianna McDonald is leading a new organization called Ecosystem Venture Group that blends startup investment funds with services for entrepreneurs and investors. McDonald has spent nearly two… Read More
This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we’re featuring highlights from a live interview with Nathan Myhrvold, CEO of Intellectual Ventures and former chief technology officer at Microsoft. Myhrvold worked at… Read More
In his 2024 Letter to Shareholders, released Thursday morning, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy introduces a new concept: Amazon’s “Why Culture,” or “YQ,” as he calls it. That’s his phrase for… Read More
If you’ve already tried everything to reduce the amount of time you spend scrolling on social media, perhaps a Portland startup has the motivator to finally get your attention, or,… Read More
What happens when the AI senses the frustration or joy in your voice? A new speech-to-speech AI model from Amazon, called Nova Sonic, unifies speech recognition and generation to deliver… Read More
This story originally appeared on Real Estate News. In a move designed to “create an even playing field,” real estate listings that are publicly promoted to consumers but not made widely… Read More
Long before the stock market ups and downs and the global economic uncertainty caused by President Donald Trump’s ever-changing tariff policies, Seattle-based laser engraver maker Glowforge made a decision to… Read More
Avante officially launched Tuesday, hitting a milestone in the startup’s journey to shake up how companies manage spending on employee benefits. GeekWire initially covered Avante as it emerged from stealth… Read More
— Grant Goodale is jumping back into trucking. The Convoy co-founder announced Tuesday that he is now chief product and technology officer at Ryder, a Florida-based logistics giant. Goodale previously served… Read More
Researchers say they’ve accomplished a feat that was said to be impossible 46 years ago: mapping the cells in a cubic millimeter of brain tissue and tracing their activity. The… Read More
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy’s total compensation reached $40.1 million in 2024, due largely to strong gains in the company’s stock price that boosted the value of the shares he vested… Read More
— Rathi Murthy, former chief technology officer for Expedia, is now CTO for Varo Bank, a digital financial institution based in San Francisco. Murthy was previously a CTO at Verizon… Read More
When investors assess a potential startup, they examine the business model, the total addressable market, the competitive moats, and many other factors. But especially for early stage companies just getting… Read More
Kelly Smith is making another startup leap as the founder of Hedfirst, a new telehealth company aiming to help patients that need migraine medication. Hedfirst offers specialized prescription medication for… Read More
The Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) released a new tool that links AI-generated text to training data, aiming to improve transparency and accountability in artificial intelligence by addressing one of… Read More
In the face of new tariffs, many of Washington state’s tabletop, board, and card game developers have sounded alarms over what may prove to be an existential threat to their… Read More
A team of students from the University of Washington is developing self-charging drones that use AI to survey electrical lines to look for potential threats that could knock out power… Read More
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture has been awarded $2.4 billion in the U.S. Space Force’s latest round of procurement for future national security launches. “It’s an honor and huge… Read More
