8:00 AM PDT GeekWire Weekly8:00 AM PDT Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of April 24, 2022
10:40 AM PDT Podcast The next big challenge for robots: Insights from the new director of CMU’s Robotics Institute
8:00 AM PDT Civic8:00 AM PDT How Bellevue’s tech hub is similar to Silicon Valley — and what they can learn from each other
7:56 AM PDT Health/Life Sciences7:56 AM PDT Life sciences news: COVID-19 shot clinical data, Bill Gates on preventing the next pandemic
2:10 PM PDT Impact Series2:10 PM PDT Coinstar’s Jens Molbak wants to teach innovators and entrepreneurs a new way of doing business
12:42 PM PDT Startups12:42 PM PDT Report: Prudential’s $2.35B acquisition of Seattle insurance tech startup Assurance has gone ‘sour’
10:07 AM PDT Tech10:07 AM PDT It’s such a good feeling, a very good feeling, for Pittsburgh to know it didn’t win Amazon HQ2
9:07 AM PDT Amazon9:07 AM PDT Amazon adds ex-NFL star to ‘Thursday Night Football’ broadcast team, announces first matchup
7:00 AM PDT Games7:00 AM PDT Seattle gaming startup Polyarc grows team as it brings ‘Moss: Book 2’ to Oculus
4:53 PM PDT Health/Life Sciences4:53 PM PDT Investment firm offers to buy Vancouver, B.C.-based biotech Zymeworks for $733M in cash
4:04 PM PDT Startups4:04 PM PDT DubHacks Next Demo Day brings student innovators center stage at Univ. of Washington
3:43 PM PDT Amazon3:43 PM PDT How Amazon ended up with too much warehouse space — and what it’s planning to do next
2:23 PM PDT Tech Moves2:23 PM PDT Rajeev Rajan, former engineering lead for Meta in Seattle, is joining Atlassian as CTO
1:26 PM PDT Amazon1:26 PM PDT Amazon stock sinks 10% after Q1 earnings as costs rise amid inflation, supply chain pressure
1:22 PM PDT Transportation1:22 PM PDT Lime upgrading its fleet of e-scooters and e-bikes in Seattle; move to swappable battery is key change
1:11 PM PDT Civic1:11 PM PDT USPS sued by states for purchasing gas vehicles, allegedly violating environmental law
11:31 AM PDT Podcast Ungrading? Letting kids teach IT? GeekWire Award-winning STEM teachers share innovative strategies
10:35 AM PDT Microsoft10:35 AM PDT Activision Blizzard shareholders approve $68.7B deal with Microsoft
10:05 AM PDT Microsoft10:05 AM PDT Univ. of Washington team will compete for $100K in Microsoft Imagine Cup final
9:01 AM PDT Health/Life Sciences9:01 AM PDT Studies on respiratory infections, type 1 diabetes, boosted with $17M to Benaroya Research Institute
8:31 AM PDT Tech8:31 AM PDT ‘We’ve literally run out of human beings’: Robots rise in wake of pandemic and labor shortages
6:05 AM PDT Startups6:05 AM PDT Seattle startup ModusBox raises $7.5M to meet demand for its financial services integration tech
8:26 PM PDT Microsoft8:26 PM PDT Microsoft President Brad Smith on the Russian invasion of Ukraine and ‘the world’s first hybrid war’
4:48 PM PDT Startups4:48 PM PDT Climate tech startup funding: UW-spinoff BattGenie, Microsoft vet, and weeding robot raise fresh cash
12:48 PM PDT Amazon12:48 PM PDT Amazon earnings preview: Analysts bullish despite rising costs and inflation
12:30 PM PDT Amazon12:30 PM PDT Seattle Mariners to use Amazon’s ‘Just Walk Out’ and palm-scanning tech in new stadium market
11:47 AM PDT Geek Life11:47 AM PDT Seattle entrepreneur launches ‘JoySauce’ to spotlight American Asian talent
9:00 AM PDT Tech Moves9:00 AM PDT Tech Moves: Ex-Microsoft manager joins DroneSeed; former WSJ columnist lands at Amazon
8:00 AM PDT Geek Life8:00 AM PDT Seattle tech worker creates card game ‘Let’s Get Real Bro’ to tap into real talk on men’s mental health
6:06 AM PDT Tech6:06 AM PDT T-Mobile reaches 1M home internet users a year after launch; overall Q1 revenue tops $20B
