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FAA puts key Amazon, UPS, Facebook and Google execs on Drone Advisory Committee

Gur Kimchi, the vice president of Amazon’s Prime Air drone delivery operation, has been named along with a variety of… Read More

Geek on the Street: What is the name of Microsoft’s search engine?

Back in 2009, GeekWire co-founders Todd Bishop and John Cook took to the streets of Seattle and asked random passersby a simple question: What… Read More

Google acquires French machine learning startup Moodstocks in image-recognition push

Google announced today it has acquired Paris-based machine learning startup Moodstocks to work on smartphone image and item recognition. Moodstocks says… Read More

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GeekWire Radio: Sen. Elizabeth Warren challenges tech giants, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s book deal, and more

This week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast: U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren, a possible running mate to Hillary Clinton, criticized… Read More

Amazon enables voice activation for new Alexa ‘skills,’ as third-party capabilities expand

It just got a lot easier to for users add a new skill to Alexa, the voice-activated brain that powers… Read More

Google hires Box exec Sam Schillace to help run its cloud engineering operations

Google has hired Sam Schillace to help run its cloud engineering operations, company spokesperson Michael Moeschler confirmed today. As the… Read More

Google Cloud Platform adds beta support for standard SQL and more

A new beta of BigQuery, Google Cloud Platform’s data warehousing and analysis service, lets database administrators use standard SQL rather… Read More

Google engineering leader Peter Wilson leaves for OfferUp to scale fast-growing Craigslist rival

Peter Wilson had no qualms with his role at Google, heading up the tech giant’s engineering operations out of its… Read More

Apple, Microsoft and Google hold 23% of all U.S. corporate cash, as tech sector accumulates wealth

Apple, Microsoft and Google are the top three cash-rich U.S. companies across all sectors of business, not including banks and… Read More

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GeekWire Radio: Star Trek at 50, Facebook booms in Seattle, and TechStars startup highlights

This week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast: Insights from Jeff Bezos at Amazon’s annual meeting, a roundup of… Read More

Google’s new messaging and video chat apps, Allo and Duo, to compete with Skype and FaceTime

Google didn’t just announce an Amazon Echo competitor today; it also debuted Skype-like messaging and video chat platforms, called Allo and… Read More

First look at Google Home, the search giant’s Amazon Echo challenger

Google unveiled its Amazon Echo competitor, the Google Home, at Google I/O today. Just like the Echo, the smart speaker connects with… Read More

Google goes after Facebook with Spaces, a new app for small groups

Social media makes it easier than ever to connect with millions of people around the globe. But with the rise… Read More

Google working on its own rival to Amazon’s Echo smart speaker

Amazon has seen growing success with its AI assistant Alexa and the Echo smart speaker she powers, and now other… Read More

Shorter ads coming to YouTube as pressure from Facebook mounts

The 30 seconds it takes to get through a video ad can seem like a lifetime in a world where… Read More

Microsoft and Google call a truce, agree to withdraw regulatory complaints against each other

Microsoft and Google have agreed to withdraw all regulatory complaints against each other, and take steps to short-circuit any disputes in… Read More

Podcasts come to Google Play Music on Android and the web

Podcasts, in case you hadn’t noticed, are hot. Not only are exciting new podcasts launching seemingly every day, but the distribution… Read More

Google’s April Fools’ Day prank goes off the rails, pulled after claims of job loss

April Fools’ Day has morphed from a fun day for playing pranks to an all-out blitz of advertising disguised as (bad)… Read More

Microsoft Office 365, Google Apps in use together for many enterprises

Microsoft has held its dominance in the software market in part because it is the go-to provider for many business… Read More

Facebook glitch spooks users far from Lahore bombing by asking if they’re ‘affected by explosion’

Imagine the wave of dread and confusion that might charge through someone in New York or London if out of… Read More

Revealed: Filings provide inside look at Google’s planned Seattle complex near Amazon’s HQ

Amazon will soon have a new neighbor in the form of a fellow tech giant. As GeekWire reported on Thursday, Google plans… Read More

Google to move to new 4-building complex in Amazon’s backyard in Seattle, developed by Paul Allen’s Vulcan Inc.

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s Vulcan Inc. investment company will develop four six-story office buildings for Google in Seattle’s South Lake Union… Read More

Google reportedly working on Amazon Echo competitor amid slowdown in Nest division

The biggest surprise out of Amazon in recent years was the Amazon Echo, a smart Bluetooth speaker powered by Alexa, an AI… Read More

President Obama says Google has a deal to deliver broadband to Cuba. Many Americans can only look on with envy

Apparently, citizens of a long-time pariah state and communist dictatorship — a country where only five percent of homes are… Read More

Google’s intention to sell Boston Dynamics could be opportunity for Amazon Robotics

If Google is frightened of robots that could one day take jobs away from humans, Amazon certainly hasn’t shown the… Read More

Google mulls cloud acquisitions, playing catch-up with Amazon and Microsoft in the enterprise, report says

Tech news site Re/Code says it has learned the names of some of the firms that Google is considering acquiring to… Read More

Google wins patent for ‘bus detection,’ less than a month after its self-driving car hit a bus

Oh, the irony. Just a few weeks after Google’s self-driving car hit a bus in its hometown, the search giant… Read More

Amazon puzzled by leak claiming Apple is moving to Google Cloud Platform

Yesterday, a report from tech news publication CRN alleged that Apple is moving some of its cloud spending from Amazon Web… Read More

From Tennessee to SF Bay Area, hopes crushed for expanding broadband competition

The past week has been full of setbacks for those striving to boost competition among broadband suppliers and provide consumers… Read More

T-Mobile adds YouTube as ‘Binge On’ partner, overcoming objections with changes to controversial program

Post updated at 7:30 a.m. with comment from YouTube. T-Mobile says it has added YouTube as an official partner for the… Read More