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Sonic Boom? Why the tech industry should care about Seattle’s efforts to revive its NBA team

Editor’s Note: Jeff Shulman, a University of Washington Foster School of Business marketing professor, hosts Seattle Growth Podcast. His second season explores… Read More

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The Week in Geek: Rover’s big acquisition, Bezos family’s record-breaking gift, and Pokemon Go’s surprising benefits

It was a busy week in Seattle — from startups to major research institutions to dogs. Rover.com, one of Seattle’s most… Read More

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Father, son and AI bonding: A conversation with Amazon’s Alexa and the family she has joined

A week after my 10-year-old son received Amazon’s Echo Dot for his birthday, I started taking a look at what he… Read More

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The Week in Geek: How Starbucks and Amazon are becoming more alike

Starbucks and Amazon, two of Seattle’s iconic corporate giants, started off very different from each other. At heart, Starbucks is… Read More

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What’s really happening with tech funding: A conversation with EY’s Greg Beams

The tech boom is powering the Seattle region’s economy, with thousands of people moving to the area to work for companies… Read More

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Geared Up: Apple tweaks iPad lineup, unveils new Clips app, and introduces Red iPhone

Apple came out with a flurry of announcements this week — unveiling a cheaper 9.7-inch iPad, more storage in the iPad mini… Read More

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The Week in Geek: AmazonFresh Pickup, a world without Uber, and Xbox 360 at the Supreme Court

You might have noticed GeekWire has been reporting — rather a lot — on a pair of secretive drive-up grocery store… Read More

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GeekWire Podcast: Inside the Slack Wars, as Microsoft and Google get serious about enterprise chat

If you’re not familiar with Slack, odds are you don’t work at a startup. This messaging platform has been taking… Read More

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Geared Up: Nintendo Switch sees early success, fast food goes high tech, and the next iPad

It was a busy week in gadget news. The Nintendo Switch scored an early win as the best console launch in the… Read More

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A conversation with Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen: ‘It really is a golden age of what’s possible’

If Paul Allen were just starting out in computer science today, he might not know where to start. Robotics, artificial intelligence, computer… Read More

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A little moment in GeekWire history: Watch us launch your favorite tech news site six years ago today

Six years ago today, GeekWire was born. It may sound cliché, but it is hard to believe that six years… Read More

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Geared Up! The new Xbox Game Pass, and the future of smartphone design

It’s going to be a formative year for smartphones: the highly anticipated Samsung S8 and the upcoming LG G6 are just two… Read More

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The Week in Geek: To Snap or not to Snap? Plus, how AWS broke the internet

If you tried to use any service on the internet Tuesday, you likely discovered it was down. Now we know… Read More

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Hands-on with the new Nintendo Switch and ‘Zelda: Breath of the Wild’

It’s here! Nintendo’s long-awaited console, the Switch, officially goes on sale Friday, March 3, but we got our hands on… Read More

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‘Upstarts’ author Brad Stone on Uber’s scandals, Airbnb’s regulatory fight, and lessons from Amazon

When it comes to disruption, Brad Stone wrote the book. Twice. The best-selling author of The Everything Store, a detailed account… Read More

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Interview: ‘American Spies’ author Jennifer Granick on the quest for privacy in the age of surveillance

The internet has made information easily accessible, and we normally see that as a good thing. Making bank transfers online… Read More

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Geared Up! Apple Music’s new TV deals, the war over wireless data plans, and a PC the size of an iPhone

Apple Music isn’t the place you would expect to find reality TV. But this week, the music streaming service announced… Read More

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Full Interview: Bill Gates on global health, clean energy, Trump, Microsoft and the future of the world

Nearly a decade after leaving his full-time job at Microsoft, Bill Gates sat down with GeekWire for an extensive interview… Read More

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Week in Geek: NBA goes big into eSports, and free shipping is costing Amazon big time

If you’re an eSports skeptic, hold onto your hats: the NBA announced this week that it is adding eSports teams… Read More

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GearedUp gets dressed up with a pair of Seattle’s first Snap Spectacles and a smart bike helmet

They’re here! Snapchat’s mysterious vending machine, the “Snapbot,” finally made an appearance in Seattle this week. The machines are the… Read More

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Q&A: Tech evangelist Robert Scoble predicts mixed reality devices will largely supplant smartphones

Virtual and mixed reality technology is developing even more rapidly than many anticipated. For some, that’s a nightmare scenario, a… Read More

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Q&A: Concur co-founders on their new venture, and the transformation of Seattle’s startup scene

When Raj Singh and Mike Hilton co-founded Concur with Steve Singh more than two decades ago, the technology startup scene in Seattle… Read More

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Week in Geek: Tech vs. Trump

While the tech industry had never been particularly warm to candidate or President Trump, industry leaders made it clear after… Read More

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Concur co-founders on their new healthcare tech adventure, and why the space is so interesting to disrupt

Raj Singh and Mike Hilton are best-known for Concur — the travel and expense management company they co-founded with Steve Singh… Read More

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Week in Geek: Microsoft takes on the DOJ, inside Amazon’s giant post-holiday party, and more

Microsoft and the U.S. Department of Justice are once again battling things out in court. But unlike their duel back… Read More

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GearedUp! What really happened to the Note 7, a way to locate lost AirPods, and the tangled world of music streaming

Eight months after reports began circulating of Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 catching fire, the company has released a detailed report… Read More

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Week In Geek: Snapchat’s new Seattle office, legal drama for drones, and more

It was quite a week for Seattle’s commercial real estate world. Snap Inc., the parent company of popular messaging app… Read More

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‘Last Week in Trump’: Newsletter distills the hyper-partisan news to create empathy on both sides

Sol Villarreal knows a thing or two about socio-political bubbles. He grew up in rural Texas as a religious conservative… Read More

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GearedUp! Nintendo Switch is filled with fun gadgetry, but is it worth the price?

Last week, we finally got hard details on the launch of Nintendo’s newest game console, the Nintendo Switch. And while… Read More

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The Week in Geek: Envelop VR closes its doors; drone crashes into the Space Needle; and more

Seattle is proud of its growing virtual reality community and already boasts several promising VR and AR startups. But the young… Read More

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