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Straight outta Linux: Cloud tech conference KubeCon will feature hip-hop star at ‘Ice Cube-Con’

Will Tuesday be a good day? It will be for those attending KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in Seattle this week if… Read More

Oracle expanding in Seattle with big new office lease, escalating cloud battle with Amazon

Post updated with comments from Oracle Oracle is significantly boosting its presence in Amazon’s backyard with a new lease in… Read More

Future battles against cancer will expand tech frontiers, Fred Hutch’s chief says

The fight against cancer isn’t just about drugs and genetics. It’s also about wearable devices, health-savvy chatbots, machine learning and… Read More

Clobotics raises $5M and opens office in Seattle area for drone data monitoring

Small drones, big data and computer vision: That’s the tech-frontier trifecta for Clobotics, a Shanghai startup that says it’s raised… Read More

Here’s how venture capitalists are thinking about cloud computing companies and technologies

Cloud computing is changing the technology world and creating opportunity for hundreds of new companies — so how are investors… Read More

Human and computer vision unite to help Microsoft engineers stop traffic deaths

In the U.S., car crashes kill roughly 40,000 people a year. That’s a loss of life equivalent to four to… Read More

Cloud Computing wins again; this time, as a 13-1 shot at the Preakness

Embed from Getty Images Most days of the week it’s a sure bet, but on Saturday, Cloud Computing was a… Read More

Trump signs cybersecurity executive order, mandating a move to cloud computing

President Donald Trump today signed a long-awaited executive order aimed at beefing up cybersecurity at federal government agencies – with a… Read More

The Nature Conservancy and Microsoft bring tech innovations to environmental efforts

The Nature Conservancy is teaming up with Microsoft to bring machine learning and other tech innovations to the environmental group’s… Read More

Is this ‘as good as it gets’ for Amazon? Analyst downgrades stock after strong quarter

Following yesterday’s positive earnings report, Amazon is well on its way toward hitting $1,000 a share, but one firm is… Read More

‘Watch your back, Jeff Bezos’: Amazon sparks laughs on HBO’s ‘Silicon Valley’

HBO’s “Silicon Valley” comedy series presents a California-centric view of how tech is done (and undone), but Amazon CEO Jeff… Read More

Amazon Web Services plays role in NASA’s first ultra-HD live video from space

NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson stars in the highest-resolution video ever broadcast live from the International Space Station, bur Amazon Web… Read More

Amazon Web Services to open data centers in Sweden in 2018, continuing global growth

Amazon Web Services said it will open data centers in Sweden next year to serve customers in Nordic countries such as… Read More

IBM announces new data center in China, aims to use Watson to beat out cloud competitors

The cloud is becoming a bigger part of IBM’s business, and the technology giant is expanding its data center offerings.… Read More

Google Cloud touts new customers, reliability and machine learning — says it’s ‘here for real’

Google is on a mission to become a leading option for businesses making the shift to the cloud, and in the wake of… Read More

Microsoft will give Azure customers access to 10,000 patents to fight lawsuits

Microsoft will help its cloud computing customers fight lawsuits from patent trolls. As an added benefit to those paying for Microsoft… Read More

‘AWS on premises’ provider Stratoscale acquires database-as-a-service company Tesora

Cloud infrastructure startup Stratoscale is expanding its database services platform. The Israel-based company has acquired database-as-a-service provider Tesora, the companies announced… Read More

How cloud computing boosts NASA’s quest to explore the final frontier

When one of NASA’s top geeks talks to the cloud-computing geeks at Amazon Web Services’ re:Invent conference, you can bet… Read More

Drawn by cloud giants, New Zealand-based Raygun opens offices in Seattle

A New Zealand-based software-as-a-service company, Raygun, has joined the numerous other firms putting boots on the ground in Seattle to stake… Read More

F5 Networks dives further into the cloud in new expansion of its business

Seattle’s F5 Networks has done well by helping medium-sized and large companies improve the security and speed of their software,… Read More

Amazon Web Services to cut compute prices, continuing the decline in cloud costs

Amazon Web Services will cut the cost of its EC2 basic compute services among a limited number of regions by… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Celebrate the cloud at CloudNativeCon; GeekWire Radio Live at Fred Hutch; and more

The Seattle region may be known as the birthplace of Microsoft Windows and the seat of Amazon’s e-commerce empire, but the… Read More

Microsoft’s cancer moonshot: Debug the disease as if it’s a computer glitch

Microsoft researchers are doing a bug bash on cancer, complete with software code names like “Project Hanover.” Some of them… Read More

Sorry, Microsoft: Cloud price wars are still raging and will continue, researcher says

Competition to offer lower-cost cloud services hasn’t ended — in fact, the price wars may just be getting underway, according to an analyst… Read More

Carbon-free cloud: Microsoft sets ambitious goals for renewable energy

REDMOND, Wash. – Microsoft is kicking up its targets for environmentally sustainable cloud computing by pledging that half of the electricity… Read More

Amazon’s cloud computing cash cow: AWS, now a $10B business, fuels record quarter for company

Amazon is happy about its cloud computing business, and so are investors. The Seattle-based company crushed analyst expectations for its… Read More

Interview: Why Microsoft is suing the U.S. Justice Department over cloud secrecy

Microsoft this morning filed suit against the U.S. Justice Department, seeking to overturn a provision of U.S. law that allows… Read More

HP, Microsoft and others invest $73.5M in Mesosphere cloud computing company

Mesosphere, a Silicon Valley cloud computing startup, announced today that it has raised a $73.5 million Series C funding round. The… Read More

Seattle is one of the hotspots to troll for cloud-computing talent, says NY Times

Because cloud computing is hot, because Seattle is home to some of the most advanced cloud-computing services, and because companies… Read More

Amazon spent $690 million on acquisitions in 2015, new filing shows

Amazon spent a total of $690 million on acquisitions in 2015, most of it in cash, according to the company’s annual… Read More