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Study: Startup ecosystems across the country are bouncing back — but there’s more work to be done

The Great Recession struck a major and lasting blow to entrepreneurship but the nation’s startup ecosystem appears to finally be… 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

PBS documentary shines a light on Nikola Tesla as the hero of a geek tragedy

The writer and producer behind tonight’s documentary about Nikola Tesla admits that he didn’t even know who the inventor was when… Read More

Obama goes into full (and feisty) geek mode at White House Frontiers Conference

President Barack Obama stated the obvious today during what almost sounded like a farewell address to the tech community he… Read More

Guest post: Seattle should start looking at homelessness as an innovation opportunity

Profiting from the homeless feels wrong but with more and more people struggling to put a roof over their heads… Read More

Bill Gates urges presidential candidates to invest in long-term innovation

This year’s election season has been full of sound bites, scandal, and a decent amount of finger pointing, but amid the… Read More

Q&A: Why Gov. Jay Inslee believes the technology industry should be on his side

When it comes to innovation, Gov. Jay Inslee is asking Washington voters to help him finish what he started. Related:… Read More

University of Washington ranks No. 5 among the world’s most innovative universities

Reuters is back with its annual list of the world’s most innovative universities and the University of Washington once again… Read More

Intellectual Ventures’ invention network spins out and reinvents itself as Xinova

There’s a “new, new” name in the invention business: Xinova, a company that’s been spun out from Intellectual Ventures and… Read More

Q&A: Washington state gubernatorial candidate Bill Bryant on CS education, tech jobs, and trade

(Updated at 11:45 a.m. to clarify and add comments from Gov. Inslee’s campaign). Bill Bryant says he has a plan… Read More

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos joins tech titans on Pentagon’s innovation advisory board

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is joining the Defense Innovation Advisory Board, a 15-member panel that’s meant to help the Pentagon… Read More

Bill Gates: Why young entrepreneurs are Africa’s greatest hope

Bill Gates believes countries throughout Africa can obtain economic prosperity and fairly distributed wealth — but only by mobilizing the… Read More

Naveen Jain’s BlueDot innovation factory fills out $10.1 million funding round

BELLEVUE, Wash. – BlueDot, the “innovation factory” founded by serial tech entrepreneur Naveen Jain, says it has completed a $10.1… Read More

Bill Gates: This is what the U.S. presidential candidates should really be focusing on

With an eye toward presidential politics and what’s been lacking in the run-up to the November election, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates… Read More

Guest commentary: Can we predict the innovative needs of the future?

There are some questions that are really interesting, challenging and stimulating — but also unanswerable. And when we ask whether… Read More

Where is that sound coming from? Signal Interface’s acoustic imager will show you

Not even the click of a pen or the rustle of a shirt goes undetected by Signal Interface Group’s acoustic… Read More

Here are the 9 startups in the Techstars Seattle 2016 class

Over the next three months, nine early-stage startups will hone their solutions under the mentorship of the Techstars Seattle accelerator. At… Read More

Study: Entrepreneurs with direct flight access to venture capital backers are more likely to succeed

A new study from MIT discovered that startups are more likely to succeed when their venture capital backers are connected to… Read More

Guest commentary: Why the startup model is best for innovation

“Clockspeed” is a term of art from the computer industry; it means the operating speed of a microprocessor, the rate… Read More

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China Diary: Catching up with GeekWire’s Taylor Soper in Beijing

GeekWire reporter Taylor Soper is in the second week of his reporting trip to China, where he has been meeting with… Read More

Amazon makes Thomson Reuters’ list of top innovators for the first time, IBM drops off

Amazon was named to Thompson Reuters’ annual list of the Top 100 Global Innovators on Thursday, marking the first time the… Read More

GeekWire goes to China: Are Chinese tech companies innovative?

When you think of Chinese technology companies, does the word innovative come to mind? This complicated issue is one of the… Read More

Lithium-air battery comes one step closer to electric car nirvana

A decade from now, we could all be driving low-cost electric cars for hundreds of miles without recharging, thanks to… Read More

Commentary: Seattle’s next major breakthrough — democratic innovation

Seattle is at a crossroads right now. And, as described in a recent New York Times article, it can go… Read More

Geek of the Week: UW innovation ambassador Vikram Jandhyala is cultivating the next crop of entrepreneurs

University of Washington administrator Vikram Jandhyala has been one of the driving forces behind the Global Innovation Exchange, a new Bellevue, Wash.-based technology… Read More

Study: Women are way more skeptical of tech advances than men

Talk to any entrepreneur or technology executive, and you’ll hear stories about how technology is changing the world for the… Read More

Here are the 16 student-led teams that advanced in the University of Washington’s business plan competition

Wireless routers. Influenza diagnostic tools. And even a new recipe for healthy sauerkraut. Those are among the 16 finalists who advanced… Read More

Counterpoint: Seattle has given ride sharing companies ‘a huge gift’

I like and respect Greg Gottesman. But his recent GeekWire post about the upstart, out-of-state taxi companies — Hey, Seattle,… Read More

Hey, Seattle, why stop with ride-sharing? Cap these 10 other innovations while you’re at it

In a 9-0 decision Monday, the Seattle City Council voted to cap the number of UberX, Sidecar and Lyft drivers… Read More

Meet the Seattle 10: These innovative startups are looking to change the world

Seattle is ripe with innovation. From aerospace to biotechnology to software to retail, startup companies in this moss-covered part of… Read More