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IoT

Optio3 raises $2.5M for enterprise IoT operations management software

Seattle startup Optio3 has raised $2.5 million for its enterprise IoT management software that helps real estate and transportation companies gain… Read More

Commercial IoT provider Rigado raises $15M to roll out ‘edge-as-a-service’ tech

Rigado has raised a $15 million investment round to fuel growth of its commercial IoT technology products and services. Founded… Read More

Microsoft adds decade-long Windows support and other services for IoT device makers

Microsoft is doubling down on its Internet of Things operating system, showing a new set of services designed to support… Read More

TLDR: Cortana-Alexa integration, Bono invests in Seattle startup, Oculus Go first impressions

[Editor’s Note: TLDR is GeekWire’s daily news rundown, hosted by Starla Sampaco. Watch today’s update above, subscribe to GeekWire on YouTube for every… Read More

Microsoft pledges $5B Internet of Things investment over 4 years

Microsoft said Wednesday it plans to invest $5 billion in the complicated-but-exciting world of Internet of Things over the next… Read More

Myriota communications system

Boeing HorizonX joins $15M funding round for Australia’s Myriota IoT satellite venture

Boeing’s HorizonX venture capital arm has made its first investment outside the U.S., as part of a $15 million Series… Read More

What’s holding back the Internet of Things? Power

[Editor’s Note: This guest post is by Larry Arnstein, a former Impinj business and marketing executive who is now an entrepreneur… Read More

Long March launch

Kepler Communications’ first satellite expands ‘Internet of Things’ to space

News Brief: Toronto-based Kepler Communications says its first Ku-band telecommunications satellite is in working order after a Jan. 19 launch… Read More

Skin patch

Breakthrough backscatter sensor system combines low power and long range

Researchers at the University of Washington have been working for years on a radio backscatter system that can monitor ultra-low-power… Read More

Seattle-area IoT software startup C-Labs acquired by German industrial giant

C-Labs Corp., a Bellevue, Wash. maker of industrial Internet of Things software, has been acquired by German industrial giant TRUMPF… Read More

Seattle startup vet Rob Lilleness acquires Smartlabs, investing $7.3M in the home automation company

As CEO of Medio Systems, Rob Lilleness led the predictive analytics startup through 10 years of growth and an acquisition… Read More

Wireless tech company Rigado raises $3M to expand overseas and grow IoT product line

Rigado, a Portland company that provides wireless services for Internet of Things (IoT) companies, has secured $3.3 million in seed… Read More

Inside Sonos’ Seattle office, where the music is bumpin’ and the team is growin’

Sonos, the high-tech connected speaker maker that opened a Seattle office about two years ago, is turning up the volume… Read More

Big cities see early benefits from the Internet of Things, and grapple with ongoing challenges

As many of the world’s biggest urban centers implement Internet of Things (IoT) technologies in a quest to become “smart cities”… Read More

Startup Spotlight: CuePath Innovation’s IoT device helps seniors stay on top of medications

After witnessing his grandmother’s trying health scares caused by mismanaging her pills, Victor Lesau decided to put his engineering background… Read More

Concur CEO Steve Singh’s next venture: A smart corporate credit card with touchscreen and battery

Concur Technologies made a name for itself streamlining and simplifying expense reports, and now its longtime CEO Steve Singh is… Read More

Smart devices, stupid mistakes — how to make sure you’re really wiping all that sensitive data

The past few years have been big for the Internet of Things (IoT), and the future of the connected device… Read More

IoT Home Inspector Challenge

You could win $25,000 in FTC’s contest for Internet of Things cybersecurity thingies

The Internet of Things can be a rough neighborhood, as October’s massive botnet attack illustrated – and so, in an attempt… Read More

Microsoft vets raise $2M to manage internet-connected devices in commercial buildings

  Four Microsoft veterans have teamed up to create Optio3, a Seattle-based startup aimed at building a web-based service that helps… Read More

BrightVolt raises $5M to open new funding round for ultra-thin, flexible batteries

BrightVolt, a Redmond, Wash., based startup developing ultra-thin batteries, announced the beginning of a Series B round of funding, starting… Read More

Microsoft is building a ‘smart fridge’ for not-so-smart grocery shoppers, like me

I’m not great at grocery shopping. I almost always forget something and at least once a week my boyfriend has… Read More

Resin.io, a DevOps vendor for the Internet of Things, scores $9M from Ericsson, GE and others

Resin.io, a Seattle-based startup that helps Linux-based developers more easily update the software in internet-connected devices, has received $9 million in funding… Read More

The future of machine learning: 5 trends to watch around algorithms, cloud, IoT, and big data

Algorithms. Cloud. Internet of Things. Data. No one can predict the future of technology with 100 percent accuracy. But these… Read More

Image: Internet of Things jet engine

Microsoft extends the ‘Internet of Things’ to jet engines, refrigerators and more

Soon the “Internet of Things” will be keeping watch on jet engines, refrigerators and freezers, factory floors and more, thanks to… Read More

Sirqul raises another $3M as it expands IoT solutions to China

Sirqul, the Seattle startup focused in part on improving the Internet of Things, is looking to expand its services in… Read More

New Starbucks CTO: Technology is creating ‘hyper-connected’ coffee shops, personalized for each customer

Starbucks hired its new chief technology officer, Gerri Martin-Flickinger, just four months ago. While she’s new to the coffee chain, she already… Read More

Startup Spotlight: IoTfy bills itself as the ‘WordPress for Internet of Things’

Hardware companies big and small are looking at the Internet of Things (IoT) as the new frontier. As our devices… Read More

Low-power Passive Wi-Fi system wins high praise for UW researchers

Computer scientists and engineers from the University of Washington say they’ve figured out a way to generate Wi-Fi transmissions using 10,000 times… Read More

Sirqul launches platform to build IoT devices with an Amazon Web Services backend

In the internet of things, the “things” are largely functional, but the “internet” still needs some work. Companies can come up with sensors,… Read More

Stratospheric view

Get in touch with the stratosphere through Microsoft’s Pegasus II balloon mission

How high can the Internet of Things go? Microsoft Research plans to extend the IoT into the stratosphere with its… Read More

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