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Vote for Workplace of the Year: Startups employ various methods in their commitment to culture

Respect. Inclusion. Satisfaction. Employee-centric. Our judges for the Workplace of the Year category at the 2024 GeekWire Awards used a… Read More

Bill Gates-backed Likewise launches AI-powered Pix ‘personal entertainment companion’

Likewise, the Seattle-area content recommendation startup that spun out of Bill Gates’ private office five years ago, launched a free… Read More

Likewise launches ChatGPT plugin to use AI to recommend TV shows, movies, books and more

Likewise, the Bellevue, Wash.-based entertainment discovery platform, is tapping into ChatGPT to leverage AI and find more information and recommendations… Read More

Tech Moves: VMware exec joins Darktrace; Zillow hires Twitter marketing leader; Oregon Venture Fund adds partner

— Seattle-area tech executive Denise Walter was appointed chief revenue officer at cybersecurity firm Darktrace. Walter will join the company… Read More

Startup’s ‘Likewise Arcade’ taps into ‘Wordle’-style popularity to gamify streaming TV and movies

The guessing game is coming to Likewise, the Seattle-area startup that offers personalized picks for movies, TV series and other… Read More

Likewise launches new ‘entertainment hub’ to bring personalized streaming TV access across devices

Likewise, the Seattle-area startup backed by Bill Gates, announced the launch of Likewise TV on Tuesday, a personalized entertainment hub… Read More

Bill Gates-backed startup Likewise expands to TVs, bringing content picks and lists to living room

Likewise, a Seattle-area startup that offers personalized picks for movies, TV series and other content, has released a new TV… Read More

What should you watch next on TV? Even Bill Gates seeks advice, so startup Likewise steps in to help

Remember when people used to say, “There’s nothing good on TV”? That may still be the case, but man, there… Read More

Tech Moves: Algorithmia lands former Atlassian and InfluxData execs; GitHub hires former Google Cloud leader

Rachel Potvin signed on with Microsoft-owned GitHub as vice president of engineering. Potvin most recently led the data insights group… Read More

Tech Moves: Vacasa adds chief financial and information security officers; Likewise hires UX director

Portland-based vacation rental company Vacasa named two new C-suite executives: Jim Grube is the new chief financial officer and Jeff… Read More

Recommendations startup Likewise emerges from Bill Gates’ private office, letting friends track and share their favorite things

A new startup cooked up by one of Bill Gates’ top executives, hatched in his office and funded by the… Read More

Exclusive: The inside details on EMC’s $36M purchase of Likewise Software

Few details were available last week when EMC purchased Likewise Software. Now, GeekWire has learned that EMC’s Isilon unit paid $36.6… Read More

EMC’s Isilon division buys storage software company Likewise

The Isilon Storage Division of EMC Corp. is expanding its footprint in its own backyard, gobbling up Bellevue software storage… Read More

Likewise sells key product lines, switches focus to storage software

Likewise Software, a Bellevue-based open source software company backed by Ignition, Intel and Trinity Ventures, has sold off its Likewise… Read More

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