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Seattle

Seattle vs. the Eastside: What’s driving Expedia’s big regional relocation

City officials in Seattle and Bellevue were careful to speak nicely about one another today as online travel giant Expedia… Read More

Check out this view: Inside Expedia’s new Seattle headquarters campus

Expedia this morning confirmed that it will move to Seattle, buying the former Amgen waterfront campus for nearly $229 million… Read More

Expedia confirms Seattle move, will buy Amgen campus for $229M, relocate from Bellevue by 2018

Breaking News: Online travel giant Expedia just confirmed that it will be moving its headquarters from Bellevue to Seattle —… Read More

Founder’s Co-op raises $20M, looks to spark more innovative startups in the Northwest

Over the past seven years, Founder’s Co-op has trumpeted the benefits of the Pacific Northwest entrepreneurial community more than most,… Read More

Lessons for Expedia: What it’s like to move an entire company to Seattle from the Eastside

Expedia employees know a thing or two about travel, but this is something else entirely. The online travel giant is reportedly… Read More

Here’s what Zillow CEO Spencer Rascoff thinks Seattle really needs

Seattle has brilliant engineers, huge tech titans and a world-class university that pumps out top computer scientists and engineers. And,… Read More

What’s up with Bertha? An update

  Ah, Bertha. So many of Seattle’s frustrations and hopes are wrapped up in your drama. Yesterday, Bertha’s cutter head… Read More

HBO expanding Seattle engineering office in advance of HBO Now launch

HBO has signed a lease that will quadruple its office space in Seattle, expand its engineering capacity in the region following a shakeup last year.… Read More

This data shows how Seattle, San Francisco, and Portland entrepreneurs think differently

Seattle-based entrepreneurs demonstrate more stable emotions and are better at coming to an agreement. Entrepreneurs in the Bay Area, however, are more conscientious,… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: EMP hosts George Takei for iconic sci-fi artifact exhibit launch

Sci-fi is in the spotlight. The genre has emerged from fringe to mainstream with blockbusters like Interstellar, The Hunger Games and J.J.… Read More

New era at Techstars Seattle: Chris DeVore puts stamp on incubator, raises $2.7M in quest for elite entrepreneurs

When Andy Sack handed the reins of Techstars Seattle to angel investor Chris DeVore in an emotional farewell last October,… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Emerald City ComicCon, Hacking the Commute, and more

Emerald City Comicon is returning March 27, just a few weeks before the highly anticipated Avengers: Age of Ultron premiere. And… Read More

Inside Palantir’s swanky Seattle launch event: Secretive big data company courts engineers

Palantir Technologies made its official entrance into the Seattle technology community last night with an upscale event in the Pioneer Square… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: State’s proposed drone laws fuel ‘Surveillance Society’ conversation

The Washington State House of Representatives passed several bills Wednesday that would impose new regulations on surveillance technology and drones. The legislation makes… Read More

Big data gets huge in Washington: Study ranks state 2nd in big data-related jobs

How big is the field of big data in Washington state? Pretty huge. An estimated 38,170 people work in big… Read More

Study: For every tech geek hired in Washington state, 7 jobs are added

There’s certainly no question that the technology industry is transforming Seattle. (Just take a look at the skyline in South… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Responding to Revenge Porn, The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, and more

Hunter Moore, the infamous revenge porn kingpin, pleaded guilty to hacking and theft charges this week. Moore, who rose to internet… Read More

CenturyLink exceeds initial estimates, expands Seattle gigabit Internet to five more neighborhoods

CenturyLink is declaring its initial Seattle rollout of gigabit broadband Internet service a success, and is beginning work to expand… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Legend of Zelda Symphony, Startup Weekend Ecommerce Edition, and more

The Legend of Zelda, Nintendo’s popular fantasy game franchise, is experiencing something of a revival in 2015. The gaming giant… Read More

Kristen Hamilton at Startupday 2015

Koru CEO Kristen Hamilton on failure and the importance of company culture

In the past few months Kristen Hamilton’s startup Koru expanded its services to Boston, made GeekWire’s Seattle 10 list of innovative new… Read More

Oculus is booming, too: Facebook-owned VR company reaches 100 employees in Seattle area

Facebook is growing quickly in Seattle, announcing this morning that it has topped 500 employees at its existing office next… Read More

Facebook confirms big Seattle office lease, space to be designed by Frank Gehry, with room for 2,000 people

Facebook Seattle confirmed this morning that it will be moving into a big new office building on Dexter Avenue in Seattle… Read More

Best Buy to open new tech development center in Seattle with room for more than 100 staffers

Consumer electronics retailer Best Buy is opening a new technology development center in Seattle, joining a legion of technology companies… Read More

Seattle’s KING-TV building sells for $42.5M, clearing way for more office towers near Amazon

The longtime home of KING-TV in Seattle, just up the street from Amazon’s headquarters in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood,… Read More

Cloud security company Alert Logic sets up Seattle office led by former Microsoft and Amazon vet

Another day, another tech company opens an office in Seattle. Alert Logic, a Houston-based security-as-a-service company with more than 3,000… Read More

This tech CEO doubts Seattle will dominate cloud computing — and he’s completely wrong

Nearly everywhere you go in Seattle’s technology community, there’s talk about how the city is transforming into one of the… Read More

Sears plans new Seattle engineering office, hires ex-Amazon execs for big home-services tech push

Sears is recruiting engineers for a new software development office in downtown Seattle, and the venerable retailer has hired a group… Read More

Rahul Sood at Startupday 2015

Former Microsoft Ventures head Rahul Sood: Seattle is ‘the best place’ to build a startup right now

According to Unikrn CEO and former Microsoft Ventures General Manager Rahul Sood, entrepreneurs building their companies in Seattle have a… Read More

Boston vs. Seattle: Redfin’s ‘City Showdown’ on the best place to live

This is a clever one: Redfin released a “City Showdown” today, comparing Seattle to Boston on many quality of life… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Sci-Fi + Fantasy Short Film Festival, How to Start a Startup, and more

Sci-Fi and Fantasy are playing an unprecedented role in the mainstream pop culture arena. Once a fringe subculture refuge, it would’ve been… Read More

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