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Tech

Latin American video giant Samba Tech opens Seattle office, launches new app

Samba Tech, a Latin American online video distributor, is opening a Seattle office and launched a new app this week. The… Read More

12 things Seattle can teach others about jobs, economic development and building a better city

[Editor’s Note: Tren Griffin, a longtime member of the Seattle region’s technology community, responded earlier this week to New York-based venture… Read More

Microsoft gives teachers free early access to new Minecraft: Education Edition

Minecraft, the wildly popular game that lets users create infinite worlds, is undoubtedly on many students’ minds as last days… Read More

Q&A: Product Hunt COO Corley Hughes on the emergence of ‘tech’s new tastemaker’

When Corley Hughes left her position as a general manager for Microsoft to become Product Hunt’s COO, she went from one… Read More

‘Mr. Robot’ Preview: Predictions for an unpredictable season 2

“Mr. Robot” season two is just around the corner, and I have to admit, this fanboy is getting antsy. The… Read More

Podcast

Q&A: Convoy CEO Dan Lewis on lessons learned from Amazon, and disrupting the trucking industry

In a little more than a year, on-demand trucking startup Convoy has raised nearly $19 million from a high-profile group of investors.… Read More

Microsoft’s Minecraft surpasses 100M units sold, second only to Tetris on all-time hit list

Minecraft, the beloved game that Microsoft acquired two years ago, has sold over 100 million copies to date. Microsoft announced… Read More

Working Geek: How Zillow Group COO Amy Bohutinsky gets her best ideas

As chief operating officer for Zillow Group, Amy Bohutinsky spearheads learning and development for the Seattle-based real estate media company’s 2,400… Read More

GeekWire Sports Tech Summit: Last chance for early-bird tickets

Major League Soccer Commissioner Don Garber. NFL CIO Michelle McKenna-Doyle. And Super Bowl champion Doug Baldwin Jr. of the Seattle… Read More

Generation App: Why Facebook’s WhatsApp is the world’s most powerful messaging platform

What’s up with WhatsApp? With more than 1 billion users across the globe, the app is by far the world’s most… Read More

Geek of the Week: Timothy Crosley is a champion of open source technology

When Timothy Crosley isn’t working on security solutions for DomainTools, he devotes his time to open source projects. He runs… Read More

Microsoft outlines new policies for dealing with terrorist content

The threat of terrorism has escalated the age-old battle between national security and individual rights — and technology companies are often… Read More

Amazon’s Jeff Bezos on the Fire Phone: ‘We’re working on much bigger failures right now’

Jeff Bezos loves failure. He often describes it as a necessity for invention, innovation, and eventually success. Fortunately, Bezos has… Read More

Trump warns of tech bubble, says current market is ‘very strange’ 

Donald Trump is worried about a tech bubble. In an interview with Reuters, the Republican frontrunner shared his concerns that high-priced… Read More

LinkedIn’s huge password leak even bigger than originally thought

QUICK: What was your LinkedIn password in 2012? OK, now think of every password you have set on every service you use… Read More

Seattle

Despite booming tech industry, Seattle falls short on list of cities most prepared for a ‘technological revolution’

You might think that a vibrant startup ecosystem, industry titans Microsoft and Amazon, and a top international research university make Seattle… Read More

AI2 CEO calls for ‘full disclosure’ in artificial intelligence after students learn their TA is really a bot

A class of students at the Georgia Institute of Technology recently learned that Jill Watson, the teacher’s assistant they’d been… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Reflect helps developers add data visualizations to their apps

While noodling on startup ideas last year, Brad Heller and Alex Bilmes made a serendipitous discovery. They realized they were independently… Read More

Tech troubles hit Seattle’s one-day GiveBIG philanthropic campaign

Update: The Seattle Foundation will extend its GiveBIG campaign through Wednesday, May 4. (See statement below). Seattle’s annual GiveBIG charitable… Read More

Reinventing the electric bike: GeoOrbital goes ‘Tron’ with new wheel

Think of the fabled “Tron” light racers from the movies and games of the same name and you’ll have an… Read More

More than half of South Lake Union tech workers live outside of Seattle, Zillow finds

Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood has become a microcosm of the changes and challenges the city faces. Many see it… Read More

Geek of the Week: Ada Academy grad Liz Rush is passionate about developer evangelism

In January of last year, Liz Rush began studying software development in the first class of Ada Developers Academy, a… Read More

Miitomo: The good, the bad, and the ugly in Nintendo’s first app

When I try to sum up Miitomo, Nintendo’s first-ever mobile app, the best way I can think to do it… Read More

It pays to work in STEM: Seattle had the highest annual wage growth in the country

Seattle’s thriving tech industry is driving a population boom, attracting large numbers of transplants to its fast-growing job market. A… 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

Internal email: Microsoft launches investigation into Xbox ‘schoolgirl’ dancer incident; ‘We are not going to tolerate this,’ says HR chief

Microsoft’s top executives were “embarrassed and appalled” upon seeing photos of female dancers in schoolgirl outfits at a Microsoft Xbox-sponsored event at… Read More

Study: Seattle has the 5th-highest concentration of crazy-rich millennials

Tech brings in big, young money. That’s according to a new report from Zillow, which ranks the top U.S. cities… Read More

Login with a selfie? Amazon has a snappy idea to replace online passwords

Amazon thinks passwords are on the outs, and the company has a vision for the future of authentication: Selfies. The e-commerce giant… Read More

‘Gender inequity? Not at my company’: Tech workers deluding themselves on pay gap, new study finds

Exceptionalism — the idea that as an individual or society we’re separate (and better) than our peers — is a… Read More

Craigslist challenger OfferUp on pace for more than $14B in transactions this year

When OfferUp launched four years ago, aiming to take on industry titan Craigslist, it looked a lot like David challenging… Read More

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