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Working Geek: Bitlume CEO Lakshmi Shankar is building a new type of video startup

When Lakshmi Shankar was working as a technology consultant she noticed a recurring problem. Clients often had trouble integrating paid… Read More

Amazon’s hit show ‘Transparent’ is coming back for a fifth season

Transparent, the Emmy award-winning video series that tells the story of the Pfeffermans, is coming back for a fifth season,… Read More

Instagram phone drop

Here’s the video you need to make you feel better about every time you’ve broken your phone

I follow an Instagram feed called Drunk People Doing Things because it serves as a reminder that sobriety can sometimes… Read More

Diamond ring effect

Did you miss totality? Relive the solar eclipse’s climax in this 3-minute video

MADRAS, Ore. – Some skywatchers spend thousands of dollars on telescopes, cameras and other hardware to document a solar eclipse. John… Read More

Amazon is shutting down Lovefilm by Post, the DVD service once called the ‘Netflix of Europe’

Today, Amazon is hammering another nail into the coffin of DVDs with the closure of its “Lovefilm by Post” business.… Read More

Startup Spotlight: KLIK Boks wireless presentation connector is designed to save time in meetings

Throughout his 20-year career developing and launching products for professional sound systems, Costa Lakoumentas constantly found himself impeded by a simple technical… Read More

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Facebook and Disney join Amazon on quest to dethrone streaming king Netflix

In 2007, a dot-com era rebel by the name of Netflix launched an online streaming platform — and with it, a… Read More

‘Top Gun’ star Tom Skerritt takes aim at Hollywood, raises cash for new Seattle entertainment startup

Heyou Media, a new startup launched by luminaries from Seattle’s tech and entertainment worlds, is raising cash to fuel the… Read More

Amazon is launching a home improvement show using YouTube stars to sell stuff

Would you buy a couch because your favorite YouTube star recommended it? Amazon is betting your answer is yes. The… Read More

Video: French grocer parodies Amazon Go, claiming checkout-free shopping is nothing new

Amazon is creating a lot of unrest in the grocery world. The company has its fingers in many pots in… Read More

Is Make.TV the new Elemental? Seattle video cloud startup raises $7.2M

Seattle’s Make.tv, a cloud-based video management portal, has raised $7.2 million in new funding and aims to raise a total… Read More

Seattle Startup Anthem

Rapping CEOs drop ‘Seattle Startup Anthem’ as a gift, to inspire entrepreneurs to dream big

Two Seattle-area CEOs, billing themselves as “startup rappers,” have released an anthem aimed at the region’s entrepreneurs to inspire them… Read More

Amazon partners with UC Berkeley for first foray into investigative journalism

Amazon is getting into the news business, once again proving that the company’s appetite for new industries knows no limits.… Read More

Amazon abruptly cancels trailblazing ‘Style Code Live’ shopping show

“Style Code Live,” Amazon’s experiment with a QVC-style show for the internet era, has been canceled. The news was first… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Cancer survivors join forces for social video startup Splainers

The odds of surviving stage III Hodgkin’s lymphoma are about four-to-one. The odds of two people beating that cancer and… Read More

Video streaming marketplace uZoom acquires Creator Republic

One-on-one video streaming platform uZoom has acquired Creator Republic for an undisclosed sum. UZoom is a Seattle startup that connects viewers in remote… Read More

Report: After long dispute, Apple TV will finally add Amazon Video app

Anyone with an Apple TV has likely noticed the conspicuously absent Amazon Video app. The device, which allows viewers to… Read More

Amazon is giving Prime memberships to the entire population of Manchester-by-the-Sea

Updated at 9:10 a.m. to reflect the correct location of the giveaway. “Manchester by the Sea” was a big win for… Read More

$K UHD video feed from space

First live ultra-HD video from space features oohs, ahhs and zero-G ping pong

NASA and AWS Elemental showed off something completely different from the International Space Station today: the first live video in ultra-high-definition… Read More

Instagram 700 million

Instagram adds another 100M users faster than ever to reach 700M monthly actives

Instagram’s growth is showing no signs of letting up. The Facebook-owned photo- and video-sharing platform announced Wednesday that its community… Read More

Scene from "UW in Motion"

Hyperlapse video shows off UW’s campus in all its speeded-up, fly-through glory

What is hyperlapse? Like the bullet-time realm of “The Matrix,” hyperlapse videos provide an unorthodox perspective on time and space – and you… Read More

Netflix

More than half of connected U.S. households watch video streaming services as Netflix faces increasing competition

Streaming services, like Netflix, are revolutionizing the way people consume video content. More than half of U.S. households connected to… Read More

Why Amazon is spending $4.5B on video this year — and how it compares to competitors like Netflix

Amazon will dedicate an estimated $4.5 billion on video content this year, narrowing the spending gap between the Seattle e-commerce giant… Read More

Amazon Spheres drone

Watch dramatic new video shot by a drone flying high over the Amazon Spheres in Seattle

Rudy Willingham, a Seattle drone photographer with a thing for architecture, has captured dramatic new video footage of the Amazon… Read More

Apple’s new millennial-minded ‘Clips’ video-editing app could be a game-changer

Could this be a plot twist in Act Three? While we were all watching Facebook’s attempts to take on newly-public… Read More

Drone film festival

Watch these drone film festival winners to see what’s possible with the high-flying technology

A film festival out of New York dedicated to the art of drone cinematography went to great heights to pick… Read More

Facebook launches virtual reality app that serves as a hub for 360 photo and video

Facebook has launched a hub for 360 photos and videos, as the social media giant continues to double down on… Read More

Listen up, Facebook users: Videos will now automatically play with sound in the News Feed

Your Facebook feed is about to get a lot louder. Facebook on Tuesday announced a series of updates to the… Read More

Video: Watch a journey to Jupiter created by amateur astronomers around the globe

While NASA’s Juno orbiter is giving Jupiter its close-up, a new video based on more than 1,000 images taken by… Read More

Zuckerberg calls video a ‘megatrend’ as Facebook expands focus and looks at ‘episodic’ content

You’re going to start seeing more video in your Facebook feed. In Wednesday’s quarterly earnings call, CEO Mark Zuckerberg confirmed… Read More

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