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Week In Geek Podcast: An epic week for startup funding, and the Space Needle gets a makeover

Seattle startups raked in hundreds of millions of dollars in the past week alone — for businesses as varied as… Read More

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Week In Geek Podcast: Amazon cozies up with Best Buy, and trouble for Donkey Kong champion

Amazon made a surprise move this week: A new partnership with longtime retail rival, Best Buy. The companies are partnering… Read More

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Week in Geek Podcast: What’s next for Facebook?

The fallout around data privacy scandals has put Facebook in a tough spot. After CEO Mark Zuckerberg spent two days… Read More

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Week In Geek Podcast: What will it take for us to quit Facebook?

Facebook is still reeling from the revelation that a British firm, Cambridge Analytica, improperly used millions of its users’ data.… Read More

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Week in Geek Podcast: Why Amazon cut hundreds of jobs the same week it became a $700B company

Amazon cut hundreds of jobs this week, but the company is still increasing its workforce overall, and market value continues… Read More

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Week in Geek Podcast: Our lunch with Anthony Bourdain, Microsoft’s campus revamp, and Big Fish jumps again

On this episode of the Week In Geek podcast, we go behind the scenes with GeekWire co-founders Todd Bishop and… Read More

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Week in Geek Podcast: Seattle’s Hail Mary for Amazon HQ2, and why it doesn’t include Seattle

Seattle, home to Amazon’s headquarters, is officially in the running to be the home for its second HQ. Well, kind of.… Read More

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Week in Geek Podcast: Satya Nadella’s new book, Twitter goes to 280, and our trip to Microsoft’s mysterious new office

For anyone curious about the inner workings of Microsoft, Satya Nadella’s new book, “Hit Refresh,” is an interesting read. The… Read More

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Week in Geek Podcast: Why everyone hated this Amazon patent, Seattle’s Airbnb tax, Equifax FAQ

Patents are pretty unpopular in the software world, and this week one of the most unpopular patents ever — held by… Read More

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Week in Geek Podcast: Uber’s CEO surprise, a milestone in the fight against cancer, and more

It was an unusually busy week for news in the world of business, technology and science. Join us on this… Read More

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Week In Geek Podcast: Amazon reveals its Whole Foods plan and the psychology of how we use apps

It’s official: Amazon’s acquisition of Whole Foods will finalize Monday, and the tech giant is already planning big changes for… Read More

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Week in Geek: Disney and Facebook vs. Netflix, Dota 2 letdown, and Shake Shack meets Amazon

What’s your go-to streaming service? Netflix still reigns supreme when it comes to watching shows online, but Hulu, Amazon and… Read More

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Week In Geek Podcast: Microsoft bets its future on AI, and scientists discover the cause of allergies

There was a grab bag of interesting headlines this week, but we’ll start with a big change at one of… Read More

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Week in Geek: Everything we know about Microsoft’s layoffs and Redfin’s IPO announcement

It might have been a holiday week, but it was still a busy one for the Seattle tech scene. First… Read More

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Week in Geek: NASA’s super-quiet supersonic jet and Zillow battles McMansion Hell architecture blog

You don’t hear many sonic booms these days, for good reason — commercial supersonic planes, which can travel incredibly fast while… Read More

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Week in Geek: We finally get to try AmazonFresh Pickup, and your driver’s license might be coming to your smartphone

Thursday morning, we awoke to a surprise: AmazonFresh Pickup, the company’s previously secretive grocery pickup service, was finally opening to… Read More

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The Week in Geek: A historic Echo-to-Echo call, a new direction for Windows, and tech’s ‘megalopolis’

Alexa, Amazon’s artificial intelligence assistant, is getting smarter by the day. Her most recent trick is pretty impressive: users can now… Read More

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Week in Geek: Microsoft’s ‘gorgeous’ new laptop, Apple’s giant cash pile, and nerdy basketball math

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=6&v=74kPEJWpCD4 Microsoft is known for its utility tools: Windows, Office and the like. What it’s not known for is design. But… Read More

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Week in Geek: Facebook tries telepathic typing, inside an Amazon greenhouse, and more

Are you ready to type with just your brain? Facebook revealed this week that it’s working with a team of more… Read More

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The Week in Geek: How Starbucks and Amazon are becoming more alike

Starbucks and Amazon, two of Seattle’s iconic corporate giants, started off very different from each other. At heart, Starbucks is… Read More

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The Week in Geek: AmazonFresh Pickup, a world without Uber, and Xbox 360 at the Supreme Court

You might have noticed GeekWire has been reporting — rather a lot — on a pair of secretive drive-up grocery store… Read More

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The Week in Geek: To Snap or not to Snap? Plus, how AWS broke the internet

If you tried to use any service on the internet Tuesday, you likely discovered it was down. Now we know… Read More

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Week in Geek: Tech vs. Trump

While the tech industry had never been particularly warm to candidate or President Trump, industry leaders made it clear after… Read More

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The Week in Geek: Envelop VR closes its doors; drone crashes into the Space Needle; and more

Seattle is proud of its growing virtual reality community and already boasts several promising VR and AR startups. But the young… Read More