Tech – Page 12 of 306

Microsoft hits $3 trillion market valuation for the first time ever

Microsoft, welcome to the $3 trillion club. The Redmond tech giant reached a milestone Wednesday as its market capitalization reached… Read More

Cutaway view of Zeno Power's radioisotope power system

Zeno Power teams up with Westinghouse on radioisotopes for nuclear power system

Zeno Power says it has selected Westinghouse Electric Co. to process the radioisotopes for its heat sources — creating a… Read More

Walmart lays off 62 people in Seattle area as part of innovation unit shutdown

Walmart is laying off 62 corporate workers in Washington state as part of the closure of Store No8, its innovation-related… Read More

First Mode diesel-electric hybrid vehicle undergoing test drive

First Mode reduces workforce as it revises its vision for lower-emission heavy trucks

Editor’s note: This story and GeekWire’s Layoff Tracker were updated to reflect that 42 U.S.-based employees were laid off. Seattle-based… Read More

Blackstone’s $2.3B acquisition of Rover clears regulatory hurdle

Seattle-based publicly traded pet sitting giant Rover announced that its $2.3 billion acquisition to Blackstone took a key step toward… Read More

Zulily’s downfall: How the high-flying online retailer soared, sank, and shut down

For hundreds of people once associated with Zulily, their time at the Seattle-based online retailer was meaningful and formidable —… Read More

Travel planning startup led by longtime tech investor combines human insight and AI

Kirkland, Wash.-based travel tech company Steller raised $5 million to launch a new planning feature in its app called “Trips”… Read More

Cybersecurity company ExtraHop raises $100M, names new execs

Cybersecurity company ExtraHop announced $100 million in new funding from existing investors, as well as the hiring of two C-suite… Read More

BMW tests Amazon’s Alexa LLM for ‘car expert’ that answers questions and changes drive modes

Can artificial intelligence replace the owner’s manual? At the CES trade show in Las Vegas this week, BMW is demonstrating… Read More

Astound Broadband outage impacts Seattle-area customers

Astound Broadband customers in the Seattle area were left without internet over the weekend after the company said power pole… Read More

NanoString Technologies to cut 9% of workforce, gets delisting notice from Nasdaq

Seattle-based publicly traded biotech company NanoString Technologies said in a filing Friday that it plans to cut about 50 positions,… Read More

Univ. of Washington set to break ground on 69-acre redevelopment to create Seattle innovation hub

The University of Washington this year expects to break ground on a new building that will anchor an ambitious, innovation-focused… Read More

I had a blast playing ‘Squid Game Virtuals’ at a VR arcade — but here’s why I likely won’t return

After years of hype, virtual reality still hasn’t achieved mainstream consumer adoption. But it sure helped my group of friends… Read More

Zulily transfers assets to professional liquidator as failed retailer unable to issue refunds

The latest chapter in the meltdown of Zulily is reading like a bad holiday fairy tale. The Seattle online retailer — battered… Read More

Meet Ramberto Torruella, a former Navy submarine officer who is now CTO at famed radio station KEXP

As a teenager growing up in northern Virginia in the late 1980s, budding saxophonist and composer Ramberto Torruella faced an… Read More

Zulily lays off more employees as website and app remain offline

Zulily made more job cuts Wednesday, GeekWire has learned, the company’s second round of layoffs in the past two weeks… Read More

These computer science seniors defied tradition to win the first hackathon they ever entered

Once a staple of the startup world, the in-person hackathon was one of the collective habits that fell out of… Read More

E-commerce company Kaspien, previously known as Etailz, is shutting down and laying off staff

Kaspien Holdings, a publicly traded company that helps online brands boost sales on Amazon and other e-commerce platforms, is closing… Read More

Self-driving company Cruise will lay off 67 workers at Seattle-area engineering hub

Self-driving technology company Cruise is laying off 67 employees at its Bellevue, Wash., engineering center, part of widespread cuts at… Read More

Zulily website inaccessible and ‘down for maintenance’ following layoffs

Follow-up: Zulily lays off more employees as website and app remain offline Zulily’s website was “down for maintenance” Monday in… Read More

Pacific NW National Lab opens AI center to concentrate on science, security, energy

The Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is shining a brighter spotlight on artificial intelligence by creating the Center… Read More

Jeff Bezos on AI: Large language models are ‘not inventions, they’re discoveries’

Jeff Bezos sat down for an extensive and wide-ranging discussion with Lex Fridman about his life, work, the future of… Read More

Salesforce-backed cybersecurity startup Oleria is raising more cash

Oleria, a Seattle startup helping companies manage employee access to applications and data, is raising more cash, according to a… Read More

‘Just infuriating’: Online retailer Zulily flip-flops, now plans to lay off employees amid holidays

Zulily employees received notice last week that they’d lose their jobs in February. But many of them were surprised Wednesday… Read More

Nintex acquires Skuid, a low-code application development platform

Bellevue, Wash.-based workflow automation company Nintex has acquired Skuid, a Chattanooga, Tenn.,-based low-code application development platform.

As Zulily promotes ‘going out of business sale,’ longtime employees reflect on retailer’s impact

A message on Zulily’s website this weekend confirms that the online retailer is closing its doors, the latest stage in… Read More

Zulily’s closure of fulfillment centers in Ohio and Nevada will impact more than 500 workers

Zulily will lay off more than 500 employees as part of its decision to close fulfillment centers in Lockbourne, Ohio,… Read More

Zulily shutting down offices and laying off 292 employees in Seattle

Zulily is laying off employees and closing three offices — including its Seattle headquarters — according to internal communications obtained… Read More

Zulily hit with lawsuits from vendors and more layoffs in latest trouble for struggling retailer

FOLLOW-UP: Zulily shutting down offices and laying off 292 employees in Seattle Zulily is laying off more employees and facing… Read More

Redfin AI tool allows home shoppers to virtually redesign rooms

[This story originally appeared on Real Estate News.] Imagining what a home might look like can be tough for would-be buyers. However, a… Read More