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Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz stepping down, to be replaced by tech vet Kevin Johnson

BREAKING NEWS: Longtime Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz will be stepping down as the coffee giant’s top leader in April 2017, handing over the… Read More

Venture capitalists urge Trump to make entrepreneurship a priority in open letter

The tech community didn’t rally to Donald Trump’s side during his campaign — with a few notable exceptions — but… Read More

Washington state insurance commissioner says free HR software from Zenefits is illegal

Washington state Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler on Thursday ordered Zenefits to stop offering its free insurance software and said it violates… Read More

Napster partners with iHeartRadio to build new on-demand music streaming service

Boston-based iHeartMedia is launching a new on-demand music streaming service powered by Napster. iHeartRadio All Access is $10 a month… Read More

Airbnb concedes to housing activists in two cities, limiting number of days entire homes can be rented

Airbnb and affordable housing advocates are fighting a battle in cities around the world. Today, Airbnb made a big concession that… Read More

Drake and Rihanna top Spotify’s most-streamed list of 2016

Embed from Getty Images It was all about Drake and Rihanna on Spotify for 2016. The music streaming service revealed… Read More

Amazon unveils ‘AWS Organizations’ for managing multiple AWS accounts, courting big businesses

LAS VEGAS — Amazon Web Services made its first product announcement from its re:Invent 2016 conference here this evening, unveiling a new… Read More

Germany’s PTScientists team up with Seattle’s Spaceflight for moon mission

A German team that’s going after the Google Lunar XPRIZE has secured a contract with Seattle-based Spaceflight to get its rover-carrying lander to the… Read More

Could Airbnb take on Expedia? New ‘Trips’ tool goes far beyond home-sharing, signaling big ambitions

Airbnb is undergoing a remodel. At the Airbnb Open in Los Angeles, CEO Brian Chesky announced Trips, which allows travelers… Read More

Seattle becomes nation’s hottest housing market, driven by tech boom

It’s official, folks. Seattle’s housing market is the hottest in the nation, according to new data from The S&P Case-Shiller… Read More

Cyber Monday online retail sales top $3.4B, making it the biggest online shopping day in history

Cyber Monday this year was the biggest online shopping day in history. According to data compiled by Adobe, online shoppers spent… Read More

Starbucks, Microsoft and others pledge more than $3M to shelter homeless families in Seattle region

Starbucks, Microsoft, Alaska Airlines, Expedia, Nordstrom and other businesses in the Seattle region announced contributions totaling more than $3 million… Read More

AT&T and DirecTV target cord cutters with new mobile-oriented streaming service, DirecTV Now

AT&T and DirecTV pulled the lid off their new streaming service Monday: DirecTV Now. The service is aimed at cord… Read More

Chinese drone maker DJI to open new authorized retail store in Seattle area

DJI, a Chinese-based company that makes and sells drones, will open its first “authorized retailer” in Washington state at the Marketplace… Read More

Worst Word of the Week: ‘Drive’ as a verb is hugely over-used and just plain boring

[Editor’s Note: Worst Word of the Week is a regular GeekWire feature spotlighting the pretentious, unnecessarily complex, buzzword-laden, imprecise-but-precise-sounding language that plagues… Read More

For young women in Afghanistan, learning to code means learning to be free

And now for some good news. Fereshteh Forough reminds you about all the wonderful things technology can make happen. This… Read More

Uber and Lyft criticize new Seattle proposal to decide which drivers could vote to unionize

The city of Seattle Wednesday released a set of proposals that aim to settle some of the toughest questions in the landmark… Read More

Comcast is adding competitor Sling TV to X1 set-top boxes

Sling TV and Comcast are joining forces. The on-demand and live TV service, which has helped many people ditch Comcast, will… Read More

Online jeweler Blue Nile opens fifth brick-and-mortar showroom, this time near its HQ in Seattle

Blue Nile continues to expand its physical retail presence. The Seattle-based online diamond seller, which is set to be acquired… Read More

Xbox One streaming for Oculus Rift VR headsets coming Dec. 12

Xbox One players will soon be able to strap on an Oculus Rift virtual reality headset to further immerse themselves… Read More

High praise, and a joke, as President Obama awards Bill and Melinda Gates with Medal of Freedom

Bill and Melinda Gates were awarded with the Presidential Medal of Freedom during a ceremony at The White House on… Read More

PayPal co-founder Max Levchin joins OfferUp funding round as Craigslist rival pulls in more cash

OfferUp continues to attract big-time investor interest. And the latest backer of the Bellevue-based online marketplace is a fixture in… Read More

Social robot Jibo delayed yet again as Amazon Echo continues to define smart speaker market

Backers of the “social robot” Jibo received disappointing news last week as Jibo CEO Steve Chambers announced another shipping delay… Read More

Study: Seattle is middle of the pack in tech sector job growth

Seattle has been consistently ranked as one of the best tech markets in the country recently, but by at least… Read More

Is AI evil? No, and that question distracts us from the real concerns, says AI2’s Oren Etzioni

At times, modern artificial intelligence still feels like science fiction. A few decades ago, the kind of AI programs of… Read More

Comcast increases internet speeds for customers in Washington and eight other states

Comcast is increasing speeds for customers in Washington and eight other U.S. states who subscribe to its most popular Xfinity internet services. The company… Read More

Seattle police, neighbors use technology to fight vehicle prowls

Erik Karlson was reading the news on his phone on Oct. 15 a few minutes after 1 a.m. when a… Read More

How Donald Trump’s win could change the trajectory of commercial space ventures

President-elect Donald Trump’s advisers say they want to rely more on commercial ventures to pioneer the space frontier – but some of… Read More

HTC cutting jobs in Seattle region as part of broader restructuring, sources say

HTC, the smartphone maker and burgeoning virtual reality player, appears to be in the middle of a round of layoffs… Read More

How altruism can help employers attract millennials

“Employee engagement, employee volunteerism is an HR issue,” Ben Reuler told a crowd of professionals and community organizers in downtown… Read More