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New app from Placed lets you earn airline miles by sharing location data

If you’re willing to have your smartphone location tracked for research data, Placed wants to give you free airline frequent flyer… Read More

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Planetary Resources vs. OSIRIS-REx: Watch asteroid hunters play Xtronaut game

Watching a couple of guys play a board game on streaming video may not sound exciting – unless those two guys… Read More

Parallels to offer new ‘Toolbox for Mac’ utilities as $10/year standalone subscription

Parallels plans to offer a new set of “Toolbox for Mac” utilities as a standalone subscription for $9.99/year — providing 20… Read More

Hotel operator accuses Expedia of diverting customers with misleading ads in ‘brazen’ bait-and-switch

A California hotel operator has filed suit against against Expedia, alleging that the online travel giant buys search and social media advertising for… Read More

Ed Murray

City of Seattle awards $320,000 to programs bringing tech to underserved communities

While Seattle is renowned for its role as a global tech hub, many communities in the city still have little or no… Read More

Sprint CEO calls T-Mobile CEO a ‘con artist,’ accuses rival of copying new unlimited data plan

Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure and T-Mobile CEO John Legere don’t seem to like each other. The bitterness between the two… Read More

Seattle councilmembers spar with city staff over timeline for landmark Uber union law

A Seattle City Council committee denied a request from city staff Wednesday for an additional six months to figure out some… Read More

Moz cutting 28 percent of its workforce as it shifts focus back to SEO

Seattle-based Moz, a 12-year-old maker of marketing software, will cut 28 percent of its workforce as part of a broader… Read More

Casting call: We’re looking for Seattle’s geekiest kids to star in a fun video for this year’s GeekWire Summit

Legos. Pokemon. Minecraft. Robots. Science. Space travel. If you’ve got a geeky kid who can’t get one (or all) of… Read More

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T-Mobile teases ahead to surprise press conference call on Thursday

T-Mobile will hold a surprise press conference call on Thursday morning, but it’s unclear what exactly will be announced. The Bellevue-based… Read More

Tableau beefs up data analytics and enterprise tools with ‘significant’ release of Tableau 10

Tableau today released Tableau 10, the newest iteration of the company’s data analytics and visualization software. Tableau 10 brings about… Read More

Barnes & Noble CEO gone after less than a year, as bookseller struggles to keep pace with Amazon

Ronald D. Boire, the former Sears executive who was named CEO of Barnes & Noble less than a year ago,… Read More

Mainstream Windows 10 PCs to support virtual reality under expanded Microsoft-Intel partnership

Virtual reality may soon go mainstream following an announcement Tuesday that Microsoft and Intel are laying the foundation for VR-ready PCs.… Read More

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Healthcare company Accolade’s next Czech-up: a new engineering office in Prague

Earlier this year, Philadelphia-based healthcare company Accolade opened a second headquarters in Seattle to attract some of the region’s talent. Accolade is… Read More

Biotech firm OncoGenex sees stock sink 40% after unsuccessful clinical trial

OncoGenex, a pharmaceutical firm based in Bothell, Wash., announced today an unsuccessful end to their phase 3 clinical trial of an… Read More

Highest-paying jobs in tech: Seattle tops list for software engineers, analysts

Seattle is the best place for software engineers, data analysts, and quality analysts to earn a living. That’s according to… Read More

Uber expands UberEATS restaurant delivery service beyond Seattle to Eastside

Uber’s food delivery service is expanding in the Seattle area. The company announced today that UberEATS is now available on… Read More

Lenovo introduces super-charged Windows 10 PCs ready for VR gaming

Lenovo is bringing virtual reality to the desktop PC with the announcement Tuesday of two new high-powered, gaming-oriented computers. Both… Read More

Google launches Duo video-calling app to compete with Skype and FaceTime

Skype and FaceTime have a new competitor. Google today launched Duo, its new 1-to-1 live video messaging app for iOS… Read More

WRQ spinout NetMotion Wireless sells again, this time to private equity powerhouse The Carlyle Group

NetMotion Wireless, a Seattle-based producer of mobile performance management and security software, has been sold to Washington D.C.-based asset management… Read More

Galvanize raises $45M to expand web development and data science training programs

Galvanize, a Denver-based company that offers startup office space and education programs, said Monday it has raised $45 million in a… Read More

Z2, a subsidiary of Activision Blizzard, cuts jobs to better align with ‘strategic goals’

Z2, the Seattle-based game studio acquired by King Digital Entertainment last year, has cut jobs in its support functions group. Founded… Read More

Leroy Hood

How biotech visionary Leroy Hood redefined the industry: Q&A with biographer Luke Timmerman

In the quest for a better understanding of the human body, the automated DNA sequencer was a breakthrough innovation, giving… Read More

Inside Pinterest’s new Seattle hub: How the company is trying to stand out in a sea of engineering centers

Mukund Narasimhan is a well-traveled tech industry veteran, having worked as an engineer at places like Intel, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook,… Read More

Nordstrom

Shares of Nordstrom soar 10% after retailer beats earnings expectations with $3.6B in revenue

Shares of Nordstrom spiked more than 10 percent in after-hours trading after the Seattle retailer beat analyst expectations for its… Read More

Why the most recent Techstars Seattle class is kicking butt

They are doing something right over at Techstars Seattle. The 3-month accelerator, part of the Techstars network, graduated its most… Read More

We took BMW’s ReachNow to the airport, and this is what happened

BMW’s ReachNow car-sharing service expanded to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport this week, providing another new option to travelers, in addition to the… Read More

Federal court blocks FCC from expanding publicly-owned broadband projects

In a setback for municipal broadband advocates, a U.S. federal court ruled today that the Federal Communications Commission cannot preempt state law to… Read More

Palantir buys data visualization startup Silk, product to be phased out

The secretive CIA-backed enterprise data powerhouse Palantir has acquired Silk, the maker of a data publishing platform that allows individuals… Read More

Seattle

Sorry, Amazon and Microsoft workers: No more special rental deals for you in Seattle

The Seattle City Council passed a new law this week that prevents landlords from offering special deals to people who work… Read More

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