Tech – Page 141 of 306

Cereal and pressure cookers help Amazon set a record on second annual Prime Day

Amazon’s second annual Prime Day surpassed its inaugural observance by 50 percent in the U.S. and by 60 percent worldwide,… Read More

Donuts domain registry invests in Netki bitcoin ‘wallet name’ technology

Domain registry Donuts Inc. has made an investment in Netki, a Los Angeles-based startup whose technology generates user-friendly “wallet names” for… Read More

Magnolia Medical Technologies closes $13.8M funding round, led by HealthQuest Capital

Seattle-based Magnolia Medical Technologies announced a $13.8 million funding round today, led by California-based HealthQuest Capital. Dr. Garheng Kong, HealthQuest founder, was… Read More

Seattle police union disappears from social media after Dallas shootings post criticized

Update: The group’s Twitter feed is now gone again. The Seattle Police Officers Guild disappeared from social media on Monday… Read More

RealNetworks adds Microsoft engineering director Chris Jones to board

RealNetworks announced today it has added veteran Microsoft engineering executive Chris Jones to its board of directors. Jones has been with Microsoft since… Read More

Zillow Group CEO Spencer Rascoff buys $20 million L.A. mansion near O.J. Simpson’s former estate

The real estate business has been good to technology entrepreneur Spencer Rascoff. And now we’ve confirmed that the well-known CEO… Read More

Seattle utility startup 1Energy acquired by South Korean energy giant Doosan

South Korean energy giant Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction has acquired 1Energy Systems of Seattle, which develops software for utilities to manage the… Read More

Seattle region’s population growing at historic pace, making biggest annual gain in a century

Seattle and its surrounding counties added 86,320 new residents between April 2015 and 2016, marking the region’s biggest population gain… Read More

RFID technology company Impinj boosts IPO target to $74M

Seattle-based RFID technology company Impinj has increased the amount it seeks to raise in an initial public offering from $60… Read More

Dan Price, the ‘$70k CEO,’ prevails in lawsuit filed by his brother and Gravity Payments co-owner

A judge ruled in favor of Gravity Payments CEO Dan Price on all counts today in a suit filed against him last year by… Read More

Microsoft, Expedia join fight against North Carolina transgender ‘bathroom bill’

Microsoft and Expedia are among 68 companies that have signed an amicus brief from the Human Rights Campaign in support of the U.S.… Read More

BMW gives $10 credit to thousands of car-sharing members after service goes down in Seattle

An AT&T connectivity issue caused serious problems for BMW’s car-sharing service this past holiday weekend, forcing the car-maker to hand… Read More

Washington state lawmakers to hold public talks about self-driving cars

Washington state’s legislators are pondering how to deal with self-driving cars and other futuristic high-tech vehicles. Rep. Jeff Morris, D-Mount Vernon… Read More

14-year-old boy sues Snapchat over links to explicit articles in Discover feature

A 14-year-old California boy and his mother are suing messaging app Snapchat over a series of explicit articles that appeared in… Read More

Fast-growing Alibaba Cloud promotes ex-Microsoft exec Jingren Zhou to chief scientist

Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of China-based Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., has appointed former longtime Microsoft executive Jingren Zhou… Read More

Space station’s next crew lifts off for a long trip in Russia’s upgraded Soyuz spaceship

Three spacefliers from three countries – the United States, Russia and Japan – began a longer-than-usual flight to the International Space Station tonight… Read More

Seattle No. 1 on Glassdoor’s list of 25 best-paying cities for software engineers

Software engineers looking for a high base salary that still amounts to a substantial paycheck once cost of living is… Read More

Comcast agrees to add Netflix streaming app to its X1 set-top box

Are Comcast and Netflix burying the hatchet? After years of squabbling, the two companies reached a landmark agreement to allow the… Read More

The new Facebook? Study finds more and more parents using Snapchat

Is Snapchat becoming the new Facebook? That’s perhaps what the latest numbers from comScore indicate. The Wall Street Journal examined the… Read More

Blucora sells InfoSpace for $45M, exiting search business in financial-services push

In a move to further push into the financial-services sector, Belleuve-based Blucora announced today it has sold its InfoSpace search business… Read More

FBI won’t recommend charges against Hillary Clinton over email probe, but calls her ‘extremely careless’

The Federal Bureau of Investigation said today that it won’t recommend criminal charges against Hillary Clinton over her e-mail investigation. FBI… Read More

Rightside rejects ‘opportunistic attempt’ by Donuts to acquire domain registry business for $70M

Rightside Group of Kirkland, Wash., this morning rejected a public bid by Bellevue, Wash.-based Donuts to acquire its registry of… Read More

Axon gets $28M to outfit LAPD officers with body cameras, digital evidence system

Axon, a Seattle-based business unit of Taser International, says it has landed a $28 million contract to provide body cameras for… Read More

Airbnb creates Seattle engineering outpost, led by former Facebook and Amazon execs

Airbnb is establishing a downtown Seattle engineering operation, GeekWire has learned, making the alternative accommodations giant the latest Bay Area company to set up… Read More

Asteroid Day hits home with videos about the peril (and the promise) in the skies

One bad day is all it takes for an asteroid to set off a mass extinction. But Asteroid Day –… Read More

Uber for video: Startup vets launch new on-demand marketplace for 1-to-1 live streaming

Dean Graziano isn’t a huge fan of the “Uber for X” moniker that many on-demand marketplace services label themselves with. But as he… Read More

Hillary Clinton, tech candidate? New agenda pledges to defer student loans for entrepreneurs, invest in STEM education

Tech issues such as the high-profile Apple encryption battle may be in the media spotlight, but they’ve taken a backseat… Read More

BMW’s ReachNow car-sharing service expands service area and adds more vehicles in Seattle

BMW’s car-sharing service continues to grow in Seattle. The car-maker announced today that ReachNow is both expanding to additional neighborhoods and… Read More

Seattle TechHire program, aimed at expanding tech training, receives $3.8M grant

Three months after being designated as a TechHire community, partners involved in the Seattle-King County program have been awarded a four-year, $3.8… Read More

Computer science demand soars at UW, surpasses business as top choice among incoming freshmen

Computer Science & Engineering has become the leading “first-choice” major among confirmed incoming freshmen at the University of Washington, surpassing the… Read More