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As Seattle’s Alaskan Way Viaduct closes, local tech companies want to keep drivers moving with apps and more

Shortly before 8 a.m. on Friday, Seattle radio station KEXP played Jimi Hendrix’s “Crosstown Traffic” in a knowing nod to listeners… Read More

Architecture meets virtual reality: NBBJ partners with startup Visual Vocal for VR ‘productivity platform’

Let’s say your looking to build a new campus for your large tech company, and your architects says “What if we… Read More

Expedia shares rise on increased revenue, CEO touts HomeAway integration

Expedia, the online travel giant based that operates HomeAway, Orbitz and Travelocity, reported on Thursday that its revenue increased 42… Read More

Comcast boosts data caps from 300GB to 1TB in all test cities

Comcast is raising the bar on its data caps again, this time more than tripling the base amount of data… Read More

Shares of Blucora soar after net income rises, continues push into financial services

Blucora, the Bellevue company formerly known as InfoSpace which is pushing heavily into financial services, posted strong results Thursday as… Read More

Review: Alexa breaks free from Amazon devices with new Triby smart speaker

Alexa, the powerful AI assistant currently found in Amazon’s Echo speakers and Fire TVs, may be the future of computing.… Read More

GeekWire 200: PayScale, Remitly, Arivale and others climb the startup rankings

PayScale has been growing steadily since landing a $100 million majority investment from private equity powerhouse Warburg Pincus two years ago, adding 140… Read More

Facebook crushes estimates for Q1 earnings with $5.4B in revenue as shares rise 6%

Shares of Facebook surged more than 6 percent in after-hours trading on Wednesday after the social media behemoth crushed expectations… Read More

HTC launches $100M Vive X program to accelerate growth of virtual reality startups

If virtual reality fails, it won’t be for lack of funding. HTC announced a $100 million fund and accelerator program to… Read More

Top devices compete for ‘Hardware/Gadget of the Year’ in the GeekWire Awards

Seattle and the Pacific Northwest are traditionally known for software and Internet services, but the region’s tech community is increasingly developing… Read More

SpaceX Red Dragon

SpaceX plans to start sending Red Dragon capsules to Mars as early as 2020

Update for March 22, 2017: SpaceX has shifted its schedule for the first Red Dragon mission to no earlier than… Read More

Nintendo announces next smartphone apps, timeline for new console, disappointing earnings

Nintendo is softening the blow of a rough financial year with some big announcements about the future. The Japanese game giant, which has its… Read More

How Bertha will tunnel beneath Seattle’s Alaskan Way Viaduct — 15 feet below roadway’s foundations

Bertha, the giant tunneling machine making its way along Seattle’s waterfront, will start a delicate phase of its 9,270-foot journey on… Read More

Whitepages spins out caller ID and spam-blocking app into startup Hiya

Whitepages announced today that it is spinning out its popular CallerID app into a new company called Hiya. Whitepages CEO Alex… Read More

Supercomputer maker Cray goes to the mall, leases 87,500sf in Mall of America office building

Supercomputer maker Cray is moving its St. Paul, Minn. offices to a new office complex on the Mall of America… Read More

Jon Zimmerman, CEO of Seattle startup Front Desk, passes away suddenly at 47 years old

Jon Zimmerman, the CEO of Seattle startup Front Desk, passed away suddenly Monday of unspecified causes, according to a statement issued… Read More

Twitter

Shares of Twitter fall 10% after Q1 revenue miss, but user growth beats expectations

Shares of Twitter dipped more than 10 percent on Tuesday after the company missed analyst expectations for quarterly revenue. Twitter reported… Read More

Seattle startup looks to extinguish cigarette smoking, raises $500,000 for SmartQuit smoking cessation app

Helping people to quit smoking can result in a huge benefit for employers. Not only are users healthier and more… Read More

LiveJournal creator Brad Fitzpatrick details his open-source digital life backup system

The amount of digital data we are creating every day is mind-boggling. But the photos we take, tweets we send,… Read More

Code.org lands $23M as U.S. business leaders implore Congress to fund computer science education

Code.org, the non-profit that promotes computer science education around the world, has secured $23 million in donations from Microsoft, Infosys, Google, Mark… Read More

Car accident

Lawsuit targets Snapchat for 107-mph crash, alleges teen was using app to boast about speed

A new lawsuit blames Snapchat, along with a teenager who was allegedly using the popular messaging app to share how fast she was driving,… Read More

Brain tissue

Seattle researchers join forces to study brain injury, aging and dementia

Scientists from Seattle’s Allen Institute for Brain Science, the University of Washington and Group Health Research Institute have put together… Read More

John Legere

T-Mobile adds 2.2M more customers, posts $479M profit, CEO John Legere says they ‘nailed it’ again

T-Mobile added a net total of 2.2 million customers in the first quarter, beating Wall Street’s expectations with $8.6 billion… Read More

Uber logo

Uber uses Seattle again as a testing ground for new ideas, this time for driver appeals process

Uber is using the Seattle market to test another new idea. As a result of its recent $100 million settlement with… Read More

Intel layoffs to bring big cuts to chip giant’s Wash. state workforce

Intel’s latest round of layoffs may see the company vastly reduce its Washington state presence. The Oregonian is reporting that the chipmaker… Read More

Amazon director of engineering Robert Parker departs for Samsung’s smart home arm

Robert Parker, most recently director of engineering at Amazon for the past five years, has taken a new job with Samsung’s… Read More

Former Microsoft engineer founds parent-focused social network Bloom

Tips on pregnancy abound online, from the food you should eat to what that weird pain in your foot means… Read More

Students: Here’s what Expedia and Zillow co-founder Rich Barton says you should study

Given that he started companies like Expedia, Zillow, and Glassdoor, Rich Barton understands the value and power of data. That’s why he… Read More

Fexy Media adds Simply Recipes to portfolio of food sites targeting millennials

Food media is a competitive market and everyone has their eyes set on millennials. Like Hanzel and Gretel before them,… Read More

Here’s what Uber’s $100M settlement means for drivers, who will remain independent contractors

Uber agreed on Thursday to settle two class action lawsuits and will pay as much as $100 million to 385,000 drivers… Read More

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