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Socially-conscious accelerator Fledge hits $1M investment milestone

Fledge has reached a notable milestone. The Seattle-based accelerator this week announced that it has raised and invested a total… Read More

Pyramid Analytics raises $30M to boost its business-intelligence platform

Pyramid Analytics, a business-intelligence technology company with U.S. operations in Bellevue, Wash., has raised an additional $30 million in funding from… Read More

Microsoft partners with FiftyThree for support of Paper app, Pencil stylus on OneNote

Microsoft and FiftyThree are teaming up to offer more digital handwriting functionality on OneNote. The Redmond giant announced today that… Read More

What Amazon’s Jeff Bezos said to a private gathering of tech CEOs last night

Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos has a special relationship with Madrona Venture Group, the venerable Seattle venture capital firm. In 1995,… Read More

The new HTC One A9 is a customizable iPhone clone—and that’s a good thing

HTC announced a new phone today that might look a little familiar. While past HTC One phones have had curved… Read More

New trailer for ‘Star Wars’ premiere has fans freaking out in scramble to get tix

So, that new Star Wars trailer launched last night. Here it is again. Mixing a little of the old with… Read More

Tableau unveils first standalone mobile app Vizable to help people see, crunch data on iPads

For the first time ever, Tableau is rolling out a standalone mobile app. The Seattle-based data visualization company today debuted Vizable, an iOS… Read More

Seattle, Boston mayors meet with tech execs to talk housing affordability, civic involvement

Though they exist on opposite ends of the country, Seattle and Boston actually share quite a few similarities that extend… Read More

A car dealership for airplanes: Inside Boeing’s new Seattle delivery center

Boeing officially opened its new delivery center in Seattle on Monday, showing off the facility where airlines will go to pick… Read More

U.S. plan for recreational drone registration faces a fast, steep climb

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s fast-track plan to register recreational drones may not directly affect Amazon’s ambitions of using robo-fliers… Read More

Madrona supports STEM education, makes biggest donation yet to Geeks Give Back campaign

Madrona Venture Group is celebrating its 20th anniversary this month, and it is doing so with two large gifts to… Read More

How personalized learning can reshape education: Insights from a special Gates Foundation panel

Buy the textbook. Attend lectures. Take tests. Get graded on a curve. This is the way most people remember their college… Read More

Meet FlyBuy: This startup helps restaurants, retailers offer roadside pickups

A new Seattle startup is using technology to help retailers and restaurants offer their own drive-thru service. Founded last year, FlyBuy is picking… Read More

Log your meal by snapping a pic: HealthSlate lets diabetes patients send photos to food coaches

Taking pictures of your food is a time-honored tradition as old as Instagram, but now those photos can actually improve health.… Read More

Early Amazon investor Nick Hanauer: Disruptive tech companies need to innovate in civic life, too

Investor, entrepreneur and civic activist Nick Hanauer has a knack for going against the grain to find and back new ventures… Read More

Gates Foundation funds new vaccine innovation center in Seattle for disease-fighting technology

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is partnering with pharmaceutical giant Sanofi Pasteur and the nonprofit Infectious Disease Research Institute to… Read More

Venture capital investments slump 9% in Washington state, talk of slowdown increases

Venture capital investments in Washington state tumbled during the third quarter, falling to $374.5 million as investors bankrolled 30 deals.… Read More

Amazon’s Jeff Bezos tumbles 87 spots on list of top CEOs after factoring in company’s social conscience

Jeff Bezos continues to suffer from the issues raised in the bruising New York Times piece published in August. The latest hit is from the… Read More

Uber gets serious about delivery, expands ‘UberRush’ to San Francisco and Chicago

Uber is expanding its delivery service. Recode reported today that the ride-hailing company is now offering its UberRush program in San Francisco… Read More

Blucora buys Texas financial firm for $580M, with potential HQ move, layoffs and CEO exit on horizon

There’s a lot of uncertainty swirling around Blucora — once a Seattle area dot-com superstar known as InfoSpace — as the… Read More

New UW president Ana Mari Cauce: Innovation, commercialization at the university will ‘escalate’

You can expect even more innovation and commercialization of startup ideas coming out of the University of Washington. The UW… Read More

University of Washington names Ana Mari Cauce as new president

The University of Washington today named Ana Mari Cauce as its new president. Cauce, formerly a UW provost, was named… Read More

Geeks Give Back update: What we’ve raised so far for STEM scholarships, and how you can help

We’re nearly two weeks into our annual giving campaign, brought to you by GeekWire and Bank of America, called Geeks… Read More

Fresh off a $16M round, Farmigo brings online farmers market service to Seattle

Seattleites interested in buying food from local farmers and producers have a new tech-powered option available. Farmigo, which calls itself… Read More

Twitter cutting more than 300 jobs one week after CEO change, no word on Seattle layoffs

Twitter co-founder and newly minted CEO Jack Dorsey announced sweeping layoffs today, as 336 employees, or 8 percent of the… Read More

Seattle startup Hotspot aims to disrupt Groupon and LivingSocial with drink deals that build a customer base

The idea of offering a discount to attract new users has been around since the 1800s, when Coca Cola offered paper… Read More

Is the tech bubble about to burst? Investors and CEOs offer their take on key question for industry

Is there a bubble in the tech economy, and are you concerned about it bursting? At this year’s GeekWire Summit, we… Read More

City of Seattle unveils new privacy program to ‘build public trust’ about use of personal information

The City of Seattle is moving forward with its commitment to help citizens understand how it uses their personal data both… Read More

Allrecipes partners with Instacart to deliver ingredients for online recipes

Allrecipes is teaming up with Instacart to offer one-hour delivery of grocery items that customers find while browsing through recipes on its… Read More

Dell buying EMC for $67B in largest tech acquisition ever

In what’s being dubbed the largest tech acquisition of all time, Dell today announced planes to buy storage giant EMC… Read More