Tech – Page 176 of 306

Avalara to set sail from Bainbridge Island, establishing new HQ in downtown Seattle

Tax automation software maker Avalara is leaving its longtime home on Bainbridge Island, setting up a new headquarters in the… Read More

uberX now doing pickups at Seattle airport with mystery for-hire partner

You can now hail an uberX at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport … kind of. Prior to today, Uber created a geo-fence around Seattle’s airport… Read More

Juno Therapeutics posts $66M Q2 loss, looks to gain ground with first clinical trials

Juno Therapeutics, a Seattle-based cancer research firm backed by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Arch Venture Partners and others, reported a loss… Read More

Melinda Gates creates ‘Pivotal Ventures’ to pursue outside projects, focusing on women’s issues

Melinda Gates, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation co-chair, has quietly established a new organization called Pivotal Ventures, an independent… Read More

Twitter ditches 140-character limit for direct messages

The 140-character limit for Twitter’s direct messaging platform is officially gone. Twitter announced today that users will be able to… Read More

A new era at Classmates: Student directory selling to Intelius for $30M

Before Facebook emerged on the scene, there was Classmates.com. Founded 20 years ago by a former Boeing engineer, Classmates developed… Read More

Mitsubishi Aircraft opens Seattle office with 150 engineers to study test flight data

Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation is the latest industry giant to dip its toes into the Pacific Northwest talent pool, officially launching an engineering… Read More

Your desktop comes to your wrist (kind of) with the new Parallels Access app

Parallels just added remote desktop access to your wrist. No, you can’t edit Excel documents or even files from your… Read More

Korean ‘Star Wars’ trailer shows new scene of the bad guys

The countdown to Star Wars: The Force Awakens continues with the latest teaser coming out of South Korea. Star Wars fans… Read More

This startup wants to give everyone an astronaut’s view by sending VR to space

We’ve been privy to some amazing views courtesy of astronauts at the International Space Station, but what if the everyday… Read More

William Shatner made an incredible mosaic of selfies in tribute to Leonard Nimoy

Star Trek‘s William Shatner found a unique and beautiful use for selfies — this incredible portrait of Leonard Nimoy. https://twitter.com/WilliamShatner/status/630378046806102016/photo/1… Read More

What happens when Uber meets Tinder? ‘UnDer’ the ‘ultimate, auto-erotic experience’

Happy Monday! Chances are you probably used Tinder, Uber or probably both sometime this weekend. But what if those groundbreaking… Read More

‘Lol’ is over: Facebook ranks how we laugh online

Are you still “lol-ing” all over the place? According to Facebook’s new data on how people laugh via the site,… Read More

‘Mr. Robot’ Rewind: True-to-life tech moments in a hack-free Episode 7

[Spoiler Alert] If you haven’t seen the latest episode of Mr. Robot yet, you may want to come back to… Read More

This book wants to teach your kids to poop like a Vulcan

The latest weird trick in parenting might be using Star Trek to potty-train your kids. That’s the idea behind this… Read More

Scientists are using drones to track and study killer whales

In news of drones doing good, scientists at the Vancouver Aquarium and NOAA are using drones to track, take pictures… Read More

Coastal Washington town building a tsunami shelter, bracing for that killer earthquake

Last month, the New Yorker published an insanely fascinating and terrifying piece about the impending earthquake that will hit the… Read More

‘Thrift Shop’ star Wanz returns to software testing job after ‘surreal’ year on tour with Macklemore

Keep puttin’ faith in front and believe The best is yet to come you’ll see Nothin’ in this life comes… Read More

Professional photog takes stellar shots of Seattle with drones

A Philadelphia aerial photographer took his drones to our fair skies to capture Seattle by Air, and the images are postcard… Read More

This org that teaches high school kids work skills made a gorgeous Seahawks guitar for Paul Allen

Paul Allen recently received a wonderful surprise — a custom-made Seahawks guitar. Who made it? The Power2Work Foundation, an organization… Read More

The next big device: The center console in your car

SAN FRANCISCO — The next big device is going to be the center console of your car, according to Inrix… Read More

Learning Ruby, Heroku and MySQL: Warp speed at Ada Developers Academy

I’m a student in the third cohort at Ada Developers Academy (ADA), and GeekWire invited me to chronicle my leap… Read More

Online wine club uses an algorithm to find you the perfect wines

This is a new concept for a wine club — a pair of MIT grads launched a subscription service that… Read More

Rhapsody posts record quarterly revenue of $50M — and a $12M loss — amid big growth spurt

Rhapsody International has expanded the customer base for its Rhapsody and Napster music services by 50 percent over the past year, to… Read More

Zomato lays off Urbanspoon engineering team 7 months after acquisition

Fast-growing restaurant directory service Zomato is cutting ties with the remaining engineers from Urbanspoon, seven months after it acquired the Seattle-based… Read More

Real Networks posts $27.8M loss in Q2, attracts 2M users on new RealTimes app

RealNetworks beat analyst expectations for its second quarter earnings, posting $34 million in revenue and a loss of $0.77 per… Read More

Burning Man to host first-ever Virtual Reality Camp, featuring giant Godzilla and motion-capture suits

Every year, thousands of people travel to the Black Rock Desert in Nevada to celebrate creativity and escape reality. This year… Read More

Spoken Communications lands $28M to bring cloud technologies to call centers

Fast-growing Spoken Communications has reeled in $28 million in fresh funding, money that the maker of cloud technologies for customer… Read More

Microsoft reworks parental leave, 401(k) and holidays in latest escalation of benefits battle

Netflix just became the most recent tech giant to up the stakes in the industry’s long running employee benefits arms… Read More

Most consumers are worried their cars could be hacked; many would pay for automotive anti-virus

Consumers are becoming more and more aware that hacking isn’t just a gadget nuisance any more. Computer security problems, like… Read More