Tech – Page 190 of 306

Starbucks reports record $4.6B fiscal Q2 revenue, credits innovation for results

Starbucks says this fiscal second quarter was its best second quarter ever. In financial results released today for its second… Read More

Comcast will reportedly abandon merger with Time Warner Cable

The monumental merger between Comcast and Time Warner Cable may never happen. Bloomberg reports that Comcast plans to drop its $45.2… Read More

Twitter tries taking after Facebook with new Highlights feature for Android

Since its inception, one thing has remained constant on Twitter: the default method of interacting with tweets has been in… Read More

GeekWire Awards: Vote for App of the Year

Find a date, grab a coffee on the go, book a fabulous vacation destination, breeze through airport check-in or unload… Read More

Alaska Airlines announces its Apple Watch app will fly Friday

Alaska Airlines plans to be fully on board when the Apple Watch launches tomorrow. The new Alaska Airlines app for Apple… Read More

Tacoma attempts to woo Bay Area tech talent with new ad campaign

The City of Tacoma wants Bay Area tech companies moving to the Pacific Northwest to take a look at opening… Read More

Drone with radioactive material lands on roof of Japan Prime Minister

A drone carrying small amounts of radioactive material landed on the office roof of Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, raising questions… Read More

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff says we’ve hit the ‘sweet spot’ for cloud adoption

SAN FRANCISCO–Marc Benioff, the co-founder and outspoken CEO of cloud software giant Salesforce, thinks that cloud-based software adoption has hit… Read More

F5 names Manuel Rivelo as new CEO, replacing longtime boss John McAdam

F5 Networks today named Manuel Rivelo as its new CEO and president. Rivelo will take over on July 1 for longtime… Read More

Facebook earnings beat Q1 profit expectations, but revenues are light

Facebook’s financial performance in the first quarter was a little mixed, with revenues just shy of meeting analyst expectations. In after… Read More

Adblock Plus wins news sites’ challenge to its ad-removal software

The maker of a free browser plug-in that prevents ads from appearing on web pages just won a court case filed… Read More

VC firms team up with Box to offer $40M for companies building on its platform

SAN FRANCISCO – Box CEO Aaron Levie announced today that his enterprise storage software company has teamed up with venture… Read More

Box launches Developer Edition to power enterprise applications from third parties

SAN FRANCISCO–Box announced a new Developer Edition of its cloud storage platform today that’s designed to offer third-party developers the… Read More

GeekWire Awards: Vote for Bootstrapper of the Year, honoring startups doing a lot with a little

It takes a very special entrepreneur to build a business without angel or venture capital financing. Bootstrapping certainly is not… Read More

Lyft’s carpooling service now makes up 50% of rides in San Francisco; 30% in NYC

Packing more people into vehicles on the road has been Lyft’s long-term goal since its inception, and it appears the… Read More

Internet streaming preferred over live TV by majority of viewers, new survey finds

We have become a nation of video streamers. That’s the upshot of Deloitte’s new national survey of American households: 56%… Read More

Funding for Life Sciences Discovery Fund at risk, again, despite program’s success

Every April, there was to be a show of symmetry in Washington state. This month, Big Tobacco made its annual… Read More

Marchex sells 200K domains to GoDaddy for $28.1M, shifts focus to mobile advertising

Marchex wants to get out of the domain business, and GoDaddy is helping make it happen. The Seattle-based company today… Read More

Zirx raises $30M to expand smartphone-powered on-demand valet service nationwide

Parking can be a pain, but it seems as though Zirx has a solid solution — at least that’s what… Read More

Yahoo’s first quarter financials disappoint with shrinking profits, below-expected revenue

Yahoo’s first quarter financial results didn’t quite live up to Wall Street’s expectations. The company’s revenue for the period from… Read More

Lessons from the world’s Ebola response: faster intervention, better communication needed

SAN FRANCISCO – The Ebola outbreak is still ongoing, but leaders of the international response to the disease have already… Read More

MediaPro raises $5M to help companies teach employees about security, privacy

MediaPro, a Bothell, Wash.-based company that develops e-learning software for employees at Fortune 500 companies, today announced a $5 million funding round… Read More

Verizon FiOS confirms move toward unbundling channels with Custom TV

Television packages are increasingly looking less like a Happy Meal and more like, “Would you like fries with that?” Verizon confirmed… Read More

Washington State Ferries re-launches summer web reservations in phases

It took a week, but the fix for the new Washington State Ferries online vehicle reservation system problems is here… Read More

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen says Ebola fight is far from over

SAN FRANCISCO – Paul Allen today warned that the Ebola fight isn’t over, as he gathered top scientists and technologists for… Read More

Twitter broadens abuse policies, enables locking accounts

Twitter is expanding the terms and tools at its disposal to help users feel safe on the service. Today, Twitter announced policy changes,… Read More

Adobe doubles down on prosumer photo management plans with Lightroom update

Adobe unveiled a spring update to its photography products today focused on boosting the company’s already strong capabilities in the… Read More

Seattle angel investor Gary Rubens donates $20M to Washington State scholarship program

Gary Rubens is already helping local startups get off the ground with financial backing. Now he’s doing the same for… Read More

Car2go suffers network outage in Seattle, drivers can’t start or end trips

Seattleites trying to zip around town in a car2go this afternoon are having a frustrating experience. The car-sharing service which lets users rent… Read More

Premera data hack deadline arrives, up to 11 million notified

If you think you may have been affected by the cyberattack on Premera Blue Cross and haven’t yet heard from… Read More