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John Legere vs. Donald Trump: T-Mobile CEO checks out of Trump hotel after Twitter fight with The Donald

T-Mobile CEO John Legere just wanted a little peace and quiet in his hotel room. Instead, he ended up checking out… Read More

Watch: Massive new IMAX screen installed at renovated high-tech movie theater in Seattle

Installing an 80-foot wide screen inside a movie theater isn’t an easy job. But employees at the Pacific Science Center… Read More

Ex-Amazon exec Brian Valentine leaves Ivy Softworks, looks for big impact at food waste startup

Brian Valentine was at the forefront of two of the most important technological waves of the past 30 years, serving… Read More

Review: HBO Now is a cord-cutter’s dream come true

For years, HBO was unwilling to share its content with cord-cutters who wouldn’t subscribe to a cable package with HBO included.… Read More

Gaming powerhouse Valve reportedly considering move to Seattle

Valve Software, the gaming titan known for popular titles such as Half-Life and the Steam gaming platform, is considering leaving… Read More

Comcast suffers outage in Seattle due to damaged fiber optic line

Comcast suffered an outage on Thursday morning in Seattle that left many customers without an Internet connection. As first noted… Read More

Ex-Amazon engineering director opens office for Qualtrics in Seattle, looks to hire 100 coders

John Thimsen, a former engineering director at Amazon.com who most recently worked on the Amazon Echo device, has established a… Read More

Sling TV launches HBO, improves performance with new update

Sling TV announced today that customers of its over-the-top streaming service will be able to purchase access to HBO starting… Read More

LinkedIn expands into online training with $1.5B Lynda.com deal

LinkedIn was already a place for tracking skills. Now it’s becoming a place for acquiring them. The company’s agreement to buy online… Read More

Wave Broadband acquires ReallyFast.net to expand gigabit service in Seattle

Wave Broadband today announced the acquisition of ReallyFast.net, a Seattle-based internet service provider for multi-unit residential and office buildings. Founded in 2009… Read More

Zynga shares dip 10% as CEO Don Mattrick steps down, replaced by founder Marc Pincus

Don Mattrick stepped down as CEO of Zynga on Wednesday and will be replaced by the company’s founder and chairman,… Read More

Seattle startup SNUPI cuts staff, shelves Wally home sensor device

SNUPI Technologies, the Seattle startup led by entrepreneur Jeremy Jaech and University of Washington computer science professor Shwetak Patel, laid… Read More

List: More than 50 companies set up engineering centers in Seattle region

One of the biggest Seattle stories we’ve tracked at GeekWire recently is the arrival of the Silicon Valley tech giants.… Read More

Northeastern University expands Seattle campus after huge demand for computer science degrees

Northeastern University is expanding its Seattle campus. The Boston-based university, which opened a Seattle branch in 2011, has taken over 10,665… Read More

Juno Therapeutics inks lease for new building in Seattle’s bustling South Lake Union neighborhood

Fast-growing Juno Therapeutics — fresh off its IPO from last December — is expanding its presence in its hometown of… Read More

Digital analytics consultancy Pointmarc acquired

Pointmarc, a 9-year-old digital analytics consulting firm whose clients include the NFL, T-Mobile, Costco and Disney, has been acquired by… Read More

Mobile network analytics firm RootMetrics acquired by IHS

RootMetrics, a Seattle-area company that provides information about the performance of cellular networks, has agreed to an acquisition by IHS, a… Read More

Startup Weekend operator UP Global lays off 33% of U.S. staff in Seattle

UP Global, the Seattle-based non-profit that runs events around the world like Startup Weekend and Startup Week, has slashed 33… Read More

Uber for picture framing: Mountary launches service in Seattle, brings experts to your door

Mountary, a new San Francisco-based startup that wants to help custom frame buyers save time and money, has launched its… Read More

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin completes key early testing of new hydrogen rocket engine

Blue Origin, the commercial space venture founded by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, says it has completed acceptance testing of its… Read More

Web developers left scrambling after Yahoo kills smush.it image optimization service

Yahoo’s Smush.it image optimization service has been taken offline without warning, leaving hundreds of thousands of websites in the lurch. The free service, which allowed… Read More

Money trend: VC deals continue to fall in Q1 as valuations skyrocket

Venture capitalists aren’t investing in as many companies as they did last year, but when they place a bet they… Read More

Twitter

Say what? Twitter improves feature that adds commentary to retweets

People who want to add their own thoughts to retweets now have more room to do so thanks to a… Read More

Seattle marijuana investment firm Privateer closes $75M round to build global cannabis brands

Privateer Holdings is well on its way to becoming one of the country’s top marijuana investment firms. The Seattle-based holding… Read More

Sea-Tac airport to boost Internet connectivity with $9.8M Wi-Fi upgrade

Travelers heading through Seattle Tacoma International Airport already may recognize the free wi-fi, standing work counters and all of the… Read More

Sling TV apologizes for spotty March Madness streams during most-watched Final Four in 19 years

Sling TV couldn’t quite handle the amount of users trying to access its streams of this weekend’s NCAA basketball games. The Dish… Read More

Novartis to pay Juno $12.3M in cancer immunotherapy patent settlement

Seattle-based cancer research startup Juno Therapeutics today reached a settlement with Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. over a three-year patent dispute. The original… Read More

Meet the winners of the University of Washington Environmental Innovation Challenge

The seventh annual Alaska Airlines Environmental Innovation Challenge at the University of Washington took place Thursday in Seattle, with 22 teams from seven… Read More

Tinder for travel: Dwellable updates vacation rental app with ‘swipe and sort’ feature

Dwellable is taking a page out of Tinder’s playbook for its vacation travel app. The Seattle startup released an update… Read More

Top Expedia execs live in Seattle, but new HQ won’t help their commutes

Take heart, Expedia employees: the head honchos aren’t giving themselves easier commutes. The online travel giant’s announcement that it will move… Read More

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