Tech – Page 219 of 306

IPO-bound, Bay Area-based Nutanix to open engineering office in Seattle

Another large tech company is opening up an engineering office in Seattle. The latest is Nutanix, a San Jose-based data… Read More

News Brief

Kindergarten coders: Code.org launches open source Code Studio to boost kids’ learning of computer science

Code.org announced the launch of its new Code Studio today – an open source product designed to make it easy… Read More

Here’s why Zulily is different from Amazon, eBay and other retailers: They don’t want to be ‘the everything store’

The rise of Zulily — the online retailer that specializes in products for kids, moms and the home — is… Read More

Study: Uber makes 12X more revenue than Lyft, while growth rates for both declining in the U.S.

Uber is beating Lyft in the U.S. — at least in terms of revenue numbers. A new study from FutureAdvisor that analyzed… Read More

Court revives Paul Allen’s patent suit against AOL, Google, Apple, Yahoo

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s patent suit against AOL, Google, Yahoo and Apple has been brought back to life by a… Read More

How naked baseball players and the power of data inspired Michael Lewis to write ‘Moneyball’

More than a decade ago, Michael Lewis was standing in the Oakland Athletics clubhouse one evening when he noticed naked ballplayers… Read More

Fast-growing Zulily to open massive 800,000 square-foot fulfillment center in Pennsylvania

Zulily, the fast-growing e-commerce powerhouse, isn’t slowing down. The Seattle company announced today that it plans to open an 800,250… Read More

T-Mobile announces “Personal CellSpot” WiFi router to boost call coverage

T-Mobile made a new move to boost its network performance this afternoon, announcing a new “Personal CellSpot” WiFi router that… Read More

News Brief

Mojio partners with Glympse to enable location sharing technology for connected car devices

Seattle-based Glympse today announced a new partnership with Mojio to enable its location technology in Mojio’s on-board diagnostics devices and apps… Read More

Clogged cell networks during big events: Examining potential solutions to a serious problem

After the City of Seattle asked citizens around CenturyLink Field to limit their social media use in the Stadium District last… Read More

Flextivity helps small businesses monitor employee computer use, but CEO says it’s not a ‘spying device’

Small businesses who want to make sure that employees are making the most of their day now have a new… Read More

Vinod Khosla thinks machine learning is coming to take our jobs

SAN FRANCISCO – The growth of mobile devices has massively impacted the way we live, work and play, but Sun Microsystems… Read More

Tableau CEO Christian Chabot on why data analysts are like artists: ‘The creative problem solvers of the modern era’

Tableau CEO Christian Chabot took the stage today for its annual customer conference, telling the more than 5,000 data nerds… Read More

News Brief

Zillow rolls out U.S. property search for Chinese real estate giant Leju

Zillow is now powering a U.S. real estate search service for leju.com and other apps and sites operated by China’s… Read More

Destiny launch: Hip hop star Common, Seahawks stud Earl Thomas celebrate epic new game

Inside the EMP Museum on Monday evening, tailored suits and cocktail dresses filled the massive building as high-powered executives brushed shoulders… Read More

Braintree teams with Coinbase to allow merchants to take Bitcoin

SAN FRANCISCO – Merchants using Braintree’s payment platform will have a new currency to accept, thanks to a partnership between… Read More

GeekWire Summit: T-Mobile’s outspoken CEO John Legere joins the big lineup

T-Mobile CEO John Legere, who has led the company’s disruption of the wireless industry, will be joining a great lineup of speakers at… Read More

Zillow CEO Spencer Rascoff unleashes 25-Tweet long ‘Twitterstorm’ about Internet IPOs

It has been more than three years since Spencer Rascoff guided Zillow to an initial public offering. But the CEO… Read More

Twitter testing new ‘Buy’ button that lets users purchase items from tweet stream

Twitter this morning announced that it is testing a new feature that allows mobile users to buy products directly from their… Read More

Uber CEO Travis Kalanick says his company isn’t evil, just scrappy

SAN FRANCISCO – Uber CEO Travis Kalanick is trying to turn a scrappy startup into one of the titans of… Read More

News Brief

CenturyLink reportedly eyeing Rackspace in deal that could top $5 billion

CenturyLink, which boosted its cloud computing efforts with last year’s purchase of Bellevue-based Tier 3, now reportedly is getting ready… Read More

The tech behind the GeekWire redesign

If you’re a regular GeekWire reader, you probably noticed that the site got a whole new look this week. We are pretty… Read More

Grand Theft Robot? T-Mobile alleges Chinese telecom giant Huawei stole secret testing rig designs

In a lawsuit that seems like something out of a science fiction movie, T-Mobile has accused Chinese telecom giant Huawei… Read More

Intellectual Ventures founder on the rise of China as an ‘invention superpower’

Intellectual Ventures, the Bellevue-based patent holding and technology company, has been through lots of ups and downs lately — laying… Read More

Intellectual Ventures expands patent business into apartment construction, strikes joint venture with architecture firm

Intellectual Ventures, the patent holding and technology development firm, is expanding its patent business into technology for housing construction through… Read More

Porch tops 200 people in one year, hires new CTO from Amazon

Less than a year after launching nationally, home improvement data startup Porch has grown 10-fold to more than 200 people —including… Read More

Novo Nordisk cutting workforce, focusing efforts on diabetes treatments

Here’s another dose of bad news for Seattle’s biotech industry. Novo Nordisk this week announced plans to discontinue R&D efforts… Read More

FOX Sports will stream 101 NFL games online this season

NFL fans without access to a TV will have a chance to stream games this season thanks to Fox Sports. The… Read More

Dreamworks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg at BoxWorks: Short-form video on mobile devices is the future

SAN FRANCISCO–Dreamworks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg kicked off the keynote session of this year’s BoxWorks conference with a bang. Sitting down… Read More

News Brief

New domains from Donuts: .DEALS, .CHURCH, .PIZZA and more

Donuts, the heavily-funded operator of generic top level domains, has a new slate of domain names from which to choose.… Read More