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Impinj crushes Wall Street expectations with $38M in revenue, up 34% over a year ago

What a difference a year makes. Less than 12 months ago, Seattle connected chip maker Impinj was mired a in… Read More

Expedia president Aman Bhutani is leaving as travel giant shuffles execs and realigns internal teams

Aman Bhutani, the veteran Expedia Group business and tech leader who oversees online travel businesses including Travelocity, Orbitz and the… Read More

Expedia books $183M in profit for Q2 as it prepares to open new Seattle headquarters

Expedia posted healthy revenue and earnings growth for Q2 2019, sending the stock up 2 percent in after-hours trading on… Read More

Huawei cuts jobs at Seattle-area research division as part of larger layoff

Chinese tech giant Huawei is shedding 41 jobs at its Bellevue, Wash.-based engineering office, according to a notice filed with… Read More

Tech Moves: Funko lands a new CFO; Rover hires a CMO; Koverse names sales lead; and more

— Pop culture toy company Funko will welcome Jennifer Fall Jung as its new chief financial officer in August. She… Read More

Home improvement marketplace Porch acquires HireAHelper, doubling down on moving services

Seattle startup Porch has acquired San Diego-based moving marketplace HireAHelper. It’s the second moving services company that fast-growing home improvement… Read More

Mobile marketplace OfferUp adds ‘Hold Offers’ feature as it battles Craigslist, eBay and Facebook

OfferUp is rolling out a new feature that aims to solve a major pain point for local buyers and sellers,… Read More

Cloud services provider BitTitan raises ‘growth capital’ from Vancouver B.C. firm

BitTitan, a Bellevue, Wash.-based cloud services provider, has raised additional funding. The company reeled in what it describes as “growth… Read More

Univ. of Washington names veteran data scientist to lead booming computer science school into new era

Professor Magdalena Balazinska has long been considered a leader in data management and data science at the University of Washington’s… Read More

Seattle still trails Bay Area in annual ‘Tech Talent’ report, but city’s labor pool quality ranks highest

In the battle for tech hub supremacy, Seattle still trails the San Francisco Bay Area in CBRE’s annual Scoring Tech… Read More

Zillow Offers expands to Portland, its first Pacific Northwest market for direct home sales

Zillow Group is set to start buying houses in the Pacific Northwest for the first time. Zillow Offers, the service… Read More

Premera Blue Cross to pay $10M to 30 states for health data breach

Premera Blue Cross, the Pacific Northwest’s largest health insurance company, agreed to pay $10 million to Washington and 29 other… Read More

Shareholders sue to block Salesforce’s acquisition of Tableau, alleging companies didn’t disclose key information

Salesforce’s $15.7 billion acquisition of Tableau Software is facing legal challenges. A pair of new shareholder lawsuits filed this week… Read More

T-Mobile accuses states suing to block Sprint merger of ‘dwelling in the past’

T-Mobile is firing back at a coalition of states that sued to block the telecom company’s proposed merger with Sprint.… Read More

Geeks on Trails: Join GeekWire’s summer hiking team and help support the Washington Trails Association

Ah, summer in the Pacific Northwest. There’s nothing quite like it. From the stunning Mount Constitution vistas on Orcas Island… Read More

Leggo his Eggo: Jeff Bezos doesn’t waffle on his love for ‘Stranger Things’ as he binges Netflix hit

Jeff Bezos may own his own streaming television network in the form of Amazon Prime Video, but he still found… Read More

Apple ‘was on a path to die,’ but Bill Gates credits Steve Jobs’ ability to make magic by ‘casting spells’

Bill Gates may have relied on his own demanding work ethic to turn Microsoft into the software powerhouse that it… Read More

These crucial flaws may prevent Facebook’s Libra from living up to its cryptocurrency ambitions

Facebook has promised us a new “global currency” with the goal of bringing financial services to billions of people for… Read More

Steve Ballmer gets his shot at an NBA title after blockbuster trade sends stars to Clippers

Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has orchestrated plenty of business deals throughout his career. But the blockbuster trade that just… Read More

Little-known twists in moonshot tales come to light 50 years after Apollo 11

Even after 50 years, it’s still possible to find new angles on one of history’s most widely witnessed events —… Read More

The Phone Diet: How I cut back on my favorite technology — and why it made a big difference

I love my phone. Here’s the proof. It never leaves my side. Every day I spend hours using it, checking… Read More

New filing on Salesforce’s Tableau deal reveals tough six-month negotiations, $552M break-up fee

Salesforce’s $15.7 billion acquisition of Tableau Software came together after nearly six months of back-and-forth negotiations, and the companies didn’t… Read More

Canadian software company Corel acquired by KKR, less than a year after buying Parallels

Corel, the Canadian software company that acquired Seattle-area Parallels this past December, has a new owner. New York-based global investment… Read More

Super concerned with Superhuman: Seattle tech vet takes issue with new email app ‘spying’ on users

Update, Monday, 3 p.m.: Mike Davidson has returned with another personal blog post about Superhuman, calling the startup’s privacy fixes… Read More

In touching tribute, Bill Gates remembers his friend — the ‘thoughtful, brilliant and curious’ Paul Allen

Much has been said and written about the partnership between Bill Gates and Paul Allen that gave rise to Microsoft… Read More

Windows 95 and machine learning get a nod in dissent over Supreme Court gerrymandering ruling

In a ruling on Thursday tied to the practice of partisan gerrymandering, the Supreme Court — as it’s charged to… Read More

The Riveter to open inclusion-focused co-working space in Portland

The Riveter is heading to Portland. Today the Seattle-based co-working space announced its first location in Portland, Ore., at the… Read More

Expedia shows off $900M Seattle waterfront campus as thousands of employees prepare to move in

In April 2015, then-Expedia Group CEO Dara Khosrowshahi stood beside Ed Murray, the Seattle mayor at the time, and gleefully… Read More

Rover launches in-home pet grooming service in bid for global pet care domination

Rover today unveiled the newest tool in its quest for global pet care domination: grooming. The well-funded Seattle startup has… Read More

Trust vs. innovation: JPMorgan Chase grapples with tough issues at internal tech forum in Seattle

How can banks innovate and take risks without losing the trust of customers or running afoul of regulators? That’s one… Read More