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Capcom Vancouver officially shut down; ‘Dead Rising’ developers let go as part of restructuring

Capcom Vancouver is officially shutting down. The studio was primarily responsible for development on the popular but recently troubled Dead Rising franchise,… Read More

Postmates raises massive $300M round as CEO hints at 2019 IPO

Delivery startup Postmates has raised a huge $300 million funding, pushing its valuation over $1 billion as it battles a… Read More

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NASA unveils first science images from TESS probe’s quest to spot alien planets

The first science images from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite focus on a strip of southern sky that includes the… Read More

WeWork-owned coding bootcamp Flatiron School expands to west coast with new Seattle location

As WeWork continues its massive co-working expansion across the Seattle area, it is also bringing a new coding bootcamp school… Read More

GeekWire Summit Spotlight: Former DOJ attorney Tony West helps Uber write its next chapter as chief legal officer

In the year since joining Uber as chief legal officer, Tony West has talked repeatedly about trust. “Uber survives only… Read More

Salesforce co-founder Marc Benioff and his wife Lynne Benioff to buy Time magazine for $190M

The venerable newsmagazine Time, a nearly 100-year-old media institution, is about to have new owners — Marc Benioff, Salesforce chairman… Read More

Washington Gov. Inslee calls for stronger environmental leadership from state tech industry, as Silicon Valley goes green

SAN FRANCISCO — West Coast tech leaders made the case this week that artificial intelligence, blockchain, machine learning, and big… Read More

Canadian cinema giant Cineplex acquires ‘significant’ ownership of VR startup VRstudios

VRstudios is expanding in Canada thanks to a new investment from a cinema giant. The Seattle-area startup announced that publicly-traded… Read More

Business advice from Howard Schultz: The ‘humanity’ of a company will create long-term value

Howard Schultz had just returned from a trip to Poland, where he had a sobering experience at the Auschwitz concentration camp.… Read More

Todd Pierce

Judge sides with ex-Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation exec in lawsuit against organization

A King County judge sided with a former executive at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, who claimed he was misled… Read More

Coffee Meets Bagel CEO explains the importance of having an inclusive workplace

Arum Kang had just launched her startup, dating app Coffee Meets Bagel, when two of the company’s software engineers became… Read More

Starbucks announces plans to ‘go greener’ at 10,000 of its stores worldwide by 2025

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — Two months after Starbucks announced a phase-out of plastic straws, the Seattle-based coffee company is pledging… Read More

Gates Foundation exhibit showcases innovative designs for improving lives in the developing world

In tech-focused Seattle, design might often be thought of as a means to deliver another luxury to consumers who demand… Read More

Uber plants its flag in Toronto as tech momentum continues for Amazon HQ2 finalist city

Another day, another tech giant makes a major commitment to Toronto. With CEO Dara Khosrowshahi in town, Uber announced plans… Read More

Zulily co-founder Darrell Cavens departing as Seattle e-commerce company embarks on new era

Zulily co-founder and former CEO Darrell Cavens is stepping away from the e-commerce company that he jokingly refers to as… Read More

Washington STEM gets $75K SAP Concur grant to expand ‘career connected learning’

Education nonprofit Washington STEM is receiving a $75,000 grant from SAP Concur to help it expand student opportunities to explore… Read More

Impinj stock soars as connected chip maker clears audit investigation that delayed earnings results

Impinj reported its quarterly earnings today — about a month later than it was supposed to due to an audit… Read More

Talk of the town: Ignite Seattle nabs new sponsor and partner to make its speaker events even better

If you’ve got five minutes, here’s a story about some new happenings at Ignite Seattle, the successful, 12-year-old speaker series… Read More

Remitly expands to 11 European countries, CEO compares company’s growth strategy to Amazon

Remitly, the Seattle-based digital remittance company, is coming to Europe. After debuting its service in the U.K. last year, Remitly… Read More

Melinda Gates

Melinda Gates rallies top tech companies to double women of color studying computer science by 2025

Melinda Gates is convening leading tech companies in an effort to dramatically increase the number of computer science degrees awarded… Read More

KEXP returns to Seattle airwaves after 11-year-old digital memory card takes station down

After a Tuesday morning drive that was a morning dry for KEXP‘s traditional radio listeners, the Seattle station is back… Read More

Magic Leap finally reveals what’s going on at its Seattle office, and role in larger vision for augmented reality

Two years ago, the secretive augmented reality company Magic Leap established a Seattle office nearly 3,300 miles away from its… Read More

Seattle’s KEXP broadcasts dead air during morning outage, but station’s digital signal stays alive

If a tech-friendly streaming station goes off the radio airwaves, does anyone in a tech-centric city notice? Seattle nonprofit indie… Read More

T-Mobile signs $3.5B deal with Ericsson for 5G network hardware and software

T-Mobile and Ericsson announced a multi-year, multi-billion-dollar contract for Ericsson to provide both hardware and software for T-Mobile’s nationwide 5G… Read More

Impinj unveils new connected bag tags for the airline industry, aiming to curb lost luggage woes

Impinj is looking to solve one of the most frustrating experiences in the modern world of travel, lost luggage. The… Read More

Bulletproof Coffee fueled by $40M as lifestyle brand adds another Amazon veteran

Bulletproof 360 Inc., the lifestyle company whose signature product is the brain-boosting butter-infused Bulletproof Coffee, has secured another big round… Read More

Tune selling marketing measurement business to Branch, will focus solely on HasOffers software

Tune confirmed that it has sold its Attribution Analytics business, which measures the effectiveness of digital ad campaigns, to mobile marketing… Read More

New Common Sense Media survey finds more positives than negatives in teen use of social media

Yes, teens use social media more often than ever. But the positives appear to outweigh the negatives, according to a… Read More

T-Mobile fined $20K by state insurance regulators over offer to Verizon customers

Washington state insurance regulators fined T-Mobile $20,000 after finding that the Bellevue, Wash.-based wireless carrier offered an illegal inducement to… Read More

Pluto and Charon

What is a ‘planet’? Historical study revisits the debate over Pluto and other dwarfs

Twelve years after the International Astronomical Union voted in a definition of planethood that reclassified Pluto, the debate goes on.… Read More

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