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Starbucks posts $6.1B in Q1 revenue; mobile order-ahead usage grows slightly to 11% of U.S. transactions

Shares of Starbucks dipped in after-hours trading after the Seattle coffee giant beat earnings estimates and just missed on revenue… Read More

Moz co-founder Gillian Muessig unveils new venture fund to back women-led startups

In 1715, Sybilla Masters traveled from colonial America to London to register a patent. She had invented a new way… Read More

Pittsburgh Profile: The pleasant surprise that greeted ex-Amazon exec Mark Stabingas upon his homecoming

After more than 15 years away — most spent working for Amazon in Seattle — Mark Stabingas returned to Pittsburgh… Read More

Pittsburgh forges a new future, remaking iconic steel town into a modern innovation factory

Decades before the NBA and Shark Tank, years before making his fortune in tech, Mark Cuban was a kid growing… Read More

Marijuana investment firm Privateer Holdings raises $60M, total funding eclipses $200M

Investors are seeing green when it comes to the future of the marijuana industry. Seattle-based marijuana investment firm Privateer Holdings… Read More

$2.36B acquisition of Wave Broadband closes, forming nation’s 6th largest cable company

A $2.36 billion deal to form the sixth largest cable company in the U.S. by combining Kirkland, Wash. broadband provider… Read More

Pittsburgh Profile: Robotics expert Sidd Srinivasa on his love for the Steel City, and his leap to Seattle

Very few people are in a better position to explain Pittsburgh to a bunch of Seattle-based technology journalists than Siddhartha… Read More

Shiftboard raises $11.5M for employee schedule management platform, 17 years after launching

More than 17 years after launching, Shiftboard today announced a $11.5 million Series A investment round. Founded in 2002, Shiftboard… Read More

It doesn’t take a data scientist to know which title tops Glassdoor’s 50 Best Jobs in America, again

Data scientists — or people who hope to become one — are collecting a lot of data about how great… Read More

Melinda Gates invests in $181M fund for women-led VC firm Aspect Ventures

Aspect Ventures today announced a new $181 million institutional fund that includes money from Melinda Gates, a vocal critic about… Read More

Facebook shakes up its AI organization, hires IBM Watson creator to lead research and product

Facebook is changing the way it works on artificial intelligence technology, consolidating its research lab and the team responsible for… Read More

Hands-on with Amazon Go: We tested the tech giant’s experiment in checkout-free retail

Smartphone in hand, I stood inside the Amazon Go store and turned the screen over to scan a unique QR… Read More

Seattle march marking Trump’s inauguration takes aim at the president and GOP

This year’s march on the anniversary of the swearing in of President Trump was pitched as encompassing the anti-sexual harassment… Read More

Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman pens riveting diary on the IPO process: from a ‘death-march to a celebration’

Redfin had one of the better IPOs in 2017. In a process that has become more hit-or-miss in recent years,… Read More

Women in Cloud Summit unveils new initiatives to seize ‘the biggest opportunities of our lives’

Microsoft and Hewlett Packard Enterprise are launching a new six-month Cloud Accelerator Lab to help women start businesses in the… Read More

Most women in Seattle tech industry experience harassment but few report it, new study finds

Some were pushed toward non-technical careers despite their technical skills. Others reported unwanted touching or kissing. Many saw less qualified… Read More

Pittsburgh, here we come! Check out where GeekWire will base its own HQ2 in Steel City in February

There’s already been a lot of buzz this week about HQ2. But Amazon is not the only Seattle upstart that’s… Read More

Seattle’s WatchGuard Technologies snaps up Percipient Networks to bolster its security services

Security vendor WatchGuard Technologies has acquired Percipient Networks, maker of a security product oriented around DNS servers, for an undisclosed… Read More

LumaTax raises $3M and partners with Square to help small businesses file taxes

LumaTax has raised more funding and inked a key partnership with Square to help small businesses automate their sales tax… Read More

Zillow sued over how it displays Zestimate home valuation tool in some partner listings

A group in New Jersey sued Zillow Group this week, alleging that letting some partners move the Zestimate valuation tool… Read More

Twitter COO predicts streaming devices like Apple TV, Fire TV, Chromecast will go extinct in 5 years

Google Chromecast, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, and other streaming devices won’t be around in five years. That’s the prediction… Read More

Smartsheet makes first acquisition, buys Converse.AI to integrate voice assistants and AI into workflow automation

Smartsheet is making its first acquisition ever as the Bellevue, Wash.-based company aims to integrate artificial intelligence and natural language processing technology… Read More

Biologists sniff out another method that microbes use to make methane

News brief: Every year, microbes produce hundreds of millions of tons of methane, a greenhouse gas that’s more potent than… Read More

Scientists want future space telescopes to look for risky signs of alien civilizations

Global warming and nuclear blasts may be bad for humanity, but astrobiologists say they could be good indicators of the… Read More

Hawaii receives alert warning of incoming ballistic missile that turns out to be false alarm

Hawaiians received a startling emergency alert on mobile devices and across televisions on Saturday morning warning that a ballistic missile… Read More

CES Day 4 recap: Checking in with Microsoft and wrapping up a wacky week at the big tech show

It was another crazy week at CES learning about how technology may shape the future. Team GeekWire was on the… Read More

I welcome our robot overlords, as long as they’ll mow my lawn like this LG gadget does

LAS VEGAS — I generally count myself as an automation skeptic. I worry about the impact it could have on… Read More

CES Day 3 recap: Power goes out at world’s biggest tech show while human-like robots draw attention

LAS VEGAS — The big topic of discussion at the Consumer Electronics Show on Wednesday was not so much about future… Read More

T-Mobile opens nightclub-esque retail store in Las Vegas with juice bar, Alexa, VR, and more

LAS VEGAS — You don’t typically find juice bars, voice-activated fans, virtual reality headsets, and a nightclub vibe inside a… Read More

House of Representatives extends NSA warrantless surveillance program, a blow to privacy advocates

The House of Representatives has passed a bill extending the National Security Administration’s warrantless surveillance program for six years, rejecting… Read More