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Twitter admits it overstated its user base, but Wall Street doesn’t care as stock spikes 16%

Twitter disclosed this morning that it has been overstating the number of monthly active users for close to three years.… Read More

Zillow takes on housing worries with $5M pledge to The Home Project, its first social impact program

Zillow Group is leveraging its position as a leading real estate technology company to try to do something about the… Read More

Car2go dropping Smart cars from Seattle fleet in favor of high-end Mercedes-Benz models

Say goodbye to the Smart Fortwo cars that have come to symbolize the popular car-sharing service car2go. The company said… Read More

Zillow Group CEO Spencer Rascoff shares his keys to success and advice on bouncing back

As the co-founder of Hotwire and CEO of Zillow Group, with stints at companies like TPG Capital and Expedia, Spencer… Read More

Google releases new family-friendly features for its digital assistant as it battles Amazon’s Alexa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=PVgFBcjBpMY Google has opened up a new front in its battle against Amazon’s digital assistant Alexa: kids and families. Google… Read More

Funko IPO could top $245M, more than doubling initial estimate for Pop! figure maker

Funko more than doubled the amount it is looking to raise when it goes public to a maximum of $245.3… Read More

Latest home beer-making appliance from PicoBrew now available as company celebrates all week

Pardon the folks at PicoBrew this week if they pause to toast a number of different offerings and accomplishments. The… Read More

Scientists call for a treaty to protect Apollo moon sites and other famous space places

What’s the best way to preserve the Apollo footprints on the moon, the Face on Mars, or the mysterious “white… Read More

Disney spinout Dragonchain pursues initial coin offering to build out new blockchain technology

Blockchain is one of the hottest trends in tech right now, but it remains a mystery to many outside the… Read More

T-Mobile adds another 1.3M customers, avoids Sprint merger questions by skipping quarterly call

T-Mobile US added another 1.3 million new customers in the third quarter, its 18th straight period with more than 1… Read More

TableSafe raising cash, lands important global certification to transform paying restaurant bills

TableSafe has raised close to $8 million and received a key certification as it seeks to transform how diners pay… Read More

Full video: Inside the payments industry with Stripe co-founder John Collison at the GeekWire Summit

They may not know it, but anyone who has backed a company on Kickstarter or taken a Lyft is engaging… Read More

The art of note-taking: How this GeekWire Summit artist turns conversations into inspiring visual maps

Note-taking can be a mundane and repetitive process that doesn’t always help inspire innovative new ideas. But that all changes… Read More

‘Mr. Robot’ Rewind: Backdooring a monitor for FBI surveillance in Episode Two

[Spoiler Alert] Yarr, me matey. There be spoilers ahead! Consider yourself warned. Seriously though, this article describes the latest Mr.… Read More

Washington state’s life sciences industry has a talent crisis — and the tech sector is partly to blame

Washington State’s life sciences sector has historically been strong, even among the best in the nation. Industries like medicine, research… Read More

The right words have benefits: Textio talks perks in job listings, and how ‘leave’ beats ‘vacation’

Using the right language in job postings has its benefits. And whatever benefits your company is boasting about providing can… Read More

Uber Seattle GM talks about lessons learned from hectic growth period at ride-hailing giant

Brooke Steger has been through a lot since she became Uber’s Seattle general manager in 2013. Back then, the ride-hailing… Read More

Netflix adds another 5.3M subscribers as stock price reaches all-time high after Q3 earnings

Netflix shares were up more than 2 percent in after-hours trading as the streaming giant beat expectations for both revenue… Read More

The KRACK attack: Is all WiFi unsafe now? No, not really. But you’d better patch

Belgian researcher Mathy Vanhoef announced some rather brilliant research on Monday which demonstrates that nearly all WiFi in use today can be… Read More

Gates Foundation’s new open-source software helps impoverished communities around the world access financial services

For the billions of people living without access to a bank account, simple transactions, like paying rent electronically or registering… Read More

‘The pipeline’ isn’t causing tech’s diversity problem: The workplace is, and here are 3 ways to fix it

For tech organizations trying to diversify, there’s an obvious go-to: invest in a more diverse pipeline. “For me, and I… Read More

‘Dear Jeff’: Boston Globe shows how Amazon HQ2 can ‘help make our city better’

Amazon has an opportunity to redefine how a corporation can help shape a city. That’s the message from The Boston Globe,… Read More

Relive the 2017 GeekWire Summit: Our annual tech conference offers a glimpse into the future

CEOs and executives shared their best practices. Professors and researchers offered their expert opinions. Inventors and entrepreneurs demonstrated their latest… Read More

Why Stripe co-founder John Collison thinks his company is the Amazon Web Services of payments

There’s not a lot of regular folks who realize that mobile payments processor Stripe is one of the most influential… Read More

Stripe co-founder John Collison explains why online payments powerhouse opened an office in Seattle

Online payment powerhouse Stripe just opened an office in Seattle, its first engineering outpost outside of Silicon Valley, and it’s… Read More

Glowforge delays shipment of 3D printers again as buyers express frustration with Seattle startup

It’s been two years since Glowforge set a crowdfunding record for its innovative 3D printer and the company is still… Read More

Univ. of Washington names new computer science building after Bill & Melinda Gates

Before they launched Microsoft and changed the personal computing world forever, Bill Gates and Paul Allen spent their teenage years… Read More

Real talk about fake news: How the Information Age became the Disinformation Age

Technology has changed just about everything it has touched, and that is especially true when it comes to the distribution… Read More

Inventions We Love: Smart lighting, a smart ball and a DIY pancreas system that is … well, really smart

You can never have too many inventions worth loving. And in Seattle’s bustling tech scene, startups continue to wow us… Read More

GeekWire Summit Live: theBoardlist Founder Sukhinder Singh Cassidy and Zillow Group CEO Spencer Rascoff

This session isn’t just a talk — it’s also live recording of Zillow Group CEO Spencer Rascoff’s Office Hours podcast. Rascoff will… Read More