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Oculus shows off its first standalone VR headset, $199 Oculus Go, and other treats

Oculus is filling the virtual-reality niche between smartphones and its high-end, wired-up Oculus Rift headset with a standalone mobile headset… Read More

What Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella learned from Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer about being a leader

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has brought something of a renaissance to the company. Although many see him as a new,… Read More

GeekWire Summit 2017: Photos and recap from an inspirational and informative Day 1

CEOs, presidents, founders, venture capitalists, scientists, inventors, professors, researchers, and an attorney general — Day 1 at the 2017 GeekWire… Read More

GeekWire Summit Day Two: Diversity & inclusion, Satya Nadella, awesome giveaways; and more

The GeekWire Summit kicked off yesterday with an amazing slate of speakers, and we’ll be back on the stage again… Read More

3 investors discuss the most (and least) exciting emerging technologies on their radar

Insurance and machine learning are hot, virtual reality is not, and cryptocurrency is complicated. Those are a few takeaways from… Read More

Inventions We Love: Pillsy, JikoPower and SafKan pitch geeky gadgets to voters at GeekWire Summit

There’s a lot to love about technology in 2017, including one of our favorite segments of the GeekWire Summit: Inventions… Read More

Heard & overheard: GeekWire Summit 2017, Day 1

Executives, scientists, and politicians say the darnedest things. The casual-yet-focused discussions on stage at the GeekWire Summit led top names… Read More

Benchmark Capital partner on suing Uber’s former CEO and replacing him with Expedia’s Dara Khosrowshahi

After Travis Kalanick resigned from Uber amid a series of sexual harassment and other scandals, investor Benchmark Capital filed an… Read More

Bob Ferguson

‘I cannot stand losing’: Washington AG Bob Ferguson on never underestimating Donald Trump

Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson has filed 19 lawsuits against the administration of Donald Trump since the president took… Read More

GeekWire Summit Live: WA state Attorney General Bob Ferguson, head of Alexa and Echo devices Toni Reid and more

Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson became the central face in the battle against President Donald Trump’s immigration ban. Longtime… Read More

Environmental group deploys ‘Cup Monster’ to pressure Starbucks to use more sustainable cups

As Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson took the stage this morning to kick off the 2017 GeekWire Summit, a giant structure with bloodshot… Read More

3rd annual Geeks Give Back campaign aims to raise $1M for the next generation of STEM leaders

Like many places around the world, Washington state has a talent crisis. The state creates thousands of highly skilled jobs… Read More

In the race to get driverless cars on the road, expert warns of the need to pump the brakes — for now

Fully automated cars are looked at by many in the tech community as a near certainty, maybe even in the… Read More

GeekWire Summit Live: Instacart CEO Apoorva Mehta on the future of retail and delivery

The grocery and delivery markets are rapidly changing, and Instacart founder and CEO Apoorva Mehta — a former supply chain… Read More

Steve Ballmer talks fake news, immigration, and Microsoft in new video

As a major investor in Twitter, the former CEO of Microsoft, and creator of new government data non-profit USAFacts.org, Steve… Read More

Starbucks CEO explains how company ties together a physical store experience with digital innovation

Over the past decade, traditional brick-and-mortar retailers have gone through a massive disruption as digital tools and the internet change the… Read More

Tableau unveils new products to speed up and simplify data visualization at Las Vegas customer conference

Tableau Software is holding its annual customer conference in Las Vegas this week, and the data visualization company showed off… Read More

Bloomberg TV broadcasts live from the GeekWire Summit, showcasing top names in tech

The GeekWire Summit kicks off today, with more than 900 business, tech, media and government leaders joining us to talk… Read More

More than 100 out-of-town tech companies set up shop in Seattle region, doubling in less than 3 years

Less than three years ago, GeekWire started a database to track the staggering number of out-of-town tech companies setting up engineering… Read More

Chinese tech powerhouse Baidu opens Seattle-area office, expanding its reach in AI and the cloud

China’s Baidu is opening an engineering office in the Seattle region, giving the Beijing-based Internet powerhouse an additional U.S. outpost… Read More

Chef releases Habitat Builder, speeding up the packaging of cloud applications for delivery

Chef is ready to release a commercial version of the Habitat open-source project — Habitat Builder — that lets software… Read More

Museum as mobile game: Pacific Science Center pilots unique ‘Tomorrow Corps’ challenge

The next time you visit Pacific Science Center in Seattle, you’ll be able to explore it with a scientist in… Read More

Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman talks about maintaining company values and his ‘theory of human happiness’

There’s a lot of talk about culture in the tech world these days, and sticking to core values as a… Read More

Mattel cancels ‘Aristotle’ smart hub for kids amid concerns about AI parenting and data collection

Mattel’s voice-activated smart hub for kids, Aristotle, first caught our attention at CES this year. Powered by Microsoft’s Cortana, the… Read More

‘Pop!’ figure maker Funko files for IPO, seeking to raise up to $100M

Funko, the Everett, Wash. company behind the popular vinyl Pop! figures, today filed paperwork for an initial public offering, with… Read More

Costco debuts new grocery delivery service and expands partnership with Instacart

Costco is making it easier for customers to buy groceries online and have them delivered to a doorstep. The Issaquah,… Read More

Seattle’s Onvia snapped up by enterprise software vendor Deltek for $70 million

Onvia, which provides business intelligence services to companies looking to sell Uncle Sam their technology, was acquired Thursday by Deltek… Read More

Nvidia to open robotics lab near University of Washington, expanding Seattle-area footprint

Nvidia already has an engineering center in Redmond, Wash. Now the tech giant is looking to tap into the engineering… Read More

Tabby's Star

Scientists point to dust rather than aliens as cause of star’s odd behavior

Are aliens building a huge energy-generating megastructure around a weirdly dimming star? That way-out hypothesis has suffered another blow, thanks… Read More

Melinda Gates Tune House

Tune House welcomes new tech-minded women scholars at UW and Melinda Gates pays a visit

Melinda Gates is obviously a champion of creating opportunities for women in technology. On Wednesday morning she was in Florida… Read More

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