(Wizards of the Coast press image) This year’s Gen Con is being held in Indianapolis July 30 through Aug. 2. In advance of the show, one of the biggest events on the calendar for North America’s tabletop gaming community, Wizards of the Coast invited press to take an early look at its scheduled...
AWS CMO Julia White, left, and CEO Matt Garman at an event in April. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Amazon Web Services revenue grew 37% last quarter, its fastest pace since the end of 2021, but the company is spending so much on data centers and infrastructure to fuel that growth that its...
Jeremy Bernier, a plumber and U.S. Navy veteran, recently started retail delivery startup MODRA. Jeremy Bernier has spent years fixing clogged pipes. Now he’s trying to fix another everyday frustration: shopping local. The U.S. Navy veteran and owner of Nerd Plumbing and Drain has founded...
(August Interactive press image) A Seattle game studio is collaborating with NASA to create a new educational video game that challenges players to plan, collaborate, and invent their way to building a virtual lunar colony. Moonbase Y, currently under development at August Interactive, is a...
The first thing I do when Microsoft’s 10-K or 10-Q comes out is hit Ctrl-F and go waaaay down to the section called “Revenue, classified by significant product and service offerings.” It’s on Page 85 of the 10-K that came out Wednesday with its quarterly and annual results. From my...
Krishna Kumar Parthasarathy. (LinkedIn Photo) After nearly three decades at Microsoft, cybersecurity executive Krishna Kumar Parthasarathy has announced he is joining Salesforce as executive vice president of engineering. Parthasarathy is part of a wave of senior Microsoft security leaders...
K2 Space’s Gravitas satellite, shown here during final integration, was launched in March. (K2 Space Photo via PRNewswire) K2 Space, a California-based satellite company that recently set up an engineering hub in Seattle, has announced a $500 million funding round at a $6.8 billion...
One of the electric Volkswagen ID. BUZZ vehicles that will serve as a free shuttle for light rail riders arriving in downtown Bellevue, Wash. (Visit Seattle Photo) Stepping off the light rail in downtown Bellevue, Wash., is about to come with a free ride. Visit Bellevue announced this week...
The Remitly Global Card. (Remitly Image) Remitly, the Seattle digital remittance startup built on sending money across borders, is now offering a debit card and account meant to hold that money, too. The company on Thursday launched the Remitly Global Card, a Visa debit card and linked...
This full-scale prototype of Interlune’s lunar excavator was developed in partnership with Vermeer in 2025. Testing as shown was done with auxiliary components. (Interlune / Vermeer Photo) Seattle-based Interlune is expanding its partnership with Vermeer, an Iowa-based industrial equipment...
An artist’s conception shows a data center satellite that makes use of Sophia Space’s tile-based architecture. (Sophia Space Illustration) Sophia Space has secured a patent for a technology that could pave the way for solar-powered orbital data centers that passively radiate excess heat into...
Jacob Colker of AI House speaking at the Showbox Market in Seattle, where he later joined bandmates on drums. (Photo / AI House) AI House co-founder and managing director Jacob Colker may be Seattle’s number one cheerleader. In posts on LinkedIn, panel discussions and recent news stories, Colker...
Swami Sivasubramanian on stage at AWS re:Invent in 2023, with a keynote slide behind him. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Amazon just broadened the role of Swami Sivasubramanian, the VP behind AWS’s agentic AI push, expanding and renaming his organization to include emerging technologies, and...
GeekWire File Photo Microsoft’s Azure cloud business grew 43% last quarter, blowing past the company’s own forecast and surpassing $100 billion in annual revenue for the first time, providing fresh evidence of the potential for artificial intelligence to fuel new growth for the tech giant....
Click to enlarge. The top 5% of U.S. seed-round valuations reached $200.4 million in Q2 2026, up 177% from a year earlier, even as fewer companies were funded. (Chart: Peter Walker / Carta) Guest Opinion: When I moved to Seattle in 2000 and started in venture capital, I read the book “The...
Amazon reports quarterly earnings Thursday afternoon, facing the same test as every other big tech company right now: whether it’s generating enough business to justify its massive AI spending. Wall Street expects revenue of about $196.4 billion, up 17% from a year ago, and earnings of $1.82...
Nominal CEO Cameron McCord says Seattle’s concentration to tech talent and key partners attracted the company. (Photos via Nominal) Seattle’s emergence as a hub for companies building the next generation of industrial technology is drawing another high-profile startup. Los Angeles-based...
Joydeep Hazra, program director for electric vehicles at South Seattle College, holds up a prototype Mars rover during a Seattle Tech Week session. He’s surrounded by, from left, Alec Courtright, technical program manager at EarthDaily Federal, Anjali Roychowdhury, lead software engineer at SpaceX;...
(Bandai Namco Image) Giant anime robots are landing in the Seattle area. Bandai Namco is opening an official Gundam Base retail store at Westfield Southcenter mall in Tukwila, Wash., this fall, giving Pacific Northwest anime and model-kit fans a permanent flagship destination for all things...
The 2025 “Uncommon Thinkers” award winners, from left: Anindya Roy, co-founder of Lila Biologics; Kiana Ehsani, co-founder of Vercept; Max Blumen of Tin Can; Jay Graber, CIO of Bluesky; Brian Pinkard, co-founder of Aquagga, and Jeff Thornburg, co-founder of Portal Space Systems; (GeekWire Photo /...
Top row from left: Emily Rapp, Henry Arias, Cleo Escarez, and Jagan Nemani. Bottom row from left: Kim Vu, Andy Liu, Mary Jesse, and Kenny Daniel, at the Seattle Tech Week kickoff. (GeekWire Photos / Todd Bishop) The fourth annual Seattle Tech Week got off to a big start Monday, with panels and...
A UPS truck makes its way through downtown Seattle. (GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Handling fewer packages for Amazon is boosting the financial outlook for UPS, as CEO Carol Tomé said Tuesday that the delivery giant has successfully completed its planned volume pullback and is pivoting...
Amazon’s next pillar could be built on a foundation of silicon. In a new interview with Fortune, Amazon founder and Executive Chair Jeff Bezos says the company’s custom chip business is on track to become one of Amazon’s most durable businesses, placing it alongside Marketplace, Prime, and...
An illustration shows campers using a smartphone to connect with a stylized Amazon Leo satellite network. (Amazon Photoillustration) Amazon Leo has asked the Federal Communications Commission to approve its plan to launch up to 5,105 satellites capable of providing space-based connectivity for...
GeekWire Image / Company Logos A new Warner Bros. Discovery lawsuit against Amazon, accusing the tech giant of poaching a top HBO Max marketing executive 16 months before her contract expired, comes with an unusual request: a court order barring Amazon from hiring any employee of the media...
(ABC Fitness Image) Replify, a Seattle startup that uses agentic AI to help fitness operators automate member and prospect communications, is being acquired by Dallas-based ABC Fitness, the companies announced Monday. Replify’s software handles phone calls, emails, chats, and texts for health...
Microsoft Security EVP Hayete Gallot introduces Project Perception’s agent teams Monday in San Francisco. (Screenshot) Microsoft on Monday unveiled Project Perception, an AI cybersecurity system built to defend against AI-driven attacks, aiming to keep pace with both hackers and its technology...
Washington Youth Aerospace, the winners of the International Rocketry Challenge, from left in black shirts, Mikhail Antipin, Antoine Vigneron, Anay Mediwala, Nikhil Sirivara, Daniel Tadesse and Bao-ky Tran, pose with European Space Agency astronauts Meganne Christian, left, and John McFall at the...
Starbucks was using technology from Redmond-based NomadGo to automate how workers counted inventory items. (Starbucks Photo) When Starbucks scrapped an AI-powered inventory counting tool back in May, just nine months after revealing the new system, it landed as a surprise to those tracking the...
Microsoft has topped earnings expectations consistently in recent years, yet its stock is near a one-year low. So while it’s worth paying attention to revenue and profits when the company reports its fiscal year-end results Wednesday, there are clearly other forces at play on...
Jeff Lyon. (LinkedIn Photo) — Jeff Lyon is now chief information security officer at Seattle’s Remitly. Lyon joins from Coinbase, where he was head of infrastructure security for two years. Past roles include security leadership at Robinhood and Amazon Web Services. Lyon also served as a petty...
Jeff Bezos uncorks the bubbly after a suborbital spaceflight in Blue Origin’s New Shepard capsule. (Blue Origin Photo) Jeff Bezos may never again “walk alone.” The Amazon founder is reportedly part of a group interested in buying a 30% stake in Liverpool Football Club, the storied English...
This collage highlights some of the projects selected for funding through the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts program, including a study looking at radioisotope heating systems for moonwalking astronauts, depicted at center left. (NASA Graphic) NASA says it’s funding a new batch of far-out...
Illustration of a patient receiving an ultrasound using Dopl’s remote technology as a medical assistant looks on. (Dopl Illustration) Dopl Technologies announced $6.3 million in new funding to support the development and commercialization of a remotely operated robotic ultrasound system. The...
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