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05. Juni 2015 - 13:04
SpaceX earnings: Elon Musk says Starlink could deliver most of the world’s internet within a decade
A Falcon 9 rocket arcs into the night sky during a February 2023 launch. Most of SpaceX’s launches carry Starlink satellites built at the company’s factory in Redmond, Wash. (SpaceX Photo, licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0) The satellites rolling off the line in Redmond, Wash., are paying for Elon Musk’s AI ambitions — and he says the company’s satellite internet business is only getting...
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Zillow cuts more than 500 jobs in its largest layoff of the year
GeekWire Illustration Seattle-based online real estate company Zillow Group laid off more than 500 employees Tuesday, about 7% of its global workforce, its second and largest round of cuts this year. The layoffs are about “ensuring we have a disciplined cost structure and getting more efficient, with the right people in the right positions,” Zillow Group CEO Jeremy Wacksman said in a...
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Tech Moves: Salesforce/Tableau exec departs; startups AIM and Gravitics add to C-suite
Teri Hatfield. (LinkedIn Photo) — Teri Hatfield was named chief revenue officer for Iterable, a customer engagement platform. The Seattle-area tech executive most recently served as executive vice president of sales and solutions at Salesforce and CRO of Tableau, which Salesforce acquired in 2019. She joined Tableau in 2012 and spent more than a decade in sales leadership roles at Verizon...
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‘Some things are better without AI’: How KEXP’s new tech chief will amplify human connection
Jyoti Shukla, chief product and technology officer at KEXP, inside the live room at the Seattle radio station. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Seattle indie radio powerhouse KEXP has hired tech veteran Jyoti Shukla as its first chief product and technology officer, with an unusual mandate in an era ruled by automated playlists: to build digital products that put human connection ahead of AI...
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Amazon tops $3 trillion and Microsoft surges as Wall Street sets aside AI spending fears, for now
GeekWire Illustration Microsoft and Amazon both saw their stocks surge again Monday, riding a post-earnings tech wave across the stock market that pushed Amazon past $3 trillion in value for the first time. The gains follow earnings reports last week in which both companies’ cloud platforms exceeded expectations. Microsoft said Azure grew 43%, passing $100 billion in annual revenue for the...
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UW’s Allen School names Dan Grossman interim director as Magdalena Balazinska shifts gears
Magdalena Balazinska, left, outgoing director of the University of Washington’s Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, and Dan Grossman, the school’s vice director and newly named interim director. (UW Photos) Top leadership is shifting at the University of Washington’s Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, as Director Magdalena Balazinska‘s term concludes...
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This civic activist used AI to assess how state Supreme Court candidates might rule on the millionaires’ tax
Viet Nguyen in his Seattle home office, with two of the civic sites he built using AI: Culliton2026.org on the monitor and a dashboard on the King County homelessness authority on the laptop. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) The tradition of using new technology to shape political discourse goes back centuries in America, to the printing presses that enabled the spread of early publications like...
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Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of July 26, 2026
Get caught up on the latest technology and startup news from the past week. Here are the most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of July 26, 2026. Sign up to receive these updates every Sunday in your inbox by subscribing to our GeekWire Weekly email newsletter. Most popular stories on GeekWire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos says the company’s custom AI chip business is poised to become its...
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Amazon’s next big business, Satya Nadella’s DIY app, and a VC’s rallying cry for Seattle tech
This week on the GeekWire podcast: Microsoft and Amazon both reported quarterly numbers, and both stocks rose on cloud results that beat expectations. Is all that AI spending paying off? And in related news, Microsoft sees a rare annual headcount decline, hitting product R&D hardest. Plus: Satya Nadella builds a Power BI dashboard out of an analyst’s research report, and touts it on the...
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Seattle Tech Week notebook: AI, startups, and the best insights and takeaways we heard
Seattle Tech Week attendees fill AI House at Pier 70, spilling onto the deck overlooking Elliott Bay. (GeekWire Photos / Todd Bishop) Attending as many Seattle Tech Week events as possible and talking with as many people as I could, I was struck by the number of people looking for work and the volume of visitors from the Bay Area, including a number of investors looking to get a sense for what...
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Moving faster than planned, AI drug developer Accipiter Bio quietly tops up seed round with $10.5M
An illustration of a protein created by Accipiter Bio that has two active sites, shown in light and darker green, that can simultaneously bind two targets. (Accipiter Bio Image) Less than a year after emerging from stealth operations with $12.7 million and partnerships with pharmaceutical giants, Seattle-based biotech startup Accipiter Biosciences has added $10.5 million to its funding total....
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Microsoft R&D jobs drop for second straight year as total headcount falls for first time in a decade
The number of product research and development roles at Microsoft declined for the second straight year, according to the company’s annual regulatory filing, offering a new indication of how the tech giant is reshaping its workforce in the AI era. Microsoft’s total headcount declined by 5,000 people to 223,000 as of June 30, according to its Form 10-K, filed with the SEC this week. It’s...
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What’s his angle? Teen frustrated by plastic protractor reimagines the classic classroom tool
Wenxin Fang of Redmond, Wash., holds the ZeroPivot Protractor that he designed and is selling through a new Kickstarter campaign. (Photo courtesy of Wenxin Fang) Wenxin Fang was 14 years old when he realized he was fed up with fighting with a flimsy piece of plastic in math class. As an eighth grader at Evergreen Middle School in Redmond, Wash., Fang kept bumping into the limits of standard...
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New map traces Washington state’s tech ‘universe’ to a few key hubs, and shows what’s at risk
A small slice of the new “Washington Tech Universe” map. See the full version here. How interconnected is Washington’s tech industry? Enough that a large share of the state’s companies can trace their lineage to Microsoft, the University of Washington, Amazon, and a handful of other institutions. A new visualization from the Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA), unveiled this...
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‘World of Warcraft’ meets ‘Dungeons & Dragons,’ and more from Wizards of the Coast at Gen Con
(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 announcements for the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game. Wizards, headquartered in Renton,...
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AWS is ‘booming,’ but Amazon’s free cash flow turns negative on record AI spending
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 free cash flow for the past 12 months turned negative for the first time since 2023. Overall, the...
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Startup Spotlight: This Seattle-area plumber wants to unclog retail with AI-powered delivery
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 MODRA, a Seattle-area startup that is designed to let shoppers browse inventory from nearby retailers...
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This game studio wants kids to help NASA build the first lunar colony
(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 cooperative, exploration-focused online video game that puts players ages 13 and older in the role of...
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Which Microsoft businesses are growing and shrinking, according to obscure table in regulatory filing
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 perspective, this gives the clearest view of what’s actually happening in Microsoft’s business. It groups...
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Salesforce hires ex-Microsoft exec to lead Agentforce engineering amid string of departures
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 who have departed this summer for executive roles at major tech competitors, including Amazon Web...
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K2 Space raises $500M to boost its drive to build big, powerful satellites
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 valuation. The Series D round was led by Kleiner Perkins and ICONIQ, with participation from CapitalG,...
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Off the train, into a VW bus: Amazon helps fund free shuttle service for Bellevue light rail riders
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 that it’s launching a free electric shuttle pilot program on Aug. 3 to help riders on Sound Transit’s...
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Remitly launches Global Card to turn cross-border money transfers into everyday banking
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 account aimed at customers whose lives span multiple countries — letting them get paid, spend, save, and...
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Interlune builds on partnership with equipment company to lay the groundwork for moon infrastructure
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 manufacturer, to develop construction tools for use on the moon. The two companies forged their...
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AI plus IP: Sophia Space and Caltech secure a patent for orbital data centers that use passive cooling
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 space. Developed in partnership with Caltech, Sophia’s architecture tackles a major hurdle in...
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Watch: A venture capitalist’s passionate speech — a rallying cry, really — about Seattle
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 is reminding Seattleites that this is a pretty special place. That all bubbled up at a Seattle...
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A bigger role for Swami: Amazon’s agentic AI chief gets broader mandate to shape emerging tech
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 giving him a larger mandate to shape AI strategy and technical direction across the cloud...
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Microsoft Azure tops $100B in annual revenue as record AI spending cuts into cash flow
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. The company’s results for its fiscal fourth quarter also showed the price of that growth: capital...
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VC is changing dramatically — what’s a founder to do?
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 Silicon Boys: And Their Valley of Dreams,” which told the story of how venture capital drove the...
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Amazon earnings preview: Wall Street looks for more cloud growth as AI spending hits a record
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 per share. That’s essentially the midpoint of Amazon’s own forecast for the second quarter. Part...
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Seattle lands another $1B startup: Here’s the latest arrival in the industrial AI boom
Nominal CEO Cameron McCord says Seattle’s concentration of 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 Nominal, whose software helps engineers build, test and validate complex hardware systems, is...
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Seattle Tech Week highlights how unorthodox routes can lead to careers on the space frontier
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; Kayla VanderPutten, technical recruiter at Anduril Industries; and moderator Amy Miller, head of...
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Anime fans, assemble: Bandai Namco opening ‘Gundam Base’ retail experience south of Seattle
(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 Gunpla. For the uninitiated, Gundam isn’t just a nostalgic cartoon; it’s a massive,...
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Uncommon Thinkers 2026: Nominate Seattle area’s bold innovators driving positive change
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 / Kevin Lisota) It’s time to recognize the Seattle area’s boldest innovators. Nominations are now...
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What are you building? Talking with founders and business leaders at the Seattle Tech Week kickoff event
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 parties bringing together thousands of people from across the region and out of state. Organizers...
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