Prem Kumar. Editor’s note: The following is a commentary written by Prem Kumar, co-founder and CEO of Seattle startup Humanly. Braden Wallake, the CEO of HyperSocial, now known infamously as the “Crying CEO,” caused a social media storm last week by sharing a LinkedIn post that...
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(Amazon Prime Video Photos)Amazon has set the premiere times for the global debut of the hotly anticipated Prime Video series “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.” Two episodes of the fantasy series will start streaming at 6 p.m. PT on Sept. 1. Fans around the world will be able to...
RipeLocker, which sells containers that preserve food and flowers, raises $7.5M to boost production
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George and Lobisser inside a truck with 20 RipeLockers bound for Peru, where they will be loaded with blueberries, and then Europe. (RipeLocker Photo)The news: RipeLocker raised $7.5 million, providing the food-tech startup fresh funding to boost production, upgrade its systems and continue doing...
Inflation Reduction Act could boost climate efforts at Amazon, Microsoft — and increase their taxes
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Amazon secured the naming rights for Seattle’s rebuilt KeyArena, dubbing it the Climate Pledge Arena. The company’s investments helped make it the first net-zero carbon certified arena in the world. Among its enviro features is a living wall. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser))President Joe...
Lockstep CEO Peter Horadan. (Lockstep Photo) Lockstep, a Seattle-based startup that sells software used to automate the accounting of B2B purchases and payments, said Tuesday it will be acquired by The Sage Group, a British multinational enterprise software company that offers payroll, HR, and...
The Galvanize space at 111 S. Jackson St. in Seattle. (Galvanize Photo)Galvanize, the Denver-based company that offers co-working space and coding education bootcamps in several U.S. cities, is closing its location in Seattle after seven years. The company said doors would be shutting at the...
Amazon moves physical retail tech teams into cloud division, looking to accelerate third-party adoption
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Dilip Kumar, Amazon’s vice president of physical retail and technology, discusses the Amazon One palm recognition and payment system at the company’s re:MARS conference in Las Vegas in June. Kumar is shifting to AWS and taking part of the physical retail organization with him. (GeekWire Photo...
New TV show from MGM called ‘Ring Nation’ uses surveillance video footage from Ring cameras
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(Ring Photo)[Samson Amore is a reporter for dot.LA] Comedian Wanda Sykes’ latest venture is turning video from your smart home network into a TV show. The primetime Emmy winner and star of Netflix’s “The Upshaws” will host a show called “Ring Nation.” Produced by Big Fish...
‘Metaverse’ is in, ‘mixed reality’ out: Reading the tech tea leaves in Microsoft’s new words
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Wordsmith in Chief? Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is known to pay close attention to the language the company uses to describe its business and vision. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop)Microsoft’s future just got a major edit. The metaverse, hybrid work, flexibility, trust, and technology’s...
Nuclear energy company co-founded by Bill Gates raises $750M, one of the largest rounds in Seattle tech history
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TerraPower’s lab tests the equipment and processes for next-generation nuclear reactors. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota)TerraPower, a Bellevue, Wash.-based nuclear power company co-founded by Bill Gates, landed $750 million in new funding. It’s among the largest funding rounds ever for a...
FAQ Schema: A Beginner’s Guide I’ve been testing a new SEO hack and it works no matter how old or new your site is. It’s called FAQ schema. Even if you have almost no links, this strategy can help. Best of all, unlike most SEO changes. FAQ schema doesn’t take months or years to make a...
Monod Bio co-founders, from left: David Shoultz, Daniel-Adriano Silva, and Alfredo Quijano Rubio. (Monod Photo) The news: Monod Bio raised $25 million to develop molecular biosensors that light up when they bind their target. The sensors can be designed to detect molecules linked to disease and...
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 Aug. 7, 2022. Sign up to receive these updates every Sunday in your inbox by subscribing to our GeekWire Weekly email newsletter. Most popular stories on...
What we learned from the life of early Amazon investor and Seattle business leader Tom Alberg
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Tom Alberg with Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. (Madrona Venture Group Photo)Seattle-based investor and business leader Tom Alberg, who died last week at the age of 82, was a key figure in the e-commerce and wireless industries, and in the Seattle startup community, as an early Amazon investor and...
Securing private car deals: Seattle fintech startup aims to reduce fraud for used vehicle sales
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Co-founder and CEO Andrew Crowell. (KeySavvy Photo)You receive a link from a seller to pay for the car you are about to buy. Should you trust it? Seattle startup KeySavvy wants to help by tackling fraud and simplifying private party vehicle transactions. Co-founder and CEO Andrew Crowell...
Amazon sues six alleged fake review sites — we chatted with one that didn’t believe suit was real
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GeekWire IllustrationAmazon has been targeting alleged sellers of fake product reviews for the past seven years, starting with the first suit of its kind in 2015. A new wave of suits this week shows the company isn’t giving up, and the issue isn’t going away. The company filed separate...
Amazon sues six alleged fake review sites — we chatted with one that didn’t believe suit was real
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GeekWire IllustrationAmazon has been targeting alleged sellers of fake product reviews for the past seven years, starting with the first suit of its kind in 2015. A new wave of suits this week shows the company isn’t giving up, and the issue isn’t going away. The company filed separate...
Amarjit Kaur Sandhu. (Ozette Photo) — Amarjit Kaur Sandhu joined Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center spinout Ozette Technologies as vice president of engineering. She previously was director of software engineering at Nuance Communications, which acquired Seattle digital health startup Saykara...
Amarjit Kaur Sandhu. (Ozette Photo) — Amarjit Kaur Sandhu joined Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center spinout Ozette Technologies as vice president of engineering. She previously was director of software engineering at Nuance Communications, which acquired Seattle digital health startup Saykara...
Please and thank you: Cannabis startup Polite sells science-backed products to treat yourself
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Some of Polite’s founders, left to right: Mary Brown Szomjassy, chief clinical officer; Yung Tan, CEO; Sue Tan, chief creative officer; Adam Melero, chief innovation officer; and Jeffrey Freeman Jr, chief growth officer. (Pax Bradford Photo) The co-founders of Seattle-based cannabis and hemp...
Please and thank you: Cannabis startup Polite sells science-backed products to treat yourself
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Some of Polite’s founders, left to right: Mary Brown Szomjassy, chief clinical officer; Yung Tan, CEO; Sue Tan, chief creative officer; Adam Melero, chief innovation officer; and Jeffrey Freeman Jr, chief growth officer. (Pax Bradford Photo) The co-founders of Seattle-based cannabis and hemp...
How Amazon’s mandate against media leaks helped to seal its $3.9B deal to acquire One Medical
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A new regulatory filing details Amazon’s behind-the-scenes talks for One Medical, leading up to the Seattle tech giant’s agreement to acquire the primary care company for $3.9 billion, announced by the companies July 21. The filing confirms that Amazon wasn’t alone in bidding for One...
Microsoft tells Brazilian regulator that Sony pays devs to not push content to Xbox Game Pass
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Activision’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2022) is almost certain to be the best-selling game of the year, on every platform where it appears. (Activision Image)In a filing to Brazil’s national competition regulator, Microsoft has claimed that Sony pays unnamed video game developers to...
How Amazon’s mandate against media leaks helped to seal its $3.9B deal to acquire One Medical
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A new regulatory filing details Amazon’s behind-the-scenes talks for One Medical, leading up to the Seattle tech giant’s agreement to acquire the primary care company for $3.9 billion, announced by the companies July 21. The filing confirms that Amazon wasn’t alone in bidding for One...
Outreach CEO Manny Medina. (GeekWire Photo / Nat Levy) Seattle-based Outreach is laying off about 5% of its workforce, a move that comes at a time when many startups are being advised to reduce costs and extend runway by trimming staff counts. A company spokesperson confirmed the cuts to...
Microsoft tells Brazilian regulator that Sony pays devs to not push content to Xbox Game Pass
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Activision’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2022) is almost certain to be the best-selling game of the year, on every platform where it appears. (Activision Image)In a filing to Brazil’s national competition regulator, Microsoft has claimed that Sony pays unnamed video game developers to...
Transportation software company Inrix, which is profitable and nearly went public, raises $10M
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Inrix sells location analytics software products to retailers such as Starbucks and Chick-fil-A. (Inrix Image)Inrix, the Kirkland, Wash.-based transportation software and data provider founded in 2004, has raised $10 million from investors, less than a year after the company nearly went public. ...
Outreach CEO Manny Medina. (GeekWire Photo / Nat Levy) Seattle-based Outreach is laying off about 5% of its workforce, a move that comes at a time when many startups are being advised to reduce costs and extend runway by trimming staff counts. A company spokesperson confirmed the cuts to...
This nonprofit is showing how rigorous data analysis can dramatically curb youth homelessness
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The Anchor Community Initiative team with A Way Home Washington captured their reaction to Spokane’s significant decline in youth and young adult homelessness, as revealed through their data analysis. (A Way Home Washington Photo)A Washington state organization is using data and analytics to...
Transportation software company Inrix, which is profitable and nearly went public, raises $10M
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Inrix sells location analytics software products to retailers such as Starbucks and Chick-fil-A. (Inrix Image)Inrix, the Kirkland, Wash.-based transportation software and data provider founded in 2004, has raised $10 million from investors, less than a year after the company nearly went public. ...