It's the end of an era at Microsoft: Frank X. Shaw, the executive who oversaw the tech giant's communications for nearly three decades, first at an external agency and for the last 17 years as one of its senior leaders, is leaving at the end of the year. Read More
The co-founder and chairman of the Seattle fintech giant was inducted into the Ivy League school's Entrepreneur Hall of Fame, which honors alumni who have made lasting positive impacts through their ventures. Read More
Nukleus, a startup building software for athletes and the agents, lawyers and accountants who manage their careers, has signed Las Vegas Raiders running back Ashton Jeanty as an investor and its public face. The company's other backers include a Microsoft finance executive, WaFd Bank's CEO and a former Vulcan Capital investor. Read More
Speaking at the Seattle Chamber’s 144th annual meeting, CEO Joe Nguyen framed local business growth as an essential prerequisite for progressive civic priorities—warning regional leaders that public services, housing, and transit cannot be funded without protecting the region’s $600 billion economic engine. Read More
In a letter sent Thursday, executives from major area employers — including Microsoft, Starbucks, Costco, F5, Alaska Airlines, Zillow, and others — urged city leaders to protect and expand public safety funding amid growing skepticism that the city currently has an effective strategy to address crime and homelessness. Read More
Amazon is adding the Activity Feed from its Quick desktop app to the AI assistant's iPhone and Android apps, combining email, Slack messages, calendar invites and CRM updates into one prioritized list. The desktop version, released in preview in April, is now generally available on Windows and macOS. Read More
Serial founder Stefan Kalb has launched Latch, an $8M FUSE-backed enterprise AI startup built alongside a PSL alum to map real-world workflows and liberate employees from the routine tasks that hold them back. Read More
Pavan Davuluri, who runs Windows and Surface at Microsoft, is rebuilding the operating system so AI agents can run on it alongside people. In the latest installment of GeekWire's Microsoft 2.5 series, he talks with Mary Jo Foley about the customer backlash that followed his "agentic OS" post last November and his commitment to improving Windows quality and reliability. Read More
The September update for Amazon’s cloud-based gaming service Luna comes with multiple new features, the most prominent of which is one that will allow up to 7 other players to remotely participate in the same gaming session. Read More
Seattle biotech BrainChild Bio has raised $116 million to advance an experimental CAR T cell therapy for DIPG, a rare and deadly brain tumor that primarily affects young children. The company is building on technology developed at Seattle Children’s and is also developing CAR T therapies for other pediatric and adult brain tumors. Read More
An independent study commissioned by the City of Seattle says the city should protect the big tech employers it has while building a more diverse economy on top of them. The 127-page report also says Seattle's tax structure is unique among its peers in penalizing the hiring of senior, high-compensation workers. Read More
During the broadcast, NBC play-by-play announcer Mike Tirico pointed out the new Microsoft Surface devices — clad in action green cases, no less — in the Seattle's coaches' box above Lumen Field. Read More
Amazon has named Kevin Mandia, the founder of breach-investigation firm Mandiant, to its board of directors, adding security expertise a few months after former NSA director Keith Alexander stepped down. Mandia now runs Armadin, a startup that uses AI to run attacks against corporate networks as a way of testing their defenses. Read More
Jacob Colker argues that Seattle has a branding problem, not a lack of talent, ambition or accomplishments. He lays out a five-step plan for the region's tech community to start telling its own story. Read More
The 43,000-square-foot space at West8 in the Denny Triangle neighborhood will bring together employees across digital products, AV, IT, HR, marketing, and other teams. Read More
The Seattle startup's materials sit on top of silicon chips and imprint data onto a beam of light using less power. Mitsubishi Chemical's venture arm and Pangaea Ventures joined a $13 million round. Read More
A Redmond startup founded by former Microsoft researchers says its GRID platform now automates much of the engineering that keeps robots stuck in pilot projects. CEO Ashish Kapoor says the company has roughly a dozen customers and revenue in the millions of dollars. Read More
Helion Energy has opened a downtown Seattle office as its headcount hits 800 employees, adding to its five-building Everett headquarters and its Malaga, Wash., site, where the fusion startup is building its Orion generator facility. The company, which has raised more than $1.5 billion, is racing to get Orion operational within two years to meet a contract to supply fusion energy to a Microsoft da…
T-Mobile named Jessica Uhl as CFO-designate, succeeding Peter Osvaldik as CFO come February. Microsoft and Blue Origin saw the departure of vice presidents, while startups AZX and Caddi added leaders, among other tech personnel changes. Read More
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