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TheWMarketplace wants to take on Amazon with its new ecommerce site for womenled businesses

Clippy is back for Mac Microsofts infamous Office assistant gets a new virtual life

Amazon and Jeff Bezos among the tech punchlines as Silicon Valley returns to HBO for 6th season

Starbucks recipe for global coffee domination: Time lapse speed in some places slow motion in others

Howard Schultzbacked Gatheredtables software assets acquired by Medifast

Microsoft makes a new round of layoffs across multiple business units

Ignitions John Connors: Seattle is becoming the most important tech market behind Silicon Valley

Seattles socialist City Council member introduces new Amazon tax to raise 300Myear for affordable public housing

Google settles with Washington AG for 423K over political ads

Portlandbased hardware security startup Eclypsium raises 13M

A beloved horse dies in the night and a startup is born bringing AI and machine learning to animals

3 leadership lessons from Adaptive Biotechnologies CEO Chad Robins

Its TTYL forever for AOL Instant Messenger: Early chat leader shuts down after 20 years

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella cites BMWs integration of Alexa and Cortana as a model for modern tech partnerships

Seattles Athira Pharma files for IPO to fund quest for Alzheimers and Parkinsons breakthroughs

Caution ahead: Startup report predicts venture capital drought layoffs as COVID19 crisis mounts

Alexa AI leader Ashwin Ram leaving Amazon to head up Googles Cloud AI

The heart of the building: AI pumps life into architecture at Microsoft through interactive Ada

Amazon and Capital One face legal backlash after massive hack affects 106M customers

Microsofts Scott Guthrie: If Amazon Web Services is the Yankees were the Red Sox

Tech Moves: Smartsheet Qumulo Zipwhip add board directors Bardy hires a new president Maven cofounder steps down and more

Amazon to bring 15000 employees to Bellevue as rapid expansion in Seattlearea city continues

Jeff Bezosbacked indoor farming startup Plenty opens 100K squarefoot facility in Seattle region

Amazon Web Services now fully supports Kubernetes with the general release of Amazon EKS

Kroger inks deal with Alibaba to sell groceries online in China as it battles Amazon

Power struggle: How a bitcoin mining boom is transforming apple country one megawatt at a time

GitHub introduces GitHub Actions to further automate the art of software development

Relativity makes deals with Vandenberg AFB and Iridium for California launches

Washington state data privacy bill passes in Senate

Codeorg raises 12M from Gates Foundation Infosys PwC to expand computer science education

Facebook cancels its internet drone program will partner with Airbus instead

Forget software bugs this startup is focused on insects that could change the agriculture industry

Amazon plans 20 jump in global corporate and tech roles by adding 55k jobs in latest hiring spree

ExAWS Azure employees raise 33M for Seattle startup that helps companies save on cloud costs

Prolific firm Tiger Global leads 50M round in Seattle spa and salon software startup Zenoti

Tech Moves: Delivery giant Gopuff adds Seattlearea execs Wheels Up names president and more

David Blaine pulls off balloon stunt with help from famed skydiver who jumped with no parachute

When internet access is life or death: Officials visit Seattle hospital on net neutrality campaign

Amazon discloses 20 stake in electric vehicle maker Rivian makers of future delivery van

Oh hey look These all white Google getups are the fashion hit of CES

Amazon to open new themed popup store at Seattle HQ in latest physical retail expansion

Startup stimulus How logjams and ethics are impacting federal loans for tech companies

Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Aug 11 2019

Bill Gates says these technologies are helping to eradicate disease

Amazonowned Audible sued by major book publishers over controversial speechtotext feature

FFA announces third cohort for accelerator program designed to help female and nonbinary founders

Its Paul G Allen Day today as Seattle mayor issues proclamation in honor of late Microsoft cofounder

GeekWire Summit starts today: How to watch our interviews with Bill Gates and other top leaders

Fred Hutch opens dedicated research center in Seattle to test treatments for COVID19 patients

Startup Spotlight: An AIenabled treattossing doggie camera launches Tomofuns success