Mike Katz speaks at a T-Mobile event in 2025. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) T-Mobile’s longest-tenured Un-carrier architect just Un-carriered himself. Mike Katz, who started selling VoiceStream phones at Circuit City 28 years ago and rose to help T-Mobile go from an also-ran into the...
Mike Torres. (LinkedIn Photo) — Mike Torres, a former executive at Amazon, Microsoft and Google, has joined Dropbox as the company’s first chief product officer. “As a product leader, joining a company that helped pioneer product-led growth is energizing…” Torres said on LinkedIn. “In this...
Dane Renkert, co-founder and CEO of Barkie, an AI-powered app for golfers. (Barkie Photo) Perhaps the only downside to building a golf-focused startup is that it leaves less time to actually play golf. Dane Renkert will take that tradeoff, for now, as he works on something that he says will...
Optimly founder and CEO Apurva Luty pitches at the Tech Alliance’s Seattle Investor Summit + Showcase in Redmond. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Seattle startup Optimly, which helps brands manage what AI understands and says about them, went into the Flywheel Investment Conference in Wenatchee,...
Thomas Dohmke’s startup Entire is offering a solution to what he calls “the strain of billions of agents and developers hammering a central server.” (Photo by Vaughn Ridley/Web Summit Rio, May 2023, via Sportsfile, CC BY 2.0) Former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke‘s startup Entire is rolling out a...
Leaders of startups recently spun out of the UW, top row, from left: Hilco Boerlage of Precision Cognition Labs; Jan Whittington of Climate Solutions International; Elena Cant of DetellaDx; Sura Alwan of PEAR-Net Society; and Min Sun of Colleague AI. Bottom row, from left: Jingcong Zhao of...
Bill Colleran is the new CEO of Adronite. Bill Colleran, a veteran technology executive who previously led Impinj and sold Innovent Systems to Broadcom, has joined Seattle-based AI coding startup Adronite as CEO. Edward Rothschild, who co-founded Adronite in 2023 and served as its first CEO,...
LogicGate CEO Diego Panama. (LinkedIn Photo) Enterprise software company LogicGate is establishing a Bellevue, Wash., office and rapidly expanding its Seattle-area executive team, betting on the region’s deep technology talent pool as it embarks on a new chapter under newly appointed CEO Diego...
An aerial view of Shasta Dam in California. After a July 4 visit, computer scientist Daphne Koller argued that America’s signature achievement is taking what was scarce and making it abundant: water into power at Shasta, electricity into a grid anyone could plug into, computation into a pocket. AI,...
Primitive Labs co-founders, from left: CTO Jean Farmer, CEO Rohit Talluri and COO Gabriel Fong. (Primitive Labs Photo) Rohit Talluri learned the tradition at Amazon: always keep an empty chair in the room to represent the customer — a reminder of the people who will ultimately use whatever gets...
Amazon’s headquarters buildings and the Spheres in Seattle’s Denny Triangle neighborhood in September 2024. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Amazon has cut a total of 57 jobs in Washington state across various teams, including roles at the director and senior manager levels, according to a...
A screengrab of the Cascade PBS streaming app as built by Local Public. (Local Public Image) Seattle’s Cascade PBS has spun out its streaming app technology into a standalone company called Local Public, which is now building connected-TV and mobile apps for public media stations across the...
(Microsoft Image) Xbox CEO Asha Sharma laid out a wide-ranging plan to overhaul Microsoft’s gaming division Monday, calling it the most significant restructuring in Xbox history and disclosing that the business has been losing 64 cents on every dollar invested in its game studios. As detailed...
Microsoft’s Redmond headquarters. (GeekWire File Photo) Microsoft is cutting 4,800 jobs, just over 2% of its global workforce, citing a need to revamp its sales and consulting division to keep pace with a rapidly changing tech industry, while overhauling its Xbox business in a push for long-term...
The UWORLD U1 humanoid robot at its launch event in Shenzhen, China, on June 30. (UBTech Photo) On Tuesday in Shenzhen, the Chinese company UBTech unveiled the U1, a full-sized humanoid robot with silicone skin, blinking lashes, manicured nails, and an AI tuned to read your mood. It comes in...
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Xbox at a gamescom briefing in 2014. Microsoft is pressing its games division to turn a profit. (Microsoft Photo) In 2007, Microsoft’s Xbox 360 consoles started dying — overheating until three lights on the front blinked red, a defect gamers came to call the “red ring of death.” Microsoft’s...
Overland AI’s autonomous ground vehicles lined up at the company’s proving grounds. (Overland AI Photo) Seattle-based Overland AI has landed a U.S. Marine Corps contract to produce autonomous ground vehicles, a milestone the defense-tech startup says makes it the first ground autonomy company to...
Sniff founder Amish Patel and Chewie, his standard poodle. (Photo courtesy of Amish Patel) Amish Patel knows his neighbors by their dogs’ names before he knows their own. It’s a pattern he noticed in his Seattle neighborhood — and one he’s now built an app around. Patel’s newest pet project —...
Emer Dooley, site lead for Creative Destruction Lab in Seattle, moderates an accelerator program session alongside mentors and startup founders. (CDL Photo) Startups innovating across advanced manufacturing and computational health made up the latest cohort of the Seattle accelerator run by...
Microsoft executive Nick Parker at a conference in 2018. (Microsoft Photo) Nick Parker, a 26-year Microsoft veteran who led the company’s worldwide commercial sales business, is leaving to become Nvidia’s new sales chief — a high-profile talent shift between two of the biggest players in the AI...
An Atlas 5 rocket lifts off from its Florida launch pad, sending 29 Amazon Leo satellites into orbit. (United Launch Alliance Photo) Amazon says the overnight launch of 29 satellites should clear the way for its Amazon Leo network to start offering commercial high-speed internet service from...
Zap Energy’s fusion device creates a purplish glow from its hydrogen plasma. (Zap Photo) Subscribe to Positive Charge: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, All Episodes AI data centers face mounting community backlash and local moratoriums, while surging power demands knock...
As the country marks its 250th birthday this week, Microsoft is rolling out an unlikely summer project: a six-part series of short videos, hosted by Microsoft President and Vice Chair Brad Smith, that look to American history for lessons relevant to technology and innovation today. The...
Common Room’s co-founders, from left: Tom Kleinpeter; Viraj Mody; Francis Luu; and Linda Lian. (Common Room Photo) Common Room, the fast-rising Seattle startup that built an AI-powered platform to help sales and marketing teams track buying signals across their customers, is being acquired by...
KredosAI co-founders Balaji Sridharan, left, and Dave Thoms, who previously worked together at T-Mobile. (KredosAI Photo) KredosAI, a Seattle-area startup that uses AI and behavioral science to help companies chase down late consumer payments, raised $7 million in a new funding round led by BMW...
Satya Nadella says the industry shouldn’t “cede value to a few models that eat everything they see.” (GeekWire File Photo / Kevin Lisota) Microsoft is launching a new AI “company.” It won’t be a separate legal entity, and most of its 6,000 people already work at Microsoft. But the $2.5 billion...
Engineers prepare a high-power satellite for testing at K2 Space’s manufacturing facility in Torrance, Calif. (K2 Space via PRNewswire) California-based K2 Space is establishing a satellite engineering hub in the Seattle area, adding to a thriving regional ecosystem of satellite ventures. The...
Sony’s PlayStation 5. (Sony press image) Sony announced on Wednesday morning that it plans to phase out physical media for future PlayStation games, which is a massive market disruption for an already reeling games industry. It ends trade-ins and lending, raises the overall price of entry for...
The Venice.ai leadership team, from left: Austin Virts, VP of marketing; Jesse Proudman, president and CTO; Erik Voorhees, CEO; Jonathan Shapiro, head of strategy; Tim Shakarian, head of engineering; and Johanna Tseng, VP of business operations. (Venice Photo) Venice.ai, a privacy-focused AI...
eNeural Technologies gets the lay of the land in Bellevue during a Greater Seattle Partners Spinoff program reception at Amazon’s Everest building in Bellevue. Pictured from left: Tom Florino, director, Worldwide Economic Development, Amazon; Rebecca Lovell, COO, Greater Seattle Partners; David...
Hrishikesh Aradhye. (Noah Berger Photo) — Hrishikesh Aradhye has joined Amazon Music as vice president of product and tech for the streaming service. He spent nearly 19 years at Google, most recently as senior director of engineering leading YouTube Music and Podcasts. “The music industry is...
Wind Wall, a wind farm in California’s Tehachapi Mountains, produces renewable energy for Amazon Web Services. (Amazon Photo) Amazon’s carbon footprint jumped 16% last year after several years of little or no increase. The company emitted nearly 80.9 million metric tons of carbon dioxide...
MoveUp Washington will be led by Andi Smith, who currently heads Ballmer Group’s Washington state regional office. (Ballmer Group Photo) Ballmer Group, the Bellevue, Wash.-based philanthropy founded by former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and his wife Connie, is spinning out its Washington state...
Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson. (Flickr Photo via Governor’s Office) Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson last week announced an Economic Development Council to “identify practical actions that strengthen Washington’s economy, expand opportunity and help more Washingtonians succeed.” To Ferguson’s...