GeekWire

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Lightfox Games Image) Mobile gaming company Lightfox Games raised $6 million in fresh capital to help fuel development of a new game. Many of Lightfox’s founders, including Hanft-Murphy, are former employees of the Seattle gaming startup Z2, which was acquired in 2015 by King, the developer of the mobile-games juggernaut Candy Crush.

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GeekWire

JUNE 30, 2021

based company developing technologies to accelerate the process of drug discovery, announced today that it plans to go public via an IPO. The company’s platform is built to design and generate protein-based drug candidates and help screen them for optimal functioning. The company took in $1.1 of the company.

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CTOvision

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Looksery, the Ukrainian startup that developed Snapchat’s filter technology (which Snapchat acquired for $150 million), created software that can not only recognize a human face, but accurately map it to ensure that those fox ears are on top of your head and not floating in space. Leave a comment below! Image Credit: arlabpress.

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The Verge

JANUARY 6, 2021

million) in damages to an Italian developer over the social network’s “Nearby” feature. Reuters reports that the Milan-based appeals court upheld a 2019 ruling saying Facebook had copied the feature from developer Business Competence’s Faround app. Facebook has been ordered to pay €3.83 million (around $4.72

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The company operates in more than 60 U.S. Zillow CEO Rich Barton wrote in his third quarter letter to shareholders that the company was bundling its real estate listing services under one umbrella brand called ShowingTime+. acquired in 2016). It was founded in 2015 by former real estate agents Seth Green and Nathan Strom.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 7, 2020

LG has partnered with Swedish manufacturer Assa Abloy Entrance Systems to develop automatic sliding doors with built-in transparent OLED displays, the company announced today. You’ll be able to see through the screens on the doors. One photo shows how the doors could be used to show ads.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 30, 2021

The platform: The company’s protein therapeutics reversibly switch from an inactive to an active form only when they bind to their target. Drug companies have taken a variety of approaches to minimize the toxic effects of IL-2 and maximize its benefit. The company previously raised $22 million in Series A funding.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Aaron Fairchild, left, and Bec Chapin will be co-CEOs of the newly merged company Green Canopy NODE. In fact, Fairchild is the one who connected Chapin with Don Bunnell and the two launched NODE in 2016. With the merger, Bunnell has left day-to-day operations and is serving on the company’s board of directors.

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CTOvision

AUGUST 9, 2016

The Second Annual Synergy Forum will be held 4 October 2016 at the Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Hotel. Position your company as a cybersecurity industry leader by helping to sponsor the Synergy Forum. Position your company as a cybersecurity industry leader by helping to sponsor the Synergy Forum. October 4, 2016.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Facebook says it’s spent over $13 billion on “safety and security” since 2016 and has 40,000 people dedicated to the area, offering a glimpse at its operations after a week of leaks published by The Wall Street Journal. Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge. But we have fundamentally changed that approach.

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GeekWire

JULY 8, 2021

The company, acquired by global automotive giant Lear in 2019, develops connected-car software for automakers including Toyota, GMC, Hyundai, and others. We’ve reached out to the company for comment and will update when we hear back. Lear, based in Southfield, Mich.,

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The Verge

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Facebook is planning to change its company name next week to reflect its focus on building the metaverse, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter. The rebrand would likely position the blue Facebook app as one of many products under a parent company overseeing groups like Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus, and more.

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The Verge

JULY 27, 2020

The executive in charge of almost all of Intel’s hardware, chief engineering officer Dr. Venkata (Murthy) Renduchintala, is leaving the company on August 3rd, Intel announced on Monday. Image: Intel.

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The Verge

MAY 2, 2021

Neuralink President Max Hodak tweeted Saturday that he has left the company he co-founded with Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk xxx. Hodak didn’t elaborate on why he left the company or elaborate on the circumstance for his departure. “I I learned a ton there and remain a huge cheerleader for the company! Onward to new things. —

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 27, 2022

But companies of all sizes still face the challenges of complexity and fragmentation. Developers who build the real-time experiences that customers love need a tech stack that lets them access data quickly and easily. So how can we simplify and accelerate the way developers build real-time apps? Developers need the right tools.

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GeekWire

MAY 19, 2021

New funding: Seattle startup Educative landed a $12 million Series A round to grow its platform that helps employees at companies such as LinkedIn, Samsung, and Ford improve their coding skills. The company targets both consumers and enterprises, which use Educative to train their workforce. The platform launched in March 2016.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 25, 2021

Xinova , a Seattle company that operated a network of inventors, is winding down operations, GeekWire has learned. Xinova spun out of Intellectual Ventures in 2016 and helped match inventor ideas with customers such as PepsiCo, Honda, Funai, and others. Xinova would typically cover development costs and manage intellectual property.

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TechSpot

MAY 18, 2023

Software engineer Wang Weibao was hired by Apple in 2016 to work on Project Titan, Cupertino's electric self-driving car that has been a work-in-progress tech for a decade now. The developer spent 18 months in Apple's offices, before getting a new job related to autonomous driving from another company in China.

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GeekWire

JULY 22, 2021

-based biotech company made its debut as a public company. The company is now valued at nearly $2 billion. Absci, which is developing technologies to accelerate drug discovery, is riding a wave of biotech IPOs. Absci CEO Sean McClain started the company in 2011 in a basement lab in Portland, Ore., of the company.

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GeekWire

JULY 29, 2020

Founded in 2015 by veterans of Bungie, Polyarc is the developer behind Moss , a popular virtual reality game that debuted two years ago. “The pillars of Polyarc’s development in VR are physical interaction, emotional feedback, and suspension of disbelief through immersion,” said Tam Armstrong , co-founder and CEO.

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Tech Republic Data Center

DECEMBER 15, 2016

DevOps made some big strides in 2016 as companies doubled down on containers and tools for developers. Here's a look back at the best of 2016.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

On Wednesday, Apple announced a reduction to its longstanding App Store commission rate, one of the most substantial changes to how iOS developers earn money in the history of the iPhone maker’s digital app marketplace, as part of a new program for small businesses. New developers can also qualify right away.

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GeekWire

APRIL 16, 2024

Avalara Photo) — Seattle-based tax software company Avalara named Ross Tennenbaum as its new president. He will continue to serve as CFO while taking on more responsibilities overseeing the company’s main business lines and other departments. He later launched Jetson , a startup developing probiotics, and was its CEO.

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GeekWire

MAY 14, 2020

Pioneer Square Labs is taking its startup factory model to the next level, teaming up with industrial giant Fortive for a “joint innovation studio” to help the publicly-traded company build new products and launch companies. Fortive owns companies such as Tektronix and Fluke. Fortive VP Kirsten Paust. Fortive Photo).

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Google parent company Alphabet hit a new record for annual revenue in 2021, showing no ill effects from the lingering coronavirus pandemic or ongoing issues with the global supply chain. For full-year 2021, the company saw a 41 percent year-over-year jump in revenue to $257 billion. The company reported revenue of $75.3

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Vox

JANUARY 10, 2024

In 2016 , researchers at AI Impacts , a project that aims to improve understanding of advanced AI development, released a survey of machine learning researchers. In 2016 — before ChatGPT and AlphaFold — the result seemed much likelier to be a fluke than anything else. The 2016 AI impacts survey was immediately controversial.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Netflix is continuing its push into video games with the acquisition of Night School Studio, the team best-known for 2016’s Oxenfree and 2019’s Afterparty. Oxenfree , it should be noted, had strong Stranger Things vibes — and Night School also previously worked on a canceled Stranger Things title.).

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Washington state is riding a biotech IPO wave , with five biotech companies entering the public markets in 2021. Sana Biotechnology raised $587 million in its IPO, Absci pulled in $200 million, and vaccine company Icosavax raised more than $180 million. In Seattle, developers continue to see promise in the life sciences.

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GeekWire

JUNE 2, 2021

New funding: Factal , the Seattle startup which monitors breaking news to help companies assess risks to their business, has raised $3.3 The company: Factal launched in October 2018 using a blend of artificial intelligence and experienced journalists to identify and verify events ranging from severe weather to mass shootings.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The funding will bolster the company’s efforts to develop cancer diagnostics and support its separate consumer product division, said CEO Naveen Jain in an interview with GeekWire. The Seattle-area company determines the microbiome composition of stool samples through sequencing of the RNA of bacteria and other organisms.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Viome Life Sciences , the Seattle-area health tech startup that sells gut microbiome tests, acquired Naring Health , another company developing “personalized nutrition” products and services. based gut microbiome companies in 2021, nearly four times the amount in 2016, according to PitchBook.

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GeekWire

JUNE 11, 2021

Seattle startup BigBox VR , the company behind multiplayer virtual reality game POPULATION: ONE , has been acquired by Facebook. “BigBox VR may be small, but they are a mighty, nimble team of game industry vets who seamlessly nail the game development duality of craft and data-driven live service,” Verdu wrote in his post.

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GeekWire

MAY 16, 2023

The Tel Aviv-based startup helps machine learning developers automatically catch errors in large-scale image sets to produce higher-quality computer vision models. The company was co-founded by Stanford professor Carlos Guestrin , who previously co-founded Turi, a Seattle startup acquired by Apple in 2016.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

MAY 13, 2020

Investing In IT is what it will take to make your company successful Image Credit: Photo by rawpixel on Unsplash. As the person with the CIO job, it is your responsibility to provide your company with guidance on how they can be successful. Back in 1985 companies spent roughly 7% of their net revenue on proprietary IT.

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The Verge

JUNE 6, 2021

On Monday, the company will hold its annual Worldwide Developers Conference ( WWDC 2021 ) during one of the most fraught moments for developer relations in Apple history. Developers have known or suspected these things for years, and at first, online reactions seemed muted. We treat every developer the same.”

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GeekWire

APRIL 9, 2024

announced Tuesday that it’s founded a new internal development team called Hidden Grove. All three are former developers on Bungie’s MMO shooter Destiny 2 who first landed at ProbablyMonsters in 2020. The company went through a round of layoffs in September.

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GeekWire

APRIL 8, 2024

The five finalists for the Health Innovation of the Year at the GeekWire Awards highlight the multitude of ways that technology is changing healthcare, from treatment in the hospital to the development of new therapeutics. The company on Monday published successful results from its latest research. The company, which raised $22.4

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