GeekWire

JULY 7, 2021

Icosavax creates virus-like particles with technology licensed from the University of Washington’s Institute for Protein Design. The company, a spin-out from the UW’s Institute for Protein Design , is developing vaccines to resemble naturally occurring viruses. Icosavax Photo). Securities and Exchange Commission. in 2020.

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GeekWire

JUNE 19, 2020

Alpine Immune Sciences stock rose more than 10% Friday after the Seattle-based biotech company inked a $60 million licensing deal with pharmaceutical giant AbbVie for its lupus drug. Alpine launched in 2015 and went public in 2017 after a reverse merger with Nivalis in 2017. million Americans.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

billion acquisition of primary care company One Medical, Amazon is making health care through the platform a benefit for Prime members. The company went public in January 2020. billion purchase of Whole Foods in 2017 , and its $8.5 Amazon Photo) Almost eight months after closing its $3.9 at the end of last year. It posted $1.04

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GeekWire

APRIL 3, 2024

GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Amazon is closing its Fresh grocery store in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood, the company confirmed Wednesday, saying that it plans to focus on redesigned stores with an expanded selection. The produce section inside the Amazon Fresh grocery store on Capitol Hill in Seattle. will be Sunday.

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The Verge

JUNE 15, 2020

Nonbinary gender options are still uncommon in many tech products, although Peloton’s move could push other companies to make the option standard across platforms. In many ways, tech companies are following states, which have increasingly recognized nonbinary genders in government functions.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 19, 2024

Rather than selling software to customers, HP said, Autonomy had been selling them hardware at a loss, then booking the sales as software licensing revenue. However, Companies House, the UK register of commerce, has no record of such a company, and it’s not until 1997 that Lynch creates another company, called simply Neurodynamics.

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The Verge

JULY 17, 2020

It’s not clear whether Epic and Harmon struck some type of licensing deal, but it’s a possibility considering the developer’s rocky legal history with dance emotes. Throughout Fortnite ’s meteoric rise starting in the fall of 2017, the game has featured a number of real-world dances copied from pop culture.

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The Verge

JUNE 16, 2020

In remarks given Tuesday as part of the Licensing Week Virtual event hosted by the Global Licensing Group, Czulewicz said that the company is currently working with three different storylines, but it has yet to make an official decision on what the final script will look like.

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The Verge

JUNE 11, 2021

Kitty Hawk, the air taxi company backed by Google co-founder Larry Page, is buying what’s left of one-time DJI competitor 3D Robotics. 3D Robotics was, for a short while, the lone American company trying to carve out space in the budding consumer drone market against early entrants like France’s Parrot and China’s DJI.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

To be clear, the page isn’t pretending it’s Musk; it openly states that it’s a fan page in its About section (emphasis ours): Musk owns a Tesla Roadster car 0001 (the first one off the production line) from Tesla Motors, a company in which he is an early investor. It paused its verification program in 2017 and relaunched it earlier this year.

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The Verge

MAY 27, 2020

The new Fraggle Rock reboot is being created in partnership with the Jim Henson Company and will bring back characters from the original series “for new songs and adventures, with the same spirit as the classic,” according to a press release. Apple, like all streaming players right now, is making licensing bets where they make sense.

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The Verge

JUNE 25, 2020

Waymo is the “exclusive global L4 partner” for Volvo Car Group, the two companies announced Thursday. The deal also applies to Volvo’s two subrands, its electric performance company Polestar and its Chinese brand Lynk & Co. Waymo famously sued Uber in 2017 for allegedly stealing some of its self-driving technology.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Waymo and UPS are expanding their nearly two-year-old partnership to include deliveries made using the Alphabet company’s fleet of autonomous Class 8 trucks. The companies had previously only conducted local deliveries using Waymo’s self-driving minivans; now, they will work together on longer-distance freight hauling.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 27, 2020

James Heckman, CEO and founder of the Seattle-based media company that publishes Sports Illustrated, announced his resignation Wednesday. Heckman will “continue his entrepreneurial role with the company, focusing on key strategic and business development initiatives,” according to a SEC filing. “The

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

We started with a serious migration from the first quarter of 2017 because a lot of our equipment was end of life, so it was an all-or-nothing approach. We used a locally hosted cloud vendor that was connected to our outsource partner, but also with affiliation to a big global company. Unfortunately, our licensing expert missed that.

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The Verge

JULY 1, 2020

Big internet companies like Google, PlayStation, and Hulu swooped in to rescue consumers from the archaic TV services of Comcast and AT&T, with better apps and rock-bottom pricing that seemed almost too good to be true. Carriers do not like to license their content cheaply. And they do not like to license their content cheaply.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Apple reintroduced its MagSafe branding for the iPhone with the announcement of its new smartphone line on Tuesday, and the company now touts a new feature in which “magnets align themselves perfectly every time for faster wireless charging” on its product page. for standard Qi wireless charging.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

CaaMTech , a Seattle-area startup developing new psychedelic agents, has raised $22 million in funding, the company announced this week. The company is synthesizing an array of new compounds similar to those found in “magic” mushrooms. Other companies in the area include Silo Wellness , based in Springfield, Ore.,

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GeekWire

AUGUST 19, 2020

Maven , the Seattle-based media company that publishes Sports Illustrated, is being sued by Meredith Corp., The Hollywood Reporter’s Alex Weprin first spotted the lawsuit, which accuses Maven of unpaid fees related to the company’s takeover of SI. It purchased finance media company TheStreet in 2019. It landed a $5.7

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The Verge

AUGUST 18, 2021

The Alphabet-owned company also said it is partnering with rental truck company Ryder on fleet management as it looks to grow the delivery and logistics portion of its business. The company is also working with JB Hunt Transport Services to haul freight along several interstates in Texas. primary operations center”.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The company enables health providers to access and monitor such tools, including remote patient monitoring devices, health questionnaires, prescription services and traditional smartphone apps. McSherry has been CEO of Xealth since 2017, when it spun out of Providence, the largest health system in Washington state. GeekWire Photo).

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GeekWire

JULY 30, 2020

The Seattle-area startup announced a commercial agreement deal and a strategic investment from Toyoda Gosei , a Toyota Group company that makes rubber and plastic products for customers around the world. The company has raised $50 million from investors including Intel Capital , KDDI , Molex, and others.

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The Verge

APRIL 5, 2021

Leaks from Apple have made it unclear if the company is developing self-driving tech that it could license to other companies or if Apple plans to develop an entire car by itself. Swisher also asked Cook about Elon Musk’s comments about a failed attempt to discuss selling Tesla to Apple around 2017.

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GeekWire

JUNE 18, 2021

In its initial iteration , the company partnered with dealerships and delivered cars to people’s homes for test drives and sales. At one point Tred was buying the used cars itself and reselling them — not realizing for a period that it was operating illegally, selling more vehicles than allowed by law without being a licensed dealer.

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The Verge

JULY 16, 2021

The CPUC originally fined Uber $59 million in December 2020 and threatened to suspend its license to operate in the state after the company failed to answer questions about a damning safety report it published the year prior.

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The Verge

JUNE 26, 2020

But his estate began bringing albums back to services like Spotify in 2017. TikTok’s relatively young user base isn’t necessarily going to be cheering over this announcement, but the company and estate hope it’ll help introduce Prince’s music to a new generation of fans. Prince’s estate also launched an official account.

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The Verge

AUGUST 20, 2020

Joseph Sullivan, who was Uber’s chief security officer from April 2015 to November 2017, allegedly concealed the hack that occurred in October 2016 , which exposed confidential data of 57 million drivers and customers, including drivers’ license information.

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The Verge

JUNE 10, 2021

Ulrich Kranz, a former BMW executive and the recently departed CEO and co-founder of EV startup Canoo, has been hired by Apple, the company has confirmed to The Verge. The pair clashed with Faraday Future’s founder, though, and in late 2017, they left and formed what eventually became Canoo. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Last year Washington state launched a new Center for FinTech Information to gather licensing guidelines and regulations in one place. He said local venture capitalists tend to prefer software companies and avoid high-risk bets. Email us at tips@geekwire.com with suggestions to add a company. Founded: 2017. Founded: 2017.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 18, 2023

A lawsuit has been filed against 13 current and former IBM executives, including CEO and Chairman Arvind Krishna and former CEO Ginni Rometty, accusing the company of securities fraud — bundling mainframe sales together with those of poorly performing products in order to make them appear more profitable than they actually were.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Increasingly, oil and gas companies are making strategic technology investments to accelerate sustainable digital transformation and deliver a competitive advantage. In this article, we’ll share opportunities for oil and gas companies to increase sustainability while achieving other business benefits.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

This morning, the Federal Communications Commission revealed the winners of an auction for licenses to valuable spectrum that’s especially useful for 5G. Companies spent big on this auction because the spectrum, in the 3.5GHz band, can be used for higher-speed 5G deployments. Verizon was the biggest spender by far.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 16, 2023

Kirkland, a founding member of SustainabilityIT.org, an organization to drive global sustainability through technology leadership, says Choice was the first hospitality company to make a strategic commitment to developing a cloud-native and sustainable platform on AWS. It also helped reduce energy consumption and costs.

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The Verge

APRIL 14, 2021

The companies are expected to begin operations in the Bronx by early summer with 1,000 scooters each. The pilot is only expected to last for one year, but DOT has the option to renew the licenses at the end of the term. Ultimately, the city landed on a one-year pilot with three companies in just one borough, the Bronx.

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The Verge

MAY 17, 2021

Originally called Evelozcity, Canoo was founded in late 2017 by a group of executives and engineers who split off from EV startup Faraday Future , which was struggling mightily at the time. And he pivoted Canoo away from providing engineering work to other companies, apparently killing the deal with Hyundai.

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The Verge

JULY 23, 2020

The robot they welcomed into their homes, loved, and cared for, is being given a second life by a new company that’s purchased all its rights and patents. Jibo owners learned in May that a company called NTT Disruption had bought Jibo and launched a new website describing a future for the robot in health care and education.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

But the pandemic is pushing many companies to try new things, and the software mainstay is getting into hardware for the first time. ” The kiosk uses the free MaskCheck software that the Seattle-based company introduced in December for iOS and Android. RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser in 2017. and Canada.

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