GeekWire

APRIL 7, 2021

Icosavax creates virus-like particles with technology licensed from the University of Washington’s Institute for Protein Design. New funding: At a moment when vaccines are on everyone’s mind, a Seattle-based biotech company that has an unusual approach to vaccine production has raised $100 million in a Series B round.

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Linux Academy

MARCH 25, 2019

We’ve been talking about the Windows Server 2019 Cloud Playground for the past few weeks, and now, it is 100% ready for you to use. Until then, we have new, live Azure labs up and running for you: Develop with Webjobs in Azure. We are happy to introduce Licenses Rotation ! Cloud Playground: Come and Play.

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GeekWire

MARCH 9, 2023

(Neoleukin Photo) Neoleukin Therapeutics is slashing its workforce by about 70% as it seeks “strategic alternatives” for its future, according to a company statement Wednesday. The company said CEO Jonathan Drachman will also step down after a short transition. Neoleukin shifted its focus to developing other protein therapeutics.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

ACCO’s plans for PowerA in the future include leveraging development and supply chains between PowerA and its portfolio company Kensington, as well as expanding PowerA’s sales presence in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. More importantly, the PowerA acquisition is part of a plan by ACCO to evolve its business.

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GeekWire

MARCH 18, 2022

Leen Kawas, the Seattle biotech exec who resigned as CEO of Athira Pharma after an investigation found she had altered doctoral research images that helped to form the initial basis for the company, re-emerged Friday as co-founder and managing general partner of a new investment firm called Propel Bio Partners LP.

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GeekWire

MAY 26, 2023

Michael Smyers , a software engineer and startup entrepreneur who played a formative role in Seattle tech companies Zipwhip and Coinme, died April 30 , seven months after learning he had colon cancer. … He was truly a one-of-a-kind developer, and brilliant at a young age.” He was 39 years old.

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Vox

MARCH 20, 2024

The nearly 20-year-old company is seeking to raise up to $748 million in its IPO on March 21, putting its valuation at about $6.4 It’s the first time that a major social media company has gone public since Snap (i.e., The company is reserving about 1.76 Snapchat ) in 2017. million in 2023. If it can’t, it risks another mutiny.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 23, 2023

No company could realistically have gotten in D&D ‘s way except its owner, Renton, Wash.-based based Kobold Press has used the Open Game License to publish material for D&D 5th edition, such as 2016’s Tome of Beasts , shown above. based Wizards of the Coast, and this month, it very much did.

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GeekWire

MARCH 2, 2022

It also was set up as a nonprofit that operated like a biotech company, taking discoveries through early-stage research to manufacturing and clinical trials. Casper, who became interim CEO in 2019 before permanently taking the helm in early 2020, recommended that the institution voluntarily enter receivership.

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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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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at the Microsoft Build developer conference in Seattle in May 2019. GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) When I met Satya Nadella in 1992, we were both engineers at Microsoft, and I never would have guessed we’d go on to be life-long friends or that he’d end up running the company for over a decade.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 16, 2021

Dewey plans to use the funds to acquire new equipment and expand on its research and development. The company will be working with Selway Holdings to secure use of a planned $1.8 Zager said in a news release that the company has plans for a new franchise system to work with cultivators across the U.S. and license its genetics.

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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

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

currently grants permission for independent authors and creators to publish their own “homebrew” D&D material for profit under the Open Game License (OGL), a public copyright notice. The OGN rumor began spreading a couple of days after a different controversy hit Wizards’ parent company Hasbro.

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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

MARCH 19, 2024

While much work remains, we’ve made substantial progress as we build the world’s leading infrastructure technology company. And we’ve completed the software business-model transition that began to accelerate in 2019, from selling perpetual software to subscription licensing only – the industry standard.

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TM Forum

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Although it’s difficult for MTC to quantify the amount of technical debt it had accumulated, the company notes that it was clearly spending more and more time on increasing hardware requirements and adapting systems to meet new demands from the business. It wasn’t a sustainable approach.

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The Verge

JUNE 22, 2020

Apple will start removing thousands of games from its Chinese App Store in July as a result of a policy that requires all paid games or games with in-app purchases to be licensed by Chinese regulators, Bloomberg reports. For some game developers, that could mean losing all revenue from Apple’s second-largest app market.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The Swedish publisher of the upcoming Seattle-set horror RPG, Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2, has opted to remove Seattle’s Hardsuit Labs as the project’s lead developer. Like several other big gaming companies in the last few weeks, Paradox’s year-end report tells a familiar story. pic.twitter.com/kdTp5gpBJe.

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mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Summary: As digital technologies transform the business landscape, web development becomes increasingly important. In the near future, those who keep up with changing development trends will have an advantage over those who don’t. So, where is enterprise application development headed in the coming year?

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Hasbro, the parent company of Wizards of the Coast, is rearranging its business structure in order to continue growing the audience for Dungeons & Dragons. posted revenue of $816 million for 2020, a 24% increase from 2019. D&D saw a 33% boost in sales over 2019; Magic’s sales grew by 23%. — David M.

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The Verge

APRIL 13, 2022

After launching as “ IMDb Freedive ” back in 2019, IMDb TV quickly faded into the background of the ongoing streaming wars that parent company Amazon had already established a respectable foothold in.

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The Verge

JANUARY 5, 2021

GitHub says it will now offer its full range of services in Iran, after imposing restrictions on the platform for Iranian developers due to US sanctions. Today we are announcing a breakthrough: we have secured a license from the US government to offer GitHub to developers in Iran.

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GeekWire

APRIL 15, 2021

The company also announced the hiring of Dr. Emmanuel Hanon as global head of R&D; Hanon was previously a longtime exec at GlaxoSmithKline. Company background: Founded in 2016, Viome analyzes its customers’ microbiomes through stool samples in order to make food recommendations. million in 2019. Emmanuel Hanon.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Cajal Neuroscience , a Seattle startup taking a unique approach to developing treatments for neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, revealed more details about its strategy and announced $96 million in funding Tuesday. The company now has 56 employees. Building the company in Seattle.

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GeekWire

APRIL 22, 2021

SoRSE VP of science Michael Flemmens, left, watches as scientist Emily Skrobecki works with a powder version of the company’s product in a container of water at the company’s offices in 2019. GeekWire File Photo). New funding: Seattle-based S?RSE Continued growth: S?RSE In the past year, S?

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GeekWire

JANUARY 14, 2021

The venture spun out the University of Washington in March 2019. AltPep is developing tools and treatments for diseases caused by amyloid proteins that are incorrectly folded and create harmful deposits. The UW has licensed the exclusive rights of this intellectual property to the startup. million in a Series A funding round.

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The Verge

JANUARY 27, 2021

Other scooter companies have flirted with expanding their product lineups to include mopeds, but Lime insists its pilot will presage a larger rollout in the spring. The company plans to spread 600 mopeds around the US capital, while the number that will be rolling out in Paris is still to be determined.

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The Verge

JANUARY 26, 2021

Google is ending development on the virtual reality painting app Tilt Brush — one of the most well-known VR applications — and making it open source. With this latest announcement, that development is coming to an end, and future support of Tilt Brush is in the hands of the community that still uses it. Image: Google.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Analysts are keeping a close eye on the company’s cloud division, particularly as the COVID-19 pandemic and related stay-at-home orders increase demand for its products and services. AWS had a 45% share at the end of 2019, down from 47.9% in 2019 to $44.5 The company’s market capitalization is $1.6

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GeekWire

MARCH 23, 2021

AWS has grown into a $45 billion business and a market leader that helps boost Amazon’s profits and allows the company to invest heavily in other areas. “I think (Jassy) has brilliantly addressed it, and it set him up for greater success as the leader of the overall company,” said McIlwain.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

“We have long-standing relationships and community built in this region that allows innovators to advance ideas and network and connect in a way that you just don’t get in more urbanized areas,” said Georgina Lynch , co-founder of Appiture Biotechnologies , which is developing ways to diagnose autism by measuring light reflexes in the eye.

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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. Talks between the two companies eventually broke down, though, as Canoo preferred to take an investment, while Apple was interested in an acquisition.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

The company is billing the project as a team-up between Matt Tomlin, the writer of the Netflix superhero film Project Power , and the studio best known for producing TV adaptations of legendary manga Ghost in the Shell , though little else is known about the show or when in the complex Terminator timeline it may take place.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Uber has 30 days to pay a $59 million fine to California’s Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) for failing to answer the regulator’s questions about a damning safety report released by the company in December 2019. Regulators want to know more about Uber’s own damning safety report, released in 2019.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 6, 2023

ULA Photo) The countdown is on for the first-ever launch of Amazon satellites, aimed at testing out the hardware and software for the Seattle company’s worldwide Project Kuiper broadband internet constellation. United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket is set to launch Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellites.

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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. The two companies settled the following year.

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