GeekWire

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

based company leveraging artificial intelligence to help develop new small molecule drugs, has raised $3.5 The six-employee company has partnerships with an undisclosed public biopharma company, the University of British Columbia, and others. Kim previously co-founded three other companies in the mobile marketing and AI areas.

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The Verge

APRIL 12, 2021

Nuance has licensed this tech for many services and applications, including, most famously, Apple’s digital assistant Siri. The company could integrate Nuance’s technology into its existing software, like Teams, or offer it independently as part of its Azure cloud business. Last month, the company completed its $7.5

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The Verge

JULY 9, 2021

The US Department of Commerce has sanctioned 14 Chinese tech companies over links to human rights abuses against Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang, including one backed by a top Silicon Valley investment firm. is a facial recognition company with deep ties to Chinese police surveillance, and funding from US-based Sequoia Capital.

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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. We are happy to introduce Licenses Rotation ! The post Weekly Update 3-25-2019 appeared first on Linux Academy Blog. Cloud Playground: Come and Play.

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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

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Maven , the Seattle-based media company that publishes Sports Illustrated, raised an additional $24 million to help fuel expansion and reduce its debt. The publicly-traded company used security purchase agreements via private placements of convertible preferred stock. Maven previously raised $20 million in October 2019.

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Kitaboo

AUGUST 1, 2019

Learn more about international rights and licenses? The attention of the international media will be on this event- with a number of emerging and leading artists, publishers, tech companies, start-ups, universities and research institutions in attendance at the FBM. We will be exhibiting at Frankfurt Book Fair 2019 from Oct.16th

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GeekWire

JUNE 27, 2023

The companies sued Gary Hutton of Torrance, Calif., and his company, Huttronics LLC, in U.S. According to the suit, Uber and Lyft both provide decals directly to authorized drivers, prohibit drivers from selling or transferring them, and forbid the use of third-party decals not issued by the companies.

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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 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

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. As of September 30, the company had $106.9

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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. She met Smyers in 2019 when she was on a date with his roommate, who set them up after seeing them interact and realizing that they clicked.

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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

AUGUST 16, 2021

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. million in an October 2019 seed round. million cannabis greenhouse.

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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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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

a special purpose acquisition company sponsored by Merida Capital Holdings. In August, the proposed combined company was listed at an enterprise valuation of $385 million. Founded in 2010, Leafly’s online marketplace lets customers shop and select cannabis products from licensed retailers. Leafly CEO Yoko Miyashita.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

RadioShack’s shambling remains were given another jolt of life today when they were purchased by another company that plans to relaunch the once-great retailer as an online-focused brand. REV claims it’s successfully turned around other companies it’s launched as online brands. REV says it will “soon relaunch” RadioShack’s website.

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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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GeekWire

AUGUST 9, 2021

The Seattle-based online cannabis marketplace plans to go public through a deal with New York-based Merida Merger Corp, a special purpose acquisition company, the companies announced Monday. The transaction will value the combined company at a $385 million enterprise valuation. Leafly has raised $38 million to date.

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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

MARCH 24, 2021

The DOJ is focused on whether the deal limits the options of Japanese studios looking to license shows in the US, according to The Information ’s sources.

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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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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

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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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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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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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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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. The company launched its Amazon Pharmacy service in November 2020 , following its $753 million acquisition of prescription-by-mail company PillPack in 2018.

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The Verge

JANUARY 13, 2021

The company Qualcomm is purchasing, Nuvia, was formed in 2019 by three former engineers and chip specialists, all of whom worked at Apple on the A-series chip line that powers the iPhone and iPad. That’s put Qualcomm at odds with companies it used to consider core partners. And that’s where a company like Nuvia comes in.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Founded in 2018, the company makes it easier for property managers to schedule and show rental homes and apartments by connecting those managers with a network of licensed real estate agents through an Uber-like marketplace model. The company raised $3 million in a seed round in April 2019 and has raised $10 million to date.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 27, 2023

GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser) The New York Times filed a lawsuit Wednesday against OpenAI and Microsoft, accusing the companies of copyright infringement for training artificial intelligence models on millions of articles published by the newspaper.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 22, 2021

A new SEC filing reveals that a Seattle-area company called Aardvark Labs has raised $3.5 million Series A round in 2018 but shut down in August 2019. However, the company’s website is still up, with a message noting that its IP portfolio and tech are available for license. It raised a $11.7

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Hulu last increased the monthly cost of its virtual TV provider last year when the company told subscribers they would go from paying $44.99 on December 18th, 2019. As content gets more expensive for companies to license, and as they try to find more channels to offer consumers, the monthly costs also increase.

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GeekWire

APRIL 9, 2021

Ty Collins (right) and Mike Radenbaugh, co-founders of Rad Power Bikes, win Young Entrepreneur of the Year at the 2019 GeekWire Awards. Collins, who was chief marketing officer, is now in an advisory role and remains close with the company, participating in onboarding and calls with senior leadership. GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota). —

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

But companies licensed to operate AVs on public roads in California still logged nearly 2 million miles of testing, with two of the top operators, Waymo and Cruise, comprising the bulk of those miles thanks to what some safety drivers allege was a lax attitude toward safety. million miles it drove in 2019.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

It accuses 14 people — all Brazilian nationals and most living in Massachusetts — with identity theft against five unnamed companies. They allegedly used alcohol orders as an excuse to scan users’ driver’s licenses. Prosecutors filed the wire fraud charges against 19 people in total, and 16 have been arrested.)

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