The Verge

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Magic Leap has raised $500 million in funding and is preparing to release a new AR headset, the Magic Leap 2, next year, the company announced Monday. The headset will be generally available next year, the company said, and “select customers” are using it as part of an early access program.

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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

MARCH 2, 2022

When a court-appointed overseer took hold of the operations of the Infectious Disease Research Institute in early 2020 it was unclear how the Seattle organization would weather the change. 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

JANUARY 14, 2021

Steam’s user community broke a lot of records during the socially-quarantined year of 2020. It provides a look back on 2020, as well as a roadmap for what’s coming for Steam in 2021. Steam, like the rest of the games industry, had a banner year in 2020. Valve Software image). Bellevue, Wash.-based

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GeekWire

AUGUST 10, 2020

The company disclosed the plans on Monday in a mass email to podcast content producers, including journalists and media organizations that cover Amazon, declaring that the information about its podcast plans were “confidential” without following the standard practice of first securing their agreement to treat the message as confidential.

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GeekWire

MARCH 8, 2022

The company revealed a new app called Amp on Tuesday that allows users to DJ their own live radio shows complete with a catalog of millions of licensed songs and the ability to engage with callers. Amazon Music and the Amazon-owned Audible audiobook company expanded into podcasts in 2020. ”

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The Verge

MARCH 1, 2021

The company reportedly has no plans to adopt USB-C on future iPhone devices or integrate a Touch ID sensor into the power button (two technologies that exist on Apple’s iPad hardware, like the 2020 iPad Air). The dream of a USB-C iPhone may be dead, according to the latest research note from Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo.

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The Verge

MARCH 15, 2021

The Santa Monica-based scooter sharing company announced that it will bring its battery-powered two-wheelers to 50 new cities on the continent in the coming months, in addition to growing its fleet in its current markets. Bird acquired Circ , a leading electric scooter rental business in Europe and the Middle East, in January 2020.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The funding will fuel Alpine’s program developing ALPN-303, designed to treat lupus and other inflammatory diseases. The company expects to initiate a phase 1 study for the agent by this winter. The company’s research and development expenses reached $14.6 The company’s research and development expenses reached $14.6

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Intelsat, the world’s second largest satellite operator by revenue, has agreed to purchase Gogo’s Wi-Fi business for $400 million in cash, the companies announced Tuesday. The company operates a fleet of roughly 50 satellites and has another, Galaxy-30, scheduled to launch this summer on an Ariane 5 rocket.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Those include Nickelodeon, MTV, BET, Comedy Central, and both current and library programming from CBS. The latter is its ad-supported free streaming service that the company sees as straight advertising revenue play. One big difference that will separates ViacomCBS is how the company is thinking about its content.

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GeekWire

MARCH 4, 2024

GeekWire Photo / Charlotte Schubert) The Institute for Protein Design at the University of Washington is a startup factory , spinning out companies developing new protein-based therapeutics, industrial enzymes, materials, biosensors and more. “Tech companies are really good at what they do.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

It launched in 2019 as a pilot program for employees in the Seattle area, where Amazon is headquartered. Amazon Clinic is separate from One Medical , the publicly traded primary care company that Amazon plans to acquire for $3.9 Last year it expanded to non-Amazon employees across the nation.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

The robotic voice-overs used as narration for videos grew so ubiquitous on TikTok in fact, that voice actor Bev Standing sued the company in May , saying it didn’t have permission to use her voice. In September, TikTok reached a settlement with Standing that included a licensing agreement. Image: Instagram.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Over 21 months in Arizona, Waymo’s vehicles were involved in 47 collisions and near-misses, none of which resulted in injuries In its first report on its autonomous vehicle operations in Phoenix, Arizona, Waymo said that it was involved in 18 crashes and 29 near-miss collisions during 2019 and the first nine months of 2020.

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The Verge

JANUARY 27, 2021

The mopeds are being offered as part of a pilot program to test whether Lime’s customers prefer vehicles that are faster, heavier, and arguably riskier to ride than your average kick scooter. The mopeds can be rented via Lime’s smartphone app, just like the company’s e-scooters. NIU’s mopeds typically get between 25–100 miles of range.

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The Verge

JANUARY 11, 2022

In a note to Spotify staff obtained by The Verge , however, Julie McNamara, head of US studios and video, acknowledged the layoffs and said shutting the studio down would enable the company to “move faster and make more significant progress and facilitate more effective collaboration across our organization.”.

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GeekWire

APRIL 9, 2021

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. Collins launched the company in 2015 with co-founder and CEO Mike Radenbaugh when they raised $320,365 in an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign. Read the story.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Eight years later, he just took the company public from the same house. “We’ve now earned the opportunity to build what we set out to,” the Porch CEO said via video from Seattle on Thursday morning, thanking the company’s employees, investors and partners before the ceremonial ringing of the Nasdaq opening bell.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 6, 2020

They are getting help from startups such as Xealth , a Seattle-based company that just announced a key partnership with Cerner and an investment from the publicly-traded healthcare giant. Xealth will team up with Cerner, a leading electronic health record (EHR) tech company, to help hospitals incorporate digital health programs.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Acumatica CEO Jon Roskill introduces the company’s latest updates via video from the Museum of Flight in Seattle during a product unveiling on Wednesday morning. Acumatica is also offering automation and machine learning technologies to help companies collect information from receipts and remind employees to submit copies of them.

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The Verge

MAY 12, 2021

The show will be exclusively licensed to the company for an undisclosed number of years. The terms of the deal were not shared, but the program will move over to Megaphone, a Spotify company, for hosting, and Spotify will handle ad sales in-house. The deal harkens back to Spotify’s Joe Rogan partnership.

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The Verge

JANUARY 25, 2021

Today, WWE and NBCUniversal announced that the service, which offers live streams of pay-per-view events, a large roster of original shows, and a massive vault of past WWE programming, will be integrated into Peacock starting in March. It ended the third quarter of 2020 with 1.549 million subscribers. And now here we are.

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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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Vox

MAY 4, 2021

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey testifying remotely at a congressional hearing in October 2020. Haile has said his service isn’t supposed to replace internet advertising , but says publishers who work with his company can make more money that way than via ads. Greg Nash/AFP/Getty Images. Jack Dorsey has bought Scroll, an ad-blocking startup.

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GeekWire

MAY 25, 2020

“An anomaly then occurred early in first-stage flight,” the company said. — Virgin Orbit (@Virgin_Orbit) May 25, 2020. Virgin Orbit was spun off from Virgin Galactic in 2017 — and while Virgin Galactic became its own publicly traded company last year , Virgin Orbit has remained under the wing of the Virgin Group.

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Kitaboo

JANUARY 25, 2024

In 2020, the global e-learning market, valued at $ 197.00 The manual nature of processes slows down the production cycle and makes it challenging for companies to take new products to market faster. Learners seek personalized learning plans as opposed to cookie-cutter learning programs. billion, was estimated to grow to $ 840.11

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The Verge

JUNE 26, 2020

The first Mac with Apple silicon is coming by the end of 2020, but Apple expects the full transition process to take two years. The company shifted from PowerPC to Intel chips in 2006, but ditched support for the former in 2009; OS X Snow Leopard was Intel-only.). Screenshot: Dan Seifert / The Verge.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 23, 2023

And as an investor it can expect some return on its capital, although this will be limited by OpenAI’s status as a capped-profit company governed by a nonprofit. In July 2019 it became OpenAI’s exclusive cloud provider and invested $1 billion in the company to support its quest to create “artificial general intelligence.”

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Vox

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Now, the company offers the Apple Card, a high-interest savings account, and interest-free buy now, pay later loans with Apple Pay Later , which launched earlier this year. It can also grease the wheels of freer spending and help tech companies make money from these mobile transactions. And that could spell trouble.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Bringing together existing groups from across the company, the new organization numbers 10,000 people including existing and open positions, representing more than 5% of the tech giant’s nearly 200,000 employees. ” Microsoft, he wrote, is “the only company in a position to deliver this.”

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Vox

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Now, the company offers the Apple Card, a high-interest savings account, and interest-free buy now, pay later loans with Apple Pay Later , which launched earlier this year. It can also grease the wheels of freer spending and help tech companies make money from these mobile transactions. And that could spell trouble.

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The Verge

AUGUST 9, 2021

Peacock had 54 million sign-ups and 20 million-plus active accounts as of the end of July, just over a year after launch, parent company Comcast said during its second-quarter earnings call. (A Disclosure: NBCUniversal is an investor in Vox Media, parent company of The Verge.).

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Now, Microsoft is making an upgraded version of the program, OpenAI’s autocomplete software GPT-3, available to business customers as part of its suite of Azure cloud tools. It’s not clear how much this might cannibalize OpenAI’s business, but the two companies already have a tight partnership. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Uplevel is planning to implement a four-day workweek to enhance the productivity and happiness of its employees, part of a trend that’s gaining traction among various companies and even in Congress amid the pandemic. Companies such as Shake Shack and Kickstarter have recently experimented with the idea.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 5, 2023

Low-code/no-code visual programming tools promise to radically simplify and speed up application development by allowing business users to create new applications using drag and drop interfaces, reducing the workload on hard-to-find professional developers.

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GeekWire

JULY 10, 2020

The GIG program operates just like the other services: use your phone to unlock a car, drive it around town, and park it in any city-operated spot within the service area. The sign-up process took less than five minutes — scan a drivers license, take a selfie, enter credit card info, and you’re off. AAA will try to make it work.

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