GeekWire

JUNE 16, 2020

University of Washington President Ana Mari Cauce gives a commencement speech at the UW’s first-ever virtual ceremony, with students and families watching via livestream. (UW UW Video screenshot). The production also featured various live video streams from students and families inside their homes. “We miss you.”

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GeekWire

JANUARY 25, 2021

But going virtual has actually been beneficial in some ways for Techstars Seattle , which just announced its latest cohort. The accelerator operated its 2020 class mostly remote and is applying lessons learned to the 2021 class, which is getting its start a few weeks earlier than normal to help folks connect virtually.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 21, 2020

This is the spectator view for fans watching NBA games “courtside” in Microsoft Teams: the live stream on one side, and your virtual cheering section on the other. My big takeaway: Microsoft and the NBA are on to something with their new tech-fueled virtual fan experience. Look out for me in the virtual stands!!!

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The Verge

MAY 21, 2020

Facebook has long believed in the promise of virtual and augmented reality extending well beyond entertainment, and we’re now getting a clearer glimpse at what that future might look like now that the current pandemic is reshaping how companies everywhere think about remote work. It’s not much — the video is just eight seconds long.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 14, 2021

startups broke another record in 2020, reeling in $156.2 Deal count dropped slightly year-over-year while a record 321 mega-deals ($100 million or more) closed in 2020. billion raised in the third quarter, and a strong first half of 2020 for Seattle and the broader Pacific Northwest startup ecosystem. That follows $1.1

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Kitaboo

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

With the rise in digital access, there has been increasing demand for delivering online courses and interactive learning software. Facilitating this shift is a new breed of software, or in other words, interactive learning software that has specifically been designed to deliver online education.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Looking for a way to celebrate the holiday season with employees while also injecting some much-needed support into the Seattle restaurant scene, Tableau Software placed the to-go order of the year last weekend with help from longtime restaurateur Ethan Stowell. Singer-musician Michael Franti performs during a virtual meeting for Smartsheet.

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GeekWire

JUNE 4, 2020

“The pace of the city seems bustling and exciting, which is exactly what I wanted summer 2020 to be.” And she’s one of 8,000 interns that Amazon has taken on this summer around the world, hosting all of them virtually for the first time. She was excited to work in the “modern, beautiful buildings.”

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GeekWire

MAY 24, 2020

Here are the most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of May 17, 2020. Amazon dives deeper into video games, launches first big-budget title Crucible. This governor alarmed professors 22 years ago with his vision for distance learning in 2020 — here’s what he says today. Most popular stories on GeekWire.

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The Verge

JULY 25, 2020

But Fox Sports is the only broadcaster that’s announced plans for virtual fans. “We Thousands of virtual fans will attend FOX’s MLB games this Saturday. pic.twitter.com/z9oQU0rYuC — FOX Sports (@FOXSports) July 23, 2020. Thousands of virtual fans will attend FOX’s MLB games this Saturday. Not on FOX Sports.

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GeekWire

JULY 2, 2020

Accolade CEO Raj Singh on video in New York’s Times Square for the virtual ringing of the Nasdaq opening bell. million for its 2020 fiscal year, which ended in February. Its largest customer, Comcast, was responsible for nearly a quarter of its 2020 revenue. Via Nasdaq webcast). billion in 2014. Its revenue of 132.5

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Twitch’s audience numbers have begun to tick back up now that summer’s over; “virtual YouTubers” are pulling in surprisingly big numbers; and Amazon’s MMORPG New World, in its first full month on Twitch, debuted at No. Amazon Game Studios Photo). 5 on the overall top 10 for total hours watched.

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The Verge

MAY 13, 2021

The world’s biggest gaming showcase, E3, is going all-virtual for the first time in its history, with organizers revealing today how they plan to keep enthusiasts interested without the sights and sounds of the show floor. The virtual E3 will run from June 12th to June 15th. E3 broadcasts will still be available via Twitch and YouTube.

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GeekWire

APRIL 8, 2021

An example of a virtual GeekWire office built with Spot. The 7-person startup is building software that creates a virtual representation of an office. The 7-person startup is building software that creates a virtual representation of an office. The software is still in a closed beta. Spot Photos).

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Gabe Newell, founder of Valve Software, speaks to the crowd at The International, an esports gaming tournament sponsored by Valve. based software developer Valve Software. This included an August 2020 email between Spencer and Microsoft marketing leaders Takeshi Numoto and Chris Capossela. We’re fully self-owned.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 14, 2021

Steam’s user community broke a lot of records during the socially-quarantined year of 2020. Valve Software image). based Valve Software posted its latest year in review for Steam , its online gaming storefront. It provides a look back on 2020, as well as a roadmap for what’s coming for Steam in 2021.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

It’s really great, but the limitations are becoming grating The new 2020 edition of the iPad, now in its eighth generation, continues to be an iPad. It does make the iPad feel a little out of step with the rest of the gadgets and tablets you’ll see in 2020, where bezels are the exception rather than the rule.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Zoom said earlier this week it would lift its standard 40-minute limit on free video chats for Thanksgiving Day to make it easier to spend time with friends and family virtually on the US holiday. ZoomTogether pic.twitter.com/aubsH0tfxG — Zoom (@zoom_us) November 10, 2020.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Bill Gates appears on a monitor in Seattle during a virtual discussion as part of the 2020 GeekWire Summit on Thursday. The first week at the 2020 GeekWire Summit made news, and we’ve got many more insights ahead from leaders in tech, science, business and healthcare. Virtual commencements. Thursday, Oct.

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The Verge

JULY 10, 2020

Not only does the 2020 Envy x360 look as nice and perform as well as last year’s Spectre x360 (which starts at $1,099), but using it also feels quite similar to using HP’s $1,500 Elite Dragonfly, one of the best business notebooks on the market. The system did not prove as well-optimized for video editing, unfortunately.

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GeekWire

MAY 17, 2021

As schools in Seattle prepared to reopen earlier this spring, Qualtrics , the experience management software company with a large presence in the city, was behind tech used to survey families about learning preferences. RELATED: Lessons from the pandemic: Top STEM educators offer their insights on the future of learning.

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The Verge

JULY 26, 2020

As part of an attempt to make Major League Baseball games in this weird, coronavirus-shortened season seem as close to normal as possible, Fox Sports decided to create virtual fans , digital versions of cheering people who would react to the games broadcast on Fox the way real fans do. So forgive us if we’re a little wary.

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mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2019

While the list could be longer, let’s explore 7 such technologies that CIOs and IT leaders can’t ignore in 2020. It’s a form of process automation that lets anyone define a set of instructions for a software bot to perform. These are software bots that can log into applications, enter data and calculate it. Not at all.

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GeekWire

JUNE 26, 2020

— Tom Warren (@tomwarren) June 26, 2020. — Peter Kafka (@pkafka) June 26, 2020. “We will make our digital storefronts the best place to learn, buy, and receive support across software and hardware,” Porter wrote. — Microsoft Store (@MicrosoftStore) June 26, 2020. Learn more: [link].

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Salesforce and Slack “will shape the future of enterprise software,” said Benioff, the Salesforce CEO, in a statement announcing the deal. — Stewart Butterfield (@stewart) December 1, 2020. — Aaron Levie (@levie) December 1, 2020. — Lauren Masks Are Goode (@LaurenGoode) December 1, 2020.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Instead, events moved online, and many changed completely in the process as companies dropped risky product demonstrations in favor of slick prerecorded video segments. In 2020, every presentation went off without a hitch, but it was hard not to doubt what we were being shown. Decades later, in 2019, the format had barely changed.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 3, 2021

Watch the epic first-ever virtual Space Needle light show for New Year’s celebration in Seattle. What Valve’s top Steam titles of 2020 say about the state of video games. Valve Software announced the top 100 best-performing games of the year on its digital storefront Steam. Most popular stories on GeekWire.

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GeekWire

JUNE 9, 2020

Manny Vellon was a software engineer and Seattle startup founder legendary among colleagues and customers for his ability to find straightforward solutions to complex problems. software development kit and the C++ programming language. Manny Vellon on a motorcycle trip through Iceland for his 60th birthday. Photo courtesy Barry Crist).

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GeekWire

JUNE 22, 2020

Apple rolled out a bevy of new product features today at its annual WWDC event, held virtually for the first time due to the global pandemic. — Ben Scholtysik (@Elektrojunge) June 22, 2020. MacBook Air battery is down to 39% from 100% since this keynote video started. Chen (@bxchen) June 22, 2020. Apple silicon.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 14, 2021

Seattle-based Accolade announced Thursday that it will pay $460 million to acquire 2nd.MD , a Houston, Texas-based company that helps patients get expert medical opinions by video or phone. Interest in virtual healthcare is on the rise amid the pandemic as people look for medical advice without going to a physical doctor’s office.

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TM Forum

AUGUST 25, 2021

However, without converged charging – the software that handles how much to charge customers for services – CSPs won’t be able to reap the full revenue potential of 5G, at its current pace. Also CSPs need customer experience software that matches 5G’s agility. I sign up by tapping an app.?Later,

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

For late 2020, the company is releasing the Smart Monitor, which it claims is the first monitor to combine over-the-top media services, mobile connectivity, and remote PC capabilities. and connect to Office 365 through a virtual machine without the need for any additional computing hardware. . | Samsung. ports sans USB-C).

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 8, 2022

The UK-based accounting and tax consulting firm was one of few accountants in the UK that weathered the 2020 tax season without a hitch, thanks to its early bet on SaaS, Microsoft Azure, and software-defined networking. We increased our resources by a couple hundred people, and we couldn’t have done it without the Virtual Desktop.”.

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GeekWire

MAY 22, 2020

Ryan Yousefian had an advantage in the 2020 Dempsey Startup Competition for student entrepreneurs in the Pacific Northwest. Given the competition’s shift online, the top 30 teams each submitted a one-minute video pitch and gave short, live pitches virtually for judges. This isn’t ApnoMed’s first win.

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TM Forum

OCTOBER 13, 2021

announcement promises a “portfolio of solutions consisting of hardware and software that extend our infrastructure to the edge and into your data centers.” billion in 2020 to $16.7 Google’s recent. Google Distributed Cloud. Nokia will also offer. Microsoft Azure IoT. Edge Services. , billion in 2025.

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The Verge

MARCH 1, 2021

million TVs in 2020. We will continue our successful hardware business, iterating on models as we’ve done before, and at the same time build our name in smart TV software,” Wang said. But the future is more so about software and platforms than it is about selling TVs, where the profit margins are often scant. million in 2020.

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The Verge

AUGUST 19, 2021

Facebook is bringing the office to VR with Horizon Workrooms It wasn’t long into a recent press briefing I attended in virtual reality when Mark Zuckerberg showed up to talk about the metaverse. Up to 16 people in VR can be in a Workroom together, while an additional 34 people can join over video call without wearing a headset.

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