GeekWire

APRIL 23, 2024

(98point6 Photo) Seattle-based digital healthcare startup 98point6 has conducted a new round of layoffs, the company confirmed Tuesday. Another worker who joined the company more than six years ago called her layoff an “unplanned departure.” ” The company has around 100 employees in the U.S.,

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 12, 2024

Oracle’s latest financial report boasts substantial increases in revenue, net income, and earnings per share, largely thanks to cloud sales, which the company was quick to credit to the rise of AI. Despite the fact that we are opening new and expanding existing cloud data centers very, very rapidly.”

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Despite the success of this summer’s Baldur’s Gate 3 , Wizards of the Coast’s parent company Hasbro faced a significant revenue shortfall. based gaming giant Wizards of the Coast were affected by a new round of layoffs at its parent company, Hasbro. Larian Studios Image) Employees at Renton, Wash.-based

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GeekWire

APRIL 11, 2024

ULA Photo) In his annual letter to shareholders , Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says the company’s Project Kuiper satellite venture will be “a very large revenue opportunity” in the future — but he’s hedging his bets as to exactly when that future will be. Today, Jassy put a slightly different spin on that schedule.

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GeekWire

MARCH 19, 2024

It said the launch service provider and the specific time frame for launch have not been disclosed; however, a license application filed with the Federal Communications Commission says the launch is expected to occur in the fourth quarter of 2024. Mission duration would be no more than 12 hours, Blue Origin says in the application.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 17, 2024

One of the key reasons for that is that professional services companies need specialized information to make the most accurate estimates possible, forcing them in some cases to make trade-offs between accuracy and speed. Visualization is a key part of the new release, according to Certinia’s briefing.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Among other things, the Blumenthal-Hawley framework would establish an independent oversight body and require companies developing AI systems for “high risk” applications to go through a registration and licensing process. We think it has good solutions in terms of a licensing system for high-risk systems.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Most are just getting off the ground as official companies, and some don’t have websites yet. The UW has spun out 52 startups in the past five years, and granted more than 2,000 licenses. Those companies have raised more than $4.1 The company, spun out of the Paul G. billion over the past five years.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

GitHub says Copilot Workspace will debut in 2024, using AI to help developers from the outset of a project. ’ ” said Inbal Shani , GitHub’s chief product officer, in an interview in advance of the GitHub Universe conference , where the company is making a series of announcements Wednesday morning.

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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

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Startup and small business owners take note: if your company has 20 or fewer full-time employees and gross annual sales of less than $5 million, there’s a new federal filing requirement that you need to know about. Next year a key component of the Corporate Transparency Act comes into effect, requiring companies to report to the U.S.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Leafly arrived on the public markets Monday, setting a milestone for not only the Seattle company but the cannabis industry at large. a special purpose acquisition company sponsored by Merida Capital Holdings. Founded in 2010, Leafly’s online marketplace lets customers shop and select cannabis products from licensed retailers.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 26, 2023

IT provides the plumbing for just about every company in existence today. We’ve gathered eight instances of big tech failures that struck companies and other organizations in 2023. And because the incumbent companies have been around for so long, many are running IT systems with some elements that are years or decades old.

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GeekWire

MARCH 25, 2024

This year, we’re excited to celebrate three of the most noteworthy efforts as Geeks Give Back honorees at the 2024 GeekWire Awards. The GeekWire Awards recognize the top innovators and companies in Pacific Northwest technology. Special thanks to Astound Business Solutions , the presenting sponsor of the 2024 GeekWire Awards.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 29, 2024

. “After 30+ years in the operational trenches, I’m now focusing on advising and consulting with startup founders, CEOs, and VC’s, helping them turn great ideas into great companies,” Cotter wrote in a blog post. He previously co-founded an e-commerce message startup called MessageYes that was acquired by Nordstrom in 2018.

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GeekWire

APRIL 23, 2024

That’s the big question going into the Redmond company’s earnings report on Thursday afternoon, for the third quarter of the company’s 2024 fiscal year. Big picture: Microsoft is the most valuable publicly traded company, with a market capitalization of more than $3 trillion. billion a year ago.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

In 2023, EA announced the foundation of Cliffhanger Games in Seattle in 2023, which is working on a licensed video game that features the Marvel superhero Black Panther. It opened Ridgeline Games in Seattle in 2021 under the leadership of Halo co-creator Marcus Lehto, in order to work on the Battlefield franchise. — Marcus Lehto ??

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 12, 2023

There were a multitude of reasons for Fraport AG, the operating company of Germany’s largest airport in Frankfurt, to build one of the largest European private 5G campus networks: automation, autonomous driving, localization of devices, and processing data in real time.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 16, 2024

Laws prohibiting the use of a person's likeness for commercial gain have been in effect for some time, testing everything from the value of an influencer's endorsement to "freemium" reports by people search companies. using AI to create a deepfakes or clone an artist's voice). The ELVIS Act grants standing to a licensee (i.e.,

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Harrell released his 2024 budget proposal Tuesday that includes mid-biennium adjustments to the 2023-24 budget passed last year. The other aspect of the pilot program would be license plate readers that would inform police when they encounter a reported stolen vehicle. Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell spoke at the GeekWire Summit in 2021.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Amazon says that the first operational satellites are due to be launched early next year, and that beta service to selected enterprise customers could begin by the end of 2024. Mass production is due to begin by the end of the year at Amazon’s factory in Kirkland, Wash. ,

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

1, 2024, it would change the terms by which it licenses its engine. Unity usually makes money off of its engine by sharing revenue with companies who make successful products, but this changes the deal dramatically in Unity’s favor, using shaky metrics that aren’t readily accessible to companies outside of Unity itself.

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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. Magic Leap.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 7, 2021

Epic Games, the company behind Fortnite and the Unreal Engine , has acquired the game development toolset creator RAD Game Tools , headquartered in Kirkland, Wash. RAD is one of those companies that runs under the radar, but has quietly influenced much of the modern games industry. Fortnite is one of Epic Games’ top titles.

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GeekWire

MAY 23, 2023

The company held the summit at the Hyatt Regency in Renton, Wash., The event featured panels from the internal D&D team, meant to discuss where D&D stands in 2023 and where it’s going in the near future, as the game approaches its 50th anniversary in 2024. This one’s a guide.”

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Now a new report indicates that one of the most anticipated Xbox games of 2024 may also be a cross-platform release. Were this to go through, this would be approximately on par with the idea of Hulu licensing its original programming to Netflix or Disney+. There aren’t many precedents for this sort of move in the console gaming space.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 1, 2023

For what it’s worth, SpaceX’s satellites are built nearby at the company’s Redmond facility.) Project Kuiper’s first production-quality satellites are due to be launched early next year, with beta service to begin in the latter half of 2024.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 12, 2024

An estimated 90% of companies with 10 or more employees already have at least one CRM system. From market shifts to IT strategies, here are the hot CRM trends for 2024. Industry CRMs heed the call The increased verticalization of CRM is a key trend for 2024, says Forrester’s Leggett. It’s huge,” says Leggett.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 10, 2022

Rise with SAP is an all-in-one subscription offering from SAP , under which the software vendor takes on the hassles of software license management and coordinates the activities of cloud providers and systems integrators chosen by its clients. Some companies might migrate a small department or country system first, as a proof of concept.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Bond noted that there would be new Xbox hardware announced for the 2024 holiday season, and that the next Xbox would be the “largest technical leap you will have ever seen in a hardware generation.” That leaves Xbox in an odd position in 2024. Microsoft still plans on developing new hardware.

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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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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

million in his 2024 budget proposal for a “crime prevention pilot” that would include use of acoustic gunshot locator systems. Especially today, gun violence is an increasingly complex issue, and we understand that there is no single solution,” a company spokesperson said in a statement to GeekWire.

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Dataconomy

MARCH 6, 2024

All details regarding the Houser LLP data breach In a disclosure made to the office of Maine’s attorney general on Wednesday, it was revealed that during the incident related to the Houser LLP data breach, certain documents were not only encrypted but also illicitly extracted from the company’s network.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

(Amazon Photo) Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellite network streamed its first video and facilitated its first online sale during a monthlong series of orbital tests that the company says achieved a “100% success rate.” said Rajeev Badyal , vice president of technology for Project Kuiper.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 26, 2023

.” Venture capitalists including Porsche AG and Microsoft’s Climate Innovation Fund likewise see potential in the 7-year-old company. The startup says it’s valued at more than $3 billion, making it one of the most valuable privately held companies in the Pacific Northwest. based battery tech company Nexeon.

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GeekWire

MAY 10, 2023

Helion plans to build the commercial facility in Washington state, where the companies are headquartered. That market spans companies worldwide and in the Pacific Northwest includes Helion, Zap Energy, Avalanche Energy and General Fusion. should start operating in 2024. The company hasn’t announced its precise location.

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