GeekWire

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Greg Spotts, the new director of Seattle’s Department of Transportation. Since moving from Los Angeles to take the helm of Seattle’s Department of Transportation in September, Greg Spotts has been busy learning about his new home. What can business and tech leaders do to support transportation? SDOT Photo).

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GeekWire

MARCH 15, 2024

Department of Transportation SMART grant. Department of Transportation to pilot the use of technologies aimed at making pedestrians safer when they cross intersections. . ” The tech being tested would be able to detect and classify different roadway users and be able to speak to the traffic signal system in place.

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Information Week

MAY 6, 2019

If you are wondering about the role of edge technologies, consider how they help companies and individuals in the travel and transportation sectors.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 26, 2021

based startup that is developing what it describes as “net-zero carbon fuels” that can be used in transportation. Amazon announced on Tuesday that it was investing in Infinium , a Sacramento, Calif.-based

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GeekWire

MARCH 18, 2021

Laying out its vision for a fossil-fuel-free future, the City of Seattle has released an ambitious plan to electrify its transportation system, with a list goals over the next nine years that includes everything from 100% emissions-free Uber and Lyft vehicles to closing off a “major area” of the city to cars.

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GeekWire

APRIL 18, 2024

Seattle-area tech giants Microsoft and Amazon have set ambitious carbon reduction targets and invested millions to meet those goals. The state is home to a multitude of climate tech startups tackling batteries, nuclear power, green aviation, hydrogen fuel and other clean energy challenges.

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GeekWire

MARCH 9, 2023

Transit agency King County Metro and transit tech company Via this week launched a new on-demand ride service in the Seattle area. The county, which includes Seattle, Redmond and Bellevue, is partnering with transit tech company Via to manage and provide the rides. Via launched in 2012 and is valued at $3.5 It serves 600 communities.

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GeekWire

JULY 7, 2023

Microsoft corporate VP Gurdeep Pall is set to retire after more than 33 years as a tech leader at the Redmond, Wash.-based based tech giant. Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) appointed Venu Nemani as the first-ever chief transportation safety officer. The news was first reported by The Information.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Breakthrough Energy, a climate-focused initiated launched by Gates, published an inaugural annual report Monday on the progress being made in climate tech. “[W]hen Bill founded Breakthrough Energy, he wondered: ‘Where were the climate tech equivalents of him and Paul Allen? ” states the report. ”

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Computer Weekly

MAY 11, 2017

Addison Lee is well known for being a business-focused private hire firm in and around London, but as competition has increased the firm has refocused its use of tech to provide courier services to customers and retailers

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

Finland Minister of Transport and Communications, Timo Harakka. Finland’s minister of transport and communications, Timo Harakka, visited Washington state this week to lead a trade delegation of nine companies that paid visits to Amazon, Boeing, Microsoft, and the Ports of Tacoma and Seattle. Photo courtesy of Laura Kotila).

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Forrester IT

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

This is a place where the world’s best tech gets unveiled. As intelligence will transform most verticals, including transportation, smart home, healthcare, and public services, emerging technologies such as 5G, the internet of things (IoT), and edge computing are forming […].

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

” A longtime advocate of public transportation and walkable cities, Holland has always been interested in the work being done by Greenways, which got its start in 2011. . “Your neighbor was killed in a car crash here,” reads the wording on the signs. These tragedies are preventable.”

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

All four of Bison Ventures’ investors, which also includes principals Ari Wright and Caleb Appleton , have engineering backgrounds — three in climate tech and one in biomedicine. Deep tech is used to describe a subset of startups that rely on breakthrough science and engineering to solve problems.

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Vox

AUGUST 17, 2022

But the car’s rise to dominance was anything but predestined, as Paris Marx argues in their new book, Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation. Today, Silicon Valley tech companies are getting into the business of redesigning American urban life, just as auto companies did previously.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Jay Inslee to the right and Albert Gore, executive director of the Zero Emission Transportation Association, to the left. Inslee said First Mode was “perfectly named” to match Washington state’s role in the clean-tech revolution. So, to be first out of the gate in any revolution is the place to be.”

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

“SpaceX and other entrepreneurial launch companies are already moving rapidly to develop the transportation systems that can get us to the planet Mars,” Zubrin said in a statement issued in conjunction with today’s podcast.

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GeekWire

JULY 15, 2023

(WTIA Photo) Terrance Stevenson is bringing his passion for peace-building, community development, and innovation to the Seattle tech industry. Stevenson this week was named director of Sea.citi, a nonprofit that launched in 2018 and aims to help tech workers engage with civic issues.

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GeekWire

MARCH 8, 2021

Founded in 2012, Luum works with hospitals, universities, tech companies, and more, offering software that facilitates parking management and integration with mobility apps, among other features. It aims to help employers achieve outcomes, such as reducing the number of employees driving alone to work, through incentives and disincentives.

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GeekWire

MAY 8, 2023

A lawmaker since 2019, Walen calls herself a “pragmatic progressive” and has worked to strike a balance between support for businesses, entrepreneurship and tech advancement with issues like housing affordability and data privacy. The inaugural honorees last year were Sen. Reuven Carlyle from Seattle and Sen.

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GeekWire

APRIL 6, 2023

USNC-Tech Illustration) Seattle-based USNC-Tech has gotten the green light from NASA to continue development of a rapid-response spacecraft that would use a nuclear-powered propulsion system for deep-space exploration. USNC-Tech, the advanced-technology arm of Ultra Safe Nuclear Corp. ,

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 4, 2015

The following are some of the hot topics in the federal technology ecosystem (from FedTechTicker.com and TopTechTicker.com ): Fed Tech Ticker. Two New Mexico tech firms win federal grants for clean energy projects - Santa Fe New Mexican. Two New Mexico tech firms win federal grants for clean energy projects - Santa Fe New Mexican.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

was recovering from the pandemic, Bellevue’s tech scene was flourishing as Amazon, Meta and others rushed to expand their footprints in the city east of Seattle. But now the impacts of a hybrid workforce and ongoing tech industry layoffs are taking some shine off the boomtown — and what comes next is unclear.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 26, 2024

People don’t think of a large, 100-year-old manufacturing company as high tech.” Even more, using the logistical power of APIs to marshal and transport this data to customers, Ford Pro created a SaaS product that is a revenue stream for Ford Pro,” Dumas adds. The embedded software in the vehicle goes all the way up the cloud.”

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CTOvision

APRIL 27, 2016

Apple's results hit tech shares, dollar dips before Fed - Reuters. Theranos' Lab Problems Go Way Deeper Than Its Secret Tech - WIRED. Sour Apple results hit tech shares, dollar dips before Fed - Reuters. Can New Transportation Technologies Improve Equity and Access to Opportunity? Center For American Progress.

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Dataconomy

AUGUST 21, 2019

How will micromobility co-exist with the traditional models of transportation? The post Micromobility : What does it mean for the future of transportation? What is the importance of network effects in micromobility? appeared first on Dataconomy.

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Information Week

DECEMBER 11, 2018

East Coast expansions by Amazon and Google bring promises of jobs, but also the possibility of housing and transportation crunches, and increased competition for tech talent.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 4, 2023

Washington state this week kicked off the implementation of its two most ambitious climate policies to date: one that caps carbon emissions for fuel suppliers and utilities, and another requiring reductions in the carbon intensity of transportation fuels. Experts blame the price of raw materials and inflation for the increase.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Tech companies have transformed Seattle over the past decade, creating thousands of high-paying jobs and bolstering the region’s economy. Is tech doing enough to help alleviate some of those problems? . I would love to have Amazon and other tech companies come back. (GeekWire Photos / Taylor Soper).

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GeekWire

APRIL 19, 2024

His research has focused on cybersecurity, machine learning, distributed computing, distributed algorithms, and transportation network modeling and optimization. He previously held the same role at University of North Carolina-Wilmington. He starts at Seattle U on July 1.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 3, 2023

Prior to Flexe, Glick spent almost two decades at Amazon and was VP of Amazon’s transportation and fulfillment technologies. In 2020 he wrote a guest post for GeekWire on lessons learned from two decades in the logistics tech industry, titled “Robots aren’t taking over.”

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

The following are some of the hot topics in the federal technology ecosystem (from FedTechTicker.com and TopTechTicker.com ): Fed Tech Ticker. Soyuz Heads to Space Station with New Crew, Return Transportation for One-Year Mission Team. EdWatch: Federal grant to Delaware Tech aimed at attracting minority students.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The Seattle-based tech giant disclosed the Aurora stake in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing Wednesday afternoon. Amazon says it owns 5.2% of Aurora Innovations, the Pittsburgh-based self-driving vehicle technology company that went public in November through a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) merger. Uber took a 26%.

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CTOvision

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

The following are some of the hot topics in the federal technology ecosystem (from FedTechTicker.com and TopTechTicker.com ): Fed Tech Ticker. Tech Entrepreneurs: Here is what you need to know about growing a federal practice. Mapping the connection between transportation and public health - GCN.com. MacAulay-Brown Inc.

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Venture Beast

AUGUST 12, 2020

Locomation, an autonomous truck startup headquartered in Pittsburgh, successfully completed its first on-road program transporting commercial freight. Read More.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 9, 2015

The following are some of the hot topics in the federal technology ecosystem (from FedTechTicker.com and TopTechTicker.com ): Fed Tech Ticker. Fed Tech Roundup December 8. DOT dangles big money to encourage cities' smart transportation efforts - GCN.com. Galois wins DARPA funding for private data as a service - GCN.com.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 23, 2015

The following are some of the hot topics in the federal technology ecosystem (from FedTechTicker.com and TopTechTicker.com ): "Fed Tech Ticker". For the New Year, Let's Resolve to Improve Our Tech Literacy - New York Times. Donald Graul Adds Role as Parsons Transportation Group Interim President.

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