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GeekWire brings you the week's latest technology news, trends and insights, covering the world of technology from our home base in Seattle. Our regular news podcast features commentary and analysis from our editors and reporters, plus interviews with special guests.
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- 01Why Did the Vanity Fair Lost Decade Story Stick?Exit interview: Microsoft’s comms chief on CEOs, reporters, what he got wrong, and stories that stuck
- 02Is AI Making Communications Better or Worse?Exit interview: Microsoft’s comms chief on CEOs, reporters, what he got wrong, and stories that stuck
- 03Why Did Microsoft Stop Chasing Small Corrections?Exit interview: Microsoft’s comms chief on CEOs, reporters, what he got wrong, and stories that stuck
- 04Why Didn't Steve Ballmer Study Computer Science?Exit interview: Microsoft’s comms chief on CEOs, reporters, what he got wrong, and stories that stuck
- 05Was Rob Guth Right About Positive Coverage?Exit interview: Microsoft’s comms chief on CEOs, reporters, what he got wrong, and stories that stuck
- 06Is Today's Media Shift Just Blogs All Over Again?Exit interview: Microsoft’s comms chief on CEOs, reporters, what he got wrong, and stories that stuck
- 07Why Did Microsoft Do a Gizmodo Interview?Exit interview: Microsoft’s comms chief on CEOs, reporters, what he got wrong, and stories that stuck
- 08What Are Challenges and Opportunities for Amazon's Partnership With Blue OriginHow Jeff Bezos plans to take civilization to space
- 09Is Liquid Hydrogen the Best Fuel for a Lunar ExpeditionHow Jeff Bezos plans to take civilization to space
- 10Are We Better Off Colonising Space Than Planets Like MarsHow Jeff Bezos plans to take civilization to space
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Exit interview: Microsoft’s comms chief on CEOs, reporters, what he got wrong, and stories that stuckThis week: Microsoft’s longtime communications chief, Frank X. Shaw, looks back on nearly three decades of telling the company’s story as he prepares to leave at the end of the… -
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How Jeff Bezos plans to take civilization to spaceHow does Jeff Bezos plan to get to the moon, and what will he do after that? On this special bonus edition of the GeekWire Podcast, aerospace and science editor Alan Boyle calls… -
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Slack CTO Cal HendersonWorkplace chat and collaboration technology company Slack is going public on Thursday, with implications for a wide variety of companies in the Seattle region and beyond… -
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Amazon's new Prime numberAmazon's shift to one-day shipping as the core benefit of its Prime membership program promises to significantly alter Amazon’s financial picture and accelerate the pace of… -
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Unicorns, IPOs and the next tech giantsSeattle has a new unicorn, Outreach, the sales and marketing automation company that raised a $114 million funding round this week, pushing its valuation to $1.1 billion. The…
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- GeekWire's 2022 News Quiz
- An 'App Store moment' for AI: ChatGPT tops list of key technologies for 2023
- Resetting Amazon: A new blueprint for the tech giant
- Inside the battle against bad bots
- What's wrong with Alexa
- What we're thankful for in tech
- Layoffs land at Amazon HQ; Redfin's reversal; Jeff B and Jay-Z
- When Mark Zuckerberg met Seattle
- Amazon's new reality: How the tech giant is adjusting to the tough economy
- The road ahead for autonomous vehicles: Aurora CEO Chris Urmson on the future of cars and trucks
- Microsoft cybersecurity leader Charlie Bell on the quest to bring civilization to the digital world
- GeekWire's Elevator Pitch: Analyzing the four winning pitches in advance of the upcoming live finale
- The new world of hybrid work, and the next generation of smartphone users
- The world's first sustainable mega-region? Former Gov. Chris Gregoire on Cascadia's climate quest
- Robot law: Public policy, legal liability, and the new world of autonomous systems
- Why live digital audio isn't actually live
- GeekWire at the Ballpark: AM radio vs. digital audio; robot umpires; and Amazon cuts the line
- A deeper understanding of Amazon
- Insights from the life of early Amazon investor and Seattle business leader Tom Alberg
- Inside the tech economy, with Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Meta and Alphabet
- The pioneering spirit and joyful life of late 'Cranium' creator Richard Tait
- From White House to Amazon: Jay Carney on tech and politics
- How the '7 Forms of Respect' can change work
- Amazon's Astro ambitions
- Microsoft's president on turbulent times for the company, country, and world
- Amazon, robots, and the future of work
- Jeff Bezos' big mistake ... and other lessons in 'career self-care'
- A software engineer walks into an Amazon warehouse ...
- Wild Times for Tech Startups
- Microsoft's union pledge
- What we learned about Amazon from its annual meeting
- Startup turnaround specialist Matt Hulett on unlocking growth, competing with giants, and surviving turbulent times
- Former Amazon exec Jeff Wilke on his industrial roots, and the future of U.S. manufacturing
- Startups, superheroes, and the economy at a crossroads: Voices from Seattle's tech community
- 'My name is Reggie ...' Former Nintendo of America leader on his new book, and what's next in games
- Robots, automation, AI, and the Pirate Parrot: Insights from our return to the epicenter of robotics
- Robots, AI, cars, and the future, with Matthew Johnson-Roberson of CMU's Robotics Institute
- Secrets of STEM: Top teachers share insights on innovation in learning
- Netflix ads, Amazon shipping, Paul Allen's legacy
- Moscow-born Seattle tech CEO grapples with invasion of Ukraine, closes 800-person Russian operation
- The new frontiers of AI and robotics, with CMU computer science dean Martial Hebert
- Words with AI: Language and the future of work, with Textio CEO Kieran Snyder
- Technology, data, and the future of TV, with iSpot tech chief Anthony Skinner
- Testing SpaceX Starlink; U.S. tech worker migration; and a GeekWire Awards sneak peek
- Tony Hsieh, Zappos, and Amazon
- Jeff Bezos, future Seahawks owner?
- A former tech columnist's antidote for 'dangerously divided times'
- Amazon's Bizarre Bazaar
- Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on the State of the Union in Numbers
- Rewind: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella talks about his son, Zain
- Key trends in digital commerce, with the former Amazon exec leading Seattle’s newest unicorn
- How Zillow's flexible work strategy is going
- Armoire's startup survival story
- Why Microsoft's return to the office may not be the norm
- The realities of Amazon's pay increase; inside Microsoft's HoloLens business
- Amazon's big salary bump
- Amazon defies gravity, Microsoft's biggest challenge, and one startup's quest to wipe out deforestation
- Sony's $3.6 billion Bungie buy, explained
- Data journalist Sherrell Dorsey on her new book, 'Upper Hand: The Future of Work for the Rest of Us'
- Microsoft's Candy Crush: Madrona's Hope Cochran, former King CFO, on the $68.7B Activision deal
- NFTs, Metaverse, Web3, and new realities of startup investing, with Founders Co-op’s Aviel Ginzburg
- Amazon's Alexa is going to space
- GeekWire's 2021 News Quiz
- Top Stories of 2021: Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, and more
- The new era of work, with Qualtrics CEO Zig Serafin
- AWS outage, AI quiz, and Amazon's Halo View
- Immigration and tech: New realities, old problems, and what's at stake for the future
- What we're thankful for in tech, science, and innovation
- Robbie Bach on 20 years of Xbox, and his debut novel, 'The Wilkes Insurrection'
- Zillow, Amazon, Facebook and the pitfalls of rampant automation
- Jane Park on SPACs, the immigrant ethos, and brands in the Amazon era
- Amazon's new reality, Facebook's virtual reality, and Microsoft's big milestone
- Tech pay, cloud trends, Kraken, and self-driving cars with Qumulo CEO Bill Richter
- The evolution of Microsoft and Amazon, and the tech industry's future in space
- Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, and more from the GeekWire Summit
- Microsoft's larger lesson from TikTok: Brad Smith on the future of U.S.-China tech relations
- What to expect in Windows 11: Former Microsoft PM Kevin Stratvert on the OS upgrade
- Amazon's Kindle Vella through the eyes of a longtime Seattle author
- 'They proved me wrong.' Investor who passed on Seattle startup analyzes its IPO
- How the pandemic is taking a toll on collaboration; AI, ML and the NFL; Listener feedback
- U.S. Rep. Pramila Jayapal: Amazon, antitrust, and the future of big tech
- Startup secrets; Windows 11 launch; In defense of the Blue Yeti
- Inside the White House cybersecurity summit with Hadi Partovi of Code.org
- Inside our hybrid studio: GeekWire's tech tips and tricks for the latest twist in virtual meetings
- How SPACs are shaking up Seattle's startup scene
- The new realities of real estate: Redfin CEO on tech, climate, housing, and the era of 'a thousand HQs'
- Satya Nadella's biggest success as Microsoft CEO; Inside GeekWire's Great Race; Number of the Week
- Day 2: Amazon's earnings reveal a fundamental shift
- How Facebook works: Secrets of the social network's engineering process
- How to make tech more equitable
- Bezos, Branson and the billionaire space race
- Former Amazon exec Jeff Wilke on his next big thing
- 'LEGO Masters': Behind the scenes with Boone Langston
- Ben Gilbert of PSL and 'Acquired' on the red-hot market for IPOs, VC and acquisitions
- Day 2: Amazon's 'turnover machine'
- Tableau's new CEO Mark Nelson on Salesforce, Seattle, and Slack
- The future of events
- Amazon's Hollywood plot twist
- Madrona's Steve Singh on 6 tech trends to watch post-COVID
- The future of education: Lessons from the pandemic
- Urbanist Richard Florida on the future of U.S. cities after the pandemic
- Day 2: Amazon's Giant Quarter
- Municipal broadband; capital gains tax; Amazon's take on soccer super league
- Rep. Suzan DelBene on privacy and the future of the country
- Day 2: Amazon defeated the union, but did it really win?
- Why this Seattle tech CEO pulled his company out of downtown Seattle, and isn't coming back anytime soon
- The First of Our Civic Conversations: Rebuilding After the Pandemic
- Day 2: How this seller turned Amazon's knockoff into a win
- Talking SPACapalooza with angel investor Spencer Rascoff
- The Future of Femtech
- Health Tech: Walter Isaacson on 'the Code Breaker'
- GeekWire at 10 years: Reflections on an extraordinary decade in Seattle tech
- Amazon's 'Great Labor Awakening,' with journalist Erika Hayasaki
- Amazon vs. Shopify, and the future of retail
- Bill Gates on the future of the planet
- How to upgrade democracy
- Amazon's Business Secrets
- Amazon, Andy Jassy and the cloud, with Corey Quinn
- Amazon arrives in rural America
- The state of Microsoft, with Mary Jo Foley
- What Biden means for tech
- Bonus: 'Venture Capital Loves Destruction'
- Social media after Trump, with former Twitter VP Mike Davidson
- Trump, social media, and an unprecedented moment in American history
- 2021: What to expect in tech, with Peter Lee of Microsoft
- GeekWire's 2020 News Quiz
- Top Stories of 2020
- How this Seattle tech CEO landed in the pro bowling Hall of Fame
- Poetry vs. programming: The intersection of literature and code in a changing city
- Stalking Seattle's unicorns
- Facebook fallout; Seattle's status as 'Cloud City'; testing SpaceX Starlink
- Health Tech Podcast: Wait, was that COVID?!
- How to take on Amazon without getting crushed
- 'Slackforce,' AWS re:Invent, and Seattle's new $9B tech company
- Scott Galloway on Amazon in a 'Post Corona' world
- Skyscrapers, scooters, and the future of cities
- Can the shopping mall survive? '2025: Tomorrow, Today' podcast preview
- AI that writes your emails; a Seattle tech visionary; and our trivia challenge returns
- Biden's Seattle tech bundlers; Amazon's smart shelf; Where's Gabe Newell?
- The state of tech in 2020 and beyond
- Expedia CEO on the future of travel
- What gives Bill Gates hope
- Amazon antitrust findings; Satya Nadella's WFH tips; Mysterious $60B woman
- GeekWire Summit - Sneak Preview
- Startup CEOs optimistic despite pandemic; Amazon moves into virtual travel
- From Microsoft VP to law student
- Amazon's flying security camera; Microsoft's $7.5B gaming deal
- Snowflake, Madrona and a giant IPO; Bill Gates Sr.; Apple, UW and COVID
- Surface Duo hands-on; NFL on Microsoft Teams; Coping with wildfire smoke
- Breaking the IPO glass ceiling; Who succeeds Bezos?; TikTok's ticking clock
- Amazon's ambitious health band; 4-day work week; Convoy hires ex-Expedia CEO
- I was a virtual NBA fan
- Microsoft's pricey dual-screen Duo; Amazon's clumsy podcast news; REI to sell new HQ
- Microsoft (maybe) rescues TikTok; downtown Seattle struggles; micro-schools
- Congress grills Jeff Bezos; Amazon's big earnings; Microsoft and the NBA
- Slack vs. Microsoft; GeekWire Awards recap; Seattle gets Kraken
- Real estate in the pandemic
- GeekWire Awards Preview: Airbnb cleaning startup Neu
- GeekWire Awards Preview: Rebellyous Foods
- 3 stories show how the pandemic is changing our lives
- Startup Surprise: Funding skyrockets despite pandemic
- Microsoft's retail bombshell; Amazon's robotaxi deal; Trump vs. tech, again
- Apple's App Store is under fire
- Race and Tech, Part 2
- How Amazon, Apple, Microsoft and others make winning bets
- Tech and the police; Amazon sues former VP; remembering Manny Vellon
- Race and Tech: Where can we go from here?
- The revolution will be streamed
- Race and tech, the realities
- Dueling visions of Amazon; HBO Max launch; Saving the Cinerama
- SpaceX and NASA reset for historic launch
- Distance Learning Debate, Then and Now
- Uber, Grubhub and Seattle; Amazon's virus-killing robot; Surface Earbuds first take
- Tech hiring in the age of COVID-19; Surface Earbuds; Gates Foundation CEO
- Bezos is Back
- Expedia's lifeline; Bill Gates on life after lockdown; Redfin and Tokki CEOs on pivoting in a pandemic
- Leading a startup through the crisis
- Science, politics and the debate over post-pandemic life
- Bill Gates on the future of work; Vicis reborn; Nintendo meets Lego
- Amazon challenged by COVID-19, and its own workers
- 'Reprogramming the American Dream' with Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott
- Coronavirus hits tech economy; life under lockdown; a poem for our new era
- GeekWire Podcast: Bill Gates on COVID-19, gig workers in peril, and more on the coronavirus crisis
- Seattle adjusts to life under the coronavirus threat
- Seattle confronts the coronavirus
- Health Tech: Coronavirus and the future of vaccines
- "Facebook: The Inside Story" with Steven Levy
- Expedia layoffs; Amazon grocery store; tech workers’ salaries
- Big Tech and the Housing Crisis
- PBS takes on Amazon's Jeff Bezos
- We (almost) hacked the election
- Amazon's real HQ2, Iowa tech fallout, AR at the ballpark
- Amazon employees defy company; taxing tech; umbrellas as lighting rods
- 'Female Firebrands' and a new era of diversity
- Bezos phone hack; Surface innovations; Gottmans love Mystery
- Apple acquires Xnor.ai; Microsoft's bold climate plan; Seattle startup trivia
- A glimpse of the future at CES
- The Future of Podcasting
- An extraordinary year in Seattle tech
- Car2go exits, Vicis crumbles
- Ring camera hacks; AI and privacy; Scooter rules
- Cloud Wars: Amazon vs. Microsoft
- Why this Amazon adversary is emboldened
- Amazon protests JEDI deal; Cosmic Crisp first taste
- The future of data with Tableau CEO Adam Selipsky
- Amazon's Political Problems
- Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella
- Grappling with AI
- Amazon's $1.45M bid to shake up Seattle politics
- FTC Commissioner Rohit Chopra at the GeekWire Summit
- Amazon's Jay Carney at the GeekWire Summit
- Microsoft's new era unfolds
- Alexa leaves the house
- The new 'experience economy'
- Tech workers unite on climate
- Amazon, Uber and a reckoning for the gig economy
- Microsoft President Brad Smith: 'Tools & Weapons'
- Why millennials love Amazon
- Waiting for Elizabeth Warren
- Headphones, AI and the future of humanity
- Goodbye, iPhone; Hello, Note10+
- The Power and Pitfalls of Platforms
- Microsoft's Samsung surprise
- Can Facebook be fixed?
- The Case Against Amazon
- Apollo 11 and the Future of the Final Frontier
- Secret Startup Ingredient: Microsoft
- Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott
- Apple Goes Big in Seattle
- Slack vs. Microsoft
- 'Salesforce HQ2' and Tableau's giant deal
- UW computer science leader Hank Levy
- Maria Klawe on the promise of computer science
- Amazon drones ready to deliver
- Inside the IPO: Adaptive Biotech
- Sci-fi master Neal Stephenson
- How tech is transforming home-buying, again
- Inside Amazon's annual meeting
- How to think like Amazon
- Minecraft meets the real world
- Melinda Gates, the GeekWire Interview
- Which tech giant do you trust?
- GeekWire Awards Winners Revealed
- IPOs without profits
- Why Arivale failed
- Very Random
- Why Amazon is pulling a giant team out of Seattle
- To the Moon: Neil Armstrong's son on the Apollo 11 anniversary
- Microsoft boxes Amazon into a corner
- Bezos and the bots
- Are you getting a fair trade for your data?
- GeekWire Awards preview; brave Amazon employee quizzes Bezos
- GeekWire Photographer's Dispatch from Mongolia
- Break up Big Tech? A reality check
- Zillow's extreme makeover
- Under Construction Podcast: John Cook
- Surprise! Amazon nixes NYC HQ2
- Catching up with Bill Gates
- 'Day 1' Distraction: Bezos and the Enquirer
- What Fuels You: Life and leadership with Jane Park
- Week in Geek: Howard Schultz?!
- Week in Geek: Amazon's delivery bots
- Week in Geek: Microsoft's $500M housing bet
- A better life without a smartphone?
- Groceries, Divorce and Facebook
- Libraries in the Digital Age
- Underestimated: 'Bootstrapped VC' Arlan Hamilton
- Amazon takes Seattle baggage to NYC
- Gov. Inslee on tech, privacy and the presidency
- Introducing Numbers Geek
- Microsoft re-Surfaces
- Geared Up Tech Holiday Gift Guide: 2018
- 'Making weird' with Archie McPhee
- Can NYC love HQ2?
- Amazon reveals HQ2 locations
- What's going on with HQ2?
- Dungeons, Dragons and NFL star Doug Baldwin
- The little vaccine that could
- Live: The future of news
- Paul Allen's vast legacy
- Remembering Paul Allen: 1953 - 2018
- 'This is crazy!' Interview: Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman
- Interview: Uber Chief Legal Officer Tony West
- Amazon's $15 minimum wage
- CAR T: The Underdog Cancer Killer
- Google's Nest bids on digital health
- Live: Startup success stories
- Amazon HQ2: One Year Later
- Film to digital: Tech behind Cinerama
- Silicon Valley's Seattle secret
- LIVE: Community + the future of work
- Saga of the stolen plane
- Creating masters of science fiction
- Can Amazon 'fix' healthcare?
- Judge blocks 3D printed gun blueprints
- Facebook's moment of reckoning?
- Facial recognition tech enters schools
- Week in Geek with Chairman Mom's Sarah Lacy
- Best tech of 2018 (so far)
- Controversy over 'why women don't code'
- Amazon's $1B acquisition
- Hands-on with the Fire TV Cube
- Predicting the future with sci-fi
- Amazon's health partnership gets a CEO
- Doctors Without Data
- Why the 'Amazon Tax' was repealed
- E3's biggest games
- Zillow wants to buy your home
- iOS 12 hands-on
- AI vs. Cancer
- Jeff Bezos: 'We will have to leave this planet'
- The Seattle Art Museum's first CTO
- Epic week for startup funding
- Mysterious new smartphone from Red
- Tech, homelessness + the future of cities
- Lenovo Mirage Solo vs. Oculus Go hands-on
- Tech Spotlight: Nokia Health and ThinkPad X1
- Azure head Scott Guthrie live from Microsoft Build
- Amazon vs. its hometown
- Oculus Go: The future of VR?
- Sen. Maria Cantwell on tech and politics
- Marvel: Universe of Super Heroes
- Lost and Founder with Rand Fishkin
- Amazon cozies up with Best Buy
- The HomePod bust
- The Facebook Crisis
- TLDR: Mark Zuckerberg Testifies Before Congress
- Get ready for 'parallel reality'
- Geared Up: 'Locked into Greatness'
- Emily Chang on 'Brotopia'
- Trump vs. Amazon
- Can Apple catch up in education?
- Would you pay to use Facebook?
- Apple in the classroom
- Cancer's tipping point, atop Mt. Everest
- Totally 80s Rewind
- Hands on with the Galaxy S9
- Preserving 'web culture'
- Amazon: Savior or villain?
- Making tech more diverse
- Common sense for AI
- Tech tangles with the law
- New phones from Sony and Samsung?
- MIT President on next-gen AI
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