As Starbucks slumps, Howard Schultz says coffee giant should ‘reinvent’ mobile ordering
Former longtime Starbucks chief Howard Schultz offered a number of suggestions to help the Seattle company rebound. (GeekWire ...
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Gates Foundation’s toilet and sanitation exhibit in Seattle is flush with education and innovation
Doulaye Kone, interim director of the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene team at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, shows off ...
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Can tech help cities plan for disasters? 7 ideas from an urban resilience hackathon
Esther Jang, a graduate student at the University of Washington, pitches at a recent Urban Resilience Hackathon at the UW.
Gates Foundation joins Novo Nordisk, Wellcome on $300M global health effort
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is committing $100 million to a new joint partnership that will support innovation and ...
Riding bikes and making birdies: We played golf with an electric 3-wheeler built by a Seattle startup
Fairway Bikes' electric bike features a detachable battery with a 20-mile range and golf-related accessories. (GeekWire ...
Amazon vs. Trader Joe’s; Bill Gates still a force at Microsoft; Inside the Binance founder’s sentencing
This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we discuss Amazon's efforts to compete with Trader Joe's, and the related tactics revealed ...
Drawing parallels to post-World War II, Sen. Maria Cantwell says U.S. needs an ‘AI Bill for education’
Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA) speaks at a Tech Alliance event in Seattle. (GeekWire Photo / Taylor Soper) For the U.S. to ...
Seattle TV station says enough already with the AI and Photoshop-generated zebra memes
Maybe the escaped zebra is reading GeekWire, or building and posting another meme about himself. (Image generated with DALL-E ...
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This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we discuss Amazon’s efforts to compete with Trader Joe’s, and the related tactics revealed in “The Everything War,” the new book by Dana Mattioli… Read More ...
Anthropic courts Claude AI users (and devs?) with billboard across the street from Meta in Seattle
Driving home from the Technology Alliance annual lunch in Seattle today, we were momentarily distracted by the big orange ...
How Seattle and Bellevue are Cultivating the Right Ecosystem for Growth
Take a second to think about the Bay Area. You’ll probably picture the shoreline of the Northern California coast, perhaps ...
Inside CoMotion’s new HQ: UW’s entrepreneur program plants its roots in an innovation hub
A wall in the new University of Washington CoMotion offices includes logos for some of the 285 companies that have spun out of the program. (GeekWire ...