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Bill Gates-backed Likewise launches AI-powered Pix ‘personal entertainment companion’

by Todd Bishop on October 5, 2023October 5, 2023 at 10:46 am

Likewise, the Seattle-area content recommendation startup that spun out of Bill Gates’ private office five years ago, launched a free AI assistant called Pix to help users find TV shows,… Read More

Likewise launches ChatGPT plugin to use AI to recommend TV shows, movies, books and more

by Kurt Schlosser on May 16, 2023May 16, 2023 at 3:35 pm

Likewise, the Bellevue, Wash.-based entertainment discovery platform, is tapping into ChatGPT to leverage AI and find more information and recommendations for its users across the vast landscape of television shows,… Read More

Tech Moves: VMware exec joins Darktrace; Zillow hires Twitter marketing leader; Oregon Venture Fund adds partner

by Charlotte Schubert on January 19, 2023January 19, 2023 at 11:47 am

— Seattle-area tech executive Denise Walter was appointed chief revenue officer at cybersecurity firm Darktrace. Walter will join the company from cloud services giant VMware, where she was most recently… Read More

Startup’s ‘Likewise Arcade’ taps into ‘Wordle’-style popularity to gamify streaming TV and movies

by Kurt Schlosser on July 27, 2022July 27, 2022 at 10:29 am

The guessing game is coming to Likewise, the Seattle-area startup that offers personalized picks for movies, TV series and other content. The company launched The Likewise Arcade on Wednesday as… Read More

Likewise launches new ‘entertainment hub’ to bring personalized streaming TV access across devices

by Kurt Schlosser on March 22, 2022March 22, 2022 at 10:18 am

Likewise, the Seattle-area startup backed by Bill Gates, announced the launch of Likewise TV on Tuesday, a personalized entertainment hub that allows users to access all of their streaming television… Read More

Bill Gates-backed startup Likewise expands to TVs, bringing content picks and lists to living room

by Todd Bishop on July 29, 2020July 29, 2020 at 1:23 pm

Likewise, a Seattle-area startup that offers personalized picks for movies, TV series and other content, has released a new TV version of its app to let users track and quickly… Read More

What should you watch next on TV? Even Bill Gates seeks advice, so startup Likewise steps in to help

by Kurt Schlosser on October 31, 2019October 31, 2019 at 12:43 pm

Remember when people used to say, “There’s nothing good on TV”? That may still be the case, but man, there sure is a lot of it, and finding what’s at… Read More

Tech Moves: Algorithmia lands former Atlassian and InfluxData execs; GitHub hires former Google Cloud leader

by James Thorne on October 6, 2019October 7, 2019 at 9:45 am

Rachel Potvin signed on with Microsoft-owned GitHub as vice president of engineering. Potvin most recently led the data insights group at Google Cloud. She previously ran DevOps teams at Google… Read More

Tech Moves: Vacasa adds chief financial and information security officers; Likewise hires UX director

by James Thorne on July 17, 2019July 17, 2019 at 6:25 am

Portland-based vacation rental company Vacasa named two new C-suite executives: Jim Grube is the new chief financial officer and Jeff Bryner was named Vacasa’s first chief information security officer. Grube… Read More

Recommendations startup Likewise emerges from Bill Gates’ private office, letting friends track and share their favorite things

by Nat Levy & Todd Bishop on October 3, 2018October 3, 2018 at 10:31 am

A new startup cooked up by one of Bill Gates’ top executives, hatched in his office and funded by the Microsoft co-founder himself, is coming out of hiding today after… Read More

Exclusive: The inside details on EMC’s $36M purchase of Likewise Software

by John Cook on March 27, 2012March 28, 2012 at 11:44 am

Few details were available last week when EMC purchased Likewise Software. Now, GeekWire has learned that EMC’s Isilon unit paid $36.6 million for the 7-year-old Bellevue company — a deal that Likewise… Read More

EMC’s Isilon division buys storage software company Likewise

by John Cook on March 19, 2012March 19, 2012 at 5:13 pm

The Isilon Storage Division of EMC Corp. is expanding its footprint in its own backyard, gobbling up Bellevue software storage startup Likewise in a deal of undisclosed size. In a… Read More

Likewise sells key product lines, switches focus to storage software

by John Cook on June 30, 2011June 30, 2011 at 9:37 am

Likewise Software, a Bellevue-based open source software company backed by Ignition, Intel and Trinity Ventures, has sold off its Likewise Enterprise and Likewise Open products to BeyondTrust in a deal… Read More

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