Microsoft considered selling its Bing search engine to Apple in a deal that would have replaced Google as the default search offering on Apple’s devices, Bloomberg reported Thursday.
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt, the United Kingdom’s chief financial minister, visited Seattle on Friday as part of a West Coast tour to promote the expansion of the UK’s tech sector, and… Read More
Mayor Bruce Harrell announced the expansion Wednesday of CiviForm, a technology platform that helps residents apply to City of Seattle benefit and discount programs with greater ease. The move was… Read More
Like a lot of kids, Rebecca Wu has been doodling for quite some time. Her dad said she first started making art as a toddler, when she was able to… Read More
Rebecca Wu is one step away from gaining Google homepage fame — and some serious cash. Rebecca, a student at the International School in Bellevue, Wash., has reached the final… Read More
Microsoft says Bing will become the default search engine for OpenAI’s ChatGPT, giving the popular generative AI chatbot “timelier and more up-to-date answers with access from the web,” including citations.… Read More
Google will pay Washington state $39.9 million after a lawsuit brought by Attorney General Bob Ferguson accused the tech giant of deceptive practices in its location tracking. Ferguson’s office announced… Read More
Washington state attorney general Bob Ferguson has joined an antitrust lawsuit targeting Google’s advertising business. The lawsuit, filed in January by the U.S. Justice Department and attorney generals from eight… Read More
Slashing carbon emissions requires the rapid deployment of solar, wind and other renewable energy supplies. But the projects often require complicated, lengthy negotiations between clean energy developers and buyers to… Read More
Editor’s note: Chelsey Glasson is a researcher and writer who spent the past two decades working in the public policy and tech sectors. This is an excerpt from her upcoming… Read More
Today’s news from the frontier of quantum computing includes Amazon Web Services’ release of cloud-based simulation software for modeling the electromagnetic properties of quantum hardware, Google’s latest technological advance aimed… Read More
A former Google employee who just left the tech giant after three years says he witnessed a “gradual decay of a dominant empire” and said the company “has slowly ceased… Read More
In the suburban community of Kirkland, Wash., where Google established its original beachhead in the Seattle area, the tech giant had big plans to expand even further. The City of… Read More
Artificial intelligence software programs are becoming shockingly adept at carrying on conversations, winning board games and generating artwork — but what about creating software programs? In a newly published paper,… Read More
Google’s got a thing for Seattle health tech startups. The tech giant acquired Sound Life Sciences, a small University of Washington spinout that developed an app to monitor breathing, GeekWire… Read More
Phaidra, a startup building artificial intelligence tools for industrial customers ranging from vaccine manufacturers to paper mills, raised $25 million. The startup, led by alum from Alphabet’s AI research hub… Read More
PITTSBURGH — When we last visited Amazon’s engineering center in this city, back in 2018, the company had just announced plans to expand its footprint and add about 125 jobs… Read More
— Keela Robison, former vice president of product innovation at Netflix, joined Google as vice president of product management leading a team working on search experience. Robison spent three years… Read More
— Microsoft’s head of developer relations Ashley Willis McNamara announced Friday that she is departing and joining Google as head of developer communities. Willis spent more than five years at… Read More
The pandemic may have disrupted hiring patterns in tech, and pushed some workers out of coastal metro areas. But Google still is growing fast in Washington state, according to a… Read More
The billion-dollar competition to provide Boeing with cloud computing services is finished, and the winner is … a three-way split. Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud and Microsoft are all getting… Read More
The COVID-19 pandemic has made us familiar with the idea of a deadly threat that spreads invisibly. Polluted stormwater has a similar modus operandi. Rainfall washes toxic chemicals from roadways,… Read More
The focus of a lot of the Super Bowl LVI ads released ahead of Sunday’s games seems to be the stars who show up in the commercials. In many cases,… Read More
A federal judge ruled Friday that Apple can no longer prohibit individual developers from offering their own independent payment options in the iOS App Store. However, the same judge also… Read More
— Former Impact Hub Seattle Managing Director Sarah Studer is joining Techstars Seattle as the director of platform. Studer was most recently assistant director at the University of Washington’s Buerk… Read More
WA Notify, the COVID-19 exposure notification tool for Washington state, saved an estimated 40 to 115 lives and prevented between 2,800 and 8,200 cases during four months of use this… Read More
Amazon, Microsoft and Google are involved in a bidding process to provide Boeing with cloud computing services, a contract that’s expected to be worth at least $1 billion over several… Read More
Microsoft President Brad Smith isn’t done battling with Google. Picking up where he left off last month during testimony in front of Congress, Smith said in an interview Wednesday with… Read More
Microsoft’s pending $19.7 billion deal to buy Nuance Communications is the latest in what’s become a shopping spree for the Redmond, Wash. company. The strategy seems to have gained the… Read More
Google has announced plans to start bringing workers back to the company’s offices in the Puget Sound region, including on campuses in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood and in Kirkland,… Read More
