Unikrn co-founders Karl Flores (left) and Rahul Sood. (Unikrn photo) Enttain, one of the world’s largest sports betting and gaming companies, announced Thursday that it had agreed to acquire Unikrn, a Seattle-based startup that operates an esports betting platform. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Unikrn was founded in 2014 and was supported … Read more
Chip design is a long trial and error process that takes years to get a design to market. Motivo, a five-year-old chip industry veteran startup, is developing software to accelerate chip design with AI from years to months. Today the company announced a $ 12 million Series A. Intel Capital led the round together with … Read more
With the introduction of Samsung’s Galaxy Watch 4 series and the new Wear OS version from Google, Spotify has introduced a significant update to its Wear OS app, the company said. Much like a feature added to the Apple Watch app last May, the updated Wear OS app from Spotify lets you stream and download … Read more
At Expedia Group’s Seattle headquarters before moving to new premises in 2019. (GeekWire photo / Kurt Schlosser) This seems to be a trend: Expedia Group, the Seattle-based online travel giant, has told employees that it will postpone the full return to the office until early next year. Expedia’s decision follows a similar announcement from Amazon … Read more
Archer Aviation is demanding US $ 1 billion in damages from Wisk Aero, according to court records on Tuesday, significantly escalating the ongoing legal battle between the two air taxi rivals. Wisk “carried out a knowingly bogus out-of-court smear campaign that projected independent defamatory statements about Archer into the world,” the file said. On this … Read more
The employees of Typhoon Studios, the developer of Journey to the Savage Planet, reform themselves under the name Raccoon Logic. In an announcement, the team said they should “boldly go back to where they were,” the doomed acquisition of the company by Google. Raccoon Logic also announced that the team has repurchased the rights to … Read more
Amy Nelson, Founder of The Riveter, accepts Startup of the Year at the 2019 GeekWire Awards. (GeekWire photo) – Amy Nelson returns to co-working. The Riveter’s founder and former CEO announced Tuesday that she is president of SaksWorks, a new partnership between Saks Fifth Avenue owner Hudson’s Bay Co. (HBC) and WeWork. SaksWorks will be … Read more
Pave, a San Francisco-based startup that helps companies benchmark, plan, and communicate compensation to their employees, has raised $ 46 million in a Series B. YC Continuity led the round, which was also attended by Andreessen Horowitz and Bessemer Venture Partners. The round comes eight months after Pave completed a $ 16 million Series A … Read more
The Green Knight, one of the best films of the year, can only be seen in cinemas at the moment. However, there is some good news if you can’t make it to your local movie theater. Distributor A24 plans to stream the movie for just one night on August 18, and you can purchase the … Read more
Charlie Bell (LinkedIn Photo) Charlie Bell, a member of Amazon’s Senior Leadership Team and long-standing lynchpin of the company’s cloud business, is leaving the company after more than 23 years. His departure, reported by The Information and confirmed by CNBC, is the latest change in the Amazon Web Services leadership team as Andy Jassy, longtime … Read more