Pebblebee co-founders Nick Pearson-Franks (left) and Daniel Daoura spent eight years building the company together. Pearson-Franks died in an accident in June 2020. (Pebblebee Photo) Startup founders face many challenges when it comes to building a company and being successful. For more than a year, Daniel Daoura has been working on overcoming the most difficult … Read more
The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive it every weekend in your inbox. Hello readers: Welcome to The Station, your central hub for all past, present and future means of moving people and packages from Point A to Point B. Before … Read more
Volkswagen has added another piece to its EV puzzle with the introduction of the ID.Life concept, a front-wheel drive electric vehicle for city dwellers, the company announced at the IAA Mobility 2021 in Munich. The little crossover shares the MEB platform and battery with the ID.3, and VW plans to launch it in Europe (not … Read more
Check out the latest technology and startup news from the past week. Here are the most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of August 29, 2021. Sign up to receive these updates in your inbox every Sunday by subscribing to our weekly GeekWire email newsletter. The most popular stories on GeekWire Investors are putting … Read more
Today, Amazon Web Services is a mainstay in the cloud infrastructure services market, a $ 60 billion corporate giant. But in 2008 it was still new and was working to stay afloat and cope with the growing demand for its cloud servers. In fact, the company launched Amazon EC2 in beta 15 years ago last … Read more
More and more Pixel 3 owners are grappling with an issue that can render their phones unusable. According to Ars Technica, a growing number of Pixel 3 and 3 XL users are saying on Google’s IssueTracker, the company’s support forums, and Reddit that their phones are “bricking up” (totally unresponsive) with no or no warning. … Read more
Stoke Space subjects its “three-pack” of thrust chambers to a hot fire test. (Stoke Space Photo) In just six months, Kent, Washington-based Stoke Space Technologies turned empty ground in Moses Lake, Washington, into a bridgehead for the construction of a fully reusable rocket optimized for satellite launches. “As recently as April, it was a barren … Read more
Hello friends and welcome back to Week in review. Last week we delved into the truly bizarre machinations of the NFT market. This week we’re talking about something a little more impactful for the current state of the web – Apple’s NeuralHash Kerfuffle. If you’re reading this on the TechCrunch site, you can get it … Read more
That long-standing murmur of an Alan Wake revival could only have some value. Well-known detective Wario64 discovered Rakuten lists for an Alan Wake remastered title that will be released on October 5th on PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X / S. The store pages don’t say anything about what’s new, but assume you … Read more
Given all the uncertainties, a global pandemic may be the wrong time to pursue a new startup idea, but in many ways the timing couldn’t be better. That’s one of the lessons we learned from our GeekWire podcast conversation this week with an entrepreneur and investor in the Seattle area Shirish Nadkarni, Author of the … Read more