Bill Gates, Bill Boeing and Jeff Bezos redefined their industries and the Seattle area. (GeekWire photos by Gates and Bezos; Boeing photo from the San Diego Air & Space Museum archives, via Wikimedia Commons, public domain.) [Sandeep Krishnamurthy is dean of the School of Business at the University of Washington, Bothell.] Comment: Jeff Bezos just … Read more
In a boot camp that started in January, students from the University of Washington School of Nursing are training other UW students and faculties who want to help with COVID-19 vaccinations. (Photo by Kiyomi Taguchi / University of Washington) With Washington residents struggling to sign up for COVID-19 vaccinations, a volunteer team of software engineers … Read more
Harjinder Sandhu, CEO and Founder of Saykara, speaks on the Health Tech stage at the 2018 GeekWire Summit. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) Nuance Communications has acquired Saykara, a Seattle-based health tech startup that makes a voice assistant for clinicians. Based in Boston and publicly traded, Nuance will use the deal to improve its own … Read more
Steven Halliwell, Promethean Chief Product Officer, with his family in Carlsbad, California (photo courtesy of the Halliwell family) Steven Halliwell, Promethean’s chief product officer, calls himself a change agent. In his current role during the COVID-19 pandemic, this has meant pushing for new approaches internally and with customers. Halliwell joined Promethean in 2017 and joined … Read more
Iterative CEO Patrick Thompson. (Iterative photo) The Seattle startup iteratively raised a $ 5.4 million round led by Gradient Ventures, Google’s AI-focused venture fund. Founded in 2019 by veterans of Atlassian and Microsoft, the company iteratively sells software to data and product teams to track customer analytics. The idea is to avoid data quality problems … Read more
Seven counties in Washington will be easing their COVID restrictions starting Monday. Governor Jay Inslee announced Thursday that COVID-19 restrictions will be eased in seven counties in West Washington starting Monday. These include counties with technology centers like Seattle, Redmond, and Bellevue, as well as Tacoma and Olympia. Most of the state will remain in … Read more