The Pentagon. (Flickr Photo / David B. Gleason. Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0) The Department of Defense announced Friday it is awarding the coveted $10 billion, 10-year contract to build the military’s war cloud to Microsoft. It’s a huge win for Microsoft over Amazon, which had long been seen as a frontrunner for the Joint Enterprise […]
(GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) Amazon is spending massively to increase capacity for its new one-day delivery initiative — and it’s cutting into the company’s profits. The company revealed Thursday that it will invest nearly $1.5 billion in the fourth quarter alone for its one-day shipping initiative, which is replacing the traditional 2-day core Amazon
Virgin Galactic’s chief astronaut trainer, Beth Moses, gets her suborbital spaceflier pin from Michael Lopez-Alegria of the Association of Space Explorers. (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Will the customers who fly on the suborbital spaceships operated by British billionaire Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic and Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin get astronaut
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(Wowzer via Instagram) Seattle can be rough when it comes to dating, we’ve heard. How ruff the city is clearly led to the creation of yet another dating app directed at the city’s singles — and their dogs. Wowzer, a dating app for dog lovers, debuts Thursday with the intention of connecting people who share
ConsenSys Space says TruSat will let amateur observers contribute to satellite tracking via an app. (TruSat / ConsenSys Space Illustration) WASHINGTON, D.C. — A year after taking over the assets of a Redmond, Wash.-based asteroid mining company known as Planetary Resources, ConsenSys Space has unveiled its first project: an app-based system that makes use of
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During a discussion presented by the International Academy of Astronautics in Washington, D.C., Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin recalls how enthusiastically he and his crewmates were greeted during a post-mission goodwill tour.(GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin says there’s no need for the lunar-orbiting Gateway outpost that plays
Sen. Elizabeth Warren at a rally in Seattle. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) It’s unusual for an east coast senator and presidential candidate to wade into local politics in a city on the other side of the country. But that’s what happened Saturday when Sen. Elizabeth Warren got wind of Amazon’s equally unusual $1.45 million
Seattle’s Harebrained Schemes announced that Heavy Metal, the third downloadable content pack for its 2018 strategy game BattleTech, is coming out Nov. 21. The expansion made its public debut Saturday at the annual PDXCON in Berlin, a convention intended to celebrate the fan community of Harebrained’s parent company, Paradox Interactive. Heavy Metal – that title’s
The downtown Seattle skyline. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) [Editor’s note: This guest post was co-written by Oren Etzioni and Jacob Colker of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) in Seattle.] We’ve reached a tipping point for our startup ecosystem. The Seattle area is home to several of the world’s most iconic companies including
(GeekWire Chart) Microsoft’s 2019 fiscal year was one of its busiest ever for acquisitions, led by its $7.5 billion GitHub deal. The tech giant spent a total of $9.1 billion on 20 acquisitions in its 2019 fiscal year, which ended June 30, according to its newly released annual report. GeekWire research shows that 2019 ranks
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