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Paul Allen’s Vulcan buys glam Hollywood hotel for $40.9M
The real estate arm of Paul Allen’s investment company Vulcan Inc. announced the $ 40.9 million purchase of the Redbury Hotel in Hollywood on Thursday.
The boutique hotel,...
GeekWork Picks: Paul Allen’s AI2 seeks Research Scientist amid ‘huge hiring spree’
Oren Etzioni, CEO of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, recently told GeekWire the company is on “a huge hiring spree.”
“We’re hiring to grow to 75 people or so over the coming year,” he said. “We’ve just gotten a...
Paul Allen’s Portland Trail Blazers use Microsoft’s Cortana technology to sell tickets and engage fans
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen probably didn’t think that the company he co-founded would one day help his NBA team sell more tickets and engage with fans more effectively. But that’s exactly what the Portland Trail Blazers are doing with Microsoft’s Cortana Intelligence Suite.
The team,...
Paul Allen’s Vulcan to pay for reef restoration after mega-yacht mishap, despite ‘exaggerated’ claims
Earlier this year, Seattle billionaire and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s yacht was blamed for destroying nearly 14,000 square feet of protected coral reef in the Cayman Islands. Vulcan,...
Amazon and Founders’ Co-op back new Seattle startup KITT.AI, born in Paul Allen’s AI2 incubator
A new Seattle-based artificial intelligence startup called KITT.AI, incubated inside Paul Allen’s Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2), has landed funding from Founders’ Co-op and Amazon’s Alexa Fund — preparing to launch a platform that will let developers build apps, devices and services that communicate conversationally with users through natural...
Go inside Paul Allen’s Living Computer Museum with this 3D virtual tour
Those who may not be able to make a physical trip to Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s Living Computer Museum in Seattle are in for a treat — you can take a 3D virtual tour of the facility instead. The 3D virtual tour just went live, capturing the inside of the museum that...