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Latin American video giant Samba Tech opens Seattle office, launches new app
Samba Tech, a Latin American online video distributor, is opening a Seattle office and launched a new app this week.
The company is setting up shop in Seattle to be closer to Microsoft, a major partner, and to tap the region’s talent pool....
NYC law requires businesses to feed food waste to giant metal ORCAs
Video shot and edited by Nathan Fitch. (video link)
New York City is doing what it can to be more eco-friendly. We're not just talking recycling plastic bottles or taxing plastic bags; we're also talking about behind-the-scenes efforts that tackle waste before it hits the streets. Starting July 19, 2016, many hotels, wholesalers, and other large vendors in New York City will be required to separate their...
GeekWire Radio: Football robots, giant piles of tech cash, the ‘Uber of Trucking,’ and Chewbacca trivia
This week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast: An NFL team has begun practicing against robots; how Zillow missed its Zestimate, by a wide margin, on its CEO’s home; Microsoft,...
Boeing opens its giant, billion-dollar 777X composite wing factory in Everett
Boeing is showing off the partially automated 777X...
Apple invests $1 billion in Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi; Uber CEO tweets about ‘#ridesharewars’
Apple is putting some major cash behind Uber’s fiercest rival in China.
The Cupertino, Calif.-based company is investing $ 1 billion in Didi,...
Live from the GeekWire Awards: Catch all the action from our giant celebration of Pacific NW innovation
It’s time for the GeekWire Awards, presented by Wave Business, our annual celebration of technology and innovation in the Pacific Northwest. The event is sold-out, with more than 1,000 people expected to join us this evening at the EMP Museum in...
Amazon’s giant Seattle biospheres come into focus with installation of first glass panels
Workers are entering...
In situ imaging reveals the biomass of giant protists in the global ocean
Planktonic organisms play crucial roles in oceanic food webs and global biogeochemical cycles. Most of our knowledge about the ecological impact of large zooplankton stems from research on abundant and robust crustaceans, and in particular copepods. A number of the other organisms that comprise planktonic communities are fragile, and therefore hard to sample and quantify, meaning that their abundances and effects on oceanic ecosystems...
Amazon starts selling Comcast Xfinity packages in first-of-its-kind relationship with cable giant
Amazon has quietly rolled out the Amazon Cable Store in a bid to make cable TV, internet and home phone service much easier to compare and buy. Right now, the only cable company offering services through...
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