(GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Expedia Group topped estimates for its fourth quarter results, posting revenue of $3.55 billion, up 11% year-over-year, and adjusted earnings per share of $3.78. Analysts expected $3.41 billion in revenue and EPS of $3.37. Gross bookings rose 11% to $27...
The Legislative Building in Olympia, Wash., is home to the state’s Legislature. (GeekWire Photo / Lisa Stiffler) Editor’s note: GeekWire publishes guest opinions to foster informed discussion and highlight a diversity of perspectives on issues shaping the tech and startup community. If you’re...
(Highspot Photo / David Kennedy) Seattle-based company Highspot plans to merge with Seismic in a deal that will combine two of the biggest players in sales and revenue enablement software. The companies announced Thursday that they’ve signed a definitive agreement to merge. Once the...
“We want people who work here actually be able to live here,” says Bellevue Mayor Mo Malakoutian, center. (City of Bellevue Photo) Mo Malakoutian has been mayor of Bellevue, Wash., for about a month. He’d like to take credit for the Seattle Seahawks making it to (and winning) the Super Bowl, the...
Prom.dev lets users share and browse various AI prompts. (Prom Image) Seattle startup Prom.dev is emerging from stealth with $1.5 million in funding to build a platform for sharing and discovering AI prompts. Pioneer Square Labs and Mayfield led the pre-seed round. Founded in...
The longtime Microsoft Visitor Center in Building 92 has closed and been sealed off. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Microsoft’s Visitor Center, a hands-on tech showcase and historical exhibit in Redmond that was a destination for guests and employees for many years, has permanently...
Pacific Science Center, or PacSci, is selling less than 25% of its campus to Space Needle LLC. (GeekWire Photo / Lisa Stiffler) Pacific Science Center, an educational nonprofit centered on innovation and discovery, confirmed it’s selling a wedge of its campus to help keep operations afloat and...
(Ironwood Studios Image) The Seattle-area independent production studio behind the hit video game Pacific Drive raised $4 million in seed funding. The round, led by Lifelike Capital, is aimed toward financing Redmond, Wash.-based Ironwood Studios’ next game. Pacific Drive, released in Feb....
Cleveland’s Terminal Tower, a landmark of the city’s skyline since 1930. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Cleveland Mayor Justin M. Bibb responded Wednesday to a GeekWire guest column in which Seattle tech veteran and angel investor Charles Fitzgerald warned the Pacific Northwest tech hub not...
The team at Seattle startup Integrate. (Integrate Photo) Seattle’s Integrate on Wednesday announced $17 million in new funding to broaden the scope of its super-secure project management tool that targets complex operations in defense, space and other sectors. Integrate landed a $25 million...
An event at Seattle’s Foundations. (Foundations Photo) Foundations, the Seattle-based founder community that operates a startup accelerator and co-working space, is opening a new location in San Francisco — extending its footprint beyond the Pacific Northwest for the first time. The expansion...
Sarah Ritter of Seattle started Sarah’s Books as a way to share her recommendations for great reads. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Sarah Ritter prides herself on being able to offer great book recommendations to her friends. Now she’s got a read on what it takes to bring that joy to a wider...
The team from Auger accepts the Startup of the Year trophy at the 2025 GeekWire Awards. (GeekWire File Photo / Dan DeLong) Nominations are open for the 2026 GeekWire Awards, set for May 7 in Seattle, and now is your chance to help us recognize outstanding tech entrepreneurs, innovators, deal...
Oren Etzioni, right, speaks with GeekWire’s Todd Bishop at an Accenture event about the future of agents. (GeekWire Photo / John Cook) [Editor’s Note: Agents of Transformation is an independent GeekWire series and March 24, 2026 event, underwritten by Accenture, exploring the people, companies,...
Scala CEO Ardie Sameti. (Scala Photo) Scala, a Bellevue-based AI startup founded by Smartsheet CEO Rajeev Singh and former Accolade executive Ardie Sameti, raised $8.5 million in a seed round co-led by prominent Seattle-area venture firms Madrona and FUSE. GeekWire first reported on Scala...
An artist’s conception shows how additional Amazon Leo satellites would provide coverage in Earth’s polar regions. (Amazon Illustration) Amazon has won the Federal Communications Commission’s approval to go ahead with its plan to launch thousands of second-generation Amazon Leo satellites for...
Rippl co-founder and CEO Kris Engskov. (LinkedIn Photo) Rippl, a Seattle-based software startup that built a dementia care platform, has been acquired by Harbor Health, an Austin-based healthcare company. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Founded in 2021, Rippl provides specialized...
A propellant tank takes shape at Stoke Space’s rocket factory in Kent, Wash. (Stoke Space Photo) Kent, Wash.-based Stoke Space Technologies says it has added another $350 million to its previously announced Series D financing round, bringing the amount raised in the round to $860 million....
(Zillow Image) This story originally appeared on Real Estate News. Despite all of the headlines Zillow faced last year involving various court cases, the company continued to outperform investor expectations in the fourth quarter. Zillow’s revenue was up 18% for Q4 of 2025 and up 16% for...
A screenshot from Ring’s Super Bowl ad for Search Party, showing a network of cameras activating across a neighborhood. Reuniting families with their lost pooches, what’s not to like? Well, coordinated neighborhood surveillance, for one. That sums up the reaction to the Super Bowl ad for...
Educators and administrators from Washington state school districts gather at Microsoft’s Redmond campus for the kickoff of a two-year AI community of practice, Feb. 5, 2026. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) REDMOND, Wash. — For more than three years, much of the focus on AI in education has been...
Cleveland, Ohio. (Photo by Leo_Visions on Unsplash) Consider a successful mid-sized American city. One with decades of population growth. Median household incomes on par with or exceeding New York City. A bustling port in a prime location. Bold civic architecture. A vibrant arts and cultural...
Rebekah Nicodemus. (LinkedIn Photo) — Former Amazon comms leader Rebekah Nicodemus is now the head of Bastion America, the newly launched U.S. office of Bastion, a marketing agency based in London focused on the video game industry. The company expects to have a Seattle hub while recruiting...
Thomas Dohmke. (Entire Photo) Thomas Dohmke, who helped scale GitHub Copilot during his tenure as CEO at GitHub, is back with a new startup that’s coming out of stealth with a hefty $60 million seed round. Silicon Valley venture firm Felicis, which led the round, called it the largest seed...
Clearly AI co-founders Emily Choi-Greene (left) and Joe Choi-Greene met at Amazon, later got married, and then launched a Seattle startup together. (Clearly AI Photo) The co-founders of cybersecurity startup Clearly AI have a built-in edge: they’re married. “There are so many benefits,” said...
Elon Musk in Seattle in 2015. (GeekWire File Photo / Taylor Soper) Elon Musk’s xAI is establishing its Seattle-area engineering center in a former Epic Games space in downtown Bellevue, Wash., following through on Musk’s announcement in September that the company planned to open an outpost in...
Zillow Group rang the closing bell at Nasdaq on Monday to mark its 20th anniversary. (Photo courtesy of 2026 Nasdaq, Inc. / Vanja Savic) When Jeremy Wacksman joined Zillow Group in 2009, his first job was getting the upstart real estate site onto the iPhone. Now, amid a generative AI boom, the...
This cutaway view shows the interior of the Starlab space station’s laboratory. (Starlab Illustration) How do you design a living space where there’s no up or down? That’s one of the challenges facing Teague, a Seattle-based design and innovation firm that advises space companies such as Blue...
This one’s for Paul. We were waiting for Seahawks owner Jody Allen to pay tribute to her brother, the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, when accepting the Lombardi Trophy on behalf of the team he saved and she preserved for their hometown. It didn’t happen, so we’ll say it here....
Grin Lord, co-founder and CEO of mpathic. (mpathic Photo) As millions of users — including large numbers of young people — increasingly turn to AI chatbots as their first-line “counselors” and confidants, Seattle-based startup mpathic is stepping in to ensure those digital agents don’t provide...
Get caught up on the latest technology and startup news from the past week. Here are the most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Feb. 1, 2026. Sign up to receive these updates every Sunday in your inbox by subscribing to our GeekWire Weekly email newsletter. Most popular stories on...
An artist’s conception shows Starfish Space’s Otter spacecraft in geosynchronous Earth orbit. (Starfish Space Illustration) Tukwila, Wash.-based Starfish Space has been awarded a $54.5 million contract to produce another Otter satellite servicing spacecraft for the U.S. Space Force’s Space...
Ring says its AI-powered “Search Party” feature in security cameras is a better way to locate a lot pet than the old flyer on a telephone pole. (Screen grab via YouTube) Remember when Clydesdales were a big deal, or just saying “wassup” to your friends on the phone was funny? Well, it’s AI’s...
This week on the GeekWire Podcast: Andy Jassy tells Wall Street that Amazon is planning $200 billion in capital expenses this year, mostly to build out AI infrastructure, and investors give it a thumbs down. Microsoft’s financial results beat expectations but the company loses $357 billion...
(GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) OpenAI is placing a bigger bet on the Seattle region, signing a massive new lease in Bellevue as the ChatGPT-maker expands near the headquarters of two key corporate cloud partners. The company is taking an additional ten floors at City Center Plaza in...