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Boston Dynamics’ four-legged SpotMini robot may look scary as it shares the stage with company founder and CEO Marc Raibert at Amazon’s re:MARS conference in Las Vegas in June. But a report published this month praises Boston Dynamics’ owner, SoftBank, for confirming that it won’t develop technologies that could be ...

Coffee culture in Seattle has been a guiding light for decades. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Independent coffee shops have always sought to carve out their spot in Seattle and elsewhere against Starbucks’ shop-on-every-corner mentality, whether it was with the flavor of their product or the indie spirit of the ...

Chef promoted Corey Scobie to chief technology officer of the Seattle-based enterprise automation technology company. (Chef Photo) It’s a new era at Chef, and not just because the removal of the Alaskan Way Viaduct has suddenly created a spectacular view from its Seattle waterfront headquarters. The 11-year-old enterprise automation technology ...

The PTO Exchange team. Sitting, from left to right: Rob Whalen, co-founder and CEO, and Tom Gemmell, vice president of operations. Standing, from left to right: Rob Schwend, vice president of products and services, and Todd Lucas, co-founder and chief technology officer. (PTO Exchange Photo) More than half of Americans ...

Ally founder and CEO Vetri Vellore. A Seattle startup has raised $8 million to fuel its quest to help companies stay on track and hit their goals in an era of rapid change for businesses, markets and industries. Founded two years ago, Ally say it’s seeing strong traction with its ...

(Bigstock Photo) People going from a big company to a startup, as a founder or an employee, severely underestimate the differences in how the work gets done. This is such a hard thing to explain that most of those who have been entrepreneurs or startup employees for a long time ...

Editor’s Note: In this guest post, Tom Alberg, Madrona Venture Group managing director, reviews The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America by Margaret O’Mara; and VC: An American History by Tom Nicholas. The accelerating growth of the tech economy during the past 70 years has generated numerous books ...

Jani Strand. — Jani Strand is out at RealSelf, just nine months after joining the cosmetic review site as chief brand and communications officer. “RealSelf has a ton of potential and I loved my short time there,” Strand told GeekWire in a statement. “I wish the team the very best ...

Flyhomes founders Stephen Lane and Tushar Garg. (Flyhomes Photo) Seattle real estate startup Flyhomes is reloading its war chest with $141 million in new funding to carve out a spot in the competitive race to transform how homes are bought and sold. Flyhomes raised $21 million in equity along with ...

Atomo Coffee co-founders Andy Kleitsch, left, and Jarret Stopforth. (Atomo Photo) Bean there, done with that. The future of coffee got a jolt Wednesday as Atomo Coffee announced it has secured $2.6 million in seed funding to develop what it calls the world’s first “molecular coffee,” created without beans. Horizon ...