Home 2017
Yearly Archives: 2017
“Tell-the-Truth” Monday: Is 2017 Seahawk Scrum Less than Agile?
In a preview of what some have suggested will be the NFC Conference Championship showdown in January, the opening game of the 2017 pro football season for...
Seattle’s Lingua Franca: Alexa and Cortana
The vocal, verbal, virtual assistants of Amazon and Microsoft, better known as Alexa and Cortana, are now on speaking terms. The two companies have enunciated that their voice-activated AI assistants will soon...
Bumbershoot 2017 Lights Up Stagecraft, Art, Code, Comedy & Film plus Live Streaming to...
This year's Bumbershoot continues its legacy of celebrating innovation and the search for what’s next in the multi-disciplinary art forms of dance, film, literacy,...
Amazon Expands Retail Footprint With Bellevue, Fresh Grocer Footholds
A new Amazon brick-and-mortar bookstore opens today in Bellevue Square, making it a "tech twin" with the first, proto-store in Seattle's University Village. "Bell...
Saving Lives — There’s an App for That!
It is a well-known fact that there is more computing power in today’s iPhone than there was on the Apollo spacecraft mission that landed the...
Tech-spresso News Shots from Around the Sound
Vern Fonk Goes Wonk — Deploys Conversica AI
Artificial? Vern Fonk Insurance is legendary for its parodies of pop culture in kitschy television advertising.
Intelligent! The company...
How to Have A Fierce Conversation: The Seattle24x7 “How-To” Interview with Susan Scott
When Fierce Conversations was published in 2002, (a new edition was released in May, 2017), it rocketed up the best-seller list and made Susan Scott one of the most sought-after...
“The International” DOTA 2 Championships Steam Into Seattle, Stream Live to You
Returning to Seattle for the fourth consecutive year, the eyes of the international gaming world are once again riveted on Key Arena as the...
Making Impact for NW Business, Joe Sky-Tucker Fosters Success from Square One
What’s in a name? If the name is Business Impact NW, formerly known as Community Capital Development, it’s a name that can represent a hard-to-find loan to start a business,...
I-P-Oh! Redfin’s Big Day Nets 44% Gain
Seattle’s online real estate brokerage Redfin became the latest real estate company to go public, when the company’s shares began trading on the Nasdaq on Friday morning.
Interestingly, the company...
