Sony to buy Bungie, former Microsoft studio, for $3.6B in latest blockbuster video-game deal
Bungie Image Bungie, the Bellevue, Wash.-based game developer that originally developed the platform-defining Halo franchise for Microsoft’s Xbox, has agreed to be acquired by Sony, maker of…
Amazon and Microsoft led the world in corporate purchases of clean energy in 2021
Solar panels. (Unsplash / Chelsea Photo) Seattle-area tech giants Amazon and Microsoft were global leaders in clean energy power purchase agreements made by corporations last year. Amazon…
Former Amazon exec inherits Microsoft’s complex cybersecurity legacy in quest to solve ‘one of the greatest challenges of our time’
Charlie Bell, a former Amazon Web Services executive, is now the leader of Microsoft’s newly formed, 10,000-person security engineering organization. (Microsoft Photo) “Your code will be attacked.”…
Xbox vet Ed Fries on blockchain, life as a venture capitalist and the run of extraordinary gaming deals
Ed Fries at the Economic Development Council of Seattle & King County Economic Forecast Conference. (GeekWire File Photo) Ed Fries is having a big week. His games-focused…
Microsoft looks to preempt Activision-Blizzard objections with new app store principles
Microsoft President Brad Smith speaking at the 2019 GeekWire Summit. (GeekWire Photo / Dan DeLong) Can a big tech company simultaneously run and participate in an online…
Microsoft and Expedia announce next phases in office reopenings, finally emerging from pandemic
Microsoft’s empty Redmond campus at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Updated below with information on Expedia reopening. One of the longest “three weeks” in history will…
Google Maps veterans hired by Microsoft as new VPs in Maps and Local team
Two former members of the Google Maps team have navigated their way to Microsoft, joining the Redmond company as corporate vice presidents on its Maps and Local…
Microsoft employees will return to a campus that’s in the midst of a massive transformation
REDMOND, Wash. — After working from home for more than two years, Microsoft employees returning to the company’s headquarters starting next week might not recognize the place….
Microsoft brings Amazon’s Twitch back to the Xbox dashboard
(Xbox Image) Microsoft’s Xbox department announced on Wednesday that Xbox users can once again stream their gameplay directly from their consoles to Twitch. While a Twitch app…
Microsoft detected ‘destructive cyberattacks’ against Ukraine hours before Russian invasion
Microsoft President Brad Smith speaking at Seattle’s Town Hall in 2019. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) Microsoft says it began detecting “destructive cyberattacks directed against Ukraine’s digital…