The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation and Seattle-based nonprofit ArtsFund announced $10 million in funding Tuesday to benefit 811 arts and culture organizations across Washington state. The grantees are being… Read More
Bill Hilf, the veteran tech executive and longtime CEO of late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s holding company, formerly known as Vulcan Inc., is stepping down after more than seven years.… Read More
The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation is giving another $10 million to support arts and culture in Washington state, building on a gift of the same amount last year that… Read More
SIFF Cinema Downtown, the new name on the onetime Cinerama movie theater in Seattle’s Belltown neighborhood, has set Dec. 14 as its reopening date. The first film to show on… Read More
Twenty years after Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen created the bioscience research center that bears his name, Seattle’s Allen Institute is still pushing out into new frontiers. But this weekend, the… Read More
Seattle City Councilmember Andrew Lewis and King County Councilmember Joe McDermott are proposing legislation to provide a financial boost to SIFF, the new owners of the Cinerama movie theater, to… Read More
Thousands of one-of-a-kind artifacts from Paul Allen’s collection, spanning decades of cultural relevance, are headed to Seattle’s Museum of Pop Culture, the institution he helped found 23 years ago. The… Read More
Seattle film lovers got their Hollywood ending. The nonprofit film and education organization SIFF acquired the Cinerama from the estate of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, ending more than three years… Read More
The Flying Heritage and Combat Armor Museum — started by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen in 2004, closed during the pandemic in 2020 and sold last summer — is reopening on May 27. The… Read More
How closely were you reading GeekWire this year? Here’s your chance to put that accumulated knowledge to the test. It’s our 2022 News Quiz — this year featuring multiple planes,… Read More
The sale of the private art collection of the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen shattered auction records on Wednesday night, as Christie’s New York reeled in more than $1.5 billion… Read More
Another of the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s personal properties has been sold off. M/Y Tatoosh, a luxury superyacht that was on the market for almost two years and listed… Read More
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s extensive private collection of art, valued at more than $1 billion, will be sold by Christie’s in what the auction house is calling the “largest and… Read More
The Flying Heritage and Combat Armor Museum, an extensive collection of aviation and military artifacts started by Paul Allen in 2004, has been sold by the late Microsoft co-founder’s estate.… Read More
The Seattle Seahawks and Portland Trail Blazers are not for sale and no discussions are currently happening to sell either professional sports franchise. That’s the word from Jody Allen, chair… Read More
A signature piece in late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s vast collection of interests and properties could be headed for sale as a new report names potential buyers and a price… Read More
Stratolaunch took the “fifth” on May the 4th, otherwise known as Star Wars Day. Today brought the fifth flight test for Stratolaunch’s 385-foot-wide carrier aircraft, known as Roc (in a… Read More
Does it seem like activity is picking up out there in the tech world? Big fundings may be happening less frequently (with notable exceptions such as Convoy) but the return… Read More
Three and a half years after his death, another one of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s passion projects — the extensive collection of aviation and military artifacts that was housed at… Read More
This week’s blockbuster trade of Seattle Seahawks QB Russell Wilson could be the first in a series of moves that leads to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos owning the team. That… Read More
Vulcan Capital, the venture capital group founded in 2003 as an internal division of Paul Allen’s Seattle-based Vulcan Inc. holding company, has been spun off into a standalone firm as… Read More
A 120-acre site purchased by the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen for $20 million in 1997 in the Beverly Crest neighborhood of Los Angeles has sold for $65 million, the… Read More
It’s like the worst and longest cliffhanger in Seattle movie history: Will the beloved Cinerama theater ever reopen? When? … Stay tuned. And stay frustrated. As film lovers emerge from… Read More
After four years of collaboration, an international team of researchers and institutions has produced the Allen Coral Atlas, the first global map of shallow coral reefs. The reefs are home… Read More
Amazon will open its second Amazon Fresh grocery store in the Seattle area next week with a location in the city’s Central District. The store is at the base of… Read More
Seattle may have landed the Kraken, but someone else is taking over the Octopus. The 414-foot superyacht that once belonged to Paul Allen, the late Microsoft co-founder and billionaire, has… Read More
High-priced real estate with Northwest connections has changed hands for top dollar according to reports out of Hawaii and Orcas Island, Wash. Properties belonging to the late billionaire Microsoft co-founder… Read More
Neuroscientists from Seattle’s Allen Institute and other research institutions have wrapped up a five-year, multimillion-dollar project with the release of a high-resolution 3-D map showing the connections between 200,000 cells… Read More
The suborbital spaceships built by Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture and Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic spaceline may look totally different, but financially speaking, they have something in common: They… Read More
Every year between three and four percent of Africa’s estimated 350,000 elephants die at the hands of ivory poachers. While these numbers are down significantly from a decade ago, they… Read More
