This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we consider Microsoft’s latest AI product, the $20/month Copilot Pro subscription service, compare it to the likes of ChatGPT Plus, Claude Pro and Otter.ai… Read More
Membership has its privileges at Costco, and in a bid to keep it that way, the retail giant is piloting a new way to keep non-members out of its stores.… Read More
.— Allan Golston joined the board of directors at Bellevue, Wash.-based contract lifecycle management company Icertis. He has served as the president of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for… Read More
Costco is broadening its reach into healthcare through a partnership with Sesame, a New York-based medical care marketplace startup that connects consumers directly with primary care and mental health clinicians… Read More
Costco announced Wednesday that it will no longer operate photo departments at its stores, bowing to the rise of smartphones, social media and digital photo sharing. The Washington-based warehouse-style retailer,… Read More
Seattle University has attached a name to the $100 million Center for Science and Innovation that it is building as a gateway to its campus. The building will be named… Read More
Attention, users of the Finder tracking device made by Bellevue, Wash.-based Pebblebee: If you’ve ever complained about a dead battery on that gadget designed to help you locate missing keys… Read More
Costco shoppers can find a wide array of items in one of the big-box retailer’s more than 500 U.S. locations. Now they can find Finder, too, the tracking device created… Read More
Costco is making it easier for customers to buy groceries online and have them delivered to a doorstep. The Issaquah, Wash.-based grocery giant this week rolled out a new two-day… Read More
When Amazon so much as twitches in a new direction, Wall Street takes notice. If you’re an investor or executive at a company or even an industry targeted by the… Read More
Crowd Cow, a Seattle-based startup focused on the delivery of sustainable meat products, announced a big new addition this week: retail tech vet Dwight Gaston has joined the company as its… Read More
Costco apparently kicked around something like the technology behind Amazon Go, the new automated convenience store concept from Amazon that everyone’s talking about, 20 years ago. Richard Galanti, Costco’s chief financial… Read More
Shoppers still stuffed with turkey and all the trimmings can start stuffing stockings with electronics ranging from laptops to televisions to virtual reality headsets to video games and much more… Read More
Good news for Visa holders: Starting today you can finally use your credit cards at Costco. For many years, Costco shoppers could only use American Express credit cards. The long-awaited… Read More
Costco’s newest board member is former Voicestream Wireless CEO John Stanton, the warehouse retailer announced today. It is not the only high-profile board seat for Stanton. He was named to the… Read More
Costco is telling customers they can start ordering photos online again, seven weeks after a security breach at a third-party hosting company forced it and several other photo ordering sites to go down… Read More
Costco’s photo website will likely be down until early September as it tries to recover from a hacking incident that occurred last month. The is at least the third delay for… Read More
It’s been more than two weeks since Costco’s photo site went down after a third-party vendor was hacked, but now the retailer is saying it could take another two weeks before operations return… Read More
During the height of summer vacations, several retailers, including Costco, have had to take down their online photo services after reports that a third-party vendor has been hacked. In a message… Read More
Several large retailers, including Costco, CVS an Rite Aid, are taking down their photo sites after reports that a third-party vendor has been hacked. PNI Digital Media, which is used… Read More
What are the biggest revenue-producing companies in each state? A cool map from Broadview Networks let’s us know. If you guessed that high-tech powerhouses such as Microsoft or Amazon would top… Read More
Sam’s Club is rolling out five new services for small business owners, with the goal of increasing loyalty at the Wal-Mart owned warehouse club. The company is planning to announce… Read More
Get ready to whip out your Visa card at Costco in 2016. After the news that it was ending its deal with American Express last month, Costco said today that it is… Read More
Enjoy whipping out your Amex at Costco for now. According to an announcement today by American Express, you won’t be able to use that card at Costco after March 2016. “We… Read More
Costco will expand more heavily into China after it sold $3.5 million worth of goods over a 24-hour period with the help of Alibaba. In October, the Seattle-area retail giant announced it was… Read More
After using an app to scan a code on the package, I learn that the diapers I’ve been using for the past four days on my 15-month old son were produced by a… Read More
Bill Gates Sr., the 89-year-old father of the Microsoft co-founder, has resigned voluntarily from his position on the Costco Wholesale Corp. board, according to a regulatory filing from the Issaquah,… Read More
Costco isn’t building out one of its massive membership-only warehouses as part of its first foray into China. Instead, it is partnering with Alibaba, the massive Chinese Internet giant that recently hosted its… Read More
When shopping online last night to find the best deal on baby food, I tried filtering prices from low to high. But what I got was a confusing mix of results,… Read More
Walmart and Amazon are two giants in the world of retailing, one started off in the physical world and the other online. But today those two lines are blurring more than ever before, according… Read More
