Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of June 25, 2023 – GeekWire

Updated with additional details and statements from Amazon, Uber and Lyft. … Read More

For more than four decades, since the 1980s, pointing and clicking has been the primary method of using a personal computer. … Read More

IBM announced a deal Monday to buy Apptio for $4.6 billion from Vista Equity Partners, less than five years after the private equity firm acquired the Bellevue, Wash.-based cloud and IT management company for $1.9 billion, and seven years after Apptio went public at a valuation of $525 million. … Read More

Microsoft is launching a new AI Skills Initiative that includes a global grant challenge, free online courses, and a training toolkit for teachers. … Read More

Seattle-based trucking marketplace Convoy has conducted another round of layoffs, its fourth in the past year, the company confirmed to GeekWire on Monday. … Read More

As the world’s best-known fictional archaeologist goes after what may be his last ancient mystery in “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” new generations of real-life archaeologists are ready to dig in with 21st-century technologies and sensibilities. … Read More

Feb. 9, 2017, will go down as one of the toughest days in Apptio’s history. … Read More

Astrophysicists have found the best evidence yet for a low-frequency “hum” of gravitational waves rippling through the cosmos, based on 15 years’ worth of ultra-precise measurements checking the timing of radio pulses from distant stars. … Read More

SAN MARCOS, Texas — Just off Interstate 35, midway between San Antonio and Austin, the newest member of Amazon’s robotic fleet has been training for more than a year in a real-world pilot program, helping to move hundreds of thousands of individual products on their way to customers. … Read More

OwnTrail, a Seattle-based life-and-career social startup, is being acquired by Miami-based job search-and-apply platform Teal. … Read More