Nintendo sets price for first Mario iPhone game, Amazon delivers from Bartell Drugs, how BMW plans to challenge Uber and Lyft, and more

Read the latest tech headlines from GeekWire [View this email in your browser]. November 15, 2016 [Top Stories] [Find a Job] [GeekWire Events] [GeekWire 200] [Become a Member] Seattle Startup Week, Nov. 14-18 [Baseball and Elections are over! Time to launch your Startup!] Today's top stories [Expedia-owned Trivago files for IPO, looks to raise $400 million] By John Cook Get ready for another IPO. Trivago, the German-based online travel giant that’s owned by Bellevue-based Expedia, filed for an initial public offering this week. [How two Seattle organizations are crowdfunding clean water for half a million people] By Clare McGrane The MSR SE200 Community Chlorine Maker may be small, but this briefcase-size device packs a powerful punch. Sponsored Post [Looking to advance your career in UX design and user interface technology?] The University of Washington’s [Master of Science in Human Centered Design & Engineering] prepares you for leadership roles in UX research and design, user interface design, interaction design and human-computer interaction. Work with award-winning faculty and students from diverse professional backgrounds. A flexible schedule allows you to attend part time or full time. [Join us for an info session to learn more: November 16 / December 7] [How theSkimm became the news cheat sheet of choice for millennial women] By Monica Nickelsburg TheSkimm’s secret sauce is cleverly and playfully reframing the daily news in a way that resonates with its target demographic — female young professionals. [BMW confirms plan to launch Uber and Lyft rival in Seattle, expands ReachNow car-sharing to Brooklyn] By Taylor Soper Seattleites will have yet another mode of transportation available starting early next month. Home of the Week - Sponsored Post [Extraordinary living in Medina offered at $2.698 million] A touch of the Côte d’Azur and a stately Southern Mediterranean feel distinguishes this masterpiece among many other enviably precious Medina gems. Thoughtfully designed by the current owners with premium materials and a subtle focus on space, ease of movement, light, and togetherness, its tasteful… [New book explores how the Internet of Things is reshaping business, using lessons from Amazon] By Dan Richman Combine a hot technology and the world’s largest online retailer into a single book title and you’ve got a pretty appealing volume. [Blucora sells e-commerce business Monoprice for $40M, as former InfoSpace owner completes transition to financial services] By Nat Levy In the final move toward becoming a financial services company, Blucora said Tuesday it has sold its e-commerce business Monoprice for $40 million to power cord and networking equipment maker BonEagle Electronic Co. [Elon Musk’s OpenAI project taps Microsoft Azure as its main cloud partner] By Dan Richman Microsoft’s Azure will be the preferred public-cloud service for running experiments at OpenAI, the $1-billion non-profit initiative from Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Y Combinator President Sam Altman and others to accelerate AI research, Microsoft said in a blog post today. [Developer bootcamp Coding Dojo launches Amazon Alexa training program] By Monica Nickelsburg Coding Dojo, a Bellevue, Wash.-based developer bootcamp, is launching a new training program for Amazon’s virtual assistant, Alexa, starting today. [Nintendo’s ‘Super Mario Run’: $10 on iPhone and iPad, due out Dec. 15] By Todd Bishop Nintendo this morning announced a Dec. 15 release date and a price of $9.99 for “Super Mario Run” for iPhone and iPad, the first title in the classic franchise designed specifically for mobile devices. [Microsoft and Code.org unveil new Minecraft-themed tutorial for ‘Hour of Code’] By Clare McGrane Microsoft announced the next effort in a series of educational Minecraft products today: the Minecraft Hour of Code Designer, a free tutorial co-developed by Code.org that teaches students as young as six years old the basic problem-solving and critical thinking skills that underly programming. [Project Blue kicks off $1 million crowdfunding campaign to seek out Alpha Centauri’s alien Earths] By Alan Boyle How much would you pay to find out whether Alpha Centauri's twin suns possess blue planets like Earth? Project Blue is hoping it's at least $10. [How hard is The New York Times crossword? Startup finds answer with first-ever data analysis] By Kurt Schlosser The New York Times crossword puzzle is a daily ritual for many people around the world, and for those who play often enough, it’s clear that the puzzles become more difficult with each passing day of the week. [F5 Networks dives further into the cloud in new expansion of its business] By Dan Richman Seattle’s F5 Networks has done well by helping medium-sized and large companies improve the security and speed of their software, last month hitting a 52-week high following news of strong revenue and profit growth in its fiscal quarter and year ended Sept. [New digital advertising watchdog service led by former Microsoft and Cheezburger exec Scott Moore raises $2M] By Nat Levy Ad Lightning scans digital publishing outlets for disruptive ads that slow down and hurt their sites. [Amazon to offer Prime Now delivery from Bartell Drugs, connecting old Seattle retail with new] By Todd Bishop Amazon will offer speedy delivery of items from Bartell Drugs in the Seattle area in a new expansion of its Prime Now program. [Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff on Trump, Twitter and what soured his relationship with Microsoft] By Dan Richman Despite his wishful predictions that Donald Trump would never become president, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff suggested on Monday evening that people forget their anxiety and give Trump a chance – at least initially. Speaking at the Code Enterprise conference in San Francisco, the politically outspoken and activist Benioff also revealed what turned him away from acquisition talks with Microsoft, and talked about the company’s brush with buying Twitter. [Microsoft HoloLens gets 3D maps through Taqtile’s new ‘HoloMaps’ technology] By Nat Levy Seattle-based Taqtile has developed a new interactive and collaborative 3D maps app for Microsoft’s HoloLens and other virtual and mixed reality headsets — blending the physical and digital worlds for a variety of interesting and practical uses. [Red Planet technologies, old and new, play supporting roles in ‘Mars’ TV miniseries] By Alan Boyle The Red Planet mission that’s depicted in National Geographic Channel’s “Mars” miniseries may be purely fictional, but it draws upon decades’ worth of technological development for real-life interplanetary odysseys. [‘Stitches’ card game features monsters, an abomination, and … vocabulary?] By Tim Ellis Q: What do robots, polar bears, lobsters, tigers, a giant monster abomination, and vocabulary have in common? [Ex-Microsoft manager raises $295M for growth stage venture fund targeting the future of enterprise software] By John Cook Sheila Gulati is excited about the converging worlds of cloud, artificial intelligence and machine learning, and now the former Microsoft manager has some fresh capital to play with as she looks for exciting startup companies in those arenas. [Another boost for biofuel: Waste wood helps power Alaska Airlines commercial jet] By Alan Boyle Alaska Airlines says it sent a jet on the first commercial airline flight that was partially fueled by branches, stumps and other forest leftovers. [Amazon files its first-ever lawsuits against alleged sellers of counterfeit goods] By Todd Bishop Amazon today filed two lawsuits against online sellers alleged to have illegally offered counterfeit goods through its vast e-commerce platform. [Video: GeekWire recommends 5 apps to simplify your life on New Day NW] By GeekWire GeekWire’s Monica Nickelsburg caught up with New Day NW host Margaret Larson to talk about five of her favorite apps. [Jeff Bezos email reaffirms Amazon’s commitment to ‘tolerance and diversity’ after Trump win] By Kurt Schlosser Jeff Bezos has responded to what he called a “heartfelt email” from an employee representing Amazon’s Affinity Group Leaders who were seeking a message of support from the company’s leadership in the wake of Donald Trump’s presidential victory. [Startup tips for bootstrapping, and why scarce resources can create long-term benefits] By Taylor Soper It’s not easy to bootstrap your startup. But for those who are able, the short and long-term benefits can be plentiful. [Amazon Web Services to cut compute prices, continuing the decline in cloud costs] By Dan Richman Amazon Web Services will cut the cost of its EC2 basic compute services among a limited number of regions by up to 25 percent starting Dec. [Amazon leases 21-story office tower in Seattle as rapid growth continues] By Nat Levy Amazon has signed a lease at Midtown21, a 21-story office tower just a few blocks away from its new campus in the Denny Triangle neighborhood, that covers the entirety of the office space, about 365,000 square feet, the developer Trammell Crow Co. and its partner MetLife announced Monday. [Read more of today's news on GeekWire >] Today's top jobs - [Booking.com - BookingSuite: Lead Front End Developer] - [The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2): Full Stack Software Engineer – Semantic Scholar] - [Whitepages: Software Engineer – Front End] - [Avalara: Senior UX Engineer (Ember, React, Angular)] - [OfferUp: Senior Site Reliability Engineer] - [Whitepages: Sr. Software Engineer – Full Stack] - [OfferUp: Sr. Software Development Engineer – Backend] - [Nintex: Cloud Engineer] - [ZUMOBI: Senior Web/Backend Developer with Expertise in Ruby on Rails] - [OfferUp: Site Reliability Engineer – Data Systems] [Hiring? Buy a featured job listing to appear here.] [Find more jobs on GeekWork >] [CLICK FOR GEEKWIRE DEALS Great prices on the best gear, gadgets, classes and software, hand-picked for GeekWire readers] Galactic Sponsors [Salesforce 200x140] [bank-of-america] Platinum Sponsors [Wave Business] [EY-Logo-293x300] Gold Sponsors [Moz] [Knoll] [LOGO STYLE SHEETS] Silver Sponsors [perkins-coie-rgb] [OfferUp 300px] [Atlas_Logo_Black] [First Tech] [Seattle-U-Engineeringrgb] [Stratos_Logo-RGB] [realself-rgb] [Whitepages] [Print] [WSGR] [NuanceLogo_Horz_k] [Avalara] [Wells Fargo] [level11] [About GeekWire] [Contact Us] [Advertise with GeekWire] Copyright © 2016 GeekWire LLC, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted to receive emails from GeekWire LLC. Our mailing address is: GeekWire LLC 1416 NW 46th Street Suite 105 PMB #246 Seattle, WA 98107 [change email frequency or address] | [unsubscribe]