Amazon explains big AWS outage | Snap surges on Wall Street | Juno drops problem cancer drug | Tech vet revs up club for car lovers

Read the latest tech headlines from GeekWire [View this email in your browser](. March 2, 2017 [Top Stories]( [Find a Job]( [GeekWire Events]( [GeekWire 200]( [Become a Member]( Ping pong, dodgeball, foosball, tabletop games, beer pong, video games and more. Get your tickets today! [The GeekWire Bash, March 15: Seattle’s biggest, geekiest tech party.]( Today's top stories [Why war? New exhibit at Paul Allen’s Flying Heritage Collection takes on a big question]( By Alan Boyle The idea behind the Flying Heritage Collection's groundbreaking new exhibit about the causes and effects of conflict, "Why War," was born five years ago. [As Snap goes public, tensions grow over its presence in Venice Beach]( By Jillian Stampher As Snap Inc. CEO Evan Spiegel rung the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday, signaling the company’s public debut, a crowd of protesters gathered outside its Venice Beach, Calif., headquarters. Sponsored Post [Ping Pong. Dodgeball. Video Games. It’s the Bash!]( Tickets are now on sale for our biggest event of the year: The 6th annual[ GeekWire Anniversary Bash]( on March 15th at CenturyLink Field Event Center. We’ll be bringing back the ping-pong paddles, dodgeball courts, foosball tables, beer pong, video games, arcades, sumo wrestling, cornhole, and MORE at Seattle’s biggest, geekiest tech party. Get your tickets today! [A year after returning to Earth, astronaut Scott Kelly reflects on lessons learned from 340 days in space]( By Kurt Schlosser One year after returning to Earth from his 340-day mission in orbit, NASA astronaut Scott Kelly loves the smell of grass and the feel of water and wind. [Docker unveils new enterprise initiative, boosting software containers for big businesses]( By Todd Bishop Docker is launching a new Enterprise Edition of its popular software container technology, along with an initiative to let partners certify their technology as compatible with the new edition, and sell their solutions in a centralized online store. Home of the Week - Sponsored Post [Timeless Luxury Defines this Neo-Classical Masterpiece on Yarrow Point $2.798 million]( Timeless design and the epitome of gracious comfort best describe this sublime home on Yarrow Point. Situated amidst stunning formal gardens, the house is a gem of neo-classical cottage architecture, with just-right scale and flawless execution of every detail. Elegant and airy public spaces contrast… [Nintendo adds Facebook integration to new Switch game console]( By Taylor Soper You may soon start seeing some Nintendo Switch-related posts show up in your Facebook news feed. [Amazon explains big AWS outage, says employee error took servers offline, promises changes]( By Nat Levy Amazon has released an explanation of the events that caused the big outage of its Simple Storage Service Tuesday, also known as S3, crippling significant portions of the web for several hours. [Amazon’s pilot season kicks off March 17 — here are 5 new shows up for review]( By Monica Nickelsburg Amazon Studios has a new lineup of pilots and starting March 17, the company will ask customers to help decide which shows to turn into full-length original series. [iPhone lens and case maker Moment adds Pixel products to its Kickstarter as it nears $500K goal]( By Kurt Schlosser The folks at Moment, the Seattle-based makers of lenses and cases for a range of iPhone sizes, are spreading the hardware love around a little bit. [Affordable EpiPen alternatives, and helping kids walk: Highlights from the UW health innovation challenge]( By Clare McGrane An affordable EpiPen alternative, an electricity-free anesthesia machine and a device to help children walk were the winning projects at this year’s Hollomon Health Innovation Challenge, which culminated Wednesday at the University of Washington in Seattle. [Tech vet revs up The Shop, a club for car lovers with a new Ethan Stowell restaurant under the hood]( By Kurt Schlosser Matt Bell is a car guy and a startup guy, and now he’s combining those two passions to create a unique business that should have car lovers racing to Seattle’s SoDo neighborhood this spring. [Snap shares pop on Wall Street, open at $24 per share in biggest tech IPO since Alibaba]( By Jillian Stampher Snap Inc. shares started trading at $24 on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday morning, more than 40 percent above the initial offering price. [Twitter will livestream 1,500 hours of eSports programming through ESL and DreamHack partnership]( By Taylor Soper Twitter is teaming up with some of the world’s top eSports companies as it continues to ink more and more live-streaming deals. [Amazon plans massive solar energy installations on fulfillment center rooftops]( By Todd Bishop Amazon is pledging to install solar energy systems on 50 of its fulfillment center rooftops around the world by 2020, starting with 15 U.S. [Venture capital and private equity fundraising up globally, but a slowdown is likely, report finds]( By Jillian Stampher Venture capitalists — the folks who place dollars in emerging companies — are finding a good amount of fresh capital of their own. [Amazon Web Services cloud migration service 2nd Watch raises $19M]( By John Cook 2nd Watch, which helps large organizations such as Crate & Barrel, Condé Nast, Coca-Cola North America and Lenovo build and deploy applications on top of Amazon Web Services, today announced $19 million in funding that it will use to grow its cloud enablement and migration services. [Virgin Orbit satellite launch spin-off created with ex-Boeing exec at the helm]( By Alan Boyle Virgin Galactic spins off its satellite launch operation, including the LauncherOne rocket development program, as a new company called Virgin Orbit. [Amazon quiet on big AWS outage, but an explanation could come soon]( By Nat Levy It's been more than 24 hours since Amazon Web Services fixed problems with its Simple Storage Service, a.k.a S3, that crippled significant chunks of the internet Tuesday, and still no word from the company on what caused the outage. [Globant swoops up another Seattle company as it acquires digital agency Ratio]( By Taylor Soper Globant just made another acquisition of a Seattle-based company. [Photos: Seattle tech workers protest Trump’s immigration policy and promote inclusion]( By Monica Nickelsburg On a windy Wednesday afternoon, a modest group of about 60 Seattle tech workers gathered downtown to promote diversity and protest President Trump’s controversial immigration crackdown. [Juno Therapeutics beats earnings expectations, announces it will drop problem cancer drug]( By Clare McGrane Seattle-based cancer immunotherapy company Juno Therapeutics handily beat analyst expectations for the fourth quarter, posting $21.2 million in revenue, compared to an expected $14.6 million, with a loss of 51 cents a share, better than the expected loss of 61 cents. [Inside Tableau’s new Seattle HQ: An ode to data visualization, collaboration and landscaped dog art]( By Nat Levy Tableau lifted the curtain on its new Seattle headquarters at the four-story, 208,000-square-foot NorthEdge building Wednesday. Construction finished about a month ago on the building, which has room for about 1,200 people. A few of the finishing touches, such as a sign on the door or at the front desk were still missing. But everything else was in place, including sporadic appearances by topiary dogs. [Photos: Luke Skywalker’s severed hand and more cool artifacts in MoPOP’s Sci-Fi Hall of Fame exhibit]( By Kurt Schlosser Items that were worn, handled, scribbled in and typed on during the creation of some of the most iconic science fiction works of our time — and the creators who made those works — are the focus of a new exhibit set to open at the Museum of Pop Culture’s Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in Seattle. [Snap prices IPO at $17 per share in biggest public debut for U.S. tech company since Facebook]( By Jillian Stampher Snapchat parent Snap Inc. priced its shares at $17 apiece on Wednesday, raising around $3.4 billion in its initial public offering. [Facebook drops price of Oculus Rift and Touch bundle by $200 in effort to attract VR customers]( By Jillian Stampher Facebook is cutting the price of its Oculus Rift headset and Touch controller bundle by $200, the company announced Wednesday. [McDonald’s is following Starbucks’ lead into mobile ordering. Could a Seattle engineering center be next?]( By Monica Nickelsburg McDonald’s is going mobile in an effort to court new customers and keep up with competitors. 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