Here’s what we’re talking about on the GeekWire Podcast this week.
Who would have thought that Microsoft could be the likely white knight to save social video app TikTok from threats by President Trump to ban it in the U.S.? Trump set a hard deadline this week for Microsoft or another entity to buy the company before he’ll block all transactions with its Chinese parent company, ByteDance. We discuss what might be behind Microsoft’s interest in entering the social media sphere.
We take a walk through eerily quiet downtown Seattle to see how the shift to remote work by tech giants is impacting local businesses — and it’s not looking good.
What are micro-schools and how might they help frazzled parents trying to deal with remote learning during the pandemic?
A Seattle sock-making startup pivoted to making masks for the pandemic, but then a misstep in a promotion caused massive grief. We’ll talk about what happened and how they dealt with it.
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With GeekWire’s John Cook and Kurt Schlosser. Produced by Curt Milton. Theme music by Daniel L.K. Caldwell.
Join It CEO Mitch Colleran, left, traveling in Spain with his partner, Jake. They in Valencia at the City of Arts & Sciences. (Photo courtesy of Mitch Colleran)
While the path can be tougher and slower, Join It CEO Mitch Colleran leans toward going his own way, ducking the help of better known organizations and institutions.
When he launched his Seattle-based startup four years ago, Colleran didn’t have the coding skills he needed to write an app. He was confident that his idea for a company was a good one — he was building a cloud-based platform that allowed organizations to manage their memberships and synchronize their databases with other tools such as SurveyMonkey, MailChimp, Slack and Eventbrite.
Join It CEO Mitch Colleran, left, traveling in Spain with his partner, Jake. They in Valencia at the City of Arts & Sciences. (Photo courtesy of Mitch Colleran)