The first excerpt from Paul Allen’s upcoming memoir, Idea Man, was published online by Vanity Fair tonight. After reading it, I can’t wait to get my hands on the actual… Read More
First-day U.S. sales of the Nintendo 3DS set a new company record. Look next for aspirin shortages. The record labels weren’t happy with Amazon today. Cloud music guru Michael Robertson… Read More
Since its debut Monday night, Amazon.com’s new Cloud Drive music storage service has attracted plenty of attention. (Team GeekWire, in fact, entertained two TV news crews today that wanted to… Read More
One of the biggest buzzwords in the mobile industry right now is NFC, or Near Field Communication — a short-range wireless technology for transmitting data. NFC lets people make a… Read More
Guest Commentary: We launched Zapd yesterday to great fanfare — hundreds of users were signing up each hour and posting their Zap’s to Facebook and Twitter (driving thousands of more… Read More
Microsoft’s fight against Apple’s attempt to trademark the phrase “App Store” took on new significance last week when Apple sued Amazon.com over its use of the phrase — and tried… Read More
While researching this morning’s story about the latest interactive features from Microsoft’s Windows Live Hotmail, I realized it had been a while since I checked the market-share statistics for the… Read More
Gamification is the hot buzzword these days. And Seattle startup Bobber Interactive is looking to capitalize on the trend, bringing game mechanics to the world of personal finance. The company… Read More
When you love the startup scene as much as I do, you want to breathe, eat, and sleep in that exciting universe. There are really only two things to do.… Read More
There’s another piece to the GeekWire story, and we’re excited to talk about it. When we launched this technology news startup a few weeks ago, we said we were happy… Read More
A new study from the IDC research firm predicts that Microsoft’s Windows Phone will surpass the iPhone and Blackberry in worldwide market share by 2015 — making it second only… Read More
TechStars has raised $8 million in fresh funding as it looks to support its technology incubator programs in Seattle, Boston, Boulder and New York. TechCrunch reports that more than 50… Read More
Dan Shapiro got really frustrated trying to find a new laptop. So frustrated, in fact, that the Seattle entrepreneur decided to start a new company to attack the problem head-on.… Read More
Microsoft’s Hotmail team today will show how more companies plan to use its “Active Views” technology — interactive email messages that can be updated in the recipient’s inbox, even after… Read More
Seattle venture capital firm Frazier Healthcare has purchased Onsite Services, an instrument and management repair business previously owned by publicly-traded by CareFusion. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.… Read More
Bob Kimball, the departing RealNetworks CEO, will receive a severance payment of $1.7 million from the company plus another $283,000 under a previous retention agreement, and remain as a consultant… Read More
Editor’s Note: This post was originally published on Seattle 2.0, and imported to GeekWire as part of our acquisition of Seattle 2.0 and its archival content. For more background, see… Read More
Buying a high-quality, custom-made suit is typically something reserved for the rich and famous. But imagine if you could get that same tailored suit cut to your exact dimensions by… Read More
Can Amazon.com knock Apple off its digital music perch? The Seattle online retailer sure is trying to make inroads against its larger rival, and the company’s latest effort is Cloud… Read More
[Post updated with more details, quotes from Glaser] Bob Kimball has resigned as president and CEO of RealNetworks, a little more than a year after succeeding founder Rob Glaser to… Read More
You’ve probably seen him on the sidelines, in the stands or beating the drums at Qwest Field. After all, with his tuft of blue feathers and yellow beak, Seattle Seahawks… Read More
Guest Commentary: The day of reckoning has arrived. Journalists and PR professionals have been holding their breath for 18 months, waiting for the New York Times to introduce its online… Read More
Fresh off its whopping $30 million venture capital round, Cheezburger Network is adding more special sauce to its growing empire of comedy sites. The Seattle company has gobbled up Know Your… Read More
We knew that Sprint wasn’t happy about AT&T’s proposed acquisition of T-Mobile USA, based on comments by Sprint CEO Dan Hesse about the deal. But the company today made it… Read More
Here’s one way to get access to The New York Times on the Web. Buy a Kindle, and then shell out $19.99 per month for the newspaper on the electronic… Read More
More and more people have been embracing daily deals, figuring out how to work within the rules and limitations to score sweet discounts from local merchants. The phenomenon has made… Read More
The tech blogosphere went nuts this past week after Color — a Palo Alto, California mobile application startup which combines photos and social networking — landed a whopping $41 million… Read More
Physware, a company created by University of Washington electrical engineering professor Vikram Jandhyala, has raised $6.9 million in funding, according to a filing with the SEC. The company maintains operations… Read More
Apple this morning posted the splash page promoting its WorldWide Developer Conference, promising a “preview of the future of iOS and Mac OS X” at the June event — and… Read More
Cheap hydroelectric power continues to entice big technology companies to the Columbia River towns of the Pacific Northwest. Amazon.com — operating through its Vadata data center unit — is reportedly… Read More
