They come from the music, tech, media, finance and movie industries. They are Vanity Fair’s New Establishment, a list of 50 “buccaneering visionaries, engineering prodigies, and entrepreneurs.” And who got… Read More
Busy news day today across the tech industry. Some of the biggest stories catching our attention … Facebook plans to launch a music service next month in partnership with existing… Read More
We thought there might be a chance that Jeff Bezos showed off Amazon.com’s mysterious new tablet computers at the company meeting yesterday in Seattle. But nothing came of it that… Read More
OK, so Carly herself isn’t specifically to blame. But the U.S. Department of Justice today cited last year’s T-Mobile USA ads — featuring the spokesmodel cleverly lampooning AT&T and Apple… Read More
Elizabeth Wheden, a marketing industry veteran who previously worked at Razorfish and Wunderman, has joined Seattle’s Marketfish as director of client services. Wheden will work out of the company’s new… Read More
Guest Post: There are hundreds of thousands of mobile apps out there. At AppStoreHQ, we’re currently tracking nearly 700,000 apps across the Android and iOS platforms. Some of these apps are very… Read More
As Microsoft has been previewing new elements of the Windows 8 desktop experience over the past week — including smarter file copying and a Windows Explorer ribbon — one head-scratcher… Read More
Leaders from the Seattle technology community gathered in the basement of TechStars on Tuesday night to discuss ways to strengthen the startup ecosystem and make it easier for entrepreneurs to… Read More
Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff is in classic form this morning during the keynote at the company’s Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, roaming the Moscone Center floor and sounding at times… Read More
Updated below with statements from DOJ and Sprint. AT&T just issued a statement saying it’s “surprised and disappointed” by the U.S. Justice Department’s lawsuit opposing the company’s $39 billion acquisition… Read More
The U.S. Justice Department has filed suit to stop AT&T’s proposed $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile USA, saying the deal would hurt competition in the wireless industry, reports Bloomberg News.… Read More
Zagat corned the market on restaurant ratings in the 1980s and early 1990s, tapping the power of user-generated content before that term had even entered the popular lexicon. But then,… Read More
AT&T, seeking U.S. regulatory approval for its $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile USA, tonight said it would bring 5,000 “good-paying” call center jobs back to the country after completing the… Read More
Amazon.com today unveiled a new Kindle feature, @author, that will let readers ask questions of authors while reading their books. Confused about the motivations of a particular character? Curious about… Read More
Dishonest waiters have been ripping off restaurant goers for years using a technique known as credit card “skimming.” Now, a Kirkland startup company by the name of Viableware is looking… Read More
Here’s an unusual one: The head of developer marketing for Nokia in North America has put up a poll asking, well, pretty much everyone what the company should call its series… Read More
I’d love to get this in my kitchen nook. Megan Garber of the Nieman Journalism Lab gets an inside look at how The New York Times — using a modified… Read More
Fans of Chris Pirillo’s Gnomedex conference will be happy to hear that it’s coming back for at least one more year, as a companion event to the new Seattle Interactive… Read More
The latest comScore report on mobile market share doesn’t paint a very good picture for Microsoft. The software company, which is touting its new Windows Phone 7 operating system, actually… Read More
Amazon.com is holding a sizable meeting of employees today at KeyArena in Seattle, triggering traffic alerts for the surrounding neighborhood. About 1,800 employees are attending. It’s not unusual for Amazon… Read More
College football season is just around the corner, with The University of Washington set to kick off their home opener this Saturday. If all goes as planned, sophomore Keith Price is… Read More
Ayush Agarwal made a name for himself in the Seattle area helping startups as a venture associate at Madrona Venture Group. The former business analyst at McKinsey & Company left… Read More
Paul Maritz is now the CEO of VMware, but he was previously the longtime chief of Microsoft’s platforms group — overseeing products including Windows and generally considered third in command… Read More
Shares of Zillow surged today after Citigroup Global Markets analyst Mark Mahaney said that the Seattle online real estate company’s growth prospects remain strong. Mahaney placed a $36 per share price… Read More
Amnis, a 12-year-old Seattle company which provides high-speed cell imaging instruments, has been sold to EMD Millipore for an undisclosed price. EMD is a division of Merck KGaA of Germany,… Read More
Women are increasingly using electronic reading devices like the Kindle, while men still own more tablet computers like the iPad. According to a new survey by Nielsen, women now make… Read More
Seattle’s Groundspeak was one of the early pioneers in geocaching, a high-tech, location-based treasure hunt of sorts where people seek out hidden containers filled with goodies using GPS devices or… Read More
One last scene before closing the book on this year’s Penny Arcade Expo in Seattle: Toward the end of the Gearbox Software panel yesterday afternoon, the CEO of the Texas-based… Read More
Microsoft today gave another sneak peek of Windows 8 — showing a new approach to Windows Explorer, the place where users search for and interact with files in the operating… Read More
Call it the one that got away. That’s how I felt after reading a detailed profile of Box.net today, the fast-growing storage and online collaboration service which just landed a huge… Read More
