Urbanspoon has been nipping at the heels of OpenTable for the past 18 months since launching its new restaurant reservation system, Rezbook, for the iPad last year. Now, Urbanspoon —… Read More
The two major search engines, Google and Microsoft Bing (does Yahoo count anymore?) outdid themselves on Halloween this year. Google’s 2011 Halloween Doodle was a fun time-lapse video of the… Read More
A collection of noteworthy headlines and links on this Halloween evening … In case you missed it this weekend, be sure to read the eulogy to Steve Jobs by his… Read More
Urban Airship, a Portland startup that specializes in push notifications and in-app transactions, has acquired San Francisco’s SimpleGeo in an all stock deal. The acquisition will add location-based technologies to… Read More
On November 11th, one Seattle area super geek is going to get roasted onstage. Now, it’s up to you to help decide. The Seattle Geek Roast is a first-time event… Read More
Engineers from around the world are gathered in Seattle this week for the IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology conference, talking about technology projects that can improve education, agriculture, power supplies, water… Read More
Zillow announced a deal today to bring its mortgage marketplace offering to AOL Real Estate and Daily Finance, marking the first time that the two companies have partnered. The new… Read More
Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7.5 “Mango” update has already been distributed as an update for existing Windows Phone devices, but now it’s rolling out on new phones, as well. AT&T announced… Read More
F5 Networks, fresh off its blockbuster financial announcement last week, continues to strengthen its executive bench. The Seattle company today announced that Manny Rivelo, a 19-year veteran of Cisco Systems,… Read More
We’ve seen double rainbows. We’ve seen superheroes. And the executive team at Big Fish Games is dressed up as members of the 70s super rockers KISS. Halloween is one of… Read More
HTC, the Taiwanese mobile phone maker whose North American operations are based in Bellevue, today said that it sold 13.2 million smartphones during the third quarter. That was up 93… Read More
Microsoft this morning marked the upcoming first anniversary of its Kinect for Xbox 360 with this inspiring video showing how the motion sensor is expanding beyond the world of gaming,… Read More
This has got to be one of the more depressing product launches in Seattle tech and sports history. The Seattle Sounders picked Saturday night’s playoff game to unveil the team’s… Read More
What does Bill Gates think about all that biting criticism from Steve Jobs in the biography released after the Apple co-founder’s death? That’s one question that wasn’t asked of Gates… Read More
Amazon.com announced a content deal with Disney-ABC Television Group this morning, continuing to expand the catalog of streaming movies and TV shows available at no extra charge to members of its Amazon… Read More
Mark Zuckerberg refers to Jeff Bezos by his last name only, like some guy from the dorm. The Facebook CEO thinks the Amazon CEO is “one of the great entrepreneurs… Read More
Was Bill Gates just a lucky upper middle class kid who happened to stumble into the PC revolution? Or was there something else at work that made him one of… Read More
The best insights, observations, comments, tweets and random zingers we heard this week. “I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars, there’s a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes… Read More
Zillow co-founder Rich Barton thinks Seattle needs to do more to support its own technology products and entrepreneurial ventures, emulating the “high RPM spin-cycle” that’s so prevalent in Silicon Valley.… Read More
Do you see yourself in this video? The recent HIVE 2011 design conference in Redmond opened with an exclusive skit by Charles, a Seattle-based sketch comedy duo, spotlighting the classic… Read More
Anonymous third-party surveys of Microsoft employees don’t always turn out so well for Steve Ballmer. But Microsoft this week came out very well in one of these surveys, landing atop… Read More
MicroVision, the maker of the miniature PicoP laser projection device, said that it has received notice from the Nasdaq stock market that its stock has not closed above $1 for 30… Read More
This week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast, we share a highlight from Bill Gates’ appearance at the University of Washington, explain a notable expansion of Seattle startup Cheezburger’s… Read More
Updated with answer and winner below. This week’s Name that Tech Tune challenge is a fun one, a classic that will bring back good memories for many of you. If… Read More
Seattle’s BuddyTV has scored a featured spot in the newly overhauled Google TV interface, releasing a BuddyTV app for Google TV in the Android Marketplace that helps people quickly find… Read More
The turnover in the board room at Kirkland-based Clearwire continues. In a SEC filing this afternoon, the company announced that Ben Wolff has resigned from the board effective immediately. Wolff… Read More
The only thing I don’t believe in Microsoft’s video of the future is how calm everybody is around such omnipresent tech. For as long as there’s been technology, it seems,… Read More
One of the most interesting things about Bill Gates’ appearance at the University of Washington yesterday was the way the students brought out his widely varied interests — including not… Read More
As a mentor at TechStars, Josh Hug got an inside peek at some of the cool technologies emerging inside the Seattle tech incubator. But one in particular grabbed his attention:… Read More
Intellectual Ventures, the Bellevue-based company led by former Microsoft technology chief Nathan Myhrvold, has filed suit against camera giant Nikon in federal court in Delaware, adding to a growing list… Read More
