What was the most important technology of 2012? It’s a natural question to ask as the year winds down, but we’ve actually been asking it for the entire year, as… Read More
It’s been quite the year in Seattle technology. Amazon.com kept growing. Microsoft kept transforming. And several startups raised huge rounds of cash as they looked to become the next Microsoft or… Read More
Remitly, the Seattle online money transfer startup, has reeled in $2.6 million in fresh capital in a deal led by Trilogy Equity Partnership. The company, a TechStars Seattle grad formerly… Read More
Xbox Live users who suffered through a weekend outage are being treated with a post-Christmas gift. Xbox Live offers a Cloud Saved Games feature that allows gamers to store saved games… Read More
To learn how our economy is performing, you have some options. Listening to the talking-heads on T.V. is one, for example, or maybe you’d prefer delving through virtual stacks of… Read More
EnerG2, a manufacturer of carbon materials which are used in next-generation energy storage systems such as lead acid batteries, ultracapacitors and lithium ion batteries, has raised $9.3 million in financing,… Read More
As Geekwire reported last week, a federal judge in Seattle has pretty much rejected Amazon’s recent attempt to restrict what a former Amazon Web Services sales exec might do in… Read More
Admit it, you are dying to jump off and “do a startup.” Whether you are currently at Microsoft or at Amazon, you’ve been reading the crazy stories of entrepreneurs committing… Read More
It’s that time when journalists take a moment to reflect on the past year. We’re doing that here on GeekWire too, with a series of stories that look back at… Read More
You might start seeing a few more pink mustaches on the streets of Seattle in 2013. Lyft, the San Francisco ride sharing service known for the pink mustaches attached to… Read More
DailyCred co-founder Dave Mathews wants to solve really big problems. The latest Internet foe he’s facing off against: The user login field on your website. Website owners are spending time and… Read More
Seattle startup Placed tracks in-store foot traffic and we now have a better idea of which wireless carriers saw the most customers this holiday season. For the past six weeks, Verizon… Read More
The holiday numbers speak for themselves: Amazon is the biggest online shopping site, and it’s not even close. New website traffic stats from Experian show Amazon with 25.5 million website visits… Read More
This week’s GeekWire radio show and podcast is a special New Year’s edition — looking back at the highs and lows of 2012 in the tech world, and ahead to… Read More
Facebook is conducting “a small experiment” that gives selected users the option to pay to send a message to the primary inbox of another Facebook user even if they aren’t “friends.”… Read More
A federal judge in Seattle has largely rejected Amazon.com’s attempt to restrict the work of former Amazon Web Services global sales vice president, Daniel Powers, in his new job at Google.… Read More
Updated at 2:56 p.m. with Amazon comment. Technology entrepreneur Blake Krikorian, best known for co-founding Slingbox maker Sling Media, has left the Amazon board abruptly, after a little more than a year… Read More
This is an honor that usually falls to the CEOs of fast-growing publicly-traded companies. But not this morning. Marc Nager and other team members from Startup Weekend, the Seattle non-profit… Read More
Cheezburger Network, the Seattle online comedy network behind Fail Blog, I Can Has Cheezburger, The Daily What and dozens of other sites, has raised an additional $5 million in funding.… Read More
So you signed up for the Redbox Instant public beta but haven’t received your access code yet? Well, you’re not alone. The new video streaming service from Verizon and Coinstar’s… Read More
Barnes & Noble’s Nook Media e-reading and tablet subsidiary this morning announced a new investor, the Pearson education and publishing company, and separately warned that holiday sales are coming in below its… Read More
Nope, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton aren’t joining Amazon.com. But the fast-growing Seattle tech juggernaut recently hired another former President. Dave Dederer, one of the founding members of Seattle rock… Read More
The free ride may be over for thousands of geeks who cross Lake Washington each day on Interstate 90, one of two Lake Washington floating bridges that connect Seattle to… Read More
Well, that didn’t last too long. RIM has decided to cut ties with NewBay Software, selling the provider of mobile content delivery technologies to publicly-traded Synchronoss Technologies. As it turns out,… Read More
Attention parents: File this one away as advice for next year. Microsoft’s Steve Clayton positioned a Twine sensor under the tree prior to Christmas and then set it up to send him a… Read More
Good news for Amazon’s Kindle business: The number of people who read e-books rose to 23 percent in 2012 — up from 16 percent the previous year — among Americans… Read More
Microsoft’s Windows Phone more than doubled the size of its app catalog in 2012, adding more than 75,000 new apps and games from third-party developers, according to a Microsoft blog… Read More
San Francisco online real estate company Trulia has filed its initial response to Zillow’s patent lawsuit, arguing that the case should be dismissed because the business method in question —… Read More