Google said Thursday that it has filed an antitrust complaint against Microsoft and Nokia in Europe, the latest move in a high-stakes dispute among the companies over patents. The complaint… Read More
Greg Becker, an affable Midwesterner from Fort Wayne, Indiana, has perhaps one of the most unique vantage points into the inner workings of the startup world. After all, as CEO of… Read More
Many of the students competing in an international underwater robotics competition in Florida next month are engineering their robots to dive to a little more than 5 meters, or roughly… Read More
There was lots of speculation a while back about the possibility of Steven Sinofsky, the Microsoft Windows president, being positioned to succeed Steve Ballmer as Microsoft CEO someday. As I… Read More
Microsoft just posted the Windows 8 Release Preview for public download, the last major milestone before the final release of the operating system, which will be the biggest change for… Read More
Starbucks is teaming up with Foursquare and the (RED) organization to fight AIDS with the largest non-profit campaign in the history of social media check-in service. Under the campaign, announced… Read More
Do you use Twitter on a daily basis? If so, you are one of eight percent of Americans who do so. That’s the latest statistic from a report out by… Read More
Two classic newspaper comic strips, Doonesbury and Dilbert, are making their digital debut on Amazon’s Kindle Fire today with the release of two multi-volume anthologies that use Amazon’s new “Kindle… Read More
Just how bad has Facebook’s stock performance been since its IPO? Well, consider the visualization below from Tableau Software’s Daniel Hom who compared the social networking giant’s first eight days… Read More
After eight months in private testing, Clipboard is opening up its Web clipping service for public use with a number of new features that could position it as a Pinterest… Read More
Rob Eleveld, a 20-year tech veteran who previously served as CEO of Shiftboard and Vykor, has been named CEO of Seattle software company Optify. Eleveld replaces Brian Goffman, a former… Read More
Zillow continues to roll out services for real estate agents, taking the covers off a new offering today that basically gives agents low-cost Web sites. Known as Premier Agent Websites,… Read More
The Seattle area continues to be a hotbed of innovation in the field of ultrasound technology, with news today that Kona Medical has attracted a $30 million round of venture… Read More
Craig Simmons, our latest Geek of the Week, didn’t originally plan to pursue a career in technology. Back in the 1990s, he was studying for his PhD, focusing on 18th… Read More
Intellectual Ventures CEO Nathan Myhrvold has taken plenty of knocks during his long career, but none probably as public as the grilling today at the D10 conference in Rancho Palos… Read More
Did Amazon.com just patent Christmas? Not quite, but the company has just received a patent on what has become a common method of giving presents — a system for selecting… Read More
Microsoft’s Photosynth app has been a success on Apple’s iPhone, with more than 7 million downloads and strong ratings from reviewers and users. Today, at long last, the Redmond company… Read More
Doxo, the Seattle maker of online bill paying technologies, is expanding its arsenal to mobile devices today with the launch of DoxoPay. The service, now available on Android and an… Read More
Fast-growing Badgeville has reeled in $25 million in fresh funding, money that the 20-month-old Menlo Park, California startup will use to expand its gamification platform. Badgeville, which competes against Seattle’s… Read More
As an Xbox Live Gold member and Amazon Prime subscriber, the release of Amazon Instant Video for Xbox Live yesterday was pretty much made for people like me. For no… Read More
A picture may often be worth a thousand words. But for those instances when images alone can’t tell the story, there’s Voicepic. That’s the name of a new photo sharing… Read More
Microsoft is pitching its upcoming Windows 8 as a “no compromise” experience — working across desktop PCs, notebooks, tablets and hybrid devices — but Apple CEO Tim Cook remains unconvinced… Read More
Buddy Platform today is announcing that it has secured $1 million in seed financing, and rolled its service for managing apps across various platforms. Investors in the Kirkland company include… Read More
We’re back for another episode of The Elevator Pitch, the show where entrepreneurs pitch their business plans in the 43 seconds it takes to ride to the top of Seattle’s… Read More
After being delayed for weeks as a result of an Apple patent dispute, shipments of HTC’s One X and Evo 4G LTE phones have been released by U.S. customs officials and… Read More
Investors are continuing to hammer Facebook just 11 days after its initial public offering, sending the stock of the social networking powerhouse down 9.6 percent in trading Tuesday. The stock… Read More
An international research group that includes a University of Washington mathematician believes it has figured out how to amplify light, sound and matter waves while simultaneously preventing them from being detected inside… Read More
Health Month is on the auction block. The online game, created by Seattle developer Buster Benson to help people motivate one another to lose weight, exercise or achieve other goals,… Read More
Alliance Health Networks isn’t wasting anytime bolstering its Pacific Northwest operations following the purchase Medify, a Seattle upstart that it gobbled up two weeks ago. The Salt Lake City company,… Read More
[Editor’s Note: Seattle-area journalist Carol Tice is the co-author, with serial entrepreneur David Lester, of the new book How They Started: How 25 Good Ideas Became Great Companies. In this excerpt,… Read More