Placed, the Seattle startup that tells companies whether their customers are more likely to be engaging with mobile applications near a Starbucks or a Dunkin Donuts, or an L.A. Fitness or… Read More
Organizations love the idea of variable or dynamic pricing, in part because they can make more money when demand is high for tickets. Now, the University of Washington athletics department… Read More
Redfin has struck a new partnership with Blu Homes to help those interested in building high-end pre-fab homes find land for the structures. The offering is currently only available in… Read More
“Microsoft is not, and never will be, a hardware company.” That’s one of the quotes from a slide deck put together by Charlie Kindel, the former Windows Phone general manager… Read More
Matrix Genetics has received an undisclosed investment from Avista Development, the venture capital arm of Spokane utility Avista Corp. The money will be used to complete a spin off from… Read More
Apple’s “PC” is coming home to Microsoft country, but not to huddle with Steve Ballmer. John Hodgman, the author and humorist known for his regular appearances on The Daily Show… Read More
Kabir Shahani and his team at Appature want to help marketers create intensely personal customer experiences. How are they going to do it? By leveraging the incredible opportunities the current… Read More
RealNetworks is cutting 80 jobs, or 7 percent of its workforce, and plans to eliminate an additional 80 positions in the coming months as founder Rob Glaser, back as interim… Read More
Microsoft BizSpark is partnering with one of the startups in its program, 9Slides, to make its online presentation technology available for free use by the other 45,000 startups in the… Read More
Earlier this year we introduced you to Fledge, a start-up incubator founded by Seattle techie Michael “Luni” Libes that’s working with non-tech focused “conscious companies.” These companies, Libes explains, are… Read More
[Update, Wednesday 8/29: Ed Bott reports on ZDNet that Samsung won’t be including the Start menu in its Windows PCs when the ship, after all.] Microsoft’s decision to remove the… Read More
Television personality and engineer Bill Nye recently hinted that his popular “Science Guy” series might return with an online show. If this is any indication, there would certainly be an… Read More
Context Relevant doesn’t want to be the next “acquihire,” selling out to a large technology company before the promise of its technology is realized. Even though offers have flowed in… Read More
Google’s traditionally sparse home page is delivering a surprise today: An ad for the company’s Nexus 7 Android tablet that pops up below the search box. The company has placed… Read More
Anyone trying to get a sense for where Marissa Mayer hopes to take Yahoo should take a look at the background of Kathy Savitt, the Seattle-area tech executive who was… Read More
When I walked into the small conference room on the second floor of the Museum of Flight this weekend, I wasn’t sure I was in the right place. A handful… Read More
Marissa Mayer continues to put her mark on Yahoo, announcing today that Seattle public relations veteran and entrepreneur Kathy Savitt has joined the company as chief marketing officer. Savitt previously… Read More
Believe it or not, Nintendo’s little Kirby character is 20 years old this year. (He doesn’t look a day over 2 to us.) To commemorate his birthday, and drum up… Read More
Seattle streaming video startup Ivi Inc. has been hit with another setback in its battle against some of the country’s biggest media companies. The young upstart was shut down by a… Read More
Below I am going to focus on the stuff that I wish I would have know when I started pitching my startup company, Tatango, to angel groups. In addition to… Read More
Shares of Apple rose again this morning as investors reacted favorably to a jury’s $1 billion verdict on Friday in favor of the iPhone maker in its hard-fought patent dispute… Read More
The world of online advertising can be convoluted and complex, making it challenging for advertisers, agencies and publishers to track campaigns. MakeGood Software, a three-year-old startup located in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood,… Read More
Seattle has experienced a boom in new engineering and development offices from Silicon Valley companies such as Google, Facebook, Zynga, Splunk and eBay. Now, the Portland area is getting in… Read More
It’s interesting how often a company as numbers-driven as Amazon.com asks its customers and shareholders to judge its progress with incomplete data. The tradition continued this morning as the company… Read More
I’m one of those people who was grandfathered in to AT&T’s unlimited smartphone data plans, and for a long time I was quietly determined not to let go of it.… Read More
The past week brought some major headlines, from the passing of an American icon to the jury’s decision in a landmark technology patent case. Here are some of the quotes,… Read More
This week’s GeekWire App of the Week is “Mars Images.” It’s not a particularly sophisticated app, or a new one, but I’ve become a regular user recently because it provides… Read More
Right before going into the studio to record this week’s GeekWire radio show and podcast, I noticed one of our guests, Giant Thinkwell CEO Adam Tratt, leaning over his computer… Read More
When should you wait in line for something, and how can you get the most out of the experience? Those are a couple of the questions answered this week on… Read More
One of the realities of covering the tech scene is that you get a lot of random items delivered in the mail, stuffed into your conference bag, or dropped off… Read More