For the eighth consecutive year, Amazon.com has come out on top in the Holiday E-Retail Satisfaction Index from research firm ForeSee, holding steady with a customer satisfaction score of 88… Read More
Avalara appears to be cornering the market on office space near the ferry terminals in the Puget Sound region. The maker of sales tax automation technologies, which recently moved into… Read More
The continuing saga of MOD Systems co-founder Mark E. Phillips, who was sentenced to four years in prison in July 2011 on fraud and money laundering charges, has taken another… Read More
UPDATE, Jan. 10: Click here to find out what smartphone I decided on ——————— I’ve arrived at the biggest dilemma known to humankind: Apple or Samsung? OK, maybe not humankind. But… Read More
Google’s momentum vs. Microsoft Office is in the news today: The New York Times reports that Google has scored “an impressive string of wins” during the past year with big companies opting… Read More
Last month, Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos and Netflix CEO Reed Hastings separately took the stage at the Re:Invent conference in Las Vegas and touted the significance of Netflix as a… Read More
High-profile investor and entrepreneur Mark Cuban gave Microsoft and Nokia a nice little holiday gift in the form of a plug for the new Nokia Windows Phone during an “Ask… Read More
Sometimes when you’re running a startup, it can feel like the world is stacked against you, with nowhere to turn and no one to talk to. Well, at the very… Read More
With the holiday shopping season wrapped up, Microsoft this morning announced six locations in the U.S. where the company plans to open its first retail stores of 2013. It’s part… Read More
I just gave myself a wonderful Christmas gift, one that I never thought I’d ever achieve. As of 9 a.m. today, I officially got my GeekWire email account — john@geekwire.com —… Read More
Congratulations! Someone loved you enough to give you the gift of a Microsoft Surface with Windows RT. I’m imagining you sitting there next to the tree with the package unwrapped,… Read More
Peak Systems has been around for more than a decade, building Web sites and mobile applications for a number of companies and organizations (including the original touchscreen kiosk ordering system… Read More
The elves at Amazon.com are hard at work tonight trying to fix yet another outage at Amazon Web Services. The outage took down Netflix today, which means many can’t tune… Read More
While rumors continue to swirl about Microsoft Office coming to iOS devices, another Windows product just entered into Apple land. Wordament, a simple word puzzle game, started out on the… Read More
Microsoft this morning confirmed a change of role for Craig Mundie, the longtime Microsoft executive who oversaw the company’s research and long-term technical strategy. Mundie is now listed as “senior… Read More
Heidi Yu grew up in Chengdu, China, and has been in the Seattle region for seven years. A graduate of the Seattle University MBA program, she honed her startup skills… Read More
Americans continue to spend more of their cash online this holiday season, with comScore reporting that online spending is up 16 percent so far this holiday season. One of the… Read More
Motricity lost more than one third of its value today, following news that AT&T was terminating an agreement with the Bellevue-based mobile software company. AT&T’s portal agreement, which is being terminated,… Read More
How’s this for a milestone in the making? Amazon is on a trajectory to become larger than Microsoft in 2013, at least in terms of employees. Yes, their businesses are… Read More
Trying to plan for a wedding can be an arduous process. You have to decide on everything from the gown to the flowers to the photos and it’s not easy… Read More
Chao Zhang has followed technology around the world — from China to Germany and finally to Seattle, where he joined the Microsoft Accelerator for Kinect to help launch his company, UBI… Read More
It can be tough to stay connected over long distances. Yes, there’s phone calls, texting, Facebook, Twitter, IM, video chatting and everything else. But what if you could give virtual… Read More
Dr. Leroy Hood has received the National Medal of Science, one of the highest honors bestowed upon scientists, engineers and inventors in the U.S. Hood is a pioneer in the fields… Read More
How does a tech site do a holiday show? That’s what we asked ourselves when our partners at KIRO Radio asked us if we could put together a special episode… Read More
Seattle’s social media queen is leaving KIRO and dreaming big. Jenni Hogan, the KIRO 7 traffic anchor and Seattle’s popular social media maven, announced today that Dec. 28 will be… Read More
Parents who want the Dr. Seuss classic “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” in app form for their kids this holiday season can find it right now for 99 cents —… Read More
Less than one month after leaving the Expedia board, an SEC filing reveals that cable baron John Malone has been re-elected. Liberty Interactive Corporation, a stockholder of Expedia, has two seats… Read More
Smartphones are transforming almost everything we do, from the way we travel to how we play games. And they are also having a huge impact in the kitchen. It’s a… Read More
Startup Weekend has come a long way since its birth just three years ago, and the non-profit will celebrate the creation of 100,000 entrepreneurs by ringing in the NYSE Opening… Read More
Washington state was among the biggest gainers in population between July 2011 and July 2012, helped in part by the region’s strong technology and aerospace sectors. According to new data… Read More