OK, so it’s New Year’s Eve — what better time to look for a new job? We’ve collected some of the top listings from GeekWork to help you start your… Read More
Google+ could be getting a lot funnier, at least in theory, if the company follows through on the approach described in a new patent. The U.S. Patent and Trademark office… Read More
One GeekWire reader is about to receive a nice post-Christmas gift — and he’s probably going to become a little bit smarter in the process. Congratulations to Jason Nickolay, the… Read More
It’s a double date in a park, or so we’re told. A man, a woman, another man, and his operating system. Her name is Samantha, and she peeks out of… Read More
If you’re celebrating tonight to ring in the new year, driving a vehicle likely won’t be a good idea. That’s why it’s nice to have taxis, buses and companies like… Read More
My family is spread out across the country — from Charlotte, North Carolina to Wooster, Ohio to Seattle, Washington. Three distinct geographic locations in which people use different vernacular to… Read More
They made us smile; they made us think; they made us ponder what’s humanly possible. We saw and shared hundreds of great images with you all this year, whether it… Read More
Zappos’s corporate structure is going to be getting a whole lot flatter. The shoe-seller, which has almost 4,000 employees, is slated to do away with a traditional corporate hierarchy across… Read More
One of the best moments in the Fremont Players’ production of “Dick Whittington and His Cat” — a British Panto on stage in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood — comes when one of… Read More
OK, geek fans. We’ve compiled our list of the top quotes of 2013, and just yesterday posted the top 50 most popular stories of year. Now, here’s your chance to… Read More
If there has been one rallying cry for the tech establishment this year, it’s that everyone who can should learn to code. While part of the argument for building code… Read More
While Seattle struggles to set up a city-wide fiber-to-the-home Internet network, at least one Washington town is well on its way to doing so. The Ellensburg City Council has approved plans… Read More
Seattle online real estate company Redfin today published its market speed data for November, which shows cities that have the fastest and slowest rates for selling homes. San Jose, Calif.,… Read More
For budget-conscious folks looking to get their hands on the next season of House of Cards, Netflix is shaving a buck off its usual subscription price for people who are… Read More
Kids may be leaving Facebook, but that isn’t enough to take the network down from atop the social media pedestal. A new Pew Research Center Internet Project study shows 73 percent… Read More
Microsoft announced today that as part of its Games with Gold program, Xbox Live Gold subscribers will be receiving two free games next month: Sleeping Dogs and Lara Croft and… Read More
Jon DeVaan, the respected Microsoft executive who oversaw some of the company’s most important engineering initiatives, is leaving after nearly three decades — capping a year of massive changes in… Read More
When the state of Washington moved to privatize liquor sales in 2012, consumers suddenly had a bevy of retailers to purchase liquor from. Now, three friends from Seattle have created… Read More
This week at the 30th Chaos Communication Congress, a small group of hackers figured out a way to reverse engineer a Wii U GamePad to allow streaming of PC games directly… Read More
As we start looking forward to the new year, Eric Schmidt thinks that there are going to be big changes afoot in 2014 in the technology industry. In an interview with… Read More
The Federal Aviation Administration today announced six sites where research will be conducted to test the legitimacy of drones sharing space in the sky with commercial airlines. Today’s announcement comes… Read More
Reorgs. Resignations. Ridesharing. Drones. Divestitures. Devices. Smartwatches. Stack Ranks. Secret Santas. 2013 had a little bit of everything, and we had a blast covering it all. Here’s our look back… Read More
—UP Global, the Seattle non-profit that formed earlier this year through the combination of Startup America and Startup Weekend, has named former Decide.com exec Shauna Causey as vice president of… Read More
Agents with the U.S. National Security Agency are able to intercept crash reports from specific Microsoft Windows-based machines to better understand how to exploit a computer with spyware, according to… Read More
And then there were eight. We’re more than halfway through our Geek Madness: Console Wars competition and have arrived to the much-anticipated Elite Eight round. There are some excellent matchups… Read More
Amazon has typically seen its Kindle Fire tablet sales spike during the holidays, even more than a typical seasonal increase, and 2013 appears to be no different. Mobile app analytics… Read More
This week news emerged that Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen had sold his private island north of Seattle for $8 million to an undisclosed buyer. Now the buyer has been identified, and… Read More
Facebook is doomed because the kids aren’t using it. At least, that’s the popular theory following a report this week saying that the social network might as well be “dead… Read More
Headsprout, the 14-year-old Seattle educational software company known for the MimioReading titles, has been acquired by Cambium Learning Group’s Learning A-Z unit. Terms of the deal were not announced. Headsprout,… Read More
If you miss the good ‘ol days playing games like Donkey Kong and Missile Command on classic old-school consoles, there’s a new badass website you really should to check out.… Read More
