Amazon.com is rolling out deeper discounts for its Subscribe & Save service, offering anyone who subscribes to five products during a month a 15 percent discount. The move aims to boost usage… Read More
Here’s how to get more followers on Twitter: Be positive, be clear and share quality stuff. That’s according to a new extensive study out of the Georgia Institute of Technology.… Read More
The new company spanning multiple floors of this Bellevue office tower is no ordinary startup. It’s called Caradigm — think “health care” and “paradigm” — and it’s a 50-50 joint… Read More
Recently, a colleague of mine sent me a guest post from GeekWire that talked about ‘full-stack marketers’ and the value of having marketing people with broad skill sets in startup companies.… Read More
Local non-profit entrepreneurial network TiE Seattle today launched a new angel investment program to help facilitate entrepreneurs and startups with access to seed capital and mentorship. The new venture is called TiE Angels Group Seattle (TAGS) and… Read More
Major League Baseball is one of the most tech-savvy professional sports leagues around and that became more evident today as 13 teams will now be accepting mobile tickets using Apple’s… Read More
Online shopping has brought upon a new phenomenon called showrooming, a term describing the act of browsing brick-and-mortar stores and then later making the purchase it online often at a cheaper price.… Read More
Already available on the iPhone and iPod touch, today Amazon launched its free Cloud Player app for the iPad and iPad mini. “Our goal is to make Cloud Player the… Read More
Normally, app updates are supposed to allow for improvement and efficiency. That’s not the case with Amazon’s latest update for its iOS Kindle app, which went into effect yesterday and… Read More
The digital and physical worlds are colliding, and Coinstar is poised to take advantage of the trend. The latest example is today’s news that the Bellevue-based coin-counting kiosk operator plans… Read More
Three of Seattle’s largest companies — Amazon.com, Microsoft and Starbucks — are joining forces with more than 200 other businesses to urge the U.S. Supreme court to strike down language… Read More
Microsoft this morning released a new version of Office 365 for businesses and said the paid subscription service has become one of the fastest-growing businesses in the company’s history — now… Read More
As it continues to weigh buyout offers, Clearwire has elected to take an $80 million investment from Sprint, a move that could impede the acquisition of satellite TV provider Dish… Read More
GameHouse is placing a bigger bet on casino-style social gaming starting today— moving beyond its existing Facebook slots game to launch a larger casino on the social network, with more… Read More
When panelists are introduced at an event, the audience usually gets a typical rundown of accolades and achievements of the given speaker. You know the drill. Tuesday night inside City… Read More
Figuring out which tablet to buy isn’t easy these days. Just ask Olen Ronning, user experience designer at the Artefact product design group in Seattle, who has been reviewing the… Read More
Intelligent robot assistants like Siri have changed the way we interact with our mobile devices, and can now make recommendations for us. But the technology has yet to fully adapt… Read More
Marc Barros is stepping down as CEO of Contour, the fast-growing Seattle maker of helmet-mounted cameras used in action sports such as mountain biking and snowboarding. In a blog post titled… Read More
Reports were out today that the Federal Aviation Administration was close to approving test flights of Boeing’s Dreamliner, but the FAA is now calling those “completely inaccurate.” Last week, Boeing… Read More
Some Kickstarter campaigns fail to get off the ground and never reach funding goals. A project created by two members of the StudentRND community, however, is having a much different… Read More
Instagram, welcome to the 100 million club. The Facebook-owned photo sharing social network announced today that two-and-a-half years after launch, Instagram has surpassed the 100 million user mark. Co-founder Kevin… Read More
There was a point in the past decade when it seemed as if technology, largely by way of illegal peer-to-peer downloading, was going to ruin the music industry. But recent… Read More
Do you get more done at home or the office? That’s the debate flying around tech circles these days after Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer issued a memo requesting that Yahoos… Read More
It might seem like a minor thing, but one of the complications for people who switch to Windows Phone is that the interface in the official Twitter app is completely… Read More
According to Forbes’ latest list of the best cities for good jobs, Seattle is doing pretty well for itself. Out of the 100 largest cities in the U.S., the Emerald… Read More
The University of Washington continues to undergo a radical transformation under the direction of president Michael Young. And today the university took a big step in one of its critical… Read More
A study that one Clearwire shareholder commissioned shows that the company’s spectrum is worth two to three times more than what Sprint is currently offering in its bid to acquire Bellevue-based… Read More
Standard product reviews are fine, but we’re big fans of people actually incorporating new technologies into their daily routines and reporting back on what happens. And among those types of… Read More
UPDATE, March 5: MetroPCS has pushed back the shareholders meeting to April 12. –––––––––– It has been more than four months since T-Mobile announced its intentions to gobble up MetroPCS. And while the… Read More
Another day, another streaming deal for Amazon. The Seattle online giant just signed a deal with Sony Pictures Entertainment for the rights to exclusively stream the popular FX show “Justified,” as… Read More