They say a picture is worth one thousand words, and our favorite photos from 2014 certainly attest to that statement. Last week, we shared our top tech stories of the year. Now, we’re… Read More
People feeling ticked off over how much storage iOS 8 takes up on their iPhone have a new lawsuit to rally around. The suit, filed yesterday in federal court, alleges that… Read More
Happy New Year! Your Comcast cable modem will soon cost $10 a month to rent, up from the previous $8 fee. Last week, GeekWire columnist Frank Catalano said he was notified… Read More
I have seen the future. And it looks a bit ratty. That was my not-so-charitable reaction when I got up-close with eyewear from the 1995, post-apocalyptic Kevin Costner film Waterworld… Read More
Last month Shippable announced an $8 million funding round led by Madrona Venture Group. The continuous delivery platform plans to use the funding to further push into the enterprise, and… Read More
It’s truly one of the most loathsome evenings of the year. But if you insist on going out, don’t let your night turn into amateur hour. Navigate New Year’s like… Read More
Vivek Mano believes two basic facts: The world can always use more talented engineers, and kids love playing with toys. That’s why the Portland-based sales manager-turned-entrepreneur created Wigl, an interactive… Read More
Here it is: A beer pong playing robot. Developed by Empire Robotics, it’s called Versaball, and this cute little arm will be slinging ping pongs into cups at CES next… Read More
We all know how frustrating it is when hardware goes wrong, wears down or doesn’t perform the way you want. One man, fed up with his MacBook Pro’s performance, took… Read More
Tetrapod Software, a Seattle-area startup led by professional poker veteran Phil Gordon, has landed $2 million in fresh seed funding as it develops a new enterprise collaboration service called Chatbox. With the latest funding, Gordon… Read More
Teneology, a Seattle-based acquisition fund led by former Cheezburger exec Cliff Sharples, has raised a $10 million round led by Tritium Partners of Austin, Texas. Teneology was created one year ago… Read More
I remember when a PR woman at Amazon fondly cradled her BlackBerry and politely, yet somewhat snarkily, informed me that I would be “on call” at all hours and “expected to answer… Read More
One of the most necessary elements to building a human colony on Mars is the ability to, well, feed people. Students from Southampton University are working on that. They have… Read More
Wowser. This is oddly fascinating and makes your skin crawl at the same time. Tesla’s Elon Musk has caused a little Internet buzz with this tweet: Musk then posted that this… Read More
Ever wonder what it would be like to be one of the 80,000 seasonal workers Amazon hired this year to handle the spike in Christmas orders? Gawker has posted a… Read More
If you were planning to spend some of your holiday gift money on an Xbox One, now might be the time to do so. Microsoft is ending its limited time… Read More
Pipeline Deals didn’t need money for its first nine years, bootstrapping its way to success. It earned a coveted spot on the Inc. 5000 list, as it added more than… Read More
Seeing a lot of moving vans around Capitol Hill, Ballard and Queen Anne? You might have some new neighbors moving in. A new study released this week by Allied Van… Read More
TINYpulse’s mission has been the same since day one: Help improve employee morale at companies worldwide. Now the Seattle-based startup is receiving a nice chunk of funding to do so. TINYpulse today announced a $3.5… Read More
Now this is an event to keep tabs on. Two men are determined to fly the first completely solar-powered plane around the world. The duo, pilot Bertrand Piccard (no relation to… Read More
Will T-Mobile overtake Sprint this year? John Legere isn’t so confident anymore. In a letter outlining his predictions for the wireless industry in 2015, T-Mobile’s outspoken CEO made a number… Read More
Initial interest in Pivotal Living’s fitness tracker has exceeded expectations by a great deal — but that’s not all good news for the new Seattle startup. Pivotal Living, which this month began… Read More
Since launching in Seattle less than two years ago, Car2go has become a popular mode of transportation with more than 59,000 registered drivers and 500 two-door vehicles zipping around town. Given the demand, city… Read More
If you own a smartphone, odds are you’ve used an app made by Facebook or Google in 2014. That’s the clear conclusion from new data released by Nielsen – yep,… Read More
Facebook can often be a wonderful, convenient way to invite friends to an event or crowdsource for a good cause. Case and point: A Fredericksburg, Ohio, man used the social… Read More
In another first, NASA launched a new kind of research balloon, a super-pressure balloon, that will stay afloat nearly twice as long as existing balloons. Scientific American is calling it… Read More
In the Pacific Northwest, the weather changes in an instant. One moment, it’s bright, sunny and perfectly acceptable to go outside without a hoodie. The next, you’re shivering your butt… Read More
Whatever happened to that former Amazon employee who went on a hunger strike to push for reforms at the company? We’ve been getting that question from GeekWire readers, and the answer,… Read More
Tech is always straddling that fine line between helpful and terrifying. And this pitch about a new product at CES, called Intelligent Video, is solidly on that line. According to… Read More
Over the holidays, Amazon said 10 million customers signed up for a month-long Amazon Prime trial in order to receive two-day shipping perks. Today, new data being released suggests that a huge… Read More