About Todd Bishop

Todd Bishop is co-founder of GeekWire, covering subjects including the Internet, video games, mobile technology and tech giants such as Amazon.com, Apple, Microsoft and Google. Reach him at todd@geekwire.com.

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Microsoft: Global video-game market hits $65 billion, and consoles still lead the way

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Microsoft is getting ready to reveal the next generation of the Xbox next week, and despite signs that the console market is struggling, the company this afternoon released a big batch of stats to make the case that the industry is very much alive and kicking. Spending on all types of video games (including hardware… Read More…

Microsoft’s Windows Phone inches past BlackBerry for #3 in IDC’s global rankings

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Microsoft’s Windows Phone is making modest but steady progress in the smartphone market, according to the latest numbers from the IDC research firm. Shipments of Windows Phone reached 7 million units in the first quarter, the firm says. That gave Microsoft 3.2 percent market share and put Windows Phone ahead of BlackBerry, which came in… Read More…

The next Xbox: Why this launch is so critical for Microsoft

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Next Tuesday, May 21, is a Very Big Day for Microsoft. With the rest of the technology world watching, the company will take the stage at 10 a.m. Pacific time in Redmond to reveal the new generation of Xbox, whatever form (or name) it may take. This is the world into which this new Xbox… Read More…

Patent gurus weigh in: Is the market for deals cooling off?

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Patents are one of the central topics at the spring meeting of the Licensing Executives Society of the U.S.A. and Canada, taking place in downtown Seattle this week. Many of the executives are heavily involved in patent licensing, acquisitions and sales. When you get them together, they talk about the patent market in much the… Read More…

What Google’s Larry Page really said about Microsoft

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There were so many zingers and (and cease-and-desist orders) flying around between Microsoft and Google yesterday that it might have been hard to keep track. And some errant quotes in the live blogs from Google I/O conference didn’t help. So what did Google CEO Larry Page actually say about Microsoft during the question-and-answer session at… Read More…

Google objects to Microsoft’s YouTube app for Windows Phone, demands removal

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Updated below with Microsoft’s statement. Google today sent Microsoft a cease-and-desist letter telling the company to stop distributing the new YouTube app for Windows Phone, demanding that Microsoft “immediately withdraw this application from the Windows Phone Store and disable existing downloads of the application” within a week. The news was reported a short time ago… Read More…

Internal Microsoft video lampoons Google Chrome

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Answering questions at the Google I/O conference in San Francisco today, Google CEO Larry Page spoke out against “negativity” in the tech industry, and the tendency to pit one company vs. another, rather than focusing on advancing technology. Being negative, he said, “is not how we make progress.” Just wait until he sees this video!… Read More…

Why so many top CEOs are at Microsoft right now, and what they’re talking about

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More than 130 CEOs and corporate leaders from around the world have descended on Microsoft’s campus in Redmond this week for a springtime tradition: Microsoft’s CEO Summit, now in its 17th year. Attendees at the private event this year include the CEOs of DuPont, LinkedIn, eBay, American Express, Verizon Communications, and many more. And yes, perennial attendee Warren… Read More…

Amazon Web Services targets bigger companies, going toe-to-toe with Microsoft

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Amazon Web Services’ partner network has grown to more than 4,000 members, up from less than 1,000 a year ago — a key step for the company as it tries to expand its cloud-computing customer base beyond startups to more large companies. That’s the word from Reuters this morning in a piece on the company’s… Read More…

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That headline is Klingon for “Microsoft Bing launches Klingon language translator.” We know this because we’ve been having fun — perhaps a little too much fun — with the Redmond company’s latest creation, an homage to Star Trek that launched today as a new feature of the Microsoft Bing Translator. The Klingon feature was developed… Read More…