GeekWire Bash is today: What to know if you’re going

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We’re gearing up for the big GeekWire Ping-Pong & Anniversary Bash later today at the Showbox SODO, and we’re excited that more than 600 of you will be joining us for this one-of-a-kind event. Our team has put together a great lineup for the afternoon and evening — not just the centerpiece ping-pong and foosball… Read More…

GeekWire Gala: Get ready for the party of the season — plus ‘Geeks Give Back’

Come as you are: Lord Vader and GeekWire's Jonathan Sposato demonstrate the "dress code" at last year's event.

We’re gearing up for our next big event, and it’s one of our favorites: The second annual GeekWire Gala will be held the evening of Dec. 6 at Seattle’s McCaw Hall. It’s shaping up to be the tech party of the season, featuring the return of our Newsmakers of the Year program and a new… Read More…

Microsoft expects 15,500 in Seattle today for big meeting

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Microsoft is holding its big employee meeting in Seattle this morning, bringing an estimated 15,500 people to KeyArena for annual event that feels like a giant pep rally. The event this year comes in advance of several major product launches, including Windows 8, Windows Phone 8, the Microsoft Surface tablet and Halo 4 for the… Read More…

Launch Pads: Groundspeak, center of the geocache universe

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It’s a big month for Groundspeak, the Seattle company in the middle of the geocaching boom. On Saturday Aug. 18, a little more than a week from now, geocachers from around the world will descend on Groundspeak’s home in Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood for the 2012 Geocaching Block Party, on International Geocaching Day. Geocaching is a… Read More…

Watch the big Higgs Boson news at a bar, with physicists

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Maybe it’s not true that nothing good happens in a bar after midnight. Excitement is building in advance of a major news conference tonight where scientists involved with the Large Hadron Collider are expected to reveal the latest in their search for the elusive Higgs Boson particle. It’s considered the last great question in particle… Read More…

GeekWire Summer Bash: Last chance for ping-pong and foosball

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We’re gearing up for the big GeekWire Summer Bash next week at the Showbox SODO, and preparing to finalize the brackets for the ping-pong and foosball tournaments taking place during the event. It’s shaping up to be an epic competition, with representatives of dozens of companies going head-to-head for bragging rights and prizes in two… Read More…

Name that Tech Tune: Fly him to the moon, temporarily

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Updated below with answer and winner. We’re continuing the space theme with this week’s installment in our Name that Tech Tune contest, but with a different twist. Be careful, because this one might be harder than it seems. Up for grabs this week is a pair of tickets to the GeekWire Summer Bash, coming up… Read More…

Gallery: Scenes from the Seattle 2.0 Startup Awards

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Editor’s Note: We a great time celebrating last night with more than 600 of you at the fourth annual Seattle 2.0 Startup Awards, presented by GeekWire at the EMP in Seattle. Photographer Annie Laurie Malarkey captured dozens of pictures of the evening, below. Click on any image to open a larger version as part of a… Read More…

7 reasons to attend the Seattle 2.0 Startup Awards

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Around the GeekWire offices this week, we’re making last-minute preparations and feeling the anticipation build for the big Seattle 2.0 Startup Awards, set for Thursday evening at the EMP in Seattle. Nearly 500 people have signed up, approaching our capacity, and the rest of the tickets are going fast. In other words, if you’ve been waiting… Read More…

GeekWire Meetup Recap: How design is changing tech

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We had a great time catching up with many of you at last night’s GeekWire Meetup. A big thanks to everyone who came out to the event at the Zillow HQ in downtown Seattle. Apart from the networking, the beverages and the games the highlight of the night was a chat between former Microsoft design… Read More…

Emerald City Comicon: Top 5 things we’re excited about

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Emerald City Comicon is coming up this weekend, March 30-April 1. This year the event is celebrating its 10th anniversary, and this looks to be the best one yet. To give you a little primer as to what you should expect, here are the Top 5 things we’re looking forward to catching at this year’s… Read More…

GeekWire Summit: How to stay innovative in a world of technological change

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You only get to celebrate your first birthday once, and we partied in style on Wednesday as we hosted more than 500 of our friends at the first-ever GeekWire Summit & Anniversary in downtown Seattle. It was a great day for team GeekWire, starting out with an amazing fireside chat with legendary software developer and… Read More…

GeekWire Gala: Get our killer calendar at the big event

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Are you coming to the GeekWire Gala on Dec. 8? Here’s one of the surprises we’ve been working on. Everyone who attends will get a GeekWire 2012 Calendar, a special project we’ve developed in partnership with the talented team at Red Box Pictures, with the support of a great lineup of sponsors. As you can… Read More…

TEDx Rainier: Live online from the University of Washington

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TEDx Rainier is being held today at Kane Hall on the University of Washington campus in Seattle, the latest in a series of independently organized events in the spirit of the popular TED conferences. The event in Seattle today features a wide-ranging lineup of speakers, giving a variety of informative and inspiring talks on topics… Read More…

Newsmakers 2011: Steven Sinofsky, Microsoft Windows

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Windows is a longtime source of financial fuel for Microsoft’s business, and by extension for the Seattle region’s economy — used by hundreds of millions of people around the world and producing billions in profits every year. But the world is rapidly changing, and Microsoft is radically transforming its flagship product in an effort to… Read More…

Q&A: Physicist Lisa Randall on space, time and how science is even better than fiction

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Theoretical physicist Lisa Randall, a Harvard University professor, is on a quest to figure out how the universe works, at the most fundamental level, using math and science as her tool. Her work with fellow physicist Raman Sundrum has already led to one of the best-known theories in the field. Her new book, Knocking on Heaven’s… Read More…

On the scene at GeekGirlCon

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Editor’s Note: Hundreds of people attended Day 1 of the inaugural GeekGirlCon at Seattle Center yesterday — sitting in on panels, learning crafts, showing off their best cosplay, playing games, meeting new people, and celebrating women and geek culture. Here’s a gallery of photos by GeekWire photographer Annie Laurie Malarkey, and video of the day… Read More…