Ram Singh loves to travel. And it’s that love that sparked the 42-year-old former Microsoft engineering manager’s latest pursuit: Gazeable. The company’s two iPad apps — Gazeable and TripRaves —… Read More
Most companies start with a Web-based version of their service, transitioning to mobile almost as an after thought. Trover is headed in the opposite direction. Originally started as a mobile… Read More
Like many of us, Seattle-area high school student Zach Sweetser took lots of photos over the Labor Day holiday. But his are way cooler. Zach, who already has his sport pilot’s… Read More
[Editor’s Note: GeekWire’s Emily Shahan was among thousands of people who attended the first day of GeekGirlCon yesterday at the Conference Center in downtown Seattle. She captured a bunch of… Read More
There’s no shortage of places to store your digital photos, from Facebook to Flickr to Instagram to Google’s Picassa to Photobucket to a computer’s hard drive. And that’s exactly the… Read More
In a deal that was widely anticipated, Facebook announced today that it has acquired facial recognition upstart Face.com. TechCrunch reports that the price tag was in the $100 million ballpark.… Read More
A picture may often be worth a thousand words. But for those instances when images alone can’t tell the story, there’s Voicepic. That’s the name of a new photo sharing… Read More
By now, it’s probably been brought to your attention that Facebook bought Instagram for a billion dollars on Monday, valuing the two-year-old photo-sharing service at approximately $100 million per employee.… Read More
We get a lot of holiday greetings here at GeekWire. Some are pretty traditional, with snowmen or santas or wreaths. But our favorite of the year is the digital greeting… Read More
Marcus Womack, Josh Hepfer, Mike Bohlander and Ray Fortna were core members of the team at iLike, the Seattle online social music service that sold to MySpace in 2009. Today,… Read More
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,… Read More
Cheezburger, the oddball Seattle based network of humor sites, is best known for its captions on funny cat photos and videos of vomiting hang gliders. But it’s not all about the… Read More
Inspired in part by people who take pictures of themselves every day, showing how they change over a period of time, computer science researchers from the University of Washington have… Read More
PhotoRocket, the photo sharing service that launched to much fanfare at the DEMO conference earlier this year, has cut about forty percent of its staff after hitting a financing wall,… Read More
The Happy Go Techy Expo, held Saturday at the University of Washington, was a little bit geek craft fair, and a little bit mobile application showcase. GeekWire photographer Annie Laurie Malarkey… Read More
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer team has been making a point lately of trying to stick to a steady schedule for updates. Turns out the new attitude applies to more than the… Read More