Lockerz continues to bolster its ranks through acquisitions, with the fast-growing Seattle social shopping company announcing that it has acquired online fashion community Chick Approved. Chick Approved — founded by… Read More
Facebook has the Internets abuzz this week in advance of its IPO announcement. It is coming with plenty of speculation: Is the wunderkind of Silicon Valley worth its reported $105… Read More
Facebook is getting one step closer to becoming a publicly-traded company, with the social networking powerhouse today disclosing in a SEC filing that it intends to sell shares in the… Read More
Twitter is great for sharing content. But when it comes to actually conducting commerce, the fast-growing social networking service leaves something to be desired. Portland’s Chirpify wants to solve that… Read More
There was no way she was serious. “Please tell me you’ve never actually seen someone post a pic of their baby’s turd, and that it was just a joke on… Read More
UPDATE: The live broadcast is now over, but you can watch the archived version above. I’m over at the new offices of Facebook’s Seattle engineering operations for an open house… 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
Facebook and Pinterest may be all of the rage. But a social networking site of another era is having a bit of a resurgence, at least according to a report… Read More
As the mother of two young children, Victoria Oldridge knows just how challenging it can be to raise kids. Sometimes you just need someone to lean on, a bit of… Read More
Planning a wedding can be a dream come true. I was lucky enough to find the right person and was super excited to get engaged last July and begin planning… Read More
What do you recall seeing in your Facebook feed recently? The following are recurring items in mine: an e-card character inventory of a melancholic young woman who has sobered up… Read More
As a father and coach, Steve Goldman experienced first-hand the pains of getting youth sports teams organized. And as a techie, he knew there had to be a better way.… Read More
This could get pretty interesting. PopCap Games this week launched a new series of casino-style games on Facebook in which players compete in slot-based games, playing by themselves or with… Read More
The world’s most successful online community manager was in Seattle last week, and you probably had no idea. Wael Ghonim, the founding administrator of the Facebook page that one year… Read More
On this Valentine’s Day, it is worth remembering that not everyone gets to spend time with their loved ones. Many couples are stuck in long-distance relationships, divided by hundreds or… Read More
nFluence Media is taking the wraps off its stealthy service today, showcasing for the first time a new mobile offering that the founders believe will transform the way people receive… Read More
Facebook is reportedly planning to file for its much-awaited initial public offering, with The Wall Street Journal reporting today that the filing could happen as early as next Wednesday. The… Read More
In case you need a friendly reminder, The Boston Consulting Group just came out with projections for how the Internet is transforming the way we conduct commerce, communicate and, basically,… Read More
Starbucks just turned in a record quarter, posting $3.4 billion in revenue and the highest quarterly earnings in the company’s history. And how did the ever-expanding coffee company do that… Read More
Facebook unites hundreds of millions of people each day, but lurking in the shadows are some bad actors who treat the platform as the Wild, Wild West. Washington Attorney General… Read More
Wavii, the stealthy Seattle startup led by Adrian Aoun, is getting closer to unveiling a new service that’s designed to help people find the news that matters the most to… Read More
Mircea Paşoi and Cristian Strat, the two Romanian Web developers who founded Summify instead of taking jobs at Facebook and Google, have now decided they’d prefer to work at Twitter.… Read More
The University of Washington Bothell is located on the edge of a marshy wetland, created by a vibrant ecosystem around North Creek. You might say it makes for the perfect… Read More
One of the most important aspects of buying a new home is knowing the particulars of the neighborhood. Ask any real estate agent, and they will tell you that home… Read More
Technology companies reeled in more cash via IPOs than any other sector in 2011, buoyed by public offerings from companies such as Zynga, Jive and LinkedIn. Zillow, the Seattle online… Read More
One of the first things that struck me upon entering Facebook’s 17-month-old engineering office in downtown Seattle today was the … silence. Despite the open newsroom-style environment on the 8th… Read More
Guest Commentary: The video game industry is changing like never before. Here are my best attempts at peering into the crystal ball for 2012: Prediction #1: Tablets are the new game… Read More
GoChime, a recent grad of the TechStars Seattle incubation program, has raised $630,000 in financing from angel investors Geoff Entress, Matt Shobe, Dave Carlson, Walter Winshall, Rob Martin, Kendall Kunz and… Read More
The highly-anticipated initial public offering for Zynga is moving forward, with Bloomberg News reporting that the maker of FarmVille, Mafia Wars and other social media games priced 100 million shares… Read More
Hi5, the San Francisco social networking company led by Seattle gaming and advertising veterans Bill Gossman and Alex St. John, has been acquired by Tagged Inc. for an undisclosed price.… Read More