As I strolled through Sakura-Con at the Convention Center in Seattle on Saturday I was suddenly transformed into another dimension of anime enthusiasts, comic book heroes, and video game villains. The… Read More
For many companies these days, the first instinct in a crisis is to turn to Twitter to get the message out and communicate with customers and other people affected by… Read More
A few days ago, someone asked me if GeekWire had any plans for covering the royal wedding. At the time, I said there was “no formal coverage plan” unless we… Read More
I have seen the future. And it wears goggles and Victorian clothing. At least, that’s the immediate impression you might get after visiting Norwescon 34, which was held this past… Read More
That right there is the type of publicity a startup can’t buy — a huge graphic currently promoting Seattle’s Zapd as the “App of the Week,” smack in the middle… Read More
We’ve long been fans of actor Mike Daisey, dating back to his hilarious (and scathing) monologue: “21 Dog Years: Doing Time @ Amazon.com.” So, we were excited when Daisey decided… Read More
Gary Flake, a former technical fellow at Microsoft who up until last fall ran the company’s Live Labs research group, has emerged at the helm of a new Bellevue startup… Read More
In the process of announcing its latest financial results this morning, Nintendo confirmed that it plans to release the successor to its hit Wii game console in 2012, after previewing… Read More
It’s been a tough few days for Seattle area high-tech companies. First, Amazon.com’s EC2 service went down, causing alarm among many startups that rely on AWS. Now, word is that… Read More
RealNetworks has developed a new program called Rinse for cleaning up and organizing Apple iTunes libraries on Windows PCs and Macs — automatically adding album artwork, fixing song names, organizing… Read More
Two developments this past week signal that Wal-Mart is getting more serious about the online world, and could very well have Amazon.com in its crosshairs. On Saturday, Wal-Mart began testing… Read More
BigDoor founder Keith Smith touched a nerve after writing a guest post for GeekWire this past week explaining his frustrations with Amazon.com’s lack of communication following the massive AWS outage.… Read More
This week’s GeekWire Podcast is a little different — a technology reporters’ roundtable featuring special guests Tricia Duryee of AllThingsD and Wilson Rothman of msnbc.com. They join me in the… Read More
It was a privilege, and a ton of fun, to get to interview Paul Allen on stage about his new book, Idea Man, during an event Friday evening at Town… Read More
Team GeekWire loves nothing more than a good news tip. So, when a reader passed on a hot lead last week that Zillow.com was getting ready to file its IPO… Read More
Whale songs hit the charts. Turns out whales aren’t just singing to get laid. AT&T is not going to crumble, not going to lay down and die. So take that,… Read More
Guest Commentary: We’re very clearly in a new tech bubble now. Valuations, funding rounds, recruitment incentives are already remarkably similar to what we saw 10 to 12 years ago. But… Read More
We’ve been writing a lot about the tech talent crunch in Seattle, noting companies such as Tableau Software, ExtraHop Networks and Avalara that are looking to secure top-notch developers amid… Read More
Hey, you gotta build for the team you want, not the one you got, right? AT&T today announced that it has expanded its wireless capacity by 600 percent at Safeco… Read More
It has been a big week in Seattle tech circles as two companies (Zillow.com and Impinj) filed for initial public offerings, a rare event that I can’t even recall occurring… Read More
There’s been a lot of discussion lately about how apps are ranked in the iTunes App Store and the Android Market. These rankings are tremendously important to developers as being… Read More
Microsoft this morning announced that Windows 7 has reached 350 million licenses sold in 18 months on the market. It’s an impressive number on the surface, but absent any other… Read More
Seattle entrepreneur Emily Marshall can speak to the pain of long distance relationships. Her fiancé lives more than 2,000 miles away in Manzanillo, Mexico, which means when they do talk… Read More
As some sites continue to show signs of Amazon.com’s cloud computing glitches, the company updated its public Amazon Web Services Health Dashboard a short time ago to say that it’s… Read More
Microsoft has been undergoing a series of changes in the executive ranks in recent weeks. And that trend continued today as Frank Holland was tapped to lead the company’s global advertising… Read More
Guest Commentary: Like many companies running on Amazon’s Web Services, BigDoor has been affected by the AWS outage today. And like most startups, we are braced for bad stuff to… Read More
AT&T today delivered a present to wireless geeks, in the form of a 381-page filing with the Federal Communications Commission making the case for its acquisition of T-Mobile USA. A… Read More
Our guest this past week on the GeekWire Podcast was Ed Lazowska, the longtime computer science professor who holds the Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science & Engineering… Read More
For the second time this week, a Seattle technology company has filed to go public. This time it is Impinj, the maker of radio frequency identification technologies. The company said… Read More
The next time the “big one” hits, wouldn’t it be nice if there was a steel-plated desk (complete with oxygen mask, food storage, flashlight, blanket and other amenities) nearby? Bainbridge… Read More
