California and Texas look to be headed in different directions on a contentious online sales tax debate, an issue that could have wide-ranging implications for Amazon.com in the two most populous… Read More
There were plenty of headline-grabbing comments from Google chairman Eric Schmidt tonight coming out of the D9 conference in California. Many of them were not-so-subtle digs at Microsoft, which Schmidt all… Read More
Adam Doppelt Urbanspoon helped transform the way people discover new restaurants. Now, Adam Doppelt, one of the co-founders of that Seattle entrepreneurial success story, is looking to tackle another consumer… Read More
Z2Live’s new air combat game, MetalStorm, is turning on the after burners. Since its release in Apple’s App Store on May 12th, the company has recorded roughly 4.7 million downloads… Read More
Hedge fund manager David Einhorn created a stir last week when he suggested that it was time for Steve Ballmer to step down. But that’s not the only sign… Read More
Microsoft today rolled out a new version of its Streetside feature for Bing Maps that is getting some credit for at least taking a different approach than Google’s Street View.… Read More
University of Washington researchers have come up with a way to reduce energy consumption in computers and mobile devices by 50 percent or more by segmenting software code into areas… Read More
A Seattle college student has found herself in the middle of an Internet kerfuffle after a lewd photo was allegedly sent to her from Rep. Anthony Weiner’s Twitter account over… Read More
Apple this morning debuted versions of its iWork productivity applications for iPhone and iPod touch, adapting the Pages word processing, Numbers spreadsheet and Keynote presentation software for use on the… Read More
Talk about building a startup in hyperspeed. Seattle entrepreneur and WordPress guru Joshua “Red” Russak came up with the idea for Toolz.me on May 15th, and just a few days… Read More
The National Association of College Stores, battling with Amazon.com over the online retailer’s textbook advertising, is questioning Amazon’s decision to go to court after the association asked the Better Business… Read More
Intellectual Ventures continues to ink deals with big technology companies, gobbling up patents and helping some of the industry stalwarts defend themselves if litigation were to arise. Today, Intellectual Ventures… Read More
Nokia this morning dropped a bomb with new sales forecasts “substantially below” its previous expectations for the current quarter. The mobile giant, led by former Microsoft executive Stephen Elop, blamed… Read More
IPO fever is spreading once again through the tech ranks. And while Zillow.com recently filed, Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman says don’t look for a public offering from his Seattle online real… Read More
If you think you understand what’s happening in digital education because you follow digital consumer or business developments, think again. Because there are three digital technologies changing K-12 education that… Read More
In this era of browser apps and mobile devices, here’s some news that cuts against the grain. A new Facebook development team, based in the company’s fledgling Seattle engineering office,… Read More
Ethan Newberry wants to be a YouTube star. And the Seattleite is moving closer to that goal having been selected to participate in NextUp, a new program in which YouTube… Read More
Forget about Brahms, Beethoven or Bach. The Seattle Symphony is bringing some other classics — with names like Mario, Master Chief and Zelda — to Benaroya Hall this summer. On… Read More
We’ve known for a while that Microsoft was getting a cut of HTC’s sales of Android devices, under a patent deal announced by the companies more than a year ago.… Read More
Amazon.com spent $3.2 million on last week’s Lady Gaga promotion, with Billboard magazine citing industry sources who said that the online retailer sold 440,000 digital copies of the album at… Read More
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Forbes columnist Kashmir Hill recently Googled her name, and to her surprise found an advertisement in the search results from Bellevue-based Intelius. That set the reporter on a quest to… Read More
Can you predict which startup companies will succeed? It’s a mystifying question for sure, but one that the Startup Genome Project is trying to answer. The project just released a 50-page… Read More
Got milk? Amazon.com does. And the Seattle online retailer is using the staple to lure customers to its Amazon Fresh grocery delivery service in Seattle. Amazon Fresh has kicked off… Read More
Not everyone can afford to devote 54 hours of their life to Startup Weekend. But, if you’ve got 13 minutes to spare, here’s an entertaining behind-the-scenes look at the coding and… Read More
This week on the GeekWire Podcast, our guest is Microsoft’s Ben Rudolph, better known as “Ben the PC Guy,” who answers our questions about the latest Windows PC hardware, talks… Read More
When Polaris Venture Partners arrived in Seattle 15 years ago, the Boston-based firm thought the market had plenty of promise. But general partner Jon Flint tells VentureWire that the Seattle… Read More
It’s not just laughs, giggles and videos of failure at the Cheezburger Network. Fresh off its recent $30 million venture capital round, the Seattle online comedy network has hired Sean… Read More
Two of Seattle’s top venture capital firms are tossing their support behind Mobilisafe, a stealthy Bellevue startup led by former T-Mobile software architects Giri Sreenivas and Dirk Sigurdson. Madrona Venture Group and Trilogy… Read More
One of the iconic devices of the mobile revolution, the T-Mobile Sidekick, will reach a milestone next Tuesday with the shutdown of the online service from Danger Inc. that has… Read More