Have you ever wanted to take your favorite Android games, news or travel apps to your Windows PC? A new service from BlueStacks, which announced $7.6 million in financing today… Read More
You may have already encountered Jenn, the friendly virtual travel agent who answers questions about everything from mileage plans to flight reservations on Alaska Airlines’ Web site. Now, that same… Read More
ShopIgniter has helped Nike, CafePress and more than 100 other customers establish retail outposts on Facebook. Now, the Portland startup is looking to supercharge efforts. The company today is announcing… Read More
Fast-growing social gaming powerhouse Zynga, maker of hit games such as FarmVille and Mafia Wars, is expected to file for an initial public offering in the next week or two,… Read More
Long before Apple introduced the iPad, Otto Berkes and his team at Microsoft were working on devices called UltraMobile PCs that combined touch screens with a portable slate design. Introduced five… Read More
Amazon.com is reducing the price of its high-end Kindle 3G by $25 for those who sign up for the company’s “special offers” program, essentially advertisements which appear on the bottom… Read More
That console over there and many of those games occupied so many hours of my youth, it’s almost hard to believe. So it was fun to spot this ColecoVision among… Read More
There’s perhaps no industry as screwed up in America as health care. And Dave Chase, who helped create the healthcare business at Microsoft during his 12-year tenure, is now looking… Read More
Our favorite bacon-flavored food startup is back in the news. J&D Foods, makers of the wonderfully American Bacon Salt and Bacconnaise products, is featured in a hilarious piece on KING… Read More
It was like a blast from the past this morning to wake up to news that Microsoft was back in court arguing over the $1.3 billion fine levied against the… Read More
T-Mobile USA relaunched its Bobsled service for making free voice calls on Facebook today with a revised interface meant to address the social networking giant’s concerns that the previous version… Read More
Seattle developer Buster Benson has sold Locavore — a popular mobile application that assists people in their quest to find fresh local foods and nearby farmers’ markets — to… Read More
Since the beginning, Microsoft’s strategy with Windows Phone has been to create a unified experience across the device — drawing information and sources from a variety of sources into centralized… Read More
Barnes & Noble today introduced the latest version of the Nook. And like yesterday’s announcement by rival Kobo, Barnes & Noble’s new electronic reader features a 6-inch eInk touchscreen. But… Read More
I always considered BlueKai one of the hidden gems of Seattle’s startup community, a fast-growing online advertising platform with the promise of an aQuantive. So, when the 5-year-old company sent… Read More
Accelerator Corp. has backed its 12th startup, a cancer research company that’s attempting to disrupt signaling pathways between tumors and the immune system. Dubbed Oncofactor, the company is just getting off the… Read More
Can the man who popularized LOLcats reinvent the way we read news online? Ben Huh, the chief executive of Cheezburger, the wildly popular network of comedy Web sites, wants to… Read More
Looks like the T-Mobile jingle isn’t going to survive the AT&T acquisition. RIP little jingle. Bane gives his best over-the-shoulder glance in the first image of him released from Christopher Nolan’s latest… Read More
T-Mobile USA says it has doubled the theoretical peak download speeds on its wireless network in Seattle and 50 other cities to 42 Mbps, following through on a promise to… Read More
Microsoft’s Windows team seems to have figured out a thing or two about marketing to college students. Not only is it offering them free Xbox 360s when they buy Windows… Read More
Here’s a look at some notable hires and people on the move at companies in the Pacific Northwest technology industry. Matt Bell has been named chief operating officer of Pitchbook,… Read More
[Updated below with Microsoft’s statement on Ballmer’s comments] Two separate developments today suggest that Microsoft may be gearing up to share more information about Windows 8, or whatever the company… Read More
Well, that sure was quick. Sparkbuy, the Seattle upstart led by entrepreneur Dan Shapiro, announced today that it has been acquired by Google in a deal of undisclosed size. The news… Read More
Stealth software startup iTegris, founded by former Microsoft VP Kurt Kolb and former Microsoft GM Tom Phillips, has raised more than $4.6 million in equity funding, according to an SEC… Read More
Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn today laid out a proposal to encourage broadband Internet in a four-block area in Pioneer Square, allowing telecom and cable companies to lease some of the… Read More
Business collaboration company Jive Software of Palo Alto is buying OffiSync, a Seattle-based startup known for a plug-in that adds social and collaboration features to Microsoft Office programs. OffiSync was founded… Read More
The Northwest Entrepreneur Network today named Daniel Rossi as its new executive director, succeeding Rebecca Lovell, who joined GeekWire as chief business officer earlier this month. Rossi, who earned an… Read More
Comcast has updated its Xfinity TV app to bring streaming on-demand programs to the iPhone and iPod touch, adding a capability that was introduced for the iPad in February. The… Read More
Zillow.com plans to trade on the Nasdaq stock exchange under the one letter ticker symbol Z when it expects to debut later this year. That’s slightly unusual, since most of… Read More
Lady Gaga released her new album today, and Amazon.com is using the much-anticipated second-full length release from the singer to bolster its own music offerings. Amazon is selling digital downloads… Read More