Puzzazz, the Seattle startup founded by puzzle creator and entrepreneur Roy Leban, has raised its first outside funding — about $400,000 in angel investment from an impressive group of technology… Read More
It’s never too early to mark your calendar for Emerald City Comicon, coming up in late March/early April 2012 — one of the landmark events on the Seattle geek’s annual… Read More
Attention, startups: The home-energy management market just got a lot less competitive — for anyone who can figure out a viable business, at least. Microsoft today announced that it will… Read More
Off & Away has quietly rolled out a new private sale service that allows its users to sign up for daily deals on luxury hotel rooms, earning discounts of as… Read More
Commentary: With his booming voice and boundless optimism, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is the technology industry’s version of a head coach. But these days he’s trying to run his team… Read More
Amazon.com and other online retailers must collect sales tax on purchases that their California customers make in the state as part of a new law that was signed by Gov.… Read More
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s positive comments about the company’s financial outlook during his Seattle Rotary Club appearance yesterday appear to be causing a minor stir in the stock market today,… Read More
Guest Commentary: Since last night I’ve been trying the new Google+ social networking service on both an Android phone and an iPhone. Two very different experiences! But the service looks… Read More
Barack Obama has some new bling, courtesy of the Seattle Storm and Seattle online jewelry retailer Blue Nile. In a White House ceremony on Wednesday, the Seattle Storm received congratulations… Read More
Amazon Web Services suffered a massive outage back in April, one that caused all sorts of havoc developers. So, here’s one way that Amazon is giving back to those who… Read More
Editor’s note: Peter Boctor was part of a crowd of Seattle software developers who attended Mark Zuckerberg’s talk in Seattle on Wednesday evening. He provides an overview in this guest… Read More
In a high-energy talk at the Seattle Rotary Club Wednesday, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer covered everything from Windows 8 to Kinect to Bing to cloud computing. And, as we previously reported,… Read More
Likewise Software, a Bellevue-based open source software company backed by Ignition, Intel and Trinity Ventures, has sold off its Likewise Enterprise and Likewise Open products to BeyondTrust in a deal… Read More
Bungie, the Bellevue-based video-game company known for the blockbuster Halo franchise, is finally going public with details of its “Bungie Aerospace” project, after teasing its fans with a series of cryptic… Read More
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is in Seattle today, visiting the company’s fledgling office across the street the Pike Place Market — its only major engineering center outside of its Palo… Read More
[FOLLOW-UP: GeekWire Commentary: Microsoft doesn’t need to replace Ballmer as much as it needs to replace Gates] You’d think that the Seattle Rotary Club might be friendly turf for Steve Ballmer.… Read More
GeekWire is excited to partner with Seattle Business Magazine for the first annual IT Awards, a celebration of the leading developers, engineers, executives, innovators and backroom geeks who just make… Read More
Microsoft today released a new preview of the technology going into Internet Explorer 10, the next version of its web browser, including capabilities designed to make web applications work more… Read More
Amazon.com’s fight with U.S. states over Internet taxes has now spread to the biggest of them, California. In a message affiliates today, the Seattle-based online retailer says it will terminate… Read More
A San Francisco upstart by the name of Connected — led by two former Microsoft employees — has raised $500,000 from Trinity Ventures, Ignition Partners, 500 Startups and others. Founded… Read More
The Portland Incubator Experiment, also known as PIE, is looking to hatch a new batch of startups this fall with the help of some of the biggest corporate brands on… Read More
Every day it seems there’s a story of another technology company being valued at $1 billion or more. Last week, it was PopCap Games. Today, it is mobile payments startup… Read More
Take that, Google+? A day after the search giant unveiled what amounts to a social network of its own, phone maker HTC has come out with a device that symbolizes… Read More
Sure, people have been playing this game on their iPhones for what seems like eons at this point, but Microsoft’s Windows Phone finally has what apparently qualifies as a must-have… Read More
Facebook routinely hosts “tech talks” at its new downtown Seattle office space, a way to engage with the community and recruit smart engineers. But today’s talk will feature a special… Read More
Animoto may be based in New York. But the startup, which is announcing $25 million in venture capital today, certainly has roots in the Pacific Northwest. The company’s four co-founders, Brad… Read More
MediaMall Technologies has begun testing a new service called PlayLater, which it is touting as the world’s first digital video recorder for online video. The company, with offices in Seattle… Read More
The Bible is the best-selling book of all time. But it hasn’t changed much since the advent of the printing press. Colin Wong is hoping to change that with the introduction… Read More
AmazonFresh, the online retailer’s grocery delivery service, released a mobile app today, developed on its behalf by digital agency Metia/Seattle. Nope, it’s not for Android, or even iPhone, neither of… Read More
Seattle area venture capitalist and former wireless executive John Chapple has resigned from the board of F5 Networks, the Seattle networking and software giant which boasts a market value of… Read More