Valve hooks up Team Fortress 2, for free! And apparently the game is also free of ads to boot. Nevada won’t discriminate against a car just because there isn’t anyone driving it.… Read More
John and I first started podcasting more than a year ago, using some cheap USB headsets, after deciding on a whim to start recording our traditional end-of-the-week drinking sessions. Never… Read More
Guest Commentary: The last thing most start-ups can afford is wasted time. By definition you’re still trying to figure out if you have a business, what your customers will respond… Read More
Years ago, Microsoft hobbled its browser business by allowing five years to pass between the release of new Internet Explorer versions. Is Mozilla about to do the same thing to… Read More
Every day is Take Your Dog to Work Day here at GeekWire and, for that matter, at dozens of other tech companies around Seattle. It’s pretty commonplace to see canine… Read More
Hark, the Seattle startup formerly known as Entertonement, is expanding its library of audio clips to incorporate images from famous movie clips. The company also is rolling out a new… Read More
It’s official: Google just filed a public notice acknowledging that its business practices are under investigation by the Federal Trade Commission. “On June 23, 2011, Google Inc. received a subpoena and… Read More
Having spent quite a bit of time talking with and covering Nokia CEO Stephen Elop during his tenure as a Microsoft executive, I got a good laugh from the initial coverage… Read More
As Microsoft looks to take its Kinect sensor beyond video games into mainstream computing, a top company executive today provided a glimpse of one direction the initiative could take. Look… Read More
Earlier this week, Decide launched a new service designed to tell consumers when to buy consumer electronic devices. But it is not the only Seattle startup looking to help shoppers… Read More
Amazon.com has long battled with eBay, but now the competition is getting even more serious. The Wall Street Journal reports that the online auction marketplace plans to begin a new… Read More
A report from the Wall Street Journal this morning is the latest indication that U.S. antitrust regulators are gearing up for a possible antitrust battle with Google, focusing on whether… Read More
Could this signal a deeper alliance between Facebook and Microsoft? That’s how we’re reading the news today that Netflix founder Reed Hastings has joined the board of Facebook. Hastings already… Read More
Word that PopCap Games is in talks to be acquired — perhaps by Electronics Arts — for more than $1 billion certainly has the technology community buzzing. But what exactly… Read More
We were hoping for a big crowd at the GeekWire Launch Party. Little did we know how big it would get. With more than 800 people registered for last night’s… Read More
Editor’s Note: This post was originally published on Seattle 2.0, and imported to GeekWire as part of our acquisition of Seattle 2.0 and its archival content. For more background, see… Read More
We’re about ready to open the doors at the big GeekWire Launch Bash, and we’re looking forward to seeing hundreds of you at the Showbox SoDo. Details here, and we… Read More
TechCrunch reports this afternoon that Seattle’s PopCap Games, maker of hit casual games including Plants vs. Zombies and Bejeweled, is “in the process of being acquired” at a value of… Read More
Big news today in Seattle’s biotech industry. Seattle biotechnology upstart Allozyne has entered into a merger agreement with San Francisco’s Poniard Pharmaceuticals, the companies announced today. As part of the deal,… Read More
Mary Jesse has been at the forefront of wireless communications since its early days, serving as vice president of technology at McCaw Cellular/AT&T Wireless and chief technology officer at RadioFrame… Read More
Laura Massey is big into games, to say the least. She’s a software engineer for Microsoft’s Xbox 360 video game console, part of a team working on top-secret stuff for… Read More
The big day is here. We’re looking forward to seeing hundreds (upon hundreds) of you tonight at the GeekWire Launch Party. The festivities kick off at 5 p.m. and run… Read More
Ignition Partners certainly is busy these days. For the third time this week, the Bellevue venture capital firm has invested in a new technology company. Earlier today, we told you… Read More
[Updated below with Microsoft statement on the issue with the image] Microsoft this week was awarded a patent on something it calls “virtual skywriting.” It’s a great phrase, but the… Read More
I’m struck by the question of whether, and how, an entrepreneur might act differently if they were mindful that their current startup probably won’t be their last. In other words,… Read More
We’ve seen a number of high-profile initial public offerings in recent weeks — including the debuts of LinkedIn and Pandora — as well as a couple Seattle area companies file… Read More
A report from DigiTimes out of Taiwan overnight offers the latest clues about rumored plans by Amazon.com to launch its own line of tablet computers, potentially expanding beyond its dedicated… Read More
There’s no shortage of applications that help mobile phone users share their physical locations. Even so, Glympse — a Redmond startup co-founded by two former Microsofties — believes it can… Read More
One of the challenges with solar power in Seattle — in addition to the abundance of gray skies — is that many people live in apartments and condos where they… Read More
In a series of announcements today, Verizon Wireless said that it plans to bring its new LTE service to Portland, Olympia, Tacoma and other cities in the Pacific Northwest. The… Read More
