Maybe Microsoft is secretly auditioning for a spot in the fall television sit-com lineup. Following up on its recent “Gmail Man” spoof, the company today rolled out a new online… Read More
Amazon.com hasn’t even announced its tablet computer. But that’s not stopping the big research firms from projecting what the device will do to the market, which up until now has… Read More
Ten months after joining Maveron as an entrepreneur-in-residence, Zynga co-founder Andrew Trader has strengthened his role with the Seattle venture capital firm. Trader today was appointed to the position of… Read More
Qliance, an operator of health care clinics in which members pay monthly fees for primary and preventive care, is expanding operations in the Seattle area with a new clinic slated… Read More
[Update: Well, that was interesting while it lasted. Minutes after we posted the first version of this story, a Boeing representative responded to our earlier inquiry to say that the… Read More
Alaska Airlines has been soaring to new heights when it comes to technology offerings, replacing paper flight manuals for pilots with iPads and rolling out free wi-fi to smartphone users… Read More
How do venture capital deals fall apart? Those who want the inside scoop should look no further than Rand Fishkin’s more than 5,000 word treatise on how a recent $24… Read More
Microsoft this morning made a new overture to customers of Oracle, Salesforce.com and SAP — offering $150 in cash per user to companies that switch to Microsoft’s Dynamics CRM Online from… Read More
The best insights, observations, comments, tweets and random zingers we heard this week. “Just tried to donate to the @GatesFoundation. Curiously, they refused to accept my ’92 Ford Taurus.” —… Read More
One of the highlights of the Penny Arcade Expo each year is a session called “Pitch Your Game Idea” — often described as the American Idol of Video Games. (As… Read More
Halo fans were lined up around the corner for a panel this morning on Halo 4 at Penny Arcade Expo, filling the Paramount Theater for inside details on the next… Read More
Editor’s Note: The annual Penny Arcade Expo, better known as PAX, is in full swing this weekend in downtown Seattle — attracting an estimated 80,000 gaming fans from around the… Read More
On a recent summer afternoon, Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood is buzzing with activity. Amazon. com employees line up at a popular burrito truck to grab a quick bite, and… Read More
Naveen Jain has spent the bulk of his entrepreneurial career developing Internet search technologies, from the early days at InfoSpace to the founding of online background check service Intelius. But… Read More
Seattle’s Museum of Flight was among the top contenders this spring for a decommissioned Space Shuttle — placing well ahead of many other locations and just slightly below the eventual winners in… Read More
[Updated below with winners] Situated in a far corner of the Penny Arcade Expo in Seattle this weekend is a showcase of top-notch game development and design on the Xbox… Read More
This week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast, we put Steve Jobs’ resignation as Apple CEO into perspective and listen back to a classic moment from a classic product… Read More
Updated below with answer and winner. Time for another installment of our Name that Tech Tune contest … with an especially good prize this week. This week’s sound was chosen… 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
Apple’s board, led by chairman Steve Jobs, just signaled its long-term confidence in Tim Cook as the company’s new leader — disclosing in a regulatory filing that it’s awarding the… Read More
Editor’s Note: There are always a million reasons not to do something. Starting a company means daring to ignore them. This guest post by Shlomi Atar is the inside story of… Read More
Seems like Amazon.com’s data center in Northern Virginia just can’t catch a break lately. And now here comes Hurricane Irene. Officials at the Amazon Web Services facility — a key piece… Read More
Our guest on the latest GeekWire radio show and podcast was Jon Bach, the president of Puget Systems, the custom computer maker based in Auburn, Wash., south of Seattle. In… Read More
It’s a Halo fan’s dream this morning at the Penny Arcade Expo in Seattle, as members of Microsoft’s 343 Industries describe and show their work on “Halo: Anniversary” — a… Read More
Frank Artale is new to the venture capital business, so maybe he didn’t get the memo. After all, most VCs take off the month of August to travel, play golf… Read More
I’ve been coming to the Penny Arcade Expo, better known as PAX, since the first year, back when it was a modest gathering of a few thousand people in Bellevue.… Read More
At the Startup Riot event in Seattle earlier this week, Chewsy wowed the crowd with a new mobile app that’s designed to solve a nagging problem: What should you order… Read More
Very interesting piece by Matthew Miller on ZDNet this morning, making the case that Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 is the most stable mobile operating system, based on his years of… Read More
Attention fellow Seattleites, this new Google+ feature is for us. The search company’s fledgling social network last night introduced a new feature that lets you ignore content from people who’ve… Read More
A bit of legislative maneuvering in California could torpedo Amazon’s efforts to bring the online sales tax collection issue to the ballot next year. The Los Angeles Times reports that… Read More