[Updated below with answer and winner] Our Name that Tech Tune contest is back this week with a special compound challenge, requiring you to use your knowledge of both the… Read More
It’s the 20th anniversary of Nirvana’s landmark Nevermind release, and the world is taking a moment to reflect. “The album would go on to usher in rock’s great renaissance, cause… Read More
Nowhere does the idea that news is doomed seem more absurd than at the Online News Association conference. About 1,200 journalists, thinkers and entrepreneurs are in Boston for this year’s… Read More
TechCrunch writer Paul Carr resigned in a blaze of glory a week ago, writing a blistering blog post about the activities of the tech blog’s parent company, AOL. But the… Read More
Robert Curry, a 41-year-old former Microsoft manager, has been sentenced to 33 months in prison and ordered to pay $459,341 in restitution for engaging in a scheme to defraud the… Read More
Amazon.com has scored a victory in the 1-click patent case, with a federal appeals court today ruling that claims made by Cordance Corp. were not valid, reports Bloomberg News. The… Read More
California Gov. Jerry Brown has signed into law a compromise bill that will give Amazon.com a reprieve on collecting sales tax on purchases made in the state for another year.… Read More
At about 11:25 a.m. Pacific time today, my connection to Gmail failed on both my PC and my Mac. And it doesn’t look like it is just me. After posting… Read More
Our guest on the latest GeekWire radio show and podcast was Ben Elowitz, the CEO of Wetpaint, the Seattle company building an entertainment news and celebrity gossip network makes heavy use of… Read More
Here comes the Amazon tablet. Look out iPad? Amazon.com just sent out invitations to members of the tech media alerting us to a press conference taking place next week, Sept.… Read More
As a free safety for the New England Patriots, Lawyer Milloy was known for some smashing hits. Now, the Tacoma native and former University of Washington standout spends a good… Read More
A group of Seattle entrepreneurs is forging ahead into the uncertain and intriguing world of Bitcoin with a new center for incubating projects and potential businesses involving the digital currency.… Read More
Microsoft this morning launched Bing Deals, aiming to make its search engine a destination for the wide variety of daily deals available to consumers in many cities and regions these… Read More
Electronic Arts, which just spent up to $1.3 billion on Seattle-based PopCap Games, is discovering even more talent from the Seattle region. The company just announced that Rajat Taneja —… Read More
Clearwire CEO Erik Prusch says that the company is talking to AT&T, Verizon and others about entering into wholesale agreements, deals which could assist the Kirkland mobile broadband company as… Read More
ValueAppeal, the Seattle startup that allows home owners to lower property taxes through an online appeal process, has named Eric Brown as chief operating officer and moved to new offices… Read More
A recent report in the Allentown Morning Call newspaper alleged what could only be described as harsh working conditions in Amazon.com’s Breinigsville, Pa., fulfillment warehouse — including workers being taken out in… Read More
After losing her job at Microsoft, Kathleen Flinn went on to become a best-selling author with her book The Sharper Your Knife, The Less You Cry. And now she’s following that… Read More
Upon hearing about the new Facebook Timeline feature today, my immediate reaction was: “Huh, isn’t that exactly what Seattle’s Intersect is all about?” After all, Intersect — like the Facebook… Read More
Our latest Geek of the Week, Matt Shobe, is in charge of design for BigDoor, a Seattle-based company bringing the mechanics of video games to a variety of sites and… Read More
Microsoft will hold its giant annual company meeting — the one for employees, not shareholders — at Safeco Field in Seattle on Friday starting at 10 a.m. This is a… Read More
Venture capitalist Vinod Khosla plans to deliver one of the keynote addresses at the upcoming Startup Weekend Edu event, which is taking place at the University of Washington September 30th… Read More
Rhapsody made a surprise appearance at Facebook’s f8 conference today, at least in the form of its logo on a slide shown by Mark Zuckerberg as he introduced the social… Read More
HCL Technologies, which has morphed from one of India’s “garage startups” into a multi-billion dollar IT services juggernaut, has established a new engineering hub in Redmond as part of a… Read More
Visitors to the 28 branches of the Seattle Public Library will now have the ability to pick up some new language skills, thanks to a partnership between the library and… Read More
Imagine being able to transmit electricity without the wires. That’s the promise of Laser Motive, a Kent-based startup that’s announcing today a new round of cash from Space Angels Network.… Read More
[UPDATED] Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is on stage at the company’s f8 conference for developers in San Francisco right now, and he just unveiled a new Facebook feature called “Timeline”… Read More
The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearing yesterday on Google was closely watched for parallels to Microsoft’s antitrust quagmire of the 1990s. At a similar hearing in March 1998, Bill Gates… Read More
Fast-growing Seattle startups Zulily and Redfin have been named to Alley Insider’s Digital 100 ranking of the most valuable startups in the world. Zulily debuted on the list at #28,… Read More
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates joined Twitter in January 2010, and has quickly assembled an audience of some 3.5 million followers. Now, Gates’ wife, Melinda, is joining the short-form communication channel.… Read More