EnergySavvy is marching into the Bay Area, inking a deal with the City of San Francisco to help homeowners reduce energy costs through specialized online home audits. The program will… Read More
Nathan Myhrvold was in the spotlight in 2011 perhaps more than at any other point since he was Microsoft’s chief technology officer — and for two very different reasons. First,… Read More
The New York Times published an unflattering story this past weekend about the hard-charging culture of game maker Zynga, noting how the maker of FarmVille and Mafia Wars operates like… Read More
An interesting report from Eurogamer today quotes an unnamed “development source” detailing Microsoft’s plans for the next version of its Kinect sensor for Xbox 360 — saying it “will be so… Read More
Facing U.S. government roadblocks, AT&T is considering selling up to 40 percent of T-Mobile’s assets in order to preserve its massive bid for the Bellevue carrier, reports Bloomberg News. That’s… Read More
Amazon is infamous for declining to release specific sales figures for its Kindle devices, but that doesn’t keep the company from publicly marking its progress in a way that would… Read More
At most theaters, concert halls and arts centers, guests are strongly encouraged to stow their cell phones until the performance concludes. But that won’t be the case at the Tateuchi… Read More
The best insights, observations, comments, tweets and random zingers we heard this week. “She was competitive shopping.” — Los Angeles Fire Capt. James Carson, on a woman who used pepper spray to… Read More
Online retailers are supposed to get their big boost on Cyber Monday — the first Monday following the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. But Amazon.com performed pretty well on Black Friday, a… Read More
The mass market paperback is dead. It just doesn’t know it yet. Ailing for months, its demise is now all but assured by Amazon’s recent bold announcement. Not the over-analyzed,… Read More
[Foundry Group co-founders Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson are the authors of Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist, published by John Wiley & Sons. This excerpt is… Read More
Data centers produce massive amounts of heat, so much so that companies like Facebook have gone to extreme lengths to develop innovative cooling systems to make sure that servers don’t… Read More
After working at Microsoft for more than a decade, Mike Swanson left his job as an evangelist for the Redmond company in September to launch a startup … based on… Read More
It’s a good thing that Faqden Labs’ latest iPad application is designed to help groups of employees manage and collaborate on projects in Basecamp. After all, the 18-person company is… Read More
Americans not only chowed down on turkey and dressing on Thanksgiving Day. They also visited their favorite online retailers. According to a new study by Hitwise, total visits to the… Read More
Catching up on some noteworthy headlines and items from the past week … Microsoft received lots of press this past week for offering free bacon from a food cart near… Read More
This week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast, we talk about Microsoft’s plan to develop a new Kinect device for Windows PCs, a research firm’s prediction that the iPad… Read More
Updated below with answer and winner. This week’s Name that Tech Tune challenge is based on a mobile ringtone. To get it right, you’ll need to name the company known… Read More
It’s not unusual to see banners in the public square at the busy intersection of Market Street, 22nd Ave. N.W. and Leary Ave. in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood, touting traditions such… Read More
Earlier this week, Big Fish Games announced a new subscription gaming app that allowed iPhone users to pay a monthly fee in order to play dozens of different games. It… Read More
It doesn’t happen often, so when Google bothers to air a television commercial, we pay attention. An ad for Google’s underdog social sharing service, Google+, aired during the Lions vs.… Read More
With the holiday shopping season kicking off today, Nordstrom is trying a new social media campaign that lets Facebook and Twitter users send hints to family and friends about the… Read More
This is pretty cool. The United States Patent and Trademark Office has rolled out a tribute to Steve Jobs, marking the Apple co-founder’s innovation impact through patents and trademarks. The free… Read More
With Bryan Mistele at the wheel, Inrix was on the move in 2011. The Kirkland provider of real-time traffic information raised a $37 million venture round from Kleiner Perkins Caufield… Read More
Book publisher Penguin Group has made electronic versions of its books available again for lending on Amazon’s Kindle via public libraries in the U.S., at least through the end of… Read More
The month of November hasn’t only been rainy. It’s been a bit hairy too. We’ve collected some great submissions so far for the GeekWire Gala moustache competition, including some wild… Read More
A new startup by the name of FindProz that competes with TeachStreet and is looking to become the “eBay of private instruction” has moved from Provo, Utah to Seattle. The… Read More
Microsoft’s chief research and strategy officer, Craig Mundie, is making news today for recent comments downplaying Apple’s Siri intelligent assistant — telling Forbes’ Eric Savitz that Microsoft has had similar… Read More
Calling it an early Black Friday deal, Amazon.com today dropped the price of its Kindle DX — a.k.a. the big Kindle — by a whopping $120, bringing the price of… Read More
Some of the biggest names in venture capital are putting their faith in Lockerz, a Seattle upstart that came on the scene in a big way in 2011. The company,… Read More