Articles from 2011 – Page 23 of 107

Comedy: When developers and designers try to communicate

Do you see yourself in this video? The recent HIVE 2011 design conference in Redmond opened with an exclusive skit… Read More

Memo: Microsoft’s Ballmer finds an employee survey to love

Anonymous third-party surveys of Microsoft employees don’t always turn out so well for Steve Ballmer. But Microsoft this week came… Read More

MicroVision gets Nasdaq notice, faces possible delisting

MicroVision, the maker of the miniature PicoP laser projection device, said that it has received notice from the Nasdaq stock market… Read More

Podcast

GeekWire Radio: Advice from Gates, best movie app ever, and Seattle startup BigOven

This week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast, we share a highlight from Bill Gates’ appearance at the University… Read More

Name that Tech Tune, chance to win Kinect Sports Season 2

Updated with answer and winner below. This week’s Name that Tech Tune challenge is a fun one, a classic that… Read More

BuddyTV debuts Google TV app, with iPad and iPhone link

Seattle’s BuddyTV has scored a featured spot in the newly overhauled Google TV interface, releasing a BuddyTV app for Google… Read More

Former Clearwire CEO Ben Wolff resigns from company’s board

The turnover in the board room at Kirkland-based Clearwire continues. In a SEC filing this afternoon, the company announced that… Read More

Microsoft’s vision, and the myth of the carefree gadget

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6cNdhOKwi0 The only thing I don’t believe in Microsoft’s video of the future is how calm everybody is around such… Read More

Excerpts: Bill Gates on politics, education, and why his burger is same as yours

One of the most interesting things about Bill Gates’ appearance at the University of Washington yesterday was the way the… Read More

Seattle startup Beamit beams up $750,000, recruits Amazon employee Josh Hug

As a mentor at TechStars, Josh Hug got an inside peek at some of the cool technologies emerging inside the… Read More

Intellectual Ventures sues Nikon for patent infringement

Intellectual Ventures, the Bellevue-based company led by former Microsoft technology chief Nathan Myhrvold, has filed suit against camera giant Nikon… Read More

‘Closet revolutionary’ Rich Barton of Zillow on startups and swinging for the fences

It was kind of fitting that on a night that the St. Louis Cardinals won game six of the World… Read More

Redbox raises DVD rental prices by 20 cents

Redbox is raising prices on DVD rentals from $1 to $1.20 due to higher operating costs associated with debit card… Read More

Photos: On the scene at the first GeekWire Meetup

A big thanks to all of you who came out for our first-ever GeekWire Meetup last night. As you can… Read More

Gates to students: Don’t try to be a billionaire, it’s overrated

Bill Gates made a rare appearance at the University of Washington this afternoon, talking about how qualitative and measurable advances… Read More

Startup Spotlight: GoDutch mobile app helps friends connect

Chris Borkenhagen wants to make it easier to invite friends to do fun things together, and then split the bill… Read More

Geek humor with Siri: Robot love is not wrong, or is it?

A lot of folks love Siri, the popular voice-recognition application on the iPhone 4S. But some Seattle geeks have a… Read More

Shares of Expedia slip after weakness in airfare bookings

Shares of Expedia fell more than five percent in after hours trading Thursday after the Bellevue-based online travel company posted… Read More

HP keeps PC business, will it resurrect TouchPad next?

HP, the world’s largest PC maker, won’t be selling its PC business, after all. The company announced the news this afternoon, making… Read More

InfoSpace posts ‘great quarter,’ eyes acquisitions

Calling it a “great quarter,” InfoSpace CEO Bill Ruckelshaus today announced that the Bellevue Internet search company posted net income of… Read More

11 things every entrepreneur should know about innovation

An innovation that revolutionizes your life is the dream of every entrepreneur. But that dream may die hard if you… Read More

Google+ expands with Apps, ‘Ripples,’ and photo effects

Google+ is still trying to find its niche as an alternative to Facebook, with mixed results. But the company announced… Read More

Redfin’s Kelman considers new products, acquisitions: ‘It’s always good to have cash’

At the time of Redfin’s last venture capital round, CEO Glenn Kelman indicated that it would be the company’s last.… Read More

Look out, Mario: Nintendo projects first-ever annual loss

Here’s a reminder of just how fickle the video-game business can be. Nintendo this morning released a revised financial forecast… Read More

Online real estate brokerage Redfin scores $14 million

We heard rumblings last week that Redfin — the Seattle online real estate broker — was out looking for new… Read More

Paul Allen’s Vulcan leads $14M round in mobile ad company 4INFO

Vulcan Capital has been a bit quiet on the venture capital financing front lately. But that changed today with news… Read More

The future is amazing, and Microsoft has video to prove it

This might be as close as we’re going to get to a time machine. Unless they’re working on that, too.… Read More

After 10 year journey, Sony to take control of Sony Ericsson

The mobile phone landscape continues to morph, change and shift. And here’s the latest development. Sony today agreed to buy… Read More

Social media monitoring firm Visible Technologies adds $1.5M

Visible Technologies has reeled in an additional $1.5 million, bringing total financing in the maker of social media monitoring technologies… Read More

Ouch: Amazon.com hit with more than eight patent suits in 55 days

Amazon.com’s corporate lawyers are going to be pretty busy in the coming weeks. According to the company’s quarterly report released… Read More