Articles from 2011 – Page 32 of 107

Hey Seattle, here’s why we’re so gosh darn awesome

The Seattle tech community isn’t perfect, and we’ve certainly been willing to point out and highlight some of the deficiencies. But… Read More

Why KING TV is hosting a hackathon, with a $10k prize

Seattle’s KING-5 is doing something unusual later this month, or at least something unusual for a regional television station. It’s… Read More

Seattle’s Pioneer Square has tech, needs tribe

It’s happened a couple times now. I walk to my car from Zeitgeist Coffee or gaze up at the old brick… Read More

Glympse CEO on Apple’s location sharing app: We’re not worried

Bryan Trussel, the founder and CEO of Glympse, the popular mobile location tracking app, is accustomed to watching large tech… Read More

Report: Microsoft weighs another Yahoo acquisition bid

[Update: Bloomberg News reports Microsoft is “nowhere close” to making a Yahoo bid. AllThingsD’s Kara Swisher likewise throws cold water… Read More

Social media agency Spring Creek acquired by Mediabrands

Spring Creek Group, a five-year-old social media agency, has been acquired by Interpublic Group’s Mediabrands unit for an undisclosed price.… Read More

Microsoft app makes Windows Phone an Xbox media controller

Microsoft plans to release a new Windows Phone app that let Xbox 360 users find, launch and control content on… Read More

U.S. high-tech industry lost 115,800 jobs last year

Don’t tell this to Amazon.com, Facebook, Google or the countless startup companies in Seattle that are struggling to find high-quality… Read More

Microsoft’s new Xbox TV service: Yes, you still have to pay for cable

A new Xbox TV service, announced by Microsoft this morning, aims to give the company’s Xbox 360 game console a… Read More

As Apple unveils iPhone 4S, Android continues to surge

Apple released its new iPhone 4S this week, touting an 8 megapixel camera, better battery life and improved speeds. But is… Read More

A hunger for the best sci-fi books sparks geek’s latest quest

Adam Doppelt is a developer, tinkerer and accomplished entrepreneur. And he’s also a science fiction geek. Those passions all collided… Read More

SpaceCurve lands in Seattle, raises cash to analyze data feeds

SpaceCurve founder J. Andrew Rogers has kept a pretty low profile since moving to Seattle from Silicon Valley 13 months… Read More

Update: Microsoft confirms Comcast, Verizon, HBO, Bravo and others for Xbox Live TV

Update: As expected, the Verizon announcement was just the beginning. A Microsoft blog post says the company has signed up… Read More

iCloud: Apple’s 2011 video a lot like Microsoft’s 2008 vision

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCjeSNomXrU Foresight often isn’t enough in the technology industry, without good timing and execution. Apple will be testing this theory… Read More

Xbox Live TV: Details from Microsoft expected today

A few months back, Microsoft revealed plans to debut a new TV service through Xbox Live, with news, sports and… Read More

Seattle’s Museum of Flight questions data used by NASA to pick homes for retired shuttles

NASA staffers understated attendance for Seattle’s Museum of Flight and didn’t count Canadian visitors in their measure of the region’s… Read More

Redfin pulls the plug on Scouting Reports after just five days

Redfin is terminating its newly-launched Scouting Report service, ending a tumultuous five-day period in which the company took heat for… Read More

Google co-founders’ kids can’t avoid Microsoft technology

The families of Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin have been using their Google+ and Facebook accounts to build buzz for Bumble Los Altos,… Read More

Top 10 reasons why Darth Vader was an amazing project manager

The Sith Lord Darth Vader, of Star Wars fame, often gets a bad rap, particularly in what we all think of as his ‘dark… Read More

San Diego startup SweetLabs picks Seattle for new office

We’ve been writing a lot about California tech juggernauts establishing operations in Seattle, from Facebook to Salesforce.com to Zynga. But it… Read More

Poll: Will you buy an iPhone 4S?

If you can get over the shock of Apple not announcing a new iPhone 5 today, there’s actually a lot… Read More

Doing well by doing good: Winners from the Social Innovation Fast Pitch event

More than 600 people turned out last night in Seattle to listen to business plans from entrepreneurs who are trying… Read More

Apple confirms iPhone 4S, with voice-controlled ‘intelligent assistant’

[Update, 11:40 a.m.: The event has now ended: No iPhone 5! Wow. Post updated with details on pricing and availability… Read More

New from Apple: Sharing location, mailing cards, cutting off the PC

Apple executives are on stage in Cupertino, Calif., right now delivering a long buildup to the expected unveiling of a… Read More

Zulily’s Mark Vadon: ‘This is more QVC than Amazon’

I’ve been absolutely fascinated by the meteoric rise of Zulily, the Seattle daily deal site which now boasts more than… Read More

Zillow attracts 24M visitors to mobile and Web properties in September

Zillow continues to attract a large number of visitors to its mobile and Web properties, with the online real estate… Read More

Report: Amazon selling 2,000 Kindle Fires every hour

Looks like Amazon.com has a hit on its hands, even before its new tablet is officially released to consumers. The… Read More

Paul Allen buys $25M pad in NYC

Last year, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen forked over more than $25 million for a beautiful oceanfront home in Malibu, California.… Read More

Apple’s new iPhone: Sprint, 4G, and stuff we actually know

Apple will unveil at least one new iPhone at a media event that begins at 10 a.m. today at its… Read More

Microsoft’s iPod rival, Zune, confirmed dead by support page

A support page for Microsoft Zune confirms what we’ve known for a while: Microsoft will no longer be producing new… Read More