Sure, you could give a nice bottle of wine or Scotch. But for the entrepreneur, geek or start-up junkie in your life (peer, colleague, family member or otherwise), consider something… Read More
Zynga’s growth over the past few years into the top maker of social media games is pretty amazing stuff. And so the creator of FarmVille and Words with Friends today… Read More
Some companies reward staffers with holiday parties. Others give a nice little bonus or extra time off. Evo Media Group co-founder Mark Michael wanted to do something a little different,… Read More
Jack Kim spends his days as a student at King’s High School in Shoreline, taking advanced placement courses in hopes of one day attending Stanford University. Then, after robotics team practice,… Read More
Novel Inc., a Redmond startup that uses game mechanics to help corporations hire more qualified employees, has raised $1.6 million in funding, according to a SEC filing released today. In… Read More
Cheezburger’s experiment with an online currency and collectibles program has ended in … failure. The Seattle company announced this week that it will pull the plug on the Cheezburger Collectibles program… Read More
Microsoft’s Bing search engine is still No. 3 in the U.S. search market, but not by much. The Redmond company came in at an even 15 percent of the market… Read More
For years, real estate agents have used bound and printed marketing materials to convince home sellers that they have what it takes to sell their home. Known in industry parlance… Read More
Eric Danas has worked for more than 15 years in the field of user-experience design — currently working with Vertafore, a Bothell-based company that makes software for the insurance industry. How… Read More
The highly-anticipated initial public offering for Zynga is moving forward, with Bloomberg News reporting that the maker of FarmVille, Mafia Wars and other social media games priced 100 million shares… Read More
Who says Microsoft doesn’t ship products quickly enough? It has actually been tough keeping up with the company lately … at least when it comes to mobile apps, not only… Read More
Seattle entrepreneur James Sun traveled to Silicon Valley to raise cash for his new startup, the mobile coupon site Pirq. But, at the end of the day, it was a… Read More
Starting a business takes a lot of research, time and money. You probably read a bunch of books, talked to other business owners and listened to some advisors. You obviously… Read More
Microsoft Hardware today announced a new Bluetooth mobile keyboard that might just turn the heads of a few iPad owners. The $49.99 Bluetooth Mobile Keyboard 5000, with special “Comfort Curve”… Read More
GreenButton, a New Zealand company that helps businesses more easily move information to the cloud, has established new offices in Silicon Valley and Seattle. “Our presence in Silicon Valley and… Read More
Microsoft is talking for the first time publicly about its “So.cl” network today, explaining what it is — and what it isn’t — and expanding the private beta of the… Read More
It’s going to be a Kindle kind of holiday for many folks around the globe. Amazon.com today said that it is selling Kindles at a rate of more than one… Read More
A quick rundown of stories and offbeat tidbits catching our attention this morning … Pet and animal lovers can now get all of their comedy offerings in one spot as Cheezburger… Read More
Former Microsoft vice president Jawad Khaki drew on his Tanzanian heritage as inspiration for his new startup company, Uhuru Software. In the Kiswahili language, Uhuru translates to freedom. And that’s the… Read More
SonoSite, the publicly traded ultrasound device company headquartered near Seattle, will be acquired by Tokyo-based Fujifilm Holdings Corp. for $995 million under a deal announced by the companies this morning.… Read More
Microsoft plans to streamline the way Internet Explorer is upgraded through its Windows Update process, aiming to move more PC users to the latest version of its web browser, even… Read More
Starbucks is getting more serious about its social media efforts, and the Seattle coffee giant just named a 29-year-old rising star in the field to its board to help with… Read More
Nokia will return to the U.S. smartphone market starting Jan. 11 with a Nokia Lumia 710 Windows Phone — a key milestone in the partnership between Microsoft and Nokia as… Read More
Maybe it’s because of the growing obesity problem in the U.S. Or, perhaps, cubicle-bound techies just want to spend their free time thinking about ways to get healthier. Whatever the… Read More
The problem of talking and texting while driving was put back into the spotlight yesterday as the National Transportation Safety Board called for an unprecedented nationwide ban on the use… Read More
Sprint today announced a “sweeping multiyear marketing partnership” with the NBA as the league’s official wireless sponsor, filling a role that had been held by T-Mobile USA since 2005. The… Read More
Here’s some good news for hump day. Washington’s jobless rate fell to 8.7 percent in November as employers in the state added 12,100 jobs, the biggest one-month gain in four… Read More
At 34 years old, Chris Kemp has a resume that many would call a career — Silicon Graphics systems engineer, Classmates.com chief architect, founder of online grocery technology company Netran and… Read More
Valve Software co-founder Gabe Newell, DoubleDown Interactive CEO Greg Enell, ZipLine Games co-founder Todd Hooper and many others from Seattle’s burgeoning gaming business appear in a new special report from… Read More
Cloud database startup Xeround has reeled in $9 million in venture capital financing from Benchmark Capital and Giza Venture Capital. Seattle area investors Ignition Partners and Trilogy Partnership also participated in the… Read More