The expansion of European music service Spotify to the U.S. last year brought considerable hand-wringing over the potential impact on Rhapsody, but the venerable Seattle-based music subscription service instead was… Read More
Nokia’s earnings report today sheds new light on its partnership with Microsoft — confirming that the company sold more than 1 million Windows Phones in the fourth quarter, and disclosing… Read More
Post updated at 7:45 a.m. Intel will pay RealNetworks $120 million in cash for a portfolio of 190 patents, 170 patent applications and the Seattle company’s next-generation video-codec software, under… Read More
The story of Bill Gates’ final visit with Steve Jobs was told in Walter Isaacson’s biography of the Apple co-founder, but an ABC News interview airing on Nightline tonight lets… Read More
Earlier today, The New York Post reported that Amazon.com was weighing the possibility of creating a standalone video subscription service, one that would directly rival Netflix. Well, as it turns… Read More
Returns at venture capital firms took a turn into negative territory during the third quarter of 2011 as the IPO market took a nosedive for the period ended September 30.… Read More
One day in 2008, Port Commissioner John Creighton and Seattle Office of Film and Music Director James Keblas landed in Austin for the Seattle Chamber’s Intercity Study Mission. Noting how… Read More
Marchex today said that it expects revenue in the range of $38.8 million to $39 million for the fourth quarter, with the Seattle online advertising company noting in the preliminary… Read More
The privacy changes announced by Google this week highlight the classic dilemma of the digital age: Are you willing to give companies a clearer picture of yourself, and what you… Read More
Blogs are great at making your Web site visible and findable on search engines. Most entrepreneurs can do the work themselves or hire talent to make that happen. What’s a… Read More
Zumobi, a maker of mobile applications for companies such as MSNBC, Motor Trend and others, has named Marla Schimke as vice president of marketing. Schimke previously worked at AudienceScience, Microsoft and… Read More
The Nokia Lumia 900 is being positioned as the flagship Windows Phone in the United States, but a new report suggests it won’t be priced like it. Boy Genius Report,… Read More
Avvo, the online question and answer service for lawyers and doctors, is expanding its lineup of products with the addition of a new dentist directory and Q&A site. Adding the… Read More
Remember the report last month in which a financial analyst from Stern Agee cut his projections for iPad sales from 15 million to 13 million, citing pressure from Amazon.com’s Kindle… Read More
Amazon.com is increasingly expanding into the business of book publishing, and it has some formidable distribution mechanisms in the form of its own e-commerce site and Kindle devices. But what about… Read More
Wibe Wagemans — who flew the coop at Angry Birds maker Rovio three months ago — just landed at Big Fish Games. The Seattle game maker is announcing today that Wagemans… Read More
OfficeSpace.com is one of the oldest ongoing Internet businesses in the Seattle area, tracing its roots back to 1995. At the time (the same year Amazon.com launched), the company touted… Read More
Nearly nine out of 10 companies are seeing employees use personal phones, tablets and computers at work — marking a sharp rise in the trend known as the “consumerization of… Read More
Amazon Web Services is rolling out a yet another new offering today called AWS Gateway Storage, a service that the company said will provide businesses with an easy way to securely… Read More
Ingenuity, innovation and entrepreneurship are cornerstones of the American experience, attributes that the United States should support, encourage and bankroll as the country emerges from a long and hard economic… Read More
Yahoo today reported fourth-quarter profits that met Wall Street’s relatively modest expectations, but the numbers also show how Yahoo’s 2009 search agreement with Microsoft is changing the financial picture for… Read More
There’s no shortage of online storage and synchronization services on the market, from Box.net to Dropbox to Apple’s iCloud to Seattle’s very own TappIn (acquired last month by GlobalScape). Now, here… Read More
Microsoft’s Windows Live Hotmail has surpassed 12 million active users on Apple iOS devices — a dramatic climb resulting from the simplified process for setting up the Microsoft webmail service… Read More
How powerful is Apple becoming in the tech industry? Well, take a look at the impressive quarter that the iPhone and iPad maker just reported, posting quarterly revenue of $46.33… Read More
With more than 800 million users, you’d expect a few bad apples. But Facebook and Washington state Attorney General Rob McKenna are looking to root out some apparent rottenness that’s… Read More
Apple just reported some gigantic quarterly financial results, with revenue of more than $46 billion, and earnings per share of $13.87. Analysts were expecting $38.85 billion in revenue and $10.08… Read More
Users of Picnik were none too happy when Google decided to pull the plug on the popular online photo editing service last week. At last count, there were more than… Read More
Microsoft returned to modest employment growth in 2011, adding more employees around the world than at any point since making its first widespread cutbacks during the recession of 2008 and… Read More
This oughta get you warp drives revving. Star Trek, the legendary sci-fi TV show, and Settlers of Catan, the classic German board game, are combining forces for Star Trek Catan.… Read More
Booyami, a Seattle area startup that’s looking to streamline aspects of the banking process, has raised $905,000 in startup capital, according to a SEC filing. The company, which operates under… Read More