At first I laughed when I saw the cover of the newly arrived Parenting on my desk last night, featuring a young boy in a faux black turtleneck, wireless glasses… Read More
AllRecipes.com has been on the auction block for several months, and now it finally has a buyer. Meredith Corp., the magazine publisher behind titles such as Eating Well, Parents and… Read More
Trying to rebound from a tumultuous year, wireless broadband provider Clearwire just provided a sneak peek at its fourth-quarter financial performance, saying it expects record revenues of $362 million —… Read More
Symform has raised an additional $2 million in funding from WestRiver Capital, OVP Venture Partners and Longworth Venture Partners, bringing total cash raised in the Seattle cloud storage startup to $9 million.… Read More
This is pretty funny — and slightly disturbing. Redfin, the Seattle-based online real estate company, has produced a very tongue-in-cheek “Men of Redfin I.T. Calendar”, featuring its internal tech specialists in… Read More
Microsoft will be phasing out the Microsoft Points virtual currency system used on Xbox Live and Zune by the end of the year, according to a report this afternoon by… Read More
Four months after dismantling the nasty Kelihos botnet, Microsoft says it has tracked down the central figure behind it– naming Russian citizen Andrey N. Sabelnikov as a new defendant in its… Read More
Adapx, whose Capturx software for digital pens is used by the military and corporations such as Carnival and Microsoft, has raised an additional $3 million in funding from existing investors… Read More
Have you ever been playing Halo and realize you have no clue where the next objective is? You just killed the last gold Elite and… now what? Just as you… Read More
Google is speaking loud and clear in Washington D.C., nearly doubling its expenditures on federal lobbying efforts last year. Cnet’s Jay Greene dug into the federal filings at the United States… Read More
Microsoft was mum about Windows Phone sales during its quarterly report last week, but we could get a clearer picture when its key partner Nokia reports earnings later this week.… Read More
Wavii, the stealthy Seattle startup led by Adrian Aoun, is getting closer to unveiling a new service that’s designed to help people find the news that matters the most to… Read More
Apple’s earnings report on Tuesday afternoon will be closely watched as a gauge of the company’s momentum in the smartphone and tablet markets. The company disappointed Wall Street in its… Read More
It’s getting much harder for startup companies to find the technical, engineering and executive talent that they need to grow their companies, especially in Seattle where fast-growing technology companies such… Read More
Clearwire has entered into an agreement with Simplexity MVNO Services in which Simplexity will become a reseller of Clearwire’s mobile broadband service. The deployment of the service is to begin… Read More
How’s this for bringing harmony to the digital age? The video above, originally posted on YouTube over the summer, has gone viral in the past few days as a counterpoint… Read More
Amazon.com is expanding aggressively overseas, and the latest example comes via Reuters which reports that the giant Seattle online retailer is planning to establish its first fulfillment center in Mumbai,… Read More
Zach Sweetser, a 17-year-old junior at Bellevue’s Interlake High School, has been an aviation enthusiast since he could talk, and he loves building and flying radio-controlled planes. He has attached a… Read More
When ZocDoc announced $75 million in new funding last September, the 5-year-old company stated that it planned to use the cash infusion to expand rapidly into new regions. Now, the… Read More
Nooks. iPads. Kindles. PlayBooks. Kobos. Americans are getting more familiar with tablet computers and e-readers, with a new study out today from the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project… Read More
RIM, which has struggled to keep its BlackBerry line of smartphones relevant amid increasing competition from the iPhone and Android, today replaced co-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis with a… Read More
Tableau Software plans to hire 300 new workers this year, nearly doubling its staff of 350 as business continues to accelerate at the maker of data visualization products. The company plans… Read More
Sorry, but this was too strange to ignore: Domain name watchdog Fusible.com reports that Microsoft has obtained the sites “clicktohump.com” and “clicktohump.org” as part of an acquisition spree possibly related to… Read More
The Seattle area and I just went through a four day snow/ice storm event. The City of Seattle’s emergency operations center (EOC) was activated and coordinated the City government’s response. That response… Read More
The best observations, quotes, comments and zingers we heard this week. “There’s a fundamental difference between people who want to see the Internet and say — ‘Let’s lobotomize and censor… Read More
Guest Commentary: In 1981, when IBM introduced the IBM PC, Apple ran a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal that said “Welcome, IBM. Seriously.” The ad was controversial at… Read More
Call me old school, but I still like to head to a sporting event with a paper ticket securely tucked in my billfold. But are the glory days of the… Read More
Can your phone be used to help prevent fraud? That’s the idea behind Finsphere, a Bellevue mobile security startup that matches the location of a consumer’s mobile phone with financial transactions… Read More
What happens when big tech companies acquire your favorite online services? Increasingly it seems, they shut ’em down. At least, that was the case this past week with two of… Read More
Updated below with answer and winner. This week marks our 30th Name that Tech Tune challenge! We have fun putting this contest together every week, and we know lots of… Read More
