It’s always the pleasantly strange things at Emerald City Comicon that catch my eye. A wizard eating a burrito. Darth Vader in a bright yellow kilt. A pterodactyl talking on his… Read More
Let’s take a pause for a moment from the heated rhetoric and political grandstanding coming out of the Barack Obama and Mitt Romney camps. This country has real problems, problems… Read More
Our topic this week on a special edition of the GeekWire radio show and podcast: Growing up Geek. Joining us in the studio are GeekWire columnist Frank Catalano, whose ‘7… Read More
Seattle area mobile app developers Robert Mao and Haitao Li had no real intention of building a new application when they traveled to SXSW earlier this month. But after stumbling upon… Read More
Super Friends meets The Office? That, in a nutshell, is how Seattle production company Moon Bullet Studios describes its new web series, The Collectibles. The ten-part series will officially debut… Read More
Amazon.com started rolling out lockers at 7-Eleven stores in the Seattle area last fall, an innovative way for shoppers to get packages delivered to the convenience store rather than a… Read More
First, Angry Birds became part of the Space Needle. Now, the Space Needle is literally becoming part of Angry Birds. Developer Rovio has posted on its Angry Birds Facebook page… Read More
Enthusiasm for technology runs wide and deep at the University of Washington, which recently took a snapshot of current tech usage patterns by students, faculty and teaching assistants. Supplemental materials… Read More
With a kick-off Facebook post propelled by a tweet from major science-fiction fan Paul Allen, tickets have gone on sale for what’s being billed as Seattle’s first annual Science Fiction… Read More
Whoa, this is pretty huge news. Neil Roseman, the former Amazon.com vice president who joined Zynga last year, has left the company after just 12 months on the job. The… Read More
Calling it a victory for Web transparency and the First Amendment, Seattle-based Avvo today said that a judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by a disgruntled Florida lawyer who claimed… Read More
Digital Fortress plans to open a new 25,000 square foot data center just north of downtown Seattle this July, adding to a facility that the newly-formed company operates at the… Read More
A study from the University of Illinois at Chicago is giving top marks to the City of Seattle for its use of the web for civic engagement — and calling… Read More
Earlier this week, CNBC published a survey which found that half of American households now own at least one Apple product. GeekWire’s coverage of the survey sparked a strong reaction, which… Read More
It sure has been a busy couple of weeks for Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. From squashing rumors about the sale of the Portland Trail Blazers to donating $300 million to… Read More
Versium Analytics, a new startup led by former InfoSpace executives Chris Matty and Kevin Marcus, is just three weeks old. But the Redmond company has already locked up one customer… Read More
StudentRND has been gathering geeky and entrepreneurial high school and college kids for weekend hackathons for three years now. Now, co-founder Edward Jiang is looking to expand his growing empire,… Read More
Next to politics, perhaps no industry loves speculation more than tech. We may couch it as “analysis” or — if we’re being especially honest with ourselves — as “commentary” or… Read More
Here at GeekWire, we are incredibly proud to present the fourth annual Seattle 2.0 Startup Awards, and we’ve been enjoying watching the nominations roll in by the hundreds. This is a… Read More
To help inform small businesses of the risk of being lured by counterfeit software offerings, Microsoft has launched a worldwide online video awareness campaign that calls attention to software acquistion… Read More
Sprint is putting another nail in its WiMax coffin by confirming at an Orlando mobile carrier conference that it will no longer release new WiMax phones, instead relying on devices… Read More
There’s a lot of speculation about who or what is to blame for Best Buy’s decision to shutter 50 of its big box stores. But Goldman Sachs analyst Matthew Fassler thinks… Read More
If you have a spare 30 hours and $300 this weekend, you may want to try a do-it-yourself project that’s a bit more satisfying to your inner geek than, say,… Read More
You might say it is a bit of an oxymoron. But Startup Weekend is introducing a new event next month in Seattle designed to bring the fast-paced world of startups… Read More
While social sites like Pinterest and Tumblr are growing like wildfire and offering marketers plenty of opportunity to leverage new audiences, my money is still on Facebook in 2012 as… Read More
Apple is not only killing it in the stock market and in the living room. The company’s top brass also is winning the respect of employees, with Apple CEO Tim… Read More
As social web services proliferate, I’m finding Twitter, my first love, the only one that’s truly become a natural feature of daily life. New pretenders feel fun and flashy at… Read More
“Big data” is perhaps the hottest buzzword in technology these days. And now President Obama is jumping on the bandwagon, announcing a new $200 million R&D initiative today that’s designed… Read More
We almost take Bluetooth for granted, as it zips our data through the air, letting us make hands-free phone calls and sync media between devices, among countless other applications enabled… Read More
Medio Systems is making a big move into the predictive analytics arena, helping gaming, financial services, entertainment and other companies better engage with their customers who are using mobile devices. And… Read More