The Kindle Fire is just five months old. But Amazon.com’s touchscreen device already accounts for 54 percent of the Android tablet market, according to a report out today from comScore.… Read More
We’ve had fun this week following the story of Planetary Resources, the new startup that plans to launch robots into space to mine asteroids. Their news conference at Seattle’s Museum… Read More
Kal Raman, the former Amazon.com and drugstore.com executive who stepped down as CEO of Bellevue-based GlobalScholar last September, has been named senior vice president of Groupon overseeing operations in ten countries in… Read More
Is Google CEO Larry Page cool, or not? It appears Google employees are taking no chances on their boss’ status, giving a certain “Larry” high marks in a patent application made… Read More
Changing jobs can be scary and confusing. Everybody has things that are important to them at a particular point in their career. Thinking clearly about what is important to you… Read More
That hotel room you booked in Cabo may have just helped pay for office space in Bellevue. Expedia has released its financial results for the first quarter of 2012. And perhaps… Read More
More than 100 app developers, designers, entrepreneurs, marketing experts, private citizens and government officials will descend on Seattle City Hall for 54 hours this weekend to share ideas and create… Read More
One of the coolest things about PopCap Games — which sold to Electronic Arts last year in a deal valued at up to $1.3 billion — is that the co-founders… Read More
Looks like they can’t build those new office towers soon enough. Amazon.com added 9,400 employees to its payroll in the quarter ended March 31, according to numbers released along with… Read More
Clearwire says it will launch its new LTE 4G network in 31 cities in the first half of next year, including Seattle, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Chicago.… Read More
Twitter announced updates to its iPhone and Android apps today — adding advanced search functions, a condensed activity/discover section, and improved push notifications. New to the app is the “activity” feature… Read More
[Follow-up: Amazon adds 9,400 workers — largest growth ever, now employs 65,000 people] Amazon.com just beat Wall Street’s expectations with net sales of $13.18 billion, up 34 percent. The company’s… Read More
What’s the price of influence? It may just be a free trip to Seattle. While the digerati, including Wired in its May issue, debate the true influence of high-scorers on… Read More
The state of Illinois has lost a lawsuit against the state’s attempt to collect sales tax from out-of-state, online retailers — a law often called the “Amazon tax.” The Performance… Read More
Planetary Resources, the Bellevue-based company that this week unveiled plans to launch robotic spacecraft to mine asteroids, has received nearly 1,000 job applications since making its announcement. The company cited… Read More
Boeing has reached a deal to buy Inmedius, a software company based in Pittsburgh that makes software for managing and distributing technical information. Think of it as “big data” in the… Read More
[Editor’s Note: GeekWire’s Rebecca Lovell was one of more than 200 judges at the UW Business Plan Competition Investment Round yesterday. She sent this dispatch about one of the more attention-getting… Read More
Shadowrun Returns, the revival of Seattle-area game designer Jordan Weisman’s classic franchise, broke through the $1.5 million mark overnight in pledges on Kickstarter. That’s more than three times the original… Read More
On the GeekWire podcast a few weeks ago, Seattle angel investor and BuddyTV co-founder Andy Liu noted that he’s been making a number of investments in recent months. We’ve reported… Read More
Nintendo just posted an annual loss of more than $530 million, as the company struggles with the decline of the Wii console and the lackluster launch of the 3DS handheld… Read More
In what the company is describing as an oversubscribed venture round, Seattle medical device maker Cadence Biomedical has raised $1.1 million in new funding led by HealthTech Capital. Other participants… Read More
Entrepreneurial students from colleges and universities throughout the region competed Wednesday in the annual University of Washington Business Plan Competition Investment Round. More than 200 judges — many from leading companies… Read More
Michael “Luni” Libes has spent the past 20 years building software companies, creating new upstarts such as Ground Truth, Medio Systems, 2Way and Nimble Corp. But Libes is now switching… Read More
Walk Score, which has made a name for itself ranking neighborhoods by how easy it is to walk to amenities and transit, is now rolling out its first ratings of… Read More
The popular app OneBusAway, developed at the University of Washington, keeps track of bus schedules in real time for thousands of transit riders in the Seattle region. But increasingly those users… Read More
With its roots in online retail, Amazon.com isn’t a traditional technology company, which means that its profit margins are much lower than many others in the tech sector. But as… Read More
Going green is a way of life for many in the Pacific Northwest, and penny-pinching local governments are more than happy to oblige the push for paperless billing. The State… Read More
It’s a common sight on the road: the focused driver with white ear buds and trailing wires. But common or not, it may not be strictly, well, street legal. Lifehacker… Read More
It was the very last question at the news conference announcing Planetary Resources’ plans to find mineral-rich asteroids, pull them into near-Earth orbit, and mine them. Did science fiction play a… Read More
Apple CEO Tim Cook took a thinly veiled jab at Microsoft and Windows PC makers yesterday, saying that the notion of a hybrid tablet/notebook requires so many trade-offs that no… Read More