T-Mobile continues to carve a niche around selling phones and no-contract service plans at discount retailers across the U.S. The Bellevue carrier, which already distributes low-cost phones at 7-Eleven and… Read More
Pendrell Corp., the Kirkland patent holding firm led by former Clearwire execs, said today that it has withdrawn a petition for review with the California Supreme Court related to litigation… Read More
Zoomingo, the mobile shopping app created by Krishnan Seshadrinathan and Shirish Nadkarni, has named former Nordstrom executive Loretta Soffe to its advisory board. Soffe spent 24 years at Nordstrom, most recently as… Read More
If you could bet on just one mobile platform as an app developer, which would it be? That was my opening question last week when I moderated a panel discussion… Read More
Thinkfuse, one of the original startups to move through the TechStars Seattle program, is being acquired by Salseforce.com in a deal of undisclosed size. This appears to be a true… Read More
Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer of Facebook, has joined the company’s board of directors. She becomes the first female board member at the social networking powerhouse, which went public… Read More
Well, if summer ever officially arrives around these parts, Dwellable’s new service might be a nice resource. The Seattle upstart, created last year by Urbanspoon co-founder Adam Doppelt, today is… Read More
Why in the heck would Microsoft pay $1.2 billion to buy a Facebook knockoff for businesses? No one put it in precisely those terms, but that was the subtext of… Read More
Microsoft just announced an agreement to buy Yammer, the business-oriented social network, for $1.2 billion in cash. The company will join the Microsoft Office Division. The companies say in a… Read More
Microsoft is looking to expand its retail presence beyond the United States, planning to open Microsoft Stores in London and Toronto, according to two reports. The move is notable in… Read More
Brady Forrest doesn’t want to lose his connections to the Pacific Northwest even though he just took a job with one of Silicon Valley’s best known venture capitalists. In fact, when… Read More
T-Mobile USA says it will be able to improve its wireless coverage in 15 U.S. cities, including Seattle, as the result of an agreement with Verizon Wireless to purchase and… Read More
The on-again, off-again rumors swirling around Research in Motion are back on following a report by The Sunday Times that the BlackBerry maker is considering a plan to split itself… Read More
Microsoft’s Kinect sensor has already expanded beyond the Xbox 360 to Windows PCs. Next stop? The car. People will be able to interact with their cars using gestures, the system… Read More
If you haven’t heard of Dunno, you might want to take note — or rather, let it start taking notes for you. The Seattle-based company’s Dunno app allows users to… Read More
Amazon Lockers were practically incognito when the company began testing the concept in Seattle last year. The nondescript beige lockers showed up quietly in 7-Elevens and other locations, and they… Read More
The day that GeekWire reported that Seattle would host only the second-ever Startup Weekend event catering to women July 13-15, I was pulled in to a fascinating Facebook thread started by a friend… Read More
It has been a significant week for Microsoft, from the announcement of the company’s Surface tablet computer, (and its unique cover/keyboard) to the unveiling of Windows Phone 8. We assess the… Read More
One of Seattle’s most iconic buildings, the EMP Museum (formerly the Experience Music Project), just got super bagged on by architects and editors in California Home and Design magazine. In… Read More
Are your kids driving you crazy already? Well, Microsoft has a solution for that. The tech giant is now offering Summer Camps for kids at multiple Microsoft Stores across the… Read More
Let me ask you a question: How long have you been in business? Ten years? Five years? Two years? And in that time how many times have you disrupted your… Read More
Microsoft generated a ton of positive buzz in the tech world at the start of the week with the unveiling of its new Surface tablet computer, but the week is… Read More
Researchers at Washington State University have concluded that large segments of the state are marooned in what they call a “rural information ghetto,” stuck with a lack of news coverage exacerbated… Read More
Team GeekWire had a great time partying with more than 500 of you last night at the first GeekWire Summer Bash in Seattle. We crowned the 2012 champions for the… Read More
There’s no shortage of places to store your digital photos, from Facebook to Flickr to Instagram to Google’s Picassa to Photobucket to a computer’s hard drive. And that’s exactly the… Read More
Today we received a question about Nintendo’s upcoming console release, Wii U, with GeekWire reader Alex wondering why the company continues to release new peripherals for a console that’s seen… Read More
Now that was epic. More than 100 players from across the Seattle tech community battled it out last night in the GeekWire ping-pong and foosball tournaments during our big summer… Read More
Update: The event is over, but we’ve embedded the archive of the championship match live stream below. Thanks to everyone who joined us! Look for highlights (including photos and much… Read More
Searching for a new home has to be one of the most time-consuming and frustrating experiences of a person’s lifetime. So any little help to get a jump-start on the… Read More