Madrona Venture Group partner Brian McAndrews, the former aQuantive CEO and Microsoft executive, has been elected to the New York Times Co. board of directors, part of a broader effort… Read More
In a “move that will surely send shocks through the iPhone accessory ecosystem,” TechCrunch reported today that Apple plans to switch things up with the next incarnation of the iPhone by… Read More
For music lovers and supporters of the Seattle Symphony, you are in luck. The Symphony has launched a new mobile website and apps for iPhones and Androids, so fans can… Read More
Boeing has captured widespread attention with its liquid-hydrogen powered Phantom Eye autonomous plane — not just from the United States, but from other countries, as well. That was one of the… Read More
Matt Harding is back, and more inspiring than ever. The Seattle resident, known for traveling the world to film his endearingly awkward dance moves, has teamed up with the citizens… Read More
Blue Water Productions is rolling out a new comic book line, featuring the of legends of the tech industry. The comic book company is starting with Microsoft’s Bill Gates —… Read More
We’re expecting more than 500 of you this afternoon and evening at the Showbox SODO for the first GeekWire Summer Bash — featuring two ping-pong tournaments, a foosball competition, games,… Read More
Twitter appears to be gradually coming back online after an outage this morning that lasted at least a half-hour for many users. Maybe this is their way of reminding us… Read More
[Follow-up: Report: Microsoft is not making its own Windows Phone] Earlier this week, Microsoft jumped into the computer hardware business, announcing plans to make its own Surface tablet computer. Now,… Read More
Web analytics firm StatCounter, which has been reporting a steady decline in Internet Explorer market share, has issued an extensive defense of its research techniques in an open letter to… Read More
Planetary Resources, the Bellevue-based company that plans to launch robotic spacecraft to mine near-Earth asteroids, doesn’t need extra money, backed by investors including Google’s Larry Page and Eric Schmidt, and Ross… Read More
We’re fascinated with stories where the physical and digital worlds come together, and each day it seems there are more examples of it. Here’s another one that caught our attention… Read More
International Game Technologies — which purchased Seattle social game maker Double Down Interactive for up to $500 million in January — is bringing its popular Da Vinci Diamonds slot machine to Facebook.… Read More
As a former venture capitalist with Trilogy Partners, Katie Thompson has seen her fair share of business plans over the years. But none resonated as much FUNnerator. That’s because it’s her business… Read More
Used to be, if one wanted to receive real-time updates on a smart watch about their e-mails and texts, they would probably have to go Pebble. No more. A Seattle-area… Read More
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Wash., was recognized today for its work on a project that promises to significantly increase the performance and reduce the recharge time for the… Read More
Microsoft just wrapped up the keynote at its Windows Phone Summit down in San Francisco with the announcement that its Windows Phone Marketplace has reached the milestone of 100,000 published… Read More
Here’s a partnership that’s all in the family. ThePlatform has inked a deal to provide its online video publishing system to NBCUniversal’s USA Network, Syfy and Oxygen, making it easier for those… Read More
AdReady is a company in transition, but one of the firm’s earliest venture backers still believes in the core mission of helping small and medium-sized businesses bolster their online display… Read More
We’ve been closely watching the online retail battle unfold between Amazon.com and Walmart. But there’s one place where Walmart is still winning the price war: brick-and-mortar retail. A study out… Read More
Microsoft this morning confirmed that Windows Phone will share a common underlying core with Windows 8 starting later this year, blending the company’s mobile and PC platforms. The company just… Read More
Tom Rizzo, a longtime and well-known Microsoft product manager who most recently led product management and competitive strategy for the company’s Office 365 cloud productivity service, has left for a… Read More
Amazon.com is expanding its Appstore to the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy and Spain, with plans to take the distribution platform to other international markets soon, the company announced today. It also said that it… Read More
Swype is getting a facelift, just eight months after the Seattle upstart was gobbled up for $102 million by Nuance. The popular mobile text-input technology for Android devices now includes… Read More
Washington’s startup community is getting yet another shot in the arm, thanks to the efforts of a newly-formed venture capital firm whose goal is to mine universities and research institutions… Read More
Seattle venture capital firm Divergent Ventures might not be as well known as some of its counterparts. But the firm — led by Rob Shurtleff and Kevin Ober — certainly has… Read More
Zynga has launched its new social game, Ruby Blast, a high-speed race of digging for hidden treasure in an ancient mine that lets users pit their skills against friends online.… Read More
Don’t you hate it when you invest a good six or seven minutes into something like Lifetime’s “7 Days of Sex” or Animal Planet’s “Hillbilly Handfishin’,” only to discover that,… Read More
Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime last appeared on “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” in November, talking up his love of Zelda. This week, he returned to the late-night show… Read More
Concur, one of Seattle’s largest technology companies, is leaving its longtime home of Redmond for downtown Bellevue. The maker of travel and entertainment expense management software has secured a lease… Read More