Sometimes it’s the odd, offbeat stories that grab the attention of our readers. How better to explain the fascination with the absurd techno-dance routine (posted above) that preceded Microsoft’s Windows… Read More
In further news about awesome people doing awesome things, a team from the University of Washington is installing a series of nodes on the sea floor — something akin to a… Read More
“Matt Lauer would do well to shut up, wouldn’t he?” This is just one of many critical — and hilarious — tweets fired away from The Independent‘s Los Angeles correspondent… Read More
In other e-mail news today, Yahoo Mail launched an upgrade that would make it “faster and easier” to use. Instead, when Yahoo Mail users tried to log into their accounts,… Read More
Tech-minded teachers from across the country are on the Microsoft campus in Redmond this week, sharing some of the new ways they’re incorporating technology into their classrooms. The event is… Read More
Zillow may get a lot of the attention in Seattle’s burgeoning online real estate arena, recently celebrating the one-year anniversary of its IPO and boasting a market value of more… Read More
Supercomputer maker Cray Inc. today reported net income of $147.4 million on revenue of $84.2 million, a “strong quarter” in the words of CEO Peter Ungaro. The boost in net… Read More
Cameron Wheeler runs his company from the epicenter of Seattle’s startup community, in the same building as Founder’s Co-op and TechStars in South Lake Union. But unlike many others on his… Read More
Amazon.com today is touting new offerings for its Cloud Player music service, including a new service called “scan and match” that allows consumers to easily move their favorite music tracks… Read More
Tracy Wright Knox, the former chief financial officer at drugstore.com, has taken a new CFO position at Bellevue-based UIEvolution. In the role, Wright Knox will oversee finance, human resources and… Read More
Sprint’s plans to shut down its iDEN network next year could have an impact on Clearwire, with the broadband wireless company writing in a SEC filing that it will not… Read More
Tired of using an email address that contains your 8th grade nickname, or has seven numbers appended to it? Here’s your chance to use something closer to your preferred name… Read More
First things first: Yes, you can keep your @hotmail email address, if you want. Microsoft, however, will be leaving the Hotmail brand behind. The company this morning is rolling out… Read More
Decide.com already tells consumers when they should buy cameras, phones, refrigerators and other gadgets and appliances, analyzing price drops and increases. Now, the Seattle startup and brainchild of University of… Read More
[Updated below with Motorola statement] Microsoft’s top lawyer this morning called on Google to “engage in serious discussions” toward a wide-ranging patent licensing deal that would end the thicket of… Read More
Box, the file sharing and data storage startup founded seven years ago by Mercer Island High School grads Aaron Levie and Dylan Smith, has reeled in a whopping $125 million… Read More
Banyan Branch is adding a new tree limb, announcing today that it is taking over Seattle social media upstart Nology Media. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Nology’s four… Read More
We’ve been closely watching — even trying out — Amazon.com’s new Locker service since it quietly arrived in the Seattle area last year. Now, the online retailer appears comfortable enough… Read More
Dendreon, the once-promising Seattle biotechnology company, is taking it on the chin today after announcing a restructuring that will cost more than 600 people their jobs; the closure of its manufacturing… Read More
Editor’s Note: We’ve got a fantastic lineup of speakers on tap for GeekWire’s Startup Day, taking place Saturday, Sept. 22nd at Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue. Among the entrepreneurs on the… Read More
Global Green Energy in Tumwater has hardware that solar power system owners use to feed renewable energy into the electric grid. To find out more, I talked with Global Green… Read More
Last year, a Facebook application called HardlyWork.in made news by providing an alternative interface for the social network — putting a user’s Facebook news feed inside a fake Excel spreadsheet,… Read More
Econet, a South Korean investment holding company, has moved two of its nutritional products companies into a new 70,000 square-foot headquarters in Seattle’s Belltown neighborhood at 3005 1st Avenue. The… Read More
Getting kids to do chores is hard enough. But add in that parents have less time to spend around the house, and that makes for a messy house and undisciplined… Read More
Earlier this year, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation issued a blistering report which said, among other things, that the majority of venture funds it had invested in over the years had failed… Read More
Microsoft will release the first version of its Surface tablet computer Oct. 26, simultaneous with the general availability of Windows 8, the company says. The statement, included in Microsoft’s annual… Read More
Who said billionaire Paul Allen’s megayacht, The Octopus, was just for all night ragers and Antonio Banderas dance offs? Following Allen’s much ballyhooed docking at the London Olympics, the Microsoft… Read More
Adapx has landed $3 million in additional funding and named former retired U.S. Army Vice Chief of Staff Peter W. Chiarelli to its board of directors. The Seattle company’s Capturx software is used… Read More
My desk isn’t cool enough for this thing. That was my first thought after getting my hands on the Wedge Touch Mouse (pictured at right), a new piece of hardware… Read More
Up to now, Microsoft hadn’t weighed in with any kind of public response to the recent Vanity Fair piece about the company’s “Lost Decade.” But the full version of the… Read More