We love telling the stories of startups here at GeekWire, chronicling the ups and downs of the entrepreneurial voyage. Heck, we’re taking that voyage ourselves as newbie entrepreneurs, and I… Read More
Trulia has often followed in the footsteps of its larger Seattle rival, Zillow. Now, the San Francisco real estate company is hoping to ride on the coattails of Zillow’s recent IPO… Read More
Normally, for these sorts of service outages, the first place we consult is Twitter. After all, the site is the “pulse of the planet” right? Well, the pulse was lost… Read More
The way Vizify CEO Todd Silverstein sees it, social media pages are “cluttered, ugly and noisy.” In other words, the layout and design of most pages just don’t make you… Read More
Crosscut, the five-year-old online news publication for the Pacific Northwest, has named former Microsoft corporate communications manager Greg Shaw as CEO and publisher. A former journalist who started his career… Read More
In the online age, everyone can be a critic. And now, Seattle-based Urbanspoon is letting you release your inner Tom Colicchio via your smartphone. A new app feature, Urbanspoon Guides,… Read More
The first question I ask Van Riker, marketing manager for PopCap’s hit game Plants vs. Zombies, is a simple one: What’s the point of creating a 3-D zombie that you can… Read More
In yet more breaking news about our evolutionary slide into slothdom, PopCap released details of a study showing that half of U.S. and UK gamers use their mobile devices as… Read More
The iPhone is (arguably) the most beautiful piece of consumer technology introduced in the past few years, but it doesn’t come without “flaws.” And one of the main features that… Read More
Yes, once upon a time it was a completely mediocre movie with Angelina Jolie, but hacking into computer systems has become an art form, something that crafty tech whizzes worldwide… Read More
Rand Fishkin is changing the way that Internet marketers do their jobs. He and his team at SEOmoz are part of a small sector of the tech space, where adaptation and growth… Read More
As reporters covering the Seattle-area tech community, we frequently would refer to the Startup List on the Seattle 2.0 website when looking for new startups or jogging our memories about… Read More
Apple this morning released Mountain Lion, the next version of the Mac OS X operating system, as a $19.99 upgrade in the Mac App Store. Many of the most attention-grabbing… Read More
Nintendo this morning reported a quarterly loss of 10.3 billion yen, or about $132 million. Sales of the Wii game console continued to decline in advance of the scheduled release… Read More
With more than 5,500 hours of television programming scheduled for the London Olympics, TV viewers can tune in to nearly every water polo splash, equestrian jump and table tennis smash.… Read More
Maybe there are a few Robert Scobles out there who still believe that a significant number of successful apps in the future will be unique to any one client platform.… Read More
Lots of speakers aim to give their audience valuable takeaways, but Double Down Interactive’s Glenn Walcott took that concept very literally at the Casual Connect conference in Seattle today. As… Read More
We know Seattle is a serious food and drink town — and we have the apps for that. Now food-geek fans of the late, great Julia Child can download a… Read More
Apple sold 1.3 million Apple TV devices during the June quarter, an increase of 170 percent over the same quarter a year ago. That still qualifies as a “hobby,” according… Read More
International Game Technology’s purchase of Seattle-based Double Down Interactive, a developer of casino-style Facebook games, is starting to pay dividends. In the slot machine giant’s earnings report today, IGT said that… Read More
Sales of Apple’s iPad topped 17 million units in the company’s most recent quarter, up more than 80 percent over the same quarter a year ago, demonstrating the continued momentum… Read More
Amazon.com is among the backers participating in a $12 million financing round for WhoSay, an online service that helps musicians, athletes and other celebrities better manage their Facebook, Twitter and… Read More
Cara Ely, a creative director at Zynga, wants to make one thing very clear. It is time to abolish “pink games” already, those titles that target women with annoying game… Read More
Facebook may be known for Zynga’s FarmVille and other laid-back games, but there’s a big opportunity for third-party developers to make more titles on Facebook that appeal to “core” gamers… Read More
Web browsing on Kindle e-readers has never been an optimal experience, as signaled by the longstanding “experimental” label on the feature. But it has now become even less optimal for… Read More
Seattle’s Big Fish Games today unveiled a new cloud-based gaming service called Big Fish Unlimited that allows game players to participate in games across tablets, PCs, TVs and smartphones, saving… Read More
Summer is here, at least according to the calendar, which means it’s almost time for our next GeekWire Meetup. We’ve got a fun one planned — an all-ages event from… Read More
We’ve heard the complaints loud and clear that the Pacific Northwest simply needs more money flowing into early-stage startups. Well, Boris Wertz wants to do something about it. The Vancouver,… Read More
There’s no shortage of startups trying to help mobile developers quickly and easily build cross-platform apps for an ever-expanding line-up of gadgets, from iPhones to Android tablets to Windows Phone… Read More
File storage and sharing service Box released its first Windows Phone app this morning, rounding out its mobile offerings and looking to stand out in a sea of competition. The… Read More
