Call it a yearbook for the Facebook generation. TreeRing, a San Mateo, California startup, has landed $3.6 million from some heavy hitters in the tech industry to radically upend the… Read More
Pandora listeners may have recently heard a call to support a bill called “The Internet Radio Fairness Act” in place of regularly scheduled advertising. Tim Westergren, the Pandora founder, also… Read More
PopCap Games is cutting back even further, announcing today that it closed its offices in Dublin, Ireland. Ninety-six employees are losing their jobs as a result of the closure, which… Read More
Late yesterday a new holding group, Voice Media Group, announced it would purchase the media properties of Village Voice Media Holdings, owners of alt-weekiles such as the Village Voice, LA Weekly and… Read More
As mobile continues to grow, companies are scrambling to keep up. Some brands have adapted well (Nordstrom comes to mind) but most are still figuring out how to reach customers… Read More
Intellectual Ventures this morning announced legal settlements with two companies, SK hynix and Elpida Memory, which make common types of memory used in computers and gadgets. The deals are the first major… Read More
The U.S. Census Bureau and the University of Washington today formally announced the opening of a new Census Research Data Center at the university’s College of Arts and Sciences. It becomes… Read More
Smartsheet, the Bellevue online collaboration service, has pulled in additional cash and named Geoffrey Barker to the board of directors. The co-founder of the The Cobalt Group and executive at RPX… Read More
Facebook and its third-party applications today know a hell of a lot about each us: what content we read (Washington Post Social Reader); what music we listen to (Spotify); what… Read More
They were all up on stage when the cosmonaut Valery Kubasov was introduced. With a lapel full of medals he strode across stage. As he walked past Buzz Aldrin, Jim Lovell,… Read More
Navigating Cancer, an online resource for patients who are dealing with various forms of cancer, has reeled in an additional $2.25 million in debt funding led by Western Technology Investment. The… Read More
You’ve heard about the weekend blockbuster in the movies. Now, Apple has a similar hit on its hands in the gadget arena. The company announced today that it sold more… Read More
Team GeekWire had a great time at Seattle 2.0 Startup Day in Bellevue yesterday, catching up with all of you and learning from a great lineup of speakers. A big… Read More
Remember the days of flicking a paper triangle through the ‘goalposts’ of your friend’s hands? Here’s the digital version of that game, officially sanctioned by the NFL. I’ve been having… Read More
Bravo film crews have been hanging out at Cheezburger’s offices in lower Queen Anne, getting footage for the release of their new reality TV show. Cheezburger CEO Ben Huh has… Read More
It’s Startup Day! GeekWire is excited to carry on this Seattle-area tech tradition, featuring a full day of talks from entrepreneurial veterans to help master key steps of the startup… Read More
It’s no secret that the image and aura of the Penn State University football program went from representing high-class tradition to committing and covering up downright disturbing actions. But the past… Read More
We had a lot of fun putting together this week’s GeekWire radio show and podcast, talking at length about Apple’s new iOS 6 and iPhone 5. To start, John tells… Read More
This week’s Name that Tech Tune contest promises to be a real head-scratcher for some of you, but I swear the song is tech-related. Up for grabs: We have two… Read More
Microsoft today issued a critical security update for Internet Explorer after scrambling to patch a hole severe enough to cause the German government to warn the public to stop using… Read More
It was a few mint juleps in to the evening when Joe Heitzeberg and I started talking about the common experiences of startuphood. “I just maxed out one of my credit cards,”… Read More
Paul Allen has lots of money. You already knew that about the co-founder of Microsoft, of course. But the Forbes 400 richest Americans list came out Wednesday and Mr. Allen has reached… Read More
Startup Weekend already hosts hundreds of events around the globe each year, and now the Seattle-based entrepreneurial education non-profit is looking to get even bigger. The organization just hired Ludovic… Read More
We’re looking forward to seeing more than 300 of you in Bellevue on Saturday (that’s tomorrow!) for the 4th annual Seattle 2.0 Startup Day, a Seattle-area tradition presented by GeekWire… Read More
While researchers studying animal behavior can’t quite yet track how many tweeting birds have lots of “followers” and which ones use the most “hashtags,” they are now able to study… Read More
Trulia certainly didn’t disappoint in its Wall Street debut. The San Francisco online real estate company raised $102 million; soared more than 40 percent to $24; and finished the day… Read More
Over the years, I’ve covered hundreds of startup closures, from high-profile flameouts like HomeGrocer.com to smaller lesser known upstarts that never really got off the ground. Now, according to research… Read More
What causes people to camp out overnight for the privilege of shelling out hundreds of dollars for a gadget? That’s the question we aimed to answer this morning at the Apple… Read More
Data I/O, a 40-year-old Redmond company that makes device programming and IP management technologies for the wireless, consumer electronics and automotive industries, announced today that it is undergoing a restructuring in… Read More
Solavei today is unveiling a new $49 per month unlimited voice, data and text service that runs on the back of T-Mobile’s 4G network. But that’s not the interesting, or… Read More
