Companies spend days, hours and weeks making sure they hire the right people. Sometimes, though, they forget to keep their employees happy. Meritshare, a five-month-old upstart created by former WhitePages… Read More
INRIX is driving toward an initial public offering, and today the Kirkland-based provider of traffic information analysis hired a new chief financial officer to help guide the way. The spin-out… Read More
There are countless photo-sharing apps out there for everything from food to dogs. Now, a former Microsoft and Google engineer is trying to do the same for real estate. It’s called Abodograph, and… Read More
Patent sales typically have little to do with the average employee, negotiated and transacted by hordes of lawyers. But now these bad boys of the tech world may actually be… Read More
The news over the weekend that Google’s Gmail service will be ending support for Microsoft’s Exchange ActiveSync protocol is a blow to Microsoft’s Windows Phone. The Redmond company’s mobile platform… Read More
iPhone users apparently like Google Maps — a lot. Google’s Jeff Huber announced today that there were more than 10 million downloads of Google Maps for iOS in less than 48… Read More
For sports fans, the Xbox was once just a device for scoring touchdowns on Madden or making birdies with Tiger Woods. But as Microsoft continues to turn the Xbox into… Read More
Ramez Naam is a tech industry veteran who has also experienced success as a non-fiction writer. He worked at Microsoft for 13 years and won the 2005 HG Wells Award for… Read More
After Seattle mayor Mike McGinn announced an agreement Thursday with broadband developer Gigabit Squared to operate a high-speed fiber network in Seattle throughout 12 neighborhoods, most tech people in the area had a simple question: Am I… Read More
Based on the numbers, things are going very well at Hulu. The streaming video company released its 2012 results today and this year, the company will post $695 million in revenue,… Read More
At least one person wasn’t happy with the way Microsoft was naming its new ARM tablet operating system. Dell vice-chairman Jeffrey Clarke spoke at a conference last week and told… Read More
Rudy Gadre admits it. He’s a Seattle “homer.” And that deep hometown pride might be a very good thing for the region’s emerging startup scene. Gadre is fast becoming one… Read More
Extended Results Inc., a business-intelligence technology company just down the road from Microsoft, says it has seen more than 2,500 downloads of its PushBI app since launching on Windows 8.… Read More
Sprint has reached an agreement to acquire the remainder of its longtime partner, Bellevue-based Clearwire, for $2.2 billion — an increase over its original offer of $2.1 billion but still… Read More
Americans are spending a lot of dough online this holiday season, with comScore reporting that $33.8 billion has been spent online so far this year. That’s up 13-percent compared to the… Read More
OfferUp CEO Nick Huzar knows you have a bunch of stuff in your garage, and he wants to help you sell it. With a history in startups and a passion… Read More
When the National Weather Service issued a blizzard warning for the Cascades on Sunday afternoon, a lot of Seattle-area smartphone owners received an alert that was long on drama and… Read More
Bellevue-based Valve has acquired Star Filled Studios, a two-man development team founded by ex-PopCap and Blizzard employees Jeff Gates and Tod Semple. ValveTime picked up on this via Semple’s LinkedIn… Read More
What better way to spend a cold rainy Saturday in Seattle than shopping for a new iPhone 5? Actually, I can think of a number of better things to do… Read More
Stephen Colbert is rarely serious, at least not when he’s in character, but the TV host seemed genuinely surprised during a recent visit to Google to find out that the company… Read More
Recently, the Northwest Energy Angels convened a breakfast briefing on cleantech investing, and I had the honor of moderating a panel headlined by Clean Tech Nation author and Clean Edge… Read More
Jesse Proudman’s Blue Box has reeled in $800,000 in fresh capital, part of an oversubscribed venture capital round that the Seattle startup just closed. The cloud hosting company, founded by… Read More
It might be a “kid’s app” but it’s entertained the hell out of me for the past couple weeks. It’s “Toca Tailor Fairy Tales” by Toca Boca. This app is the… Read More
You can get rewarded for shopping, eating, gambling, flying and pretty much everything else these days. But what about rewards for being healthy? That’s the concept behind EveryMove, a Seattle-area… Read More
Amazon.com, which has warhouses around the globe, announced Friday that it will build a 1 million square-foot distribution center 50 miles south of its Seattle headquarters, in DuPont, Wash. The… Read More
“Perspective,” the latest creation from Redmond’s DigiPen University, is not easy to explain in words. It’s an experimental first person puzzle game that allows players to manage different dimensions of control.… Read More
Above is a presentation made on Haiku Deck and shared on Slideshare — it also shows you how to upload your Haiku Deck presentations to Slideshare. That’s now possible going forward,… Read More
Both my colleague John Cook and I are in the market for a new smartphone, and Wal-Mart’s latest deals certainly just caught our eye. The retailer is now selling the iPhone5 for… Read More
As Brad Brewer pulled out his iPhone and showed me Clipsy at last week’s GeekWire Gala, the amount of moving videos all in one place startled me. Then I took… Read More
Amazon continues to gobble up talent in the Seattle area, hiring thousands of new staffers for its South Lake Union headquarters. But that’s not the only place where the tech… Read More