Facebook is the clearcut leader in social. We all know this. No one else is even close (except maybe Google). There are all sorts of reasons why they are succeeding… Read More
Beginning next Wednesday, Seattleites will be able to try out a new car rental service that allows you to pay by the minute and perhaps best of all, avoid any… Read More
Vikas Khandelwal and Pankaj Sethi met as classmates nearly 16 years ago at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur. As luck would have it, both ended up in Seattle, with Khandelwal… Read More
What will change about Microsoft’s Windows leadership following the departure of Steven Sinofsky as Windows president? “Not a whole lot,” says new Windows leader Julie Larson-Green in an interview with… Read More
Here’s what we learned from Amazon’s top-10 best-selling books of 2012: People love bad boy romance novels and independent publishers are more important than ever. The Seattle retail giant unveiled… Read More
Double Down Interactive, the Seattle-based maker of casino-style social games, started the year by announcing its acquisition by gambling technology giant IGT for up to $500 million. Double Down is… Read More
Well, we saw this coming. One of Clearwire’s largest shareholders isn’t too pleased about Sprint’s $2.1 billion offer to buy the remaining shares of the company that it doesn’t already… Read More
Brian Arbogast cut his teeth in the software business, spending more than two decades at Microsoft. But now the former software exec has something much bigger on his plate: Helping… Read More
One of our favorite technology products of the year here at GeekWire is PaperKarma, a mobile application that allows recipients of junk mail to snap a photo of the worthless paper… Read More
Life can get hectic for a mid-twenties software engineer at a big company. You’re working long hours at an exciting, fast-paced job and when you’re not grinding away at the… Read More
Christmas came a little early for all the Microsofties out there. As we first reported back in September, all full-time, direct Microsoft employees (a.k.a. Blue Badges/FTEs) received a Surface RT… Read More
Another Microsoft cloud service is going down. The Redmond software-giant announced today that it will retire Windows Live Mesh on Feb. 13, 2013. Live Mesh launched in 2008 when Microsoft’s cloud… Read More
Google released its long-awaited Google Maps app for iPhone overnight, following Apple’s shift to its own, much-maligned native mapping application in iOS 6. New features include spoken turn-by-turn directions, which… Read More
The lowdown: Seattle mayor Mike McGinn today announced an agreement with broadband developer Gigabit Squared to operate a high-speed fiber network in Seattle in 12 neighborhoods using the city’s unused… Read More
Whether you’re thinking about working at a big tech company or just are interested about the inner cultures of places like Amazon and Microsoft, there’s a website similar to Yelp… Read More
Avanade, a 12-year-old joint venture formed by Microsoft and Accenture, has named Florin Rotar as the company’s first chief technology innovation officer and Stella Goulet as its first chief marketing officer.… Read More
Break out the popcorn: A new crowdfunding campaign, launched overnight, aims to raise $150,000 to complete a movie about the open-source software movement and the “war for freedom” against the… Read More
Audiogalaxy, a music streaming service that was initially created more than a decade ago by developer Michael Merhej, has been acquired by fast-growing Dropbox for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition… Read More
Amazon.com this morning released an update for its Instant Video app for iOS that expands its footprint beyond the iPad to the iPhone and iPod touch. The free app works… Read More
The ongoing fluctuations in the mobile market took yet another turn today as Sprint Nextel announced its intentions to buy out its longtime partner, Clearwire, for $2.1 billion. The acquisition… Read More
No, it won’t be a complete replacement for actually seeing a physical doctor. But CareSimple, a new service that provides 24/7 access to doctors via phone and video, might save… Read More
Zillow chairman Rich Barton and aQuantive co-founder Nick Hanauer are two of Seattle’s most accomplished entrepreneurs, having created billion-dollar companies that altered how we shop, travel and buy real estate.… Read More
Among the many apps making their way these days to Microsoft’s Xbox Live, none is more foreign to the gaming platform, and yet potentially more far-reaching, than Microsoft’s own SkyDrive,… Read More
Looks like Google was being a little naughty this year. The NORAD Santa Tracker has followed Santa Claus on his annual journey around the world for the past 50 years. Google helped… Read More
Seeing your face on a sports video game cover is a dream come true and a mark of accomplishment for some athletes. Those dreams turned into reality for the Washington… Read More
Airbags aren’t just for cars anymore — they may be coming soon to a cell phone near you. We first reported the story about a patent for “a system and method for… Read More
We asked, you answered, and here’s the result. From cheap to whoooooa pricey, here are our picks for 13 great local gifts for geeks … Geocaching premium membership – $10… Read More
Today Amazon launched Amazon Device Messaging API, its own cloud-based push notification platform for Kindle Fire apps on Amazon’s cloud. Amazon already has a system called SNS which offers push notifications… Read More
Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen is making headlines today for comments he made at a tech conference hosted by The New York Times in which he said that some technology stocks… Read More
Tether Technologies founder Randy Neely’s entrepreneurial spark occurred more than a decade ago when a security company he managed lost the master keys for a high-rise office building in Seattle.… Read More