Jeff Faulkner is a Microsoft creative director who guides branding and user experiences for Microsoft’s entertainment division, with roots in the Xbox team. Now a Seattle resident, he’s a veteran… Read More
Chad Waite has been an important fixture in the Seattle venture capital community for 25 years, joining OVP Venture Partners well before the region boasted tech giants with names like… Read More
From MA, MT, WA, CO, MN, MO, MD,, CA and across the nation, we are gathered to advocate for #KindleBooks4All. @amazon, here we come! — NFB (@NFB_voice) December 12, 2012… Read More
Redbox parent Coinstar and Verizon today announced more details about their joint venture streaming video service, confirming its pricing model and new agreements with big movie companies. Later this month,… Read More
F5 Networks CEO John McAdam has joined the board of Tableau Software, the fast-growing Seattle data visualization company. The appointment — the third to Tableau’s board this year — may… Read More
Worldwide shipments of dedicated ebook readers such as the E-Ink Amazon Kindle and Barnes & Noble Nook will fall by 36 percent to 14.9 million units this year, and plummet… Read More
Amazon just rolled out a new online tool called Friends & Family Gifting. At a base level, it lets you enter names, birthdays, interests and other details about the people close… Read More
King Tut has taken over Seattle. Well, at least according to Google. The search engine giant released its 12th annual Year-End Zeitgeist, a tradition that showcases the people, places and… Read More
The employees have spoken: Facebook is the best place to work. Glassdoor.com released its fifth annual “Employees’ Choice Awards” that are based on the input of nearly 500,000 company reviews… Read More
The lightbulb went off when Nick Marvik was sewing custom ski jackets for friends in the basement of his home at Western Washington University. He knew skiers and snowboarders valued… Read More
Sometimes billionaires say the darndest things. That’s how we felt after reading the latest statements from media mogul Barry Diller who circulated a memo to Expedia staffers today after news… Read More
Looks like a travel company is finally teaming up Matt Harding, the dude behind the global dancing phenomenon Where The Hell is Matt? US Tour Operators Association announced that they will… Read More
Microsoft’s Surface RT will go on sale at Staples as early as tomorrow, the retailer announced today — part of a move by Microsoft to expand the retail footprint for… Read More
It seems like only yesterday when the only way to take pictures was to buy a big, bulky and expensive piece of equipment. Now, everyone with a smartphone is a… Read More
Shares of Clearwire jumped more than 10 percent today after CNBC reported that Sprint Nextel may try to acquire its remaining interest in the Bellevue broadband wireless provider by the… Read More
There’s no shortage of competition in the online collaboration space, creating tools to make teams work together more efficiently. The competitive landscape was highlighted earlier this month when Bellevue-based Smartsheet.com… Read More
Seattle startup EnergySavvy has hired Kalpana Narayanaswamy as vice president of engineering, managing software development alongside CTO Leo Shklovskii. Narayanaswamy previously served as director of engineering at cloud startup Doyenz, and before… Read More
Web hosting and domain name registration giant Go Daddy has named former Microsoft and Yahoo executive Blake Irving as CEO effective January 7th. He will replace investor Scott Wagner who… Read More
This was the rap on former Microsoft Windows president Steven Sinofsky following his sudden exit last month: He was unwilling to play along with the rest of the company —… Read More
In another example of Amazon expanding its footprint in new ways, the online retail giant is now contracting with a Seattle area company to install TV mounts right in your home. Currently… Read More
Just how sharp are computer science and engineering students these days? Look no further than the new SkyDrive app for Xbox Live, rolled out by Microsoft today. It was created… Read More
Seattle-based game publisher Meteor Entertainment is ready for Wednesday’s global launch of much-anticipated Hawken and they will use micro-transaction firm Live Gamer for its back-end virtual economy payment platform. Live Gamer helps… Read More
It may be several months before we get to see the new home sensor technology that Jeremy Jaech and his team of engineers are working on. But the Seattle entrepreneur,… Read More
Microsoft’s Xbox team this morning announced ten new apps for Xbox Live, and listed dozens of others that will be rolling out between now and next spring, available to users… Read More
It’s a good time to be a talented technologist, whether a designer, developer or engineer. After all, as we’ve chronicled many times in the past, there’s a serious war for… Read More
It’s that special time of year when people reflect, looking back on the accomplishments of the past. But in an era of information overload and short 140-character Tweets, it can… Read More
Former T-Mobile USA Chief Information Architect Matthew Standish has raised $700,000 for a new analytics startup by the name of IDInteract. The Seattle company is developing technologies to aggregate and analyze big data… Read More
Pinpointing technical glitches before they occur is kind of like finding a needle in a haystack. But Kirkland-based Lacuna Systems — led by former employees of Amazon.com, Classmates.com and aQuantive —… Read More
While most of the next-generation console talk is about the future of PlayStation, Xbox and Nintendo products, there could be another player in the mix: the PC. That’s at least… Read More
Washington State Attorney General Rob McKenna has filed a lawsuit against Florida-based Dinav Holding, which allegedly sent tens of thousands of text messages to residents during a period in May… Read More