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Articles from 2013

Recruiting developers: Perspectives from the startup front lines

Recruiting developers to a startup is hard. The market is tight. That’s compounded by the fact that it takes a… Read More

Sonics Update: Steve Ballmer offers ‘characteristically enthusiastic’ presentation to NBA owners

Whether it’s talking about Microsoft or bringing the NBA back to Seattle, Steve Ballmer certainly has lots of energy for supporting causes… Read More

Microsoft updates SkyDrive iOS app, adds support for iPhone 5 and iPad Mini

Microsoft today announced some updates to its SkyDrive iOS app, including support for the iPhone 5 and iPad Mini. Users… Read More

Avalara

GeekWire 200 April Update: Docusign, Redfin, Avalara and others moving up

Several of the Seattle region’s largest technology companies improved their positions in the new update to the GeekWire 200, our monthly… Read More

Are Tech Companies Better Digital Marketers? Rival IQ’s insights from the GeekWire 200

[Editor’s Note: This post analyzing the GeekWire 200 was written by John Clark, CEO of Seattle-based Rival IQ, which provides tools… Read More

Is this the end of the road for Ignition-backed Ratify?

Bellevue-based Ratify, a stealthy startup that was developing a data analytics platform to better understand network information, notified employees this… Read More

Interactive reading: Costco magazine to use Digimarc watermarks

Costco’s monthly magazine is getting geeky. The Costco Connection, the largest monthly magazine in the U.S., is now embedding scannable… Read More

After series of pivots, Haiku Deck scores $3 million to make presentation tools fun

Haiku Deck has reeled in $3 million in fresh funding, money that the Seattle startup will use to continue to… Read More

Amazon expands AutoRip MP3 feature to vinyl records

Amazon.com customers who bought vinyl records from the site over the past 15 years may have a surprise in their… Read More

Ignition Partners raises $150M fund, opens new Silicon Valley office

It’s a new era for Ignition Partners. The Bellevue venture capital firm has a new fund, new offices and a… Read More

Sonics update: 44K season-ticket requests and a music video featuring Macklemore

Lots going on with the Sonics today, from a “stunning” season ticket priority wait list to a Sacramento group trying… Read More

Perseverance and patience: How Tableau made the IPO leap after 10 years

Good things come to those who wait, especially if those who wait have a big audacious mission that they are… Read More

Bill Gates invests in energy storage again, this time with battery maker Aquion

In the past few years, Bill Gates has already invested in three energy storage companies — MIT spinout Metal Battery (renamed… Read More

Welcome to Seattle, Bertha: World’s largest tunnel boring machine arrives in Emerald City

(Video above is from our news partner, KING5) Welcome to Seattle, Bertha. Coming all the way from Osaka, Japan, the… Read More

Fast-growing Tableau Software files for $150M IPO

Tableau Software, the Seattle maker of data visualization products, has filed to raise up to $150 million in an initial… Read More

Report: Visual voicemail and LTE coming to unlocked iPhones on T-Mobile this week

T-Mobile customers using unlocked iPhones will be receiving a carrier update this Friday, enabling LTE and Visual Voicemail for their… Read More

Sonar: This new service automatically tracks when app stores change their algorithms

Mobile app developers live and die by how easily their apps are discovered in the various app stores from Apple,… Read More

Sorry, Amazon: Court frowns on resale of ‘used’ digital music

A federal judge’s ruling in favor of Capitol Records in a suit against the ReDigi digital music service could have… Read More

Ex-Microsoft exec lands $4.5M to help make life easier for product managers

We’ve been wondering what former Microsoft vice president Sanjay Parthasarathy has been building ever since we discovered his startup, Indix, 18 months… Read More

WhitePages Current Caller ID now lets you block calls, texts

The WhitePages Current Caller ID Android app, which displays not only the names of callers but also their location and social… Read More

Podcast

Lineup for the live GeekWire Radio Show: Mike McSherry, The Icarus Kid and more

Each week, Todd Bishop and I get together to talk about all things geek — revisiting the top news stories,… Read More

Former Zumobi CEO dies in New Zealand plane crash

Eric Hertz, the former Zumobi executive and CEO of New Zealand mobile company 2degrees, has passed away after crashing his… Read More

Webby Awards get an upgrade, with help from Microsoft’s Internet Explorer

The Webby Awards rolled out a slick new “Winners Gallery + Archive” today, making it easier to peruse the past… Read More

Rosetta Stone cracks Livemocha, buys language community for $8.5 million

Seattle online language community Livemocha has been acquired by Rosetta Stone for $8.5 million in cash. The deal is hardly… Read More

Fourth of July fireworks, brought to us by Kickstarter?

We hoped it was an April Fool’s joke. Seattle production company One Reel announced today that the city’s 2013 annual… Read More

EveryMove partners with popular Endomondo sports tracker app

EveryMove, a Seattle-based startup that lets users track their healthy habits and rewards them with gift cards and reduced health-care premiums, has partnered… Read More

Paul Allen

Paul Allen’s Vulcan Capital expanding to Silicon Valley

Updated with details of the new office’s leader. Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s investment arm, Vulcan Capital, plans to open a… Read More

Geek Madness Elite Eight: Gates vs. Turing; Einstein vs. Newton

Editor’s Note: Geek Madness is our quest to find the greatest geek of all time. Voting takes place on our Facebook page.  And then… Read More

‘Dear Valve, Hire Me’: What happened to the woman who wrote that song

Do you remember Erin Michael Vondrak? She really, really wanted to work at Valve. So much, in fact, that she… Read More

Startup Spotlight: GridVid.me touts low-cost video encoding

You can now watch your favorite shows no matter where you wander, tuning in on a smartphone or tablet. On… Read More

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