Articles from 2013 – Page 125 of 150

Baby pictures on Facebook: Audience, nuance and joy

I didn’t believe it at first. One second my husband was filming our son with my phone, the next second… Read More

The onstage pitch: How to prepare for your 5 minutes of fame

Congratulations! Your company just scored a coveted presentation slot at a venture capital conference, an angel investor booze and schmooze… Read More

Microsoft is making Kinect more perceptive, using big data and machine learning

One of the projects on display at the Microsoft Research TechFest event in Redmond this week is an upcoming addition… Read More

Smartphone market share: Apple gains ground on Android

comScore is out with its latest smartphone OEM numbers and it’s looking good for Apple. Looking at the three month… Read More

T-Mobile fires back at AT&T with new ad: “What keeps AT&T up at night? Apparently us.”

UPDATE, 12:40 P.M.: T-Mobile got back to us and we’ve updated the story below with the newspapers that ran the… Read More

Nokia begs Instagram for a Windows Phone app, creates #2InstaWithLove

Nokia is getting creative to show how badly it wants an Instagram app for Windows Phones. “We’ve been listening, and we… Read More

Postmates arrives in Seattle to deliver tacos, burgers and anything else in under an hour

Postmates CEO Bastian Lehmann hears the comparisons all of the time: Isn’t his new online delivery service just another version… Read More

HTC’s February revenue nosedives 44%, lowest in 3 years

HTC continues to struggle and took a serious hit in February, recording their lowest revenue in three years. Sales fell… Read More

Nathan Myhrvold’s Intellectual Ventures settles with Lattice

Nathan Myhrvold’s Intellectual Ventures has reached its second settlement agreement in its case against manufacturers in the semiconductor industry. The company announced… Read More

GeekWire Bash is today: What to know if you’re going

We’re gearing up for the big GeekWire Ping-Pong & Anniversary Bash later today at the Showbox SODO, and we’re excited… Read More

The price of Microsoft’s European browser screwup: $732M

The European Commission this morning fined Microsoft 561 million euros, approximately $732 million, for neglecting to include a required “browser ballot”… Read More

Kids, don’t believe the startup hype: Why you should join a big company first

“Should I join Microsoft or a startup?” As the co-founder of a profitable startup and a former Microsoftie, I hear… Read More

Valve CEO Gabe Newell: Steam Box controller may measure your heart rate

Imagine playing an intense horror game and having your gaming experience change depending on how quickly your heart is beating.… Read More

GeekWire 200 Update: Bungie, U4iA, other game companies make a move

It was a big month for video games on the GeekWire 200, our monthly startup index tracking the Seattle region’s… Read More

Startup Spotlight: High school whiz kids create Q&A website Junglr

For most teenagers, balancing homework and a social life is plenty of work. But for three Mercer Island High Schoolers,… Read More

Need a tech job? Study shows 80 percent of Seattle CIO’s plan to hire IT staff in 2Q

If you’re in the Seattle market for an IT job, this is your time. A study from Robert Half Technology surveyed more… Read More

Kleiner Perkins says VC fund performance is weak, and they’re going to fix it

Here’s a sign of the changing winds in the venture capital business. Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, one of Silicon… Read More

Xbox chief: Main rivals are Nintendo, Sony, Apple and Google … but not Valve

The competitive landscape for Microsoft’s Xbox console is expanding to include Apple and Google, but the company’s top game and… Read More

How this Tokyo retailer used Kinect to turn mannequins into marionettes

You can always count on Japan for the weirdest inventions out there. The latest head-scratcher involves Microsoft’s Kinect and a… Read More

Politicians and unions urge FCC to prevent T-Mobile layoffs from MetroPCS deal

T-Mobile’s proposed deal to gobble up MetroPCS could be approved early next month. But before anything is set in stone, several… Read More

Mobile-ticketing startup GlobeSherpa lands $1.3M to sell transit tickets on the go

GlobeSherpa, a Portland-based provider of secure mobile ticketing software and services, today announced a $1.3 million series B capital funding led by… Read More

Founder dating: Tips on how to pick your partner

Picking a co-founder. It’s as personal as picking a spouse and as financially binding as picking an investor. Co-founders are… Read More

Microsoft’s new vision: A big screen on every wall, and a Kinect sensor in every bezel

Was that the next generation of Kinect in the bezel of the standup screen at Microsoft’s Envisioning Center? Trying to get… Read More

Google’s new same-day shipping service to challenge Amazon Prime

Amazon, watch out — Google is stepping into your space. TechCrunch is reporting today that Google is preparing to launch… Read More

Ready to compete? Here are your 2013 GeekWire Ping-Pong & Foosball Brackets

March Madness starts Wednesday — at least our version of it. That’s right folks. It’s time for one of the… Read More

A LinkedIn rival: InternMatch expands to entry-level jobs

Things are moving fast for the folks over at InternMatch. They raised $1.2 million in January, are averaging five million… Read More

Guy Kawasaki joins board of Writer.ly to help transform the way authors self publish

When you are a startup company, it’s sure nice to have a leading evangelist in your corner. Well, Seattle upstart… Read More

This sonic-powered vibrator is faster and quieter than traditional sex toys

Robin Elenga didn’t think he’d get into the vibrator business. But five years ago, after learning about how the Sonicare… Read More

Will this go viral? Microsoft ‘Viral Search’ uses big data for social insights

What makes a tweet go viral online? And what does a viral trend actually look like? Those are a couple… Read More

Microsoft acquires cloud startup MetricsHub, taking hatchling under its wing

Well, that didn’t take long. Less than two months after graduating from the Microsoft Windows Azure accelerator, Bellevue-based MetricsHub has… Read More