Articles from 2013 – Page 133 of 150

Ouch: Nintendo sold just 57,000 Wii U’s in January, report says

Nintendo President Satoru Iwata told Reuters last month that the sales of the Wii U, which debuted Nov. 18, were “not bad.”… Read More

Zulily nearing deal to secure big lease at RealNetworks HQ

Fast-growing daily deal service Zulily has signed a letter-of-intent to occupy a large portion of the Seattle Trade & Technology… Read More

Hi-tech keg: Zillow engineers build tablet-controlled, web-enabled Kegerator for office

Every few months, the engineers over at Zillow put on a Hack Week where teams spend seven days working on… Read More

Geek of the Week: Splunk’s Brad Lovering on big data and ‘disruptive transitions’

Brad Lovering is a veteran of the tech industry in the Seattle region — having worked at Microsoft for more… Read More

A little Lone Star love: Microsoft inks big deal with Texas for Office 365

Microsoft just scooped up a big deal for its Office 365 suite of cloud-based productivity products, inking a deal with… Read More

Rhapsody app arrives for Windows Phone 8

Less than a week after Spotify jumped onto Windows Phone 8, Rhapsody is doing the same. Seattle-based Rhapsody just debuted… Read More

Patience, perseverance and passion: Video highlights from our talk with Tableau CEO Christian Chabot

We had a great conversation with Tableau CEO Christian Chabot Wednesday evening at our GeekWire Meetup. Chabot talked about several interesting topics, from… Read More

Last chance: Early-bird rates end today for the big GeekWire Anniversary bash

We’re bringing back one of our favorite activities of the year, and now’s your chance to sign up before prices… Read More

Visual language: Stagecraft in Obama’s Google Hangout

The President may be a master of the teleprompter, but Google+ hangouts ain’t television. You can replay yesterday’s hangout with… Read More

Seattle angel group Keiretsu Forum invests $20M in 34 startups in 2012

The Keiretsu Forum Northwest today announced that it invested $20.1 million in 34 companies last year, backing startups such as… Read More

Zillow’s Spencer Rascoff, Trulia’s Pete Flint named most ‘powerful’ young CEOs

Well, here’s yet another interesting way that the Zillow-Trulia rivalry is playing out — beyond their courtroom battles. Both CEOs… Read More

Ed Lazowska: The iPad wouldn’t be here without federal research dollars

University of Washington computer science professor Ed Lazowska is known for his strong opinions. And he got to share some… Read More

Hey, Seattle: We’re not quite as book smart as 8 years ago

Think of Seattle. And whether it’s Amazon.com or Elliott Bay Book Company or the amazing main Seattle library, reading is a… Read More

Z2Live mobile developer reportedly victim of homicide

A Z2Live mobile game developer was the victim of a homicide Tuesday morning in Bothell, Wash. Detectives have not confirmed… Read More

Xbox 360 marks 25 straight months atop U.S. market

Microsoft’s Xbox 360 was the top-selling console in January in the United States, marking its 25th straight month atop the… Read More

Student-developed DigiPen games selected as finalists at Independent Games Festival

There’s some serious talent coming out of Redmond’s DigiPen Institute of Technology and recent nominations for the Independent Games Festival confirms… Read More

Tableau CEO Christian Chabot: The power of perseverance over pivoting

One of the interesting things about Tableau Software is that the company’s mission — to help people see and understand… Read More

Lark debuts Kickstarter-funded, Northwest-focused cookbook app

Two months ago, Seattle chef Johnathan Sundstrom told us about his top picks for culinary apps. Now, he might have… Read More

Cray reports $420M yearly revenue, up 78% from 2011

Seattle supercomputer maker Cray Inc. reported its fourth quarter results today with a revenue of $188.8 million, up over 100… Read More

Startup Spotlight: GoToTags looks to be the one-stop shop for near field communication

GoToTags founders Craig Tadlock and Keith Kegley saw an opportunity a few years ago when they realized that wireless sensor… Read More

A gamer’s dream: ‘The Art of Video Games’ exhibit debuts Friday at the EMP (PHOTOS)

If you’ve ever wanted to jump in a time machine and relive the 40-year history of video games, well, Seattle’s… Read More

Tableau CEO Chabot: Seattle is the promised land of startup America

We had a stimulating conversation with Tableau CEO Christian Chabot yesterday at our GeekWire Meetup. Chabot touched on a number of… Read More

Barnes & Noble expects deeper loss in Nook business

Barnes & Noble, struggling to gain traction against Amazon’s Kindle, expects its Nook business to go deeper into the red.… Read More

GeekWire Meetup: The night in pictures and tweets

That was really fun. Team GeekWire was excited to be joined by more than 250 of you last night for… Read More

Tableau CEO Christian Chabot: Why entrepreneurs should avoid venture capital

I had a great time interviewing Tableau Software CEO Christian Chabot at last night’s sold out GeekWire Meetup at the… Read More

Office on iPad: Microsoft wrestling with $2.5B tradeoff

Microsoft is forgoing as much as $2.5 billion a year in extra revenue by not yet putting a full-fledged version… Read More

9Mile Labs sets up new accelerator at SURF Incubator

This is a new one. It’s an accelerator inside an incubator. 9Mile Labs, the newly-formed startup accelerator that’s focusing on… Read More

What the decline of the U.S Postal Service means for technology

Our guest this past week on the GeekWire Podcast was Steve Shivers, co-founder and CEO of Doxo, a Seattle startup that… Read More

Zillow plans big ad push, aims to create a ‘massive, enduring brand’

Around these parts, Zillow is a pretty well known entity. But get out of the Seattle tech echo chamber and… Read More

Search stats: Google and Bing keep climbing as Yahoo slips further behind

Google climbed back to 67 percent percent of the U.S. search market in January, putting just a bit more distance… Read More