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Articles from 2013

Redfin unveils Offer Insights: Real-time insider details for home buyers

Redfin continues to push toward more transparency in the traditionally opaque real estate industry, launching a new micro-blogging service of… Read More

Microsoft’s new Scroogled ads: Aren’t we smarter than this?

Election season may be over, but we haven’t escaped the attack ads, thanks to Microsoft. The company relaunched its “Scroogled”… Read More

Fledge: A startup incubator for socially-conscious startups takes flight with new cash

Fledge, which is taking a TechStars-like approach to incubating startups that make the world a better place, has landed $307,000 in… Read More

Avanade buys cloud management startup Opstera

Avanade is making another buy in the Seattle startup community, gobbling up cloud software startup Opstera in a deal of… Read More

GeekWire 200 February Update: Big Fish stays on top

Big Fish remains the biggest fish in the Seattle startup community. The Seattle game maker leads the February update to… Read More

Channel Intelligence buy increases Google’s advantage over Facebook in e-commerce

Facebook may know what consumers like, but it doesn’t yet understand how consumers shop. Google does and has been steadily… Read More

Yahoo and Google strengthen ties as Microsoft looks on

Yahoo and Google this afternoon announced an agreement to put ads from Google’s AdSense and AdMob systems on Yahoo sites.… Read More

Rival shrugs off Amazon patent on resale of ‘used’ digital goods

ReDigi, a company that lets people buy and sell “pre-owned” digital music, said today that it isn’t concerned about Amazon’s… Read More

Protecting the people: Microsoft helps crush Bamital malware that affected thousands

Chalk one up for Microsoft. Today, the Redmond software giant teamed up with Symantec to take down a nasty malware… Read More

RealNetworks swings to a profit, but Glaser says there’s ‘considerable work to do’

RealNetworks has been beaten and battered over the past year, losing nearly a third of its value and watching a… Read More

Microsoft’s U.S. smartphone market share slips below 3%

Where’s Windows Phone? Despite a push to get its mobile platform into the hands of more consumers, Microsoft’s share of… Read More

Gabe Newell, J.J. Abrams discussing plans for ‘Half-Life’ and ‘Portal’ movie

Get excited, people: Gabe Newell and J.J. Abrams have plans to work together both on a movie and game. The… Read More

Why this guy hacked his Kindle to email Jeff Bezos

As part of the terms of use for Amazon Kindle devices, users grant the company permission to collect data including… Read More

Relationships 101: Best-selling author John Gray partnering with Mindbloom

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Seattle-based interactive media company Mindbloom has partnered with best-selling author John Gray to provide relationship advice… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Pinterest rival Clipboard looks to make screenshotting a breeze

If you’re tired of taking those messy screenshots and arduously cropping them to the perfect size, the solution may be… Read More

Scientists crowdsource atmospheric data from smartphones to improve weather forecasts

Meteorologists may become better at their jobs thanks to your smartphone. Atmospheric scientists at the University of Washington are collecting data… Read More

Obama picks REI exec Sally Jewell as Interior secretary

Big news out today in the world of politics with President Barack Obama announcing that he’s chosen former REI Chief… Read More

Consumers spent $14.8B on video game content in 2012, down 9 percent from last year

Just like the newspaper, book and movie industries, the latest numbers show the video game sector quickly moving to digital… Read More

Portland just isn’t where young people go to retire: It’s where they get VC money too

They’ve got The Timbers, and we’ve got the Sounders. They have a mediocre NBA team, and we’re getting ours back.… Read More

POLL: Should employers have access to your social media passwords?

Imagine this for a second: You walk into your next job interview, sit down and the employer asks you for… Read More

Mobile marketing startup Urban Airship lands $25M

Urban Airship, the Portland mobile marketing startup that helps companies such as ESPN, Groupon, Waze and others with push messaging,… Read More

Watch Barack Obama sing the Pokemon theme song

If you’ve always wanted to see President Barack Obama sing the Pokemon theme song, well, the day has come. The… Read More

Tatango to add 20K new clients, open NYC office with Broadtexter acquisition

Tatango, the Seattle-based group SMS service, today announced the acquisition of Broadtexter, a New York-based entertainment text-messaging marketing platform. The… Read More

Sports Hack Day Diary: Lessons from a journalist jumping into a hackathon

The demos concluded, judges had left and computers were tucked away. Yet an hour after Sports Hack Day wrapped up Sunday afternoon,… Read More

Hands-on with Surface Pro, Microsoft’s three-in-one PC

If Microsoft’s goal with Windows 8 is to blend desktop, notebook and tablet, then the device I’m using to type… Read More

Houzz fires back at Zillow Digs: It’s a ‘complete knock off’

Rivalries take on all shapes and sizes, and there’s yet another interesting one brewing between Seattle-based Zillow and Silicon Valley… Read More

Q&A: Why this former Microsoft exec wanted to become a venture capitalist

Ted Kummert is a Seattle homer. He attended Roosevelt High School, and still bleeds University of Washington “purple and gold”… Read More

PopCap debuts first social hidden object game on Facebook with Hidden Agenda

Seattle-based PopCap Games is back with another game featuring anthropomorphic animals, and this time it’s all about solving mysteries. Hidden… Read More

Jawbone acquires Portland-based design firm Visere

Wearable computing hardware company Jawbone has acquired Portland-based digital design firm Visere, a startup that already played an important role… Read More

Zillow Digs vs. Pinterest: Inside Zillow’s big bet to transform home improvement

Spencer Rascoff stands in front of a cluttered whiteboard with marker in hand on the 31st floor of Seattle’s Russell… Read More

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