Stevie Wonder, Brad Paisley, Beyonce: Check out Obama’s inauguration playlist President Barack Obama made moves on the social media front today. From the official inauguration Twitter account, his office Tweeted out… Read More
Father, 12-year-old daughter team up to make best-selling calculator app One day after school, Isabel Hughes was looking over math homework with her dad. The 12-year-old wanted to use a… Read More
Ask the Productivity Geek: 6 questions, 6 answers Editor’s Note: This is the first installment in a periodic column where we’ve asked Matt Heinz, who has been writing… Read More
Sports Hack Day: A 48-hour sports-themed hackathon during Super Bowl weekend While most people will spend Super Bowl Sunday sitting on their couches, a group of hackers, data crunchers and sports… Read More
Microsoft’s disaster response app HelpBridge alerts family and friends during crisis The next time a big disaster hits, Microsoft wants to help you connect with your loved ones. To do that,… Read More
Dirty house? Pathjoy maid service aims to clean up in Seattle Hate cleaning your grimy kitchen and bathroom every week? Well, a new online service just expanded to Seattle called Pathjoy… Read More
Look out, Google: Startup making high-tech glasses an (augmented) reality https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DF7OvoHzL8I Google has been getting lots of attention over the past year for its Project Glass initiative, starting with a… Read More
Bing beefs up social sidebar with more Facebook content Just two days after landing a big partnership with Facebook’s new Graph Search, Bing today announced more robust Facebook integration… Read More
GeekWire Meetup is Feb. 13: A fireside chat with Tableau CEO Christian Chabot Tableau Software CEO Christian Chabot bluntly told me in an interview seven years ago that his young 25-person software startup… Read More
Windows Phone Diary: So long Lumia 920, hello HTC 8X A couple weeks after switching from an iPhone to a Lumia 920 Windows Phone, I was struggling to explain why… Read More
Parallels nabs cash from Cisco to bolster cloud efforts Parallels announced today that it has received an investment of undisclosed size from Cisco, money that the Renton-based company will… Read More
Amazon MP3 courts iPhone and iPod users, sidesteps Apple Amazon released a new mobile version of its Amazon MP3 store for iPhone and iPod touch this morning — targeting… Read More
Sex talk, Chewbacca and penguins: Welcome to the Tech Show (PHOTOS) Ramez Naam reading a steamy sex scene from his new sci-fi novel. Glenn Walcott groaning and moaning while doing his… Read More
Advance Publications buys Seattle digital agency POP POP, the 17-year-old Seattle digital agency whose clients include Nike, Expedia, Major League Soccer and others, has been acquired by… Read More
Zillow CEO Spencer Rascoff rings bell on Nasdaq, but no magical touch this time Zillow was back on Wall Street today, ringing the closing bell on the Nasdaq stock exchange. (By my count, this… Read More
Breaking: FAA orders all US-based airlines to ground Boeing 787 Dreamliners After a flurry of problems and emergency landings in Japan, the Federal Aviation Administration today ordered all U.S.-based airlines to… Read More
Microsoft GM: Surface Pro arriving in “coming weeks” Thanks to Twitter, now we have an idea for a Surface Pro debut date. On my way to the factory… Read More
3 ways digital media is turning us into 2nd graders We are all regressing. And I have proof from an authoritative source: the state of children’s books. The underlying reasons… Read More
Imprev inks deal with RE/MAX to add video and other features to agent Web sites There’s a lot of news shaking this week in online real estate as the Real Estate Connect conference takes place… Read More
Teaming up: Nintendo merging console and handheld divisions to keep up with competitors For the first time in nearly ten years, there are some big structural changes happening at Nintendo. A report out from Japan-based… Read More
Tracking traffic made easy: INRIX launches digital reporting suite for media As the Kirkland-based company inches closer to an IPO, INRIX just released a turn-key set of applications that can help… Read More
State’s jobless rate hits lowest level in 4 years, but warning clouds are on horizon During the most recent economic turbulence, the tech industry sometimes felt a bit insulated from the economic woes hitting the… Read More
InternMatch raises $1.2M, wants to expand beyond internships More money and changes are coming for the successful team at InternMatch. Founded in Seattle back in 2009 and now stationed… Read More
Amazon’s LoveFilm to offer U.S. comedy classics with new NBCUniversal streaming deal LoveFilm, Europe’s leading movie subscription services that Amazon bought in 2011, will now offer “hundreds of episodes” from U.S. comedies… Read More
Hope, heartbreak, recovery: How our big NFL playoff game played out online Seattle hearts hurt Sunday. It happened around 1 p.m. In about 31 seconds. Maybe you remember. The Seahawks had just… Read More
Tred speeds ahead with $1.7M, plans to change car shopping with driveway test drives One of my favorite pitches at the TechStars Demo Day last November was a tiny company called Tred that had… Read More
Bing Fund gives a big, fat kiss to online dating site LikeBright LikeBright, the online dating site that taps into the power of social networks to find one’s perfect match, has found… Read More
National Association of Realtors invests $3M in cloud storage startup Symform The venture capital arm of the National Association of Realtors today announced that it is investing $3 million in Symform,… Read More
Seeking a new combination, social commerce startup Lockerz confirms cutbacks Lockerz, the heavily-funded social commerce startup, has reportedly laid off a chunk of its staff and closed down an office… Read More
VC investments double in Washington state on strength of big deals for Zulily, Meteor We had a feeling that the fourth quarter was going to be a big one for venture capital investing in… Read More
