UW spin out Qazzow scores $500,000, helps customers get questions answered on e-commerce sites Qazzow, a spin out of the University of Washington founded by UW professors Andy Ko and Jake Wobbrock as well… Read More
T-Mobile adds another 1M customers in quarter as rebound continues T-Mobile US added a net total of more than 1 million customers for the second quarter in a row, including… Read More
Tacoma’s IID looks to help curb cyberattacks, secures $8M from Bessemer in first-ever financing IID has been helping organizations mitigate cyberattacks for the past 17 years, building a 65-person company in Tacoma. Now, the… Read More
Seeq raises $6 million, looks to help manufacturers mine industrial data Steve Sliwa previously founded Insitu, the maker of unmanned aircraft that sold to Boeing for a reported purchase price of… Read More
Pew: 8% of Americans find news with Twitter, 30% with Facebook Last week, Pew told us that 30 percent of Americans find news on Facebook — even if they aren’t actively… Read More
Startup Day Video: T.A. McCann on starting, funding, killing and selling companies There are four big decisions that can happen in a startup, says T.A. McCann: When to start the company, when… Read More
Breaking News tries to redefine what ‘breaking’ means to you with new ‘mute,’ and ‘whoa!’ buttons I remember seeing a Twitter update from Breaking News this past March about the Buffalo Bills releasing quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick.… Read More
New Icominer plugin lets game devs mine Bitcoins with your computer, while you play While game developers like GameHouse are looking for new tweaks to the free-to-play business model that will help increase revenue… Read More
Silicon Valley powerhouse NEA is selling off a large chunk of Tableau stock NEA, the huge Silicon Valley venture capital firm that invested early in Tableau Software, is cashing out a large portion… Read More
Jeff Bezos’ wife issues 1-star review for new Amazon book, deems it ‘misleading’ Updated, 2:10 P.M. — Comment from Amazon added near the bottom of this story Out of the 44 reviews for “The… Read More
Nintendo brings Wii Mini to the U.S. for $99 A more basic and cheaper version of Nintendo’s original Wii is making its way to the United States. The Wii… Read More
Surface Pro 2 update brings battery improvements, still lags iPad and ultrabooks Thanks to a new firmware update, Microsoft has cemented its claims that the Surface Pro 2 would feature 75 percent… Read More
After losing CIA bid, IBM swipes at Amazon in new campaign IBM today launched a new advertising campaign today that seeks to bolster its cloud-computing business with a competitive swipe at… Read More
True Ventures’ VC Puneet Agarwal: The perception of Portland is very strong now When Silicon Valley VC firm True Ventures first invested in Portland-based startups Puppet Labs and Urban Airship about four years ago, many had… Read More
Sorry, binge viewers: Amazon’s original comedies will revert to weekly schedule after first three episodes After Amazon’s “harrowing exercise in online democracy,” two adult comedy pilots remained: “Alpha House,” about a group of misfit senators… Read More
B2B incubator 9Mile raises $900,000 to boost individual startup investments There’s a lot of chatter these days about the “consumerization of the enterprise” — this notion that business software will… Read More
Microsoft inks 20-year deal to buy energy from Texas wind farm In an effort to become carbon neutral, Microsoft on Monday signed a deal to purchase energy from a Texas wind… Read More
Meet Wally: This $299 low-power sensor network detects water leaks and mold Worried about toxic mold or pesky water leaks in your home? Never fear, Wally is here. That’s the new consumer… Read More
Bill Gates spending ‘much bigger slice of time’ at Microsoft amid CEO transition No, Bill Gates says he isn’t returning as Microsoft CEO. But he is spending much more time at Microsoft these… Read More
Amazon does FAA victory lap, offers 1-day Kindle discounts Amazon was one of the winners in the FAA’s decision last week to allow electronic gadgets to be used during… Read More
BlackBerry boots CEO Thorsten Heins, plans to raise $1B as acquisition talks end Struggling mobile phone maker BlackBerry received another dose of bad news today as the company said that it was no… Read More
Shopping app Zoomingo raises cash, inks deal with Simon Malls Seattle shopping startup Zoomingo has raised an additional $1.25 million in financing and inked a deal with Simon Mall Properties,… Read More
Innovation takes off: Using my iPad below 10,000 feet Like many of you, I was excited to read that the FAA decided to allow use of portable electronics below… Read More
Q&A: Is it better to start up alone, or with a team? Starting up can be a lonely adventure. But some of the most successful startups today are founded by a team.… Read More
Mayor McGinn spends final campaign hours hanging with the tech community Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn has just a few days left in his campaign against challenger Ed Murray — a tight… Read More
When technology – and time – overtake research For the past three decades, I have been a psychological test subject. Not in a creepy NSA-and-tin-foil-hat kind of way,… Read More
Startup Spotlight: EdStart accelerates student learning with personalized mobile experiences With more and more children using mobile devices, the education space is certainly ripe for innovation. Kirkland-based EdStart is another… Read More
GeekWire update: New offices, big events and top stories of the month GeekWire was on the move in the month of October — literally and figuratively. We hosted our big Startup Day… Read More
Podcast GeekWire Radio: iPad Air, Xbox One, PS4 and more with Andru Edwards of GearLive Back by popular demand on this week’s GeekWire radio show: Andru Edwards of GearLive, one of our favorite gadget experts,… Read More
Name That Tech Tune: Win Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian’s new book, signed and doodled by the author Updated below with answer and winner. We’ve got a very special prize up for grabs in this week’s Name that… Read More
