Articles from 2013 – Page 26 of 150

Startup Day Video: Moz CEO Rand Fishkin on the challenges of team building

One of the toughest and most important parts of growing a startup is building a team. Just look at the… Read More

Big Fish CEO sees clear line between social casinos and real online gambling

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – It’s a tumultuous time for the social casino market. As real-money gambling heads to the Internet in fits… Read More

Health services startup Qliance raises $5.5M

Qliance Medical, the Seattle health services startup backed by venture capitalist Nick Hanauer, Zillow Chairman Rich Barton, comedian Drew Carey,… Read More

GeekWork: Paul Allen’s new AI Institute is looking for an operations director

Pretty exciting stuff here folks! There are some cutting-edge technology jobs in the Pacific Northwest, and these are just a… Read More

Trulia posts $40.3M in 3Q revenue, reports 56K subscribers following Market Leader acquisition

Shares of Trulia, the San Francisco-based online real estate company that competes directly with Zillow, are up nearly 4 percent… Read More

How rapid-fire A/B testing nearly brought Google to the brink of disaster

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – One of the key components in any technology business these days is the use of analytics… Read More

WebMD buys Avado, a health-care technology startup founded by Microsoft vets

Avado, a Redmond-based startup that aims to do for health-care what Mint has done for personal finance, has been acquired… Read More

Toddlers on tablets: Survey finds 38% of 2-year-olds using mobile devices, up from 10% in 2011

I’m always mesmerized every time I see a toddler using a cell phone or tablet — it is incredible that… Read More

Report: Adobe breach is even bigger than originally thought

In the event you’re an Adobe user and you haven’t changed all the passwords that share a password with your… Read More

Oculus CEO: Gamers will be ‘blown away’ by Rift virtual reality, with help from Valve

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – A partnership with one of the Seattle region’s major players in gaming will be a key… Read More

ESPN mobile properties saw more unique visitors than ESPN.com in September for first time ever

Here’s yet another sign of the movement toward mobile devices: ESPN, for the first time ever, saw more unique visitors… Read More

You can has cats: Cheezburger partners with Uber for $20 kitten delivery service

Want to play with a kitten for 20 minutes today? Well, Cheezburger and Uber have you covered. In celebration of… Read More

Amazon Cloud Player now available for Mac

Amazon today made its Cloud Player available on Macs, allowing Apple users to manage and play their Amazon and iTunes… Read More

High stakes for Intellectual Ventures: Should patents be licensed at more than cost?

Digital security firms Trend Micro and Symantec are fighting Intellectual Ventures’ patent claims with a unique legal argument — asserting… Read More

Tech Moves: Skype exec departs Microsoft; Frazier Healthcare taps new VC; etc.

—Skype executive Mark Gillett is leaving Microsoft, taking a new position at private equity firm Silver Lake, reports Kara Swisher… Read More

Windows Phone: Lumia shipments reach 8.8M units, Nokia still not back in top 5

Wow, look at that hockey-stick growth for Nokia’s Windows Phones! Yeah, but … Nokia this morning reported 8.8 million Lumia… Read More

Pre-revenue startup Nextdoor raises $60M for a social network for neighborhoods

Here’s another sign that things are heating up on the funding landscape. San Francisco startup Nextdoor has raised a whopping… Read More

Amazon launches ‘Kindle MatchBook’ with 70,000 titles

I can’t remember exactly what was happening in my life back in March 2004, but it must have been interesting,… Read More

UW computer science program eyes 2nd building to meet booming demand

The Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering, which opened a decade ago, houses the University of Washington’s… Read More

You’ll never have to pay for a Mac OS upgrade again, Apple CFO says

For Apple users, today’s earnings call spelled the end of paid OS upgrades…forever. While many had speculated that Apple’s free… Read More

Samsung’s new second-screen TV tech aims to compete with Apple TV, Chromecast

SAN FRANCISCO – There’s a new player in the second-screen market: Samsung. At today’s Samsung Developers Conference in San Francisco,… Read More

Apple beats expectations, iPhone sales rise 25 percent

Apple sold 33.8 million iPhones — a 25 percent increase and a record for its September quarter — and beat… Read More

Tableau posts 90% revenue gain and tops 1,000 staffers, files for $450 million secondary offering

Tableau Software continues to grow at a rapid pace, though that growth is causing the Seattle maker of data visualization… Read More

Startup Day Video: Dawn Lepore on the secrets of building a great board

Dawn Lepore has been on both sides of the relationship between CEO and board, as the former leader of drugstore.com… Read More

Onion co-founder says satirical publication ‘doesn’t make a lot of sense in the future’

The Onion’s hilarious, degrading and matter-of-fact satirical headlines and stories have made people laugh for more than two decades. But… Read More

Report: Google’s new flagship Nexus 5 phone coming Nov. 1

The latest Google-branded smartphone in the Android ecosystem is slated to arrive Friday, according to a new rumor. Evleaks, the… Read More

Seattle generates more nationally-trending topics on Twitter than any other U.S. city, study says

At least according to Twitter, Seattleites are trend-setters. A new study out of the Indiana University shows that Seattle has… Read More

Apple earnings will put iPhone and Mac sales in the spotlight

As quarterly earnings season continues, the eyes of the tech world are turning towards Cupertino as Apple prepares to announce… Read More

Microsoft’s new Xbox One video shows off dashboard, Kinect functionality

With less than a month until the Xbox One goes on sale, Microsoft today posted a new video on the Xbox… Read More

Tweet-a-Coffee: You can now buy a Starbucks latte for a friend via Twitter

Here’s something that coffee-crazed and tech-mad Seattleites will certainly love. Starbucks is launching a new partnership with Twitter called Tweet-a-Coffee… Read More