Techstars Seattle Demo Day: Meet the 11 startups pitching today Three months ago, 11 fresh startups began a 90-day entrepreneurial voyage inside the Techstars Seattle incubator. Today, countless hours of… Read More
Why Woz doesn’t like Apple’s new iPad Air Steve Wozniak isn’t interested in picking up the new iPad Air. To be clear, it’s not that the Apple co-founder… Read More
Startup Day FAQ: What to know if you’re going to our big event and geek bands bash We’re getting excited for the fifth annual Startup Day event, kicking off Friday morning with remarks by Gov. Jay Inslee… Read More
Battery-free wireless communication technology highlights UW computer science show The impressive work coming out of University of Washington’s computer science department was on full display Wednesday evening inside the… Read More
Vine update adds support for drafts, “Time Travel” Have you ever wanted to re-arrange the order of video snippets in a Vine that you shot? Now you can.… Read More
Amazon: Wall Street braces for 2nd straight quarterly loss “Bezos has chosen to run Amazon to be the biggest, most powerful and successful retailer on Earth 20 years from… Read More
Mac security milestone: Flash for Safari is ‘sandboxed’ in OS X Mavericks Much as Steve Jobs hated it, the world still runs (at least a bit) on Adobe Flash Player. That means… Read More
Pew study: 30% of Americans get news from Facebook While nearly one-third of Americans find news via Facebook, they aren’t necessarily going to the social media hub searching for… Read More
New Vizify features let you create social media-infused personal websites with custom domains Vizify has long allowed users to see pages showing their social media chatter morphed into neat infographics and visualizations — for free.… Read More
Meet the new Microsoft: New reporting segments debut with quarterly earnings today Microsoft’s largest division isn’t Windows or Office anymore. It’s “Commercial Licensing” — with more than $39 billion in revenue last… Read More
Ex-RealNetworks GM finding success with popular virtual Las Vegas-themed MMORPG There are countless virtual casino games out there, from online poker to slots and everything in between. But what’s less… Read More
Startup Spotlight: Microsoft vets start Pansieve to develop mobile forms for businesses When it comes to gathering operational data, many businesses haven’t changed much from the past. Filling out business forms —… Read More
Report: Amazon’s rumored set-top box is delayed until next year If you thought you might be putting an Amazon set-top box on your holiday gift list, new rumors might put… Read More
Sustainable Seattle: City wants to recycle excess data center energy to heat up buildings The City of Seattle is putting a new meaning to the word recycle. As first reported by The Economist, plans… Read More
This $55, open-sourced controller helps you play games on your phone, tablet or laptop While convenient and often cheaper than console titles, playing video games on smartphones or tablets is certainly limited because you… Read More
Microsoft: Apple’s free iWork on iPad is ‘an attempt to play catch up’ to Office on Surface Apple’s decision to offer its iWork suite for free on new iPads is drawing a spirited response from Microsoft’s communications… Read More
Shares of F5 up 7% in after hours, profits increase by $8M Shares of F5 Networks were up more than seven percent in after hours trading today following the company’s fourth quarter earnings report, which… Read More
Amazon jabs at Apple, says Kindle Fire HDX is ‘Lighter than Air’ Visitors to Amazon’s homepage today were greeted with a subtle jab at Apple’s new iPad Air tablet. A banner advertising… Read More
Startup Spotlight: ResolutionTube helps technicians fix broken machines with a mobile app When Arnav Anand worked as a technician at Boston Scientific, he sometimes spent hours — even days — trying to… Read More
Microsoft acquires API management firm Apiphany Microsoft announced today that it has acquired Apiphany, an API management company that helps developers securely expose APIs to developers… Read More
Mavericks now makes up between 6 and 8 percent of Mac web traffic Less than 24 hours after its release, Mavericks, Apple’s latest update to the Mac OS, has already begun picking up… Read More
Apple vs. Microsoft, Google and Amazon: Why the future of ‘computing’ is a free-for-all Talking about Apple’s new Mac lineup yesterday, CEO Tim Cook had this to say about the unnamed “competition.” “They’re confused,”… Read More
Meet the all-star cast of judges for this Friday’s Battle of the Geek Bands bash Ok, folks, just two days until we start rocking the Showbox Sodo. Our big “Battle of the Geek Bands and… Read More
Microsoft lets devs use Bing speech recognition in Windows 8 apps Windows developers have a new tool up their sleeves for letting users talk to their apps. First spotted by Mary… Read More
These are the top universities graduating the most VC-backed entrepreneurs Every week during the college football season, the Associated Press comes out with an updated list of the top 25… Read More
T-Mobile will offer iPad Air and other tablets for zero-down, free data up to 200 MB/month T-Mobile US this morning confirmed that it will offer free data for tablets on its network up to 200 MB/month,… Read More
Highest paid CEOs: Mark Zuckerberg No.1; Tim Cook No. 5; Howard Schultz No. 8 CEOs are raking in the dough more than ever. That’s the findings from GMI Ratings’ 2013 CEO Pay Survey, which… Read More
Samsung’s Galaxy Gear smartwatch will now work with reasonably-sized phones Samsung’s new smartwatch hasn’t exactly garnered rave reviews, and one of the criticisms of the device is that the only… Read More
Amazon’s Jeff Bezos is in great shape, may be in ‘astronaut training,’ says author Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos is looking so fit these days that he may be prepping to go to space. That… Read More
Amazon’s giant biodomes win blessing of city design board Amazon won approval from Seattle’s Design Review Board for a massive, three-part biodome on its planned campus north of downtown… Read More
