GoSmart, T-Mobile’s pre-paid phone service, just got a whole lot more attractive for heavy Facebook users. The company announced today that it will be allowing users to access Facebook and… Read More
Samsung’s Galaxy Gear smartwatch hasn’t exactly been a hit. So now, the company wants to make guys believe that the device can help you pick up girls while skiing. It sounds… Read More
Venture capital investing in Washington state started out with a whimper in 2013, but it is ending with a bang. After the slow start, as evidenced by the chart above… Read More
Microsoft has reached a deal to buy another 200 acres of land in Quincy, Wash. which it plans to use as a home for a new, massive data center. The… Read More
Aviary, a photo-editing technology company backed by investors including Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, says it is discontinuing work on its photo-editing software development kit for Windows Phone and Windows 8, citing… Read More
Venture capital is a high-risk, high-reward game where the funds at the top tend to grab the lion’s share of the returns. And who was at the top of that… Read More
In early September, I launched a Kickstarter campaign for Robot Turtles – a board game that teaches programming to kids ages 3-8. It became the bestselling boardgame in Kickstarter history,… Read More
Mindbloom’s apps are all about improving your life and the company’s newest endeavor certainly fits in that category. The Seattle startup just officially debuted Momentum, an app that helps people… Read More
Brace yourselves, shoppers – there are only a few days left in the year, but the gift-giving, product-swapping season has just begun. Amidst the chaos, we’re taking a moment to… Read More
From festivals to concerts to performances, there is always a bevy of local events going on at any given time in any given city. But finding out what’s happening every… Read More
When recommending a new book, sometimes it can be hard to put a finger on exactly what makes it great. That’s where BooksILove, a new app for the iPhone, wants… Read More
We have a lot to talk about this week on the GeekWire radio show, starting with Amazon’s gravity-defying share price, passing $400/share for the first time this past week. Despite… Read More
Security firm RSA took $10 million from the NSA to make a flawed cipher the default in one of its security products, which is used by companies all over the… Read More
Republique, a new iPad game made in Seattle, is currently proving three things: that you can have console-quality gaming on a tablet, that you can fund a mobile game on… Read More
Microsoft this afternoon announced Jim DuBois as the company’s chief information officer. DuBois had served as the interim CIO for the past six months and replaced Tony Scott, who left… Read More
According to an invitation sent to journalists today, T-Mobile will be hosting a media event at the Consumer Electronics Show on Jan. 8 to give an overview of the next… Read More
Both the Xbox One and Playstation 4 have been selling like crazy for the past month, but looks like the PS4 is available on Amazon for a “limited time.” GameStop,… Read More
We are in Seattle and thus deep in the world of clouds: Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, CenturyLink Savvis, and more. But even for us, the experience of the Amazon… Read More
The Pacific Science Center has been named as a recipient of a NASA Collaboration Grant to help it promote STEM education in Seattle. In particular, the museum says that the… Read More
Online dating site LikeBright has been around for a few years now, first participating in the Techstars Seattle program in 2011 and more recently reeling in money from Microsoft Ventures.… Read More
Brady Forrest has a unique perspective on the world of hardware these days as the leader of Highway1, a hardware startup incubator in San Francisco created by the product development and supply… Read More
It’s been a pretty good year in the startup community, with the IPO market heating up and plenty of dollars flowing to new ventures. (Just this month alone, we’ve seen… Read More
The Nike+ Running app got an update today that includes a new Coach feature that gives users encouragement and provides them with workout plans to help them reach their goals,… Read More
This summer, Amazon.com’s stock hit $300 for the first time. Now, five months later, it has reached a new milestone: $400. Amazon’s stock surpassed $400 this morning, marking a 60… Read More
Hightower, a startup that is looking to modernize the commercial real estate industry, has landed $2.12 million in seed funding. The deal was led by Bessemer Venture Partners and Thrive… Read More
—Keela Robinson, a mobile industry veteran who previously worked at Amazon, WhitePages, RealNetworks and T-Mobile, has been named senior vice president and general manager of Urbanspoon. She most recently served… Read More
If you’re just waking up in the Seattle region, there’s a surprise waiting outside: a nice coating of snow. In fact, this would have surprised meteorologists in the past. But… Read More
Thanks to a team at the University of West England, Bristol, it may be possible to power a cell phone with pee sometime in the near future, with help from… Read More
Makers of tech products are often told to “eat their own dog food” – actually use what they tout in their real-world lives. The same should apply to reviewers of… Read More
Two Seattle-area men, including a former senior manager in Microsoft’s treasury group, were charged this afternoon with 35 counts of insider trading. Federal authorities allege that they made more than $390,000… Read More