Name that Tech Tune: GeekGirlCon and GeekWire Startup Day tix up for grabs Updated below with answer and winners. It’s time for a brand new installment of our Name that Tech Tune challenge.… Read More
Here’s what playing a game with Valve’s Steam Controller looks like Valve raised some eyebrows in the gaming world when it announced the new Steam Controller for its upcoming Steam Machine… Read More
Paul Allen pitches in $3M to Oregon Shakespeare Festival Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has always had a love for Shakespeare, and now he’s giving away some money again to… Read More
You can’t opt out of auto-playing Instagram video on mobile anymore, but here’s how to spare your wallet When you next open up Instagram on your smartphone, there might be a video already playing for you. In an… Read More
GeekWire Calendar Picks: Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian in Seattle With fall upon us, it’s a busy season for books, and a look at the GeekWire Calendar shows some great… Read More
Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture now employs 300 people, gearing up for commercial operations Blue Origin, the Seattle-based space venture backed by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, has been quietly working for the past 13… Read More
‘Taste of the Future’: Whet your appetite for our new TV series with this sneak preview It’s time to pull up a chair and sit around the dinner table with a bunch of smart people for… Read More
Photos: Bezos Center for Innovation showcases Seattle’s inventions, aims to inspire future entrepreneurs Jeff Bezos knows a little something about innovation and what it can mean for an individual, a company, a city,… Read More
Amazon trying to lure top YouTube networks away from Google You might be soon watching your favorite YouTube star on Amazon Instant Video, if a new report is correct. According… Read More
Google can use your face in ads starting next month If you really liked the latest Drake album that you bought on Google Play, there’s a chance the whole world… Read More
Early-bird prices end today for Startup Day: Moz CEO Rand Fishkin, Glympse CEO Bryan Trussel added to lineup OK, folks, as they say: “If you snooze, you lose.” Early-bird prices end later today for our big Startup Day… Read More
Live: Watch Demo Day presentations, meet the 7 new Portland Incubator Experiment startups Three months of hard work, lots of caffeine and some pivoting culminate today in the Rose City as the seven… Read More
The billionaire buffer: How Mark Zuckerberg is following Bill Gates’ lead in real estate Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates are both Harvard dropouts who climbed to the top of the technology world. And it… Read More
Comr.se raises $780K to help brands sell products within social streams Shopping cart technology isn’t exactly the newest innovation around. But one young Seattle startup seems to have struck the right… Read More
Zillow chairman Rich Barton to headline entrepreneurship summit in Kuala Lumpur The Fourth Annual Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Kuala Lumpur is taking on a distinctive Seattle feel. Not in the weather,… Read More
President Obama pledges support for global startup efforts, taps UP Global to help support 500,000 new entrepreneurs by 2016 The government may be shut down. But you can’t extinguish the entrepreneurial fire that easy. In video remarks at the… Read More
App development startup Sirqul partners with leading Taiwan mobile telecom operator Sirqul is off to a fast start. Just over one month after officially launching, the Seattle mobile company has partnered with… Read More
Trulia’s new heat maps show how expensive it is to live in San Francisco When looking for a home far away from home, it can be hard to know where to go to find… Read More
Startup Spotlight: Shippable helps developers speed up software deployment After more than a decade working in various roles at Microsoft and a few years with a startup, Avi Cavale… Read More
Beyond his years: Teen game company founder Nikhil Khanna debuts his second mobile title Nikhil Khanna impressed us last year, building an iPhone game and creating a company in just two months with $600. Now… Read More
Amazon buying TenMarks math instruction startup, moving further into education Amazon is diving further into the education market with an acquisition announced today. The Seattle-based retail giant said that it… Read More
How to ditch Microsoft and join a great startup Guest Commentary: The last few months have not been great for Microsoft. First, the Surface turned out to be a… Read More
Adult app store MiKandi builds workaround to launch the first third-party Chrome app store Adult app company MiKandi has worked around Google developer restrictions — again. The Seattle-based startup made headlines this past summer after releasing the… Read More
Microsoft plans Windows remote desktop app for iOS If you’re someone who needs to use Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Protocol to get access to a computer from afar, there’s… Read More
‘Science Guy’ Bill Nye is back with new series, explaining NASA’s mission to Jupiter If you want to know about Earth’s next visitor to Jupiter, a familiar face with a familiar bow tie is… Read More
Twitter jumps into personalized breaking news with @eventparrot Twitter has long been touting its capabilities as a breaking news service. When something big happens, odds are there’s someone… Read More
Nuance to buy Varolii to bolster automated customer support calls You’ve probably received the call or text from an airline, sports team or bank — an automated message informing you… Read More
DogVacay looks to be top breed in pet boarding, laps up $15M to bite back at Rover.com It’s turning into an epic dog fight. DogVacay today announced that it has secured $15 million in fresh funding, money… Read More
Jeff Bezos’ biological dad didn’t know his son was Jeff Bezos, until journalist informed him last year Ted Jorgensen is a 69-year-old former circus performer and unicyclist who runs a small bike shop in Glendale, Ariz. He has… Read More
Book excerpt goes inside Amazon’s brutal culture, built around Jeff Bezos’ brain “This document was clearly written by the B team. Can someone get me the A team document? I don’t want… Read More
