Articles from 2013 – Page 37 of 150

Amazon ‘dangerous’ for rivals and investors, warns Barron’s

Barron’s magazine gave Amazon.com some bearish treatment in a piece over the weekend — saying that the company is “dangerous”… Read More

Amazon to add 7,000 employees in Europe

As part of its expansion into Europe, Amazon.com is hiring 6,000 permanent workers for three new logistics centers in Poland.… Read More

Headwinds persist for VC funds: 56 funds raise $4.1 billion in Q3

U.S. venture capital funds had a bit more success raising money in the third quarter compared to the previous quarter,… Read More

Shares of Redbox parent jump after hedge fund discloses large stake, encourages sale

Shares of Outerwall, the Bellevue company best known for its Coinstar coin counting machines and Redbox movie rental kiosks, jumped… Read More

Julep looks to polish brand image with TV ad campaign

Zillow is doing it, and so is Zulily. Now, Julep — the Seattle-based online cosmetics company — is jumping into… Read More

UP Global’s Marc Nager: ‘There’s no one way to build a company’

Marc Nager believes in the power of entrepreneurs, so much so that he’s a first-time entrepreneur himself building a network… Read More

Living with Apple’s iOS 7: 5 tips to get the most out of Mail

Email is that thing we all have to worry about, but managing it can be a real pain. So what’s… Read More

Report: Nathan Myhrvold’s Intellectual Ventures curtails patent buys, looks to raise $3B

A new report out from Reuters says that Intellectual Ventures — the Bellevue-based patent holding firm led by former Microsoft… Read More

The side-project entrepreneur: 4 reasons to try a startup without quitting your day job

I’m not sure if there’s a term yet coined for those who start companies in their spare time, so henceforth… Read More

Are Microsoft and Amazon holding back Seattle’s startup scene?

Silicon Valley is certainly the king in terms of venture capital and startup formation. And while Seattle has grown as a… Read More

Comcast’s Xfinity X1 service suffers overnight outage

Comcast’s Xfinity X1 television platform experienced a widespread outage overnight, showing blank screens for many users across the country, according… Read More

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GeekWire Radio: How these digital security pros view the NSA surveillance revelations

What do people who work in digital security think about the NSA revelations? And how concerned should the rest of… Read More

Sex, drugs and Facebook: Seattle Children’s social media research team takes on teen health

Dr. Megan Moreno once met a teen who went to bed every night with her smartphone tucked under her pillow… Read More

GeekWire Calendar: Startup Week, BrickCon, and more events to thrill and chill

I don’t know about you, but October happens to be my favorite month. It’s when all the ghouls, ghosts, and… Read More

Q&A: Robert Scoble on ‘Age of Context,’ Google, Microsoft and the ‘freaky factor’

Writer, interviewer and tech evangelist Robert Scoble was back in Seattle this week, with his ever-present Google Glass, to promote the… Read More

T-Mobile to unveil another ‘Un-Carrier’ program with some help from Shakira

T-Mobile USA isn’t done “shaking up” the wireless industry, and now the carrier is recruiting pop star Shakira to help… Read More

Memo: Tesla’s Elon Musk responds to fiery Model S crash, says result could ‘have been far worse’ if gas car

Shares of Tesla tumbled earlier this week after a fiery accident involving a Model S on a roadway in Kent,… Read More

Stats: iPhone gains on Android, even before launch of 5S, 5C

While analysts brawl over what Apple’s record-setting sales figures for the iPhone 5S and 5C mean, market share figures released… Read More

Startup Spotlight: 21-year old creates Barters Closet to buy, sell and donate clothes online

Connor Simpson is a self-proclaimed sweater addict. About two years ago, unsurprisingly, his collection was getting a bit excessive and… Read More

Finally, you can unfriend Facebook friends on Windows Phone

If you’re a Windows Phone user who has been waiting to unfriend that one person who was kind of in… Read More

Portland’s Cloudability named top 15 best young companies to work for

Cloudability, a Portland upstart that helps companies get a better handle on how much they are spending across various cloud… Read More

How to protect yourself from the latest iPhone 5S attack

Looks like it’s time for new security disclosures about flaws with Apple’s new iPhone. Researchers at SR Labs, a German… Read More

TaxAct bolsters personal finance tools with Balance Financial buy

Balance Financial, a 9-year-old Bellevue company that specializes in personal finance tools and services, has been acquired by Blucora’s TaxAct… Read More

Trading places: These tech startup execs are swapping jobs, homes, lives for one week

What happens if you switch places with a fellow CEO, manage their employees and live in their house for one… Read More

Introducing Seattle Startup Week: A full slate of events — plus fun collectible cards!

There’s so much percolating in Seattle’s startup ecosystem. We see it everyday in the companies we cover, checking out innovative ideas;… Read More

Maveron-backed PotBelly fills tummy with spectacular IPO

Well, the sandwiches are delicious. But it’s not just meatball subs that’s getting Wall Street excited about PotBelly Sandwich Shop.… Read More

University of Oregon develops app to teach you about safe sex

Many people — college students in particular — have lots of questions about sex, but might be too uncomfortable to… Read More

Maritz AND Mulally? Analyst floats new idea for Microsoft

Much of the speculation about Microsoft’s next CEO has focused on individual candidates for the job, but what if the… Read More

No joke: Google wants a patent on splitting the restaurant bill

The Onion, September 2006: “Sequestered in a private booth at a Pasadena-area Cheesecake Factory for nearly 25 minutes, a party… Read More

Ford CEO Alan Mulally: Exactly what Microsoft needs

Guest Commentary: A flurry of speculation that Seattle’s Alan Mulally, Ford’s turnaround CEO, might be chosen to become Microsoft’s next CEO has digital pundits… Read More