Articles from 2013 – Page 38 of 150

Record profit for Samsung, first quarterly loss for HTC

The difference between two of the most well-known smartphone makers could hardly be more stark these days. Samsung issued earnings… Read More

A Place at the Foosball Table: I was a Google contract worker

It happened at parties and first dates. “I work at Google,” I’d say, and then the impressed expression, clicking tongue,… Read More

Microsoft board cuts Ballmer bonus, citing Windows and Surface RT challenges

Microsoft’s board gave CEO Steve Ballmer a smaller bonus for fiscal 2013 due to declining Windows profits and the struggles… Read More

Barack Obama’s famous election victory declaration photo attracted 25 million views on Twitter

If you were on social media or watched the news during the presidential election last year, it’s likely you saw… Read More

Geek of the Week: Zulily engineer Steve Reed, self-taught programmer

Steve Reed grew up in Seattle, studied astronomy and physics in college, and learned to program on the bus. How… Read More

Adobe hack steals 2.9M accounts, plus source code

If you have an Adobe account, you may want to make sure it doesn’t share any passwords with something important.… Read More

Hey, Instagram users: Get ready for advertisements

Just as Twitter revealed its IPO Thursday afternoon, Facebook-owned Instagram thought it’d be a nice time to drop a little… Read More

Report: Amazon’s set-top box is coming for the holidays

Sites including Bloomberg Businessweek reported earlier this year that Amazon was working on a set-top box that would compete with the… Read More

Twitter at 2,000 employees, up 90% from last year

Twitter’s IPO filing was made public today and it noted that the company now employs 2,000 worldwide. According to the… Read More

Twitter (TWTR) IPO filing revealed: Company lost $79M in 2012, tops 215M users

Twitter’s IPO was just made public and the company is looking to raise $1 billion. Twitter said it now has 215… Read More

Ex-drugstore.com CEO Dawn Lepore invests in SquareHub, joins advisory board

Dawn Lepore is a busy woman. A day after the former drugstore.com CEO joined board of Seattle tech mainstay RealNetworks,… Read More

Geeks vs. Nerds: Epic rap video explains the difference

Are you a nerd or a geek? That’s the question YouTube stars Rhett & Link examine in a new video… Read More

Former Hulu execs nod to Seattle with stealthy startup The Fremont Project

Former Hulu execs Jason Kilar and Richard Tom both spent time in Seattle, having worked at companies such as Amazon.com… Read More

Yahoo now offering bug bounty of up to $15,000 following harsh criticisms for $12.50 gift

There’s nothing like a whole lot of bad press to get things moving. Yahoo touched off a firestorm on Tuesday… Read More

Google wants you lower car windows, turn up the radio by waving your hands

When Flutter, a startup that works on using gestures to control functions in your computer’s media player, announced that it… Read More

Battle of the Geek Bands: Get your tickets for this rockin’ after-party

In the spirit of Spinal Tap, Seattle’s tech community will be taking it “up to 11” on Friday, Oct. 25th… Read More

Jason Goldberg’s Amazon-rival Fab lays off more than 100

Things seemed to be flying high this past June for Fab when the New York-based e-commerce upstart raised $150 million at a reported valuation of… Read More

Study says Google wins ‘Bing it On’ challenge; Microsoft calls findings ‘unfair’

A law professor is giving Microsoft a statistical smackdown over its “Bing it On” search challenge, but the company isn’t… Read More

The top 50 disruptors: Jeff Bezos leads Vanity Fair’s ‘New Establishment’ list

At the GeekWire Summit last month, venture capitalist Bill Gurley and Zillow chairman Rich Barton pointed out their belief that… Read More

Circa launches news app on Android, redefines how we consume breaking news on mobile

Circa, the year-old news app that wants to redefine how we consume news on our mobile devices, today launched on… Read More

Netflix for iPhone and iPad gets HD Streaming, AirPlay support

If you’ve been wanting to get caught up on Breaking Bad, but want to be able to count the hairs… Read More

Groupon hires Amazon Prime VP, continues Seattle expansion

Groupon continues to mine Amazon.com for talent, and today the daily deal company picked up a big name from its… Read More

Tablet typing made easy: Touchfire adds 3D keys to your iPad Mini

When Seattle-area product designers Steve Isaac and Brad Melmon created their first keyboard for the iPad, they crushed the Kickstarter funding… Read More

France passes law to prevent Amazon from offering free shipping on books

In an effort to level the playing field and support smaller bookstores, French lawmakers passed a bill Thursday preventing Amazon.com… Read More

Bill Gates’ mistake; Comcast X1; iOS debuts; and other top posts of the month

Autumn is officially here. How do we know? Well, of course there’s the rain. But, as GeekWire Chief Business Officer… Read More

Year Up Puget Sound students build computers, pitch investors to show off new skills

The sound of computer parts clanking together fill the theater inside Seattle’s Triple Door Wednesday afternoon. Students from Year Up… Read More

Tesla Model S crashes and burns near Seattle, company stock follows suit

A Tesla Model S electric car caught fire this week after crashing south of Seattle — combining with an analyst’s downgrade… Read More

Social logins: Facebook, Google struggle to grow as passports for broader web

Now, more than ever, social media accounts can be the passports for users to connect to different services we use… Read More

Dress to impress: Indochino’s ‘traveling tailor’ pop-up store arrives in Seattle

No, there won’t be robots in the back bringing clothes to your dressing room. But making a pit stop in… Read More

GeekWork: Moz, Spiral Genetics, thePlatform and Booking.com

These jobs aren’t going to fill themselves, they need you (yes YOU!). Below you’ll find an assortment of some of… Read More