Ignorance is not bliss: Startup Day founder explains why you need to attend I left Microsoft eight years ago to pursue life at a startup. I won’t bore you with the details, but… Read More
Tech Moves: Prevencio lands biotech vets; Lively hires music vets; DomainTools nabs Roberts —Prevencio, an early-stage biotech company working on cardiac biomarker tests, has named H. Perry Fell as chairman and Rhonda Rhyne… Read More
Microsoft Bing adds another Pinterest feature to image search, hints at more social integration For the second time this year, Bing has added a Pinterest feature to its image search. Now when you search… Read More
Fiction book meets video game with Vidya Gamer’s first choose-your-own-adventure eBook For a lot of kids, reading can be boring and difficult. Playing a video game, on the other hand, is… Read More
FAA panel: Wi-Fi is safe during takeoff and landing If you’re even a semi-frequent flier, those moments between takeoff and 10,000 feet can be annoying if all you really… Read More
Which Jeff Bezos just bought The Washington Post? William Randolph Hearst. Joseph Pulitzer. John S. Knight. Katharine Graham. And now … Jeff Bezos. Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos has… Read More
Microsoft shows how Facebook and Twitter would have worked on Windows 95 Microsoft this morning released a remake of the classic game “Hover” for the web. Hover originally debuted on the Windows… Read More
Brain training with a game: Joggle Research debuts app that can make you smarter For a while now, there’s been a lot of attention on how smartphones can improve our physical health, from step-trackers… Read More
RealNetworks names former drugstore.com chief Dawn Lepore to board RealNetworks this morning added a new board member, Dawn Lepore, the former CEO of drugstore.com who also serves on the… Read More
Windows 95 game ‘Hover’ reborn: How this indie developer made it happen Dan Church was a young boy, just 6 or 7 years old, when he first discovered the game “Hover” on… Read More
Monsanto paying $930M to buy The Climate Corp. to help farmers harvest data It’s sunny skies today for The Climate Corp., a 7-year-old San Francisco company that sells insurance to farmers and uses… Read More
Chart: The top U.S. cities for venture capital in Q3 Just yesterday, I heard from a Seattle entrepreneur who said he was moving his startup company to San Francisco. It’s… Read More
Is Bill Gates the problem? Report says three big shareholders want him out as Microsoft chairman Reuters is making waves tonight with a report that three of Microsoft’s top investors want Bill Gates to step… Read More
Cubtab wants to make email safe and easy for kids Trying to figure out how to send an email using a service like Gmail or Yahoo is a little troublesome… Read More
Apple now controls 10 percent of all corporate cash*, Microsoft in second place We’ve known for a while that Apple controls a massive hoard of cash, but it’s occasionally hard to put into… Read More
No cellular version planned for Surface Pro line, says Microsoft exec At a Surface 2 preview event in Seattle last night, one of the questions that came up was about Microsoft’s… Read More
Startup Spotlight: Ex-Amazonians helping teachers create and sell online courses with Everpath Online learning has offered millions of people a new way to learn. It’s also opened the doors for instructors to… Read More
Researchers find critical vulnerabilities in Yahoo’s site, offered $12.50 per bug Yahoo may be in the midst of a reinvention, but according to one security company, their compensation for turning in… Read More
Bungie announces Destiny beta for 2014, releases new gameplay trailer Bungie today released details about its new game Destiny, including beta information and a new game trailer. The Destiny beta… Read More
Burgers, fries and PayPal: Internet payment system rolling out at restaurants Cash and credit cards are so last year. Kirkland-based Viableware today announced a partnership with PayPal, allowing customers to make purchases with… Read More
Dell gets buyout approval, will face PC challenges as a private company Dude, you’re getting a buyout! That was the message from regulators today as Dell announced that it has received “all… Read More
Off to the family room in the sky: MSN TV bites the dust MSN TV, Microsoft’s web browsing set-top box, has finally been sent up north, to live out its life at a… Read More
Microsoft tops Apple as America’s most inspiring company; Google 7th, Amazon 8th Is it Bill Gates and his foundation? The company’s corporate giving program? Or maybe it’s just Steve Ballmer’s passion-packed speeches.… Read More
GeekWire Startup Day: Governor Jay Inslee to kick off our startup bootcamp GeekWire Startup Day 2013 is less than a month away, and today we’re excited to announce that Washington state Gov.… Read More
No joke: Oregon Department of Education encourages cell phone use in class I can’t count the number of times I heard teachers and professors tell us to put our phones away in… Read More
A good showing: 26 venture-backed IPOs completed in Q3 The market for initial public offerings continued to accelerate in the third quarter as 26 venture-backed companies started trading on… Read More
Blockbuster iPad app Paper partners with Moleskine to print your digital artwork Sketching artwork on digital devices is pretty cool, but there’s just something about a physical and permanent creation that you… Read More
Microsoft Surface chief: ‘Multiple aspect ratios and sizes’ are in the works Panos Panay was literally on the floor when I walked into Microsoft’s Seattle store last night. The vice president responsible… Read More
AdReady finds a buyer, sells to digital media holding company CPXi AdReady is getting a new home. The Seattle online advertising startup — founded seven years ago by Aaron Finn and bankrolled… Read More
Amazon.com hiring 70,000 seasonal workers, 40% more than last holiday season Amazon.com is going on a serious hiring spree in anticipation for a big holiday shopping season. The Seattle online retailer… Read More
