Zillow CEO Spencer Rascoff joins Zulily, TripAdvisor boards Before he got the real estate bug, Zillow CEO Spencer Rascoff was in the online travel business, co-founding and serving… Read More
How Bill Gates and Google are linked via O3B’s satellite broadband deal with Kymeta Bill Gates doesn’t always see eye-to-eye with Google on the topic of spreading Internet connectivity around the world — recently… Read More
Urban Airship CEO Scott Kveton on striking out with VCs and why pitch decks suck Last night, we got the chance to hang out in the amazing new offices of Urban Airship, located in the… Read More
Video game vet Ed Fries: Free-to-play business model is here to stay It took some time, but Ed Fries is sold on free-to-play. Fries, the video-game industry veteran and startup adviser, spoke on… Read More
Next stop, Amazon: How a Microsoft vet says farewell after 23 years at the company “It’s become painfully clear that my bid to become the new CEO of Microsoft will not be successful, so today… Read More
Report: Amazon may offer its smartphone for free Amazon wants to offer people a five-finger discount on their upcoming smartphone, according to a new report. Former Wall Street… Read More
Chart: Zillow tops 63 million visitors in August Zillow’s stock has been soaring lately. And so is the company’s traffic. The online real estate powerhouse announced today that… Read More
Amazon vet’s robot-powered apparel startup partners with Levi’s, opens Manhattan store Nadia Shouraboura knew she had a good idea when she debuted her robot-powered apparel shop, Hointer, this past November in… Read More
Alan Mulally shoots down Microsoft CEO rumors, will stay at Ford through 2014 One of the more interesting candidates we’ve heard discussed as the possible next Microsoft CEO is Ford’s Alan Mulally, interesting… Read More
Surf’s up: Next Mac OS reportedly set for release in October If a new report is right, people eager to get their hands on the next operating system for their Macs… Read More
Judge issues permanent injunction in Apple e-book case Apple’s going to have a new babysitter for the next two years as a part of the remedies in its… Read More
Front Desk reels in $1M to help business owners manage scheduling, admin Front Desk, the Seattle startup that helps businesses manage scheduling and other administrative tasks, has raised an additional $1 million… Read More
eBay acquires Decide.com, shopping research site will shut down Sept. 30 eBay is buying Seattle startup Decide.com, gobbling up the online shopping research service that predicted whether prices were going up… Read More
Lead juror in Microsoft vs. Motorola was genetics pioneer Mary-Claire King Mary-Claire King, the famed scientist who discovered the link between the BRCA1 gene and many forms of breast and ovarian cancer,… Read More
Portland: Time to celebrate companies getting big We’re hanging in Portland this week, attending the big TechFestNW conference and hanging with some of our favorite PDX startups.… Read More
Windows Phone ‘phablet’ revealed? Nokia’s giant Lumia 1520 appears in leak Larger than a phone, smaller than a tablet — yes, it’s a “phablet,” to use the much-derided term for the… Read More
Commentary: 3 project leadership lessons from Game of Thrones George RR Martin’s world of Game of Thrones is full of dragons, zombies, and magic. These are fun, but not… Read More
Life’s a pitch: The other reasons startups do competitions The tech community has a rite of passage for its newborns hoping to reach adulthood. It is selective, it is… Read More
GoDaddy relaunches its brand, with a little help from Jean-Claude Van Damme GoDaddy, the online services company led by former Yahoo and Microsoft executive Blake Irving, relaunched its brand today with a… Read More
Next Big Thing: Kellee Khalil, Loverly founder and CEO This week on The Next Big Thing I sit down with Kellee Khalil, the Founder and CEO of Loverly, the visual… Read More
GeekWire Summit: StudentRND projects offer a glimpse of the future One day last week, my colleague John Cook and I took a break from the news to visit the headquarters… Read More
Sneak peek: Google breaks ground on new Seattle-area engineering center Google this morning broke ground on a new building that will double the size of the company’s existing engineering center… Read More
GeekWire Summit Agenda: Rich Barton, Chase Jarvis, Bill Gurley and many more Our biggest event of the year — the GeekWire Summit — is just one week away. So, folks, it’s no… Read More
Contour defaults on $7M in loans, court-appointed receiver pursuing possible sale after last exec resigns Contour, the Seattle-based action-camera maker that surprised employees by closing its doors a month ago, has been placed in the… Read More
Sounders Day photo gallery: Geeks, beer, 3-D printers and Brad Evans! Well, for a soccer-loving geek who lives in Seattle, it doesn’t get much better than this. More than 400 of… Read More
Former Slate publisher and MSN vet joins Cheezburger as president and COO Cheezburger is adding a little more beef to its executive ranks. The six-year-old Seattle online humor company, best known for… Read More
Optify looks to sell assets, staffer says layoff was ‘shocking’ Last week, we shared the news with you that Optify, the Seattle maker of marketing software, had hit the wall… Read More
This 13-year-old just invented an Internet-enabled dog treat dispenser, canine chat service If you’re a dog owner and have ever felt bad about leaving Fido, Otis or Buster at home alone, here’s… Read More
Study: ESPN viewers more likely to visit car dealerships There’s a new television season coming up this fall, and that means new insights about product placement are here. Placed,… Read More
Microsoft wins jury verdict vs. Motorola; $14M in damages is half of what Microsoft sought Updated with Google comment. A federal jury in Seattle ruled in Microsoft’s favor this afternoon in a patent dispute with… Read More
