Articles from 2013 – Page 64 of 150

Court rejects EA’s appeal over athlete likeness in college football game

A circuit court of appeals today rejected EA’s claim that it was protected by the First Amendment in a lawsuit… Read More

GeekWork: thePlatform, Gratafy, North Studio, Walk Score and more sweet gigs

Hey yo! More sweet gigs coming at ya from GeekWork. Are you a techie looking for a new career or… Read More

Trulia gushes about Market Leader deal, says Zillow ad campaign not hurting traffic

Zillow is spending tens of millions of dollars on a big-budget advertising campaign this year, part of a plan by… Read More

Mystery solved: Why a stretch of ‘Microsoft Way’ has been renamed after an employee

We received the photo above from a curious reader this morning, showing a new “Senanayake Way” street sign on the famed… Read More

OpenTable gobbles up online reservation service Rezbook, partners with Urbanspoon

We heard a few months ago that Urbanspoon was shopping its online restaurant reservation system Rezbook. Now, we’ve learned where… Read More

Concur posts $2.8M in profit as revenue continues to pour in

Not only has Concur made several acquisitions as of late, but the company is now back in the green. The… Read More

Shares of Trulia soar after Q2 revenues rise 77 percent to $29.7 million

Trulia, the San Francisco-based online real estate company that competes directly with Zillow, is seeing its shares rise more than… Read More

Seattle Times sells old HQ near Amazon campus, plans to use cash for digital transition

Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood is undergoing a radical transformation, driven largely by the arrival of technology companies such as… Read More

Chart: Android now leads iOS in app downloads, but Apple still king in revenue

For the first time in the history of the two platforms, Android has surpassed iOS in the number of apps… Read More

10 great ways to take awful mobile pictures of people

Anyone can take a mobile photo of you. That doesn’t mean everyone should. Every week on social streams I see… Read More

Mobile commerce upstart Conductiv raises cash to help retailers battle Amazon

Conductiv, a Bothell mobile commerce startup which boldly says that it is setting out to “change the face of retail,”… Read More

BallmerDrive, LiveDrive, MetroDrive: What should Microsoft rename SkyDrive?

Microsoft will be ending its use of the “SkyDrive” brand name as part of a settlement reached today with British Sky… Read More

You can soon embed Facebook statuses, photos

It’s been easy to embed Tweets for quite some time now, but Facebook did not offer a similar tool for… Read More

New journalism? Amazon’s exclusive Obama interview released as free Kindle Single

During his visit yesterday to Amazon’s warehouse in Chattanooga, Tenn., President Obama sat down for an exclusive one-on-one interview with… Read More

Gigabit Squared makes investment to bolster Seattle’s super-fast gigabit Internet

Some in the internet service provider space have expressed concern over Gigabit Squared’s plans to bring lightning-fast fiber Internet speeds to… Read More

Microsoft sees big jump in support and consulting jobs, coinciding with Windows 8

Here’s another interesting tidbit from Microsoft’s Form 10-K filing with the SEC: The company reports that its internal ranks of… Read More

RealNetworks buys social casino game Slingo for $15.6M as ‘Zynga Slingo’ shuts down

RealNetworks’ GameHouse division continued making a splash in the social gaming arena today, announcing the acquisition of social casino company Slingo Inc. for… Read More

Here’s how you can win $100K by playing a free social casino game

Real-money gambling hasn’t quite made it to the United States yet, but that doesn’t mean you can’t win a nice… Read More

Bang with Friends sex app founder responds to Zynga suit over ‘with friends’ trademark

Zynga is all about making games that include the phrase “With Friends,” and now it appears that the company wants… Read More

Microsoft to rename SkyDrive to settle trademark dispute

In a major change for one of Microsoft’s key online services, the company will rename its SkyDrive cloud storage service… Read More

Google to make Starbucks wireless 10 times faster under new partnership

Google will become the official provider of Wi-Fi at Starbucks stores in the U.S., promising to make the coffee… Read More

Microsoft Office meets Android: New app for smartphones, not tablets

Microsoft this morning released Office Mobile for Android — bringing basic Word, Excel and PowerPoint functionality to Google-powered smartphones, but… Read More

Chirpify raises $4M to move social media transaction technology to live events, TV

It’s been just over a year since Chirpify raised its first round of cash and it has been flying high… Read More

Nintendo posts profit, but still sold more original Wii consoles than Wii U last quarter

Nintendo just posted earnings from the first quarter of its financial year today and it’s still not looking good for… Read More

Future of gaming: You’ll probably want a robot with that head-mounted display

SAN FRANCISCO – If trends continue, your next gaming accessory could be a head-mounted display, like the Oculus Rift. If… Read More

EA’s former CEO: Mobile content creators deserve better

SAN FRANCISCO — In his talk today at the Casual Connect game conference, the former CEO of game developer Electronic… Read More

Microsoft’s new billion-dollar business: Android patents?

Windows Phone revenue rose by $1.2 billion in the company’s 2013 fiscal year, according to new numbers released by Microsoft… Read More

Former EA CEO John Riccitiello: Mobile games need to build brands

SAN FRANCISCO — The mobile and social arena has been categorized by some massive short-term successes, but few big brands.… Read More

World’s largest boring machine begins digging 2-mile underground tunnel

Bertha is ready to start digging. The world’s largest boring machine began drilling a nearly 2-mile highway tunnel underneath Seattle… Read More

Microsoft doesn’t want its former Windows chief to work for these companies

Microsoft’s annual Form 10-K filing, made public this afternoon, includes an exhibit that contains the text of the “retirement agreement”… Read More