Articles from 2013 – Page 66 of 150

Amazon announces 5,000 new fulfillment jobs in advance of Obama visit

Amazon.com, which has already more than tripled its workforce over the past three years, says it will add another 5,000… Read More

It’s now illegal for employers to ask for your social media passwords in Washington

If you walk into work tomorrow and the boss demands access to your Facebook account, you can now use the… Read More

Mobile milestone: 10% of U.S. Starbucks transactions now made with phone

When you step up to the register to pay at the coffee shop, do you reach for cash, a card… Read More

Pinterest engineering chief: Don’t be afraid to chase crazy dreams

Jon Jenkins, head of engineering at Pinterest, has taken the lead of a “super scrappy, super agile” team of engineers… Read More

Meet Taco: A productivity app that helps developers stay in the zone

As Troy Davis continued to build out his hosted log management business PaperTrail, he began to go a little crazy.… Read More

Podcast

GeekWire Radio: Bill Gates on tech, philanthropy, robots, and why you don’t want be a billionaire

This week on the GeekWire radio show, we’re listening back to highlights from Bill Gates’ recent public appearance in Redmond… Read More

Name that Tech Tune: Do you know your Windows trivia?

Updated below with answer and winner. This week’s Name that Tech Tune challenge is a little obscure, but true aficionados… Read More

Real-time ’emojitracker’ is an entertaining slice of Twitter

If you’re interested in a mesmerizing time-waster on this Friday afternoon, check out emojitracker, a website that tracks tweets containing… Read More

Hello, Lumia 1020! Windows Phone gets Hipstamatic Oggl, partial Instagram integration

It’s launch day for the Nokia Lumia 1020 Windows Phone, the one with the 41-megapixel camera. And coinciding with the… Read More

Your next Monopoly piece can be an Xbox 360 controller

Those who know Monopoly are familiar with classic pieces like the dog, top hat and wheelbarrow. But those are so… Read More

Hedge fund guru David Einhorn bails on Microsoft, compares stock to A-Rod and calls Windows 8 ‘a flop’

David Einhorn, the outspoken hedge fund operator who once called for Microsoft Steve Ballmer to step down, has officially tossed… Read More

Amazon Web Services adds SDK support for Windows Phone, Windows Store apps

Amazon Web Services has been beefing up support for Microsoft Windows as of late, and this week it released a new… Read More

Jive CEO declares that Yammer is ‘dead,’ says Microsoft is where ‘innovation goes to die’

Yammer may have received a $1.2 billion price tag from Microsoft last year. But, as far as Jive CEO Tony… Read More

Microsoft announces ‘buy one give one’ program for back to school deal

We wrote earlier this summer about Chip In, Microsoft’s program to help students buy a new PC by creating a… Read More

Geek on the Street: Facebook’s stock is soaring, but do people think it’s still cool?

Sure, Facebook’s future looked quite nice on Thursday after its second quarter earnings report exceeded Wall Street’s expectations with a… Read More

LA schools plan to give free iPads to 640,000 students by 2014

After announcing a $30 million deal with Apple last month, the Los Angeles Unified School District said that the pilot… Read More

Apple building speech team in Boston, Nuance’s backyard

Apple isn’t known for putting engineers in far-flung offices. The company’s secretive nature tends to lend itself to keeping its… Read More

Starbucks rolling out wireless charging in tables to Silicon Valley

You can get a little extra jolt at Starbucks locations in the Bay Area both for your mental state, and… Read More

Reports: Ballmer confirms next-gen Surface on the way

Despite disappointing early results for its homegrown tablet, Microsoft is pressing ahead with its Surface hardware strategy, preparing a next-generation… Read More

T-Mobile strikes back at AT&T with zero-down smartphone promotion

T-Mobile this morning announced a new promotion for the back-to-school shopping season, offering most of the smartphones in its lineup… Read More

Here’s the obscure book that Bill Gates is gushing about this summer

Microsoft chairman Bill Gates is a voracious reader, carrying a tote bag of books on his travels across the globe.… Read More

Amazon hit with six new patent lawsuits covering Kindle, cloud and retail

Amazon has been hit with six new patent infringement lawsuits, covering everything from the technology behind the Kindle Paperwhite display… Read More

Picture: Something is making the Xbox team very happy

It has been a roller-coaster couple of months at Microsoft Xbox headquarters, with a high-profile policy reversal and the departure… Read More

Writing science fiction in a Write-a-thon of geeky solidarity

Geeks and science fiction. You can almost track the rise in influence of the former by the inexorable pop-culture spread… Read More

Zynga continues to struggle, says it’s no longer pursuing online gambling in U.S.

Zynga has had a bad run. The social gaming titan that built itself on a slew of games ending in… Read More

Amazon hits 97,000 employees, more than tripling in size in three years

Amazon.com’s quarterly report this afternoon disclosed a $7 million loss for the company, but there was another notable number farther down… Read More

Why is Jeff Bezos hanging out in Silicon Valley this summer?

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is not enjoying this beautiful Seattle summer. Instead, it appears Bezos is camped out in Silicon… Read More

Amazon won’t say if grocery delivery business is profitable: ‘It was set up as a test’

Amazon.com spent more than five years testing Amazon Fresh in the Seattle area only and finally introduced the grocery delivery… Read More

NBCNews.com confirms office move from Redmond to downtown Seattle

NBCNews.com confirmed today that it is moving its operations from Microsoft’s Redmond campus to Seattle’s tallest skyscraper, Columbia Center. It… Read More

Shares of Expedia tumble 25 percent after online travel giant hits Q2 ‘headwinds’

Shares of Expedia are getting trashed in after-hours trading, following the Bellevue company’s latest earnings announcement which showed a 27… Read More