How WildTangent Studios hired its entire workforce from PopCap Games Inside Suite 502 at the Olympic Block building in Seattle’s Pioneer Square, there’s a little PopCap Games reunion going on.… Read More
Surface Diary: What should Microsoft do now? Here’s the view from my house Last fall, I purchased a Surface RT tablet for my family, taking the money we had originally set aside for… Read More
The largest social poker tournament ever is happening online and in a casino simultaneously Here’s a great example of blending the online and physical worlds, but with a little poker twist. Seattle-based maker of… Read More
Dorm room to startup success: How Dan Price built a profitable company before he was 30 GeekWire readers may already be familiar with Gravity Payments CEO Dan Price, who took home honors as “Young Entrepreneur of… Read More
The Xbox 180: Why designing the business matters The big story in June was Microsoft’s Xbox One announcement, and their abrupt about-face on used games and online connectivity.… Read More
Ashton Kutcher — a.k.a. Steve Jobs — may start promoting Lenovo products Ashton Kutcher just spent months portraying Steve Jobs in the new biopic about the Apple founder that’s set to debut in… Read More
Apple CEO Tim Cook: High revenue follows good products According to Apple CEO Tim Cook, just because Apple doesn’t build products with Wall Street in mind doesn’t mean they’re… Read More
Apple CEO Tim Cook: Premium smartphone market not saturated While many analysts on Wall Street seem to think that the premium smartphone market has become largely saturated, Apple’s CEO… Read More
Apple sells 31.2 million iPhones and 14.6 million iPads in Q3, but profit growth slows Apple announced third quarter earnings today of $35.3 billion, with a net profit of $6.9 billion. That ends up working… Read More
Apple patents approved: Multi-sensor imaging, sharing content while on hold While the world waits for Apple’s third quarter earnings results, the company has just been awarded two new patents that… Read More
Nintendo stock hits 2-year high thanks to great games, 3DS console Nintendo may appear to be lost in the midst of the excitement surrounding the Xbox One and Playstation 4, but… Read More
All eyes on the iPhone as Apple preps for earnings release Today will see the release of Apple’s quarterly earnings, and Wall Street is waiting with bated breath to see what… Read More
Top venture capitalist Bill Gurley of Benchmark added to the GeekWire Summit lineup We’re extremely excited to announce today that Silicon Valley venture capitalist Bill Gurley will be joining us as a keynote… Read More
‘The phone is the PC’: Ubuntu tests demand for all-in-one device with $32M campaign The line is increasingly blurring between smartphones, tablets and desktop computers. But how much blurring are we ready for? Canonical,… Read More
Nokia’s new Lumia 625 has huge screen, lower price Nokia is out with another smartphone, this time with a big screen and lower price tag. The handset maker introduced… Read More
Amazon book lovers social network Goodreads doubles membership to 20M in 1 year Amazon’s acquisition of San Francisco book social network Goodreads is looking like a good move for the Seattle online giant. Goodreads, which offers… Read More
Meet the 7 new startups at the Portland Incubator Experiment It’s been four years since the Portland Incubator Experiment (PIE) started as just that — an experiment. But since 2009,… Read More
Yapta takes flight with $4.2M for airfare price tracking Seattle online travel startup Yapta has reeled in $4.2 million in fresh funding, with an option to raise an additional… Read More
Microsoft’s new app lets Windows Phone users beg for more apps Microsoft has released a new Windows Phone app that lets users search for Windows Phone versions of the most popular… Read More
Tech Moves: Dan Shapiro on leave from Google to write book; Add3 adds exec; etc. —Dan Shapiro, the co-founder of Ontela and Sparkbuy, is taking a leave of absence from Google to write a book… Read More
Big data startup Minetta Brook scores $2M to analyze stock news Minetta Brook, a big data startup led by Deepak “DB” Bharadwaj and Prabhu Venkatesh, has raised $2 million in seed funding to… Read More
This startup just scored $6.5M to transform the way you pay your restaurant bill A Seattle area startup is looking to shake up the way we pay for our restaurant bills, tossing out the… Read More
T-Mobile trashes AT&T’s upgrade program with new ad, calls rival ‘underhanded’ T-Mobile USA CEO John Legere already let his feelings out on Twitter about rival AT&T. Now his company is using… Read More
Q&A: Poppy’s Joe Heitzeberg on making the transition from software to hardware Software veterans Ethan Lowry and Joe Heitzeberg are moving into the realm of hardware with a simple and groundbreaking idea—a… Read More
A peek inside Boeing’s new spaceship: Tablets, LED lights and minimal controls From the outside, Boeing’s new spacecraft mimics the Apollo-era capsules from back in the day. The interior, however, is all about… Read More
Here’s why Mozilla picked Portland to open its first offices outside Silicon Valley Mozilla, makers of the popular Firefox browser, announced last week that it was expanding its cohort in Portland and moving employees… Read More
Hastings: Netflix, Hulu and Amazon becoming more like HBO, Showtime and Starz Netflix and Amazon are increasingly becoming very distinct choices for online streaming, as evidenced by the latest stats released by… Read More
Shoot a gun without touching your computer: Massively Fun debuts new Leap Motion game The new touchless user interface also known as Leap Motion finally hit stores today and one Seattle game company is already getting… Read More
Unexpected outcome: Control4 IPO could provide nice return for dormant Seattle VC firm Frazier Technology Ventures announced four years ago that it would no longer make new investments, and initiate the slow process… Read More
Google is now delivering ads that appear as emails to your Gmail inbox If Microsoft thought Google was “Scroogling” people with the way the search giant uses the contents of Gmail messages to deliver… Read More
