Articles from 2013 – Page 71 of 150

Social polling app Loop raises $450K to be Yahoo! Answers on steroids

Many of us reach out to our friends and family or even random people on the Internet when trying to… Read More

Free travel forever along I-5: Tesla expands supercharger stations

Tesla is promising “free travel forever” for Model S drivers along Interstate 5, opening two new “supercharger” stations Thursday in… Read More

TV + smartphone, via web: Microsoft lays out vision to link big and small screens

Earlier this month, in advance of the July 4 holiday, Microsoft and Nokia released a collaborative experience for Xbox Live… Read More

T-Mobile lambasts AT&T’s competing early upgrade plan

Less than a week after T-Mobile unveiled a program called JUMP! that allows customers to upgrade their phones twice a year with a… Read More

Eye-tracking technology could replace passwords — if we want it to

Staring into a screen and moving your eyes around a couple times seems a lot easier and more secure than… Read More

Amazon vet’s robot-powered apparel startup now beating Amazon prices, partners with Google Shopping

Back in November, Hointer seemed like a pretty cool idea when we first checked out the robot-powered apparel startup in Seattle’s… Read More

GoldieBlox is ‘disrupting the pink aisle’ at Toys ‘R Us

GoldieBlox, the toy designed to get girls interested in engineering, has made it to Toys ‘R Us. A cross between… Read More

Microsoft appeals to AG Holder, cites Constitutional right to address spying controversy

Microsoft today sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, asking him or President Obama to personally intervene to… Read More

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Report: Apple in talks to cut ads out of live TV broadcasts

One of the future perks of an Apple TV may be the ability to skip past all those commercials you… Read More

Rooftop deck and summer soccer: Oh yeah, it’s GeekWire Sounders Day!

Sounders Soccer + Rooftop Deck + Geeks = Awesome! That’s right Sounders fans. Get ready for some fun in the… Read More

Now you can buy movie tickets with Amazon’s IMDb app

Movie database resource giant IMDb, launched in 1990 and acquired by Amazon in 1998, just updated its mobile apps to allow… Read More

Budding business: Startup lights up with $7 million to grow the Yelp of medical marijuana

Business is budding for Privateer Holdings Inc., a Seattle company that just reeled in $7 million in a series A… Read More

New Microsoft Research chief defends autonomy and ‘blue sky’ research

REDMOND — Peter Lee, the computer scientist who is assuming worldwide leadership of Microsoft Research, assured a crowd of university… Read More

Game of Thrones, Daft Punk and other Amazon best-sellers so far in 2013

People are loving Daft Punk and Justin Timberlake while Bruce Willis continues to demand the attention of movie fans. Those… Read More

Data analytics startup Context Relevant scores $7M series A from Madrona, Bloomberg and others

Context Relevant has reeled in $7 million in fresh funding, money that the Seattle company will use for continued development… Read More

Ratio Interactive and Cypress merge, combining Xbox Live and Windows 8 expertise

Digital agencies Ratio Interactive and Cypress announced this morning that they’re merging, bringing together two Seattle-based companies that have made… Read More

Ballmer’s ‘One Microsoft’: One decade too late?

Back in the spring of 2002, more than a decade ago, the big news coming out of Redmond was that… Read More

Concur continues to bet on the cloud, buys TRX and GDSX

Bellevue-based Concur is making some new buys, announcing today that the maker of travel and expense management has acquired technology… Read More

Volatility in VC land: Funding tumbles 14 percent in Q2

Venture Capital funding took a turn for the worse during the second quarter as deals and dollars slipped on a… Read More

Bill Gates at Microsoft: Watch his entire talk here

Bill Gates made a rare public appearance back at Microsoft, his old stomping grounds, earlier today for the opening keynote… Read More

This electric scooter goes 33 MPH for 36 miles, uses your smartphone as a speedometer

As gas prices continue to escalate, driving a car is becoming less and less common. But if taking public transporation… Read More

After one year, Simple finds success changing how people spend, save and store money

It’s hard to believe that Simple became available to customers only one year ago. The online-only banking startup, which started… Read More

Uber announces fare sharing to make splitting a ride that much easier

Have you ever wanted to grab an Uber with one of your friends, but then got frustrated by how you… Read More

Zillow CEO Spencer Rascoff on the most ‘dangerous time’ to run a tech company

Zillow CEO Spencer Rascoff is in the danger zone — at least as he sees it. In an interview with… Read More

Return of Microsoft Bob? But seriously, Gates sees new chance for ‘personal agents’

REDMOND — Bill Gates opened his talk at the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit today by saying we’ve entered a “golden… Read More

Here are the 8 interesting books Bill Gates is reading this summer

It’s always fun learning which books are in Bill Gates’ giant tote bag of old-fashioned books he lugs around, and… Read More

City of San Jose inks deal with Microsoft in Google’s backyard

The City of San Jose announced a partnership with Microsoft today to bring its more than 5,000 employees onto the… Read More

Microsoft admits it screwed up Xbox One marketing strategy

Microsoft didn’t exactly earn a gold star for its initial Xbox One marketing campaign, ultimately reversing its always-on Internet requirements last… Read More

Bill Gates at Microsoft: Free and commercial software working ‘very well’ together

REDMOND — Here are five words you’d never expect to come out of Bill Gates’ mouth: “Thank God for free… Read More

Report: Microsoft working on smartwatch with translucent aluminum, LTE support

While we’ve heard rumors of Microsoft working on its own smartwatch before, a couple new reports shed light on more concrete… Read More