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Articles from 2013

Going global: Amazon to offer Kindle Fire HD in 170 countries

Previously available to only a handful of countries, Amazon announced today that it will be shipping both its 7-inch and… Read More

Jawfish Games going all in with real-time, fast-paced poker tournament app

Just a month ago, Jawfish Games CEO and professional poker player Phil Gordon joined us on the GeekWire Radio Show and… Read More

Microsoft uses Siri to ridicule iPad in latest commercial

Microsoft is taking another swing at a competitor and this time it’s Apple’s iPad getting the backhand slap. In its… Read More

Card-counting startup founders look to place a bet on Google Glass

Colin Jones and Ben Crawford have a tremendous story to tell, and one that you may have already read about or… Read More

Report: Zulily rival Totsy is going down the tubes

Did Totsy just tumble? That’s the word from PandoDaily, which reports that the money-losing New York-based flash sales site is… Read More

Journalists, look out: Tableau Public projects will soon be even more public

Tableau Software charges for its premium software and technologies to visualize data in interactive charts, with security protections for confidential… Read More

Startup lesson #2: Don’t ignore the enablers

[Editor’s note: Seattle entrepreneurs Barry Chu and Dave Cotter share some of their startup lessons in starting the new mobile app… Read More

Remote Medical International lands $8M to offer medical aid worldwide

To help broaden its reach and continue providing medical assistance in hard-to-reach places, Seattle-based Remote Medical International just landed $8… Read More

Collaborate.org: A global intelligence dashboard that visualizes the world’s data

Dr. Kevin Montgomery was working at NASA when he had his “A-ha” moment. During a trip to Hawaii, he visited a… Read More

Sweet gigs: DoubleDown Interactive, Tableau and Breaking News

Don’t let those dark skies fool you, summer’s just around the corner and what better way to start yours than… Read More

Amazon Web Services expanding in northern Virginia, plans to hire 500

Amazon.com is expanding its footprint in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area, with Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell announcing today that the… Read More

Check out the Apollo F-1 moon rocket engines that Jeff Bezos helped salvage

Back in March, Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos and his Bezos Expeditions team recovered significant pieces of two F-1 rocket engines that… Read More

LexisNexis closing Bellevue offices, 80 people impacted

LexisNexis is closing its Bellevue operations at the end of this year, a decision that will impact about 80 people.… Read More

Report: Teens leave Facebook for Twitter, because they want less drama

Facebook is still the social media king, but teens are using Twitter and Instagram at an increasing rate recently because,… Read More

Bruce Montgomery biotech startup Cardeas Pharma raises $34 million

It has been a good week for the Seattle life sciences community. On Monday, Seattle genomics tool maker NanoString Technologies… Read More

Microsoft vets raise cash for productivity startup Tipbit, backed by Ignition and Andreessen Horowitz

A startup by the name of Tipbit — backed by Ignition Partners and Andreessen Horowitz —wants to make you more… Read More

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen collaborates with Heart, Joe Walsh and other rock stars on new album

Paul Allen, the Microsoft co-founder, Jimi Hendrix aficionado and avid guitar player, is coming out with a new album in… Read More

From shopping advice to walking devices, startups with UW ties show off their successful ideas

The entrepreneurial talent coming out of the University of Washington was on full display Tuesday evening at the Paul G. Allen Center… Read More

Chart: The top 10 biggest private tech buyouts (and where Tumblr ranks)

In the wake of Yahoo’s blockbuster $1.1 billion purchase of Tumblr, Bloomberg News has produced a pretty nifty chart of… Read More

Amazon to pay royalties for fan fiction in new ‘Kindle Worlds’ program

Ready to write some fan fic? Amazon may have some money for you. The company says it will license rights… Read More

SEO guru Vanessa Fox sells search analytics startup Nine by Blue to RKG

Seattle entrepreneur Vanessa Fox has been bootstrapping her search analytics business, Nine by Blue, for the past six years. Today,… Read More

Amazon increases its tuition assistance for hourly workers

Amazon.com says it will boost the amount of tuition assistance available to its hourly employees who pursue associate degrees or… Read More

Xbox One: How Microsoft is trying to change the game

It was great that Microsoft included several former Xbox bigwigs — Robbie Bach, J Allard, and Ed Fries — in… Read More

UW’s Ed Lazowska: ‘Washington is the ass end of the donkey in just about every aspect of education’

The incredible talent that the University of Washington pumps out every year was on display during Tuesday’s Seattle Tech Meetup,… Read More

Xbox One: Watch the new Kinect detect a heart rate from across the room

Microsoft has significantly upgraded the sensing capabilities of the second-generation Kinect sensor that will ship with the newly announced Xbox… Read More

These sensor-infused socks track your steps and ID injury-prone running styles

In the past few years, you’ve heard of smartphones, smart-watches and most recently, smart-glasses. Now, courtesy of a Redmond-based startup,… Read More

Startup lesson #1: Reid Hoffman is wrong

[Editor’s note: Seattle entrepreneurs Barry Chu and Dave Cotter share some of their startup lessons in starting the new mobile… Read More

Photos: Check out Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s V-2 rocket arriving at Paine Field

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s latest extravagance — a German-built World War II-era V2 rocket — has arrived at his Flying Heritage… Read More

NFL commish says new multi-year partnership with Microsoft will ‘change the game of football’

The nation’s most popular sport is about to get real geeky thanks in large part to technology from Microsoft. During… Read More

Official word: Xbox One requires Internet connection, but not ‘always on’

Remember all that controversy over the reports of a required “always on” Internet connection in the new Xbox? First, reports… Read More

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