Bootlegs 2.0: Lively app allows you to take concert memories home for $9.99 Has this ever happened? You just saw an amazing musical performance at one of your favorite concert venues, and you’d… Read More
3 copywriting tips for startup entrepreneurs In a perfect world you’d probably hire a professional marketing copywriter to write all the copy you need for your… Read More
Report: Yahoo buying blogging platform Tumblr for $1.1 billion Yahoo is reportedly buying Tumblr for $1.1 billion in cash, a deal that was first reported by All Things D.… Read More
Kubrick meets Bing: Why this promotion missed the mark On my way to lunch last week, I saw what looked like a cross between an oversized moving crate and… Read More
Paul Allen procures V-2 rocket for aircraft museum Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen is selling some of his abstract art, and buying a historic rocket. The eclectic Seattle billionaire… Read More
Dogfooding: Find a way to be your own customer In early ‘90s, while working on Windows NT, Microsoft popularized an idea to make everyone on the team use early… Read More
Anticipating where crime happens: Seattle rolls out ‘Predictive Policing’ across city Back in February, Seattle rolled out a new “Predictive Policing” software in the East and Southwest Precincts, hoping to keep the city safe… Read More
Podcast GeekWire Radio: Startup Weekend CEO Marc Nager spreads the startup gospel This week on the GeekWire radio show we speak to Startup Weekend CEO Marc Nager who is building a global… Read More
Startup Spotlight: Localblox is like Facebook, but for your neighborhood Facebook is nice and all, but with one billion users, it’s hard to feel like there’s any more than a… Read More
InterConnection refurbishes, distributes computers to fellow non-profits for cheap Whether you’re Amazon or the corner doughnut shop, it can be a long, lonely road without a website or up-to-date… Read More
Strong debut: Tableau closes first day of trading up 63% Champagne corks were popping this morning at Tableau Software offices as the Seattle-based company celebrated the biggest tech IPO so… Read More
Amazon should introduce AWS to China the Microsoft Way, says China VC What’s the best way for Amazon to take its vaunted cloud computing platform to China? Follow Microsoft’s lead. That’s the… Read More
Microsoft: Global video-game market hits $65 billion, and consoles still lead the way Microsoft is getting ready to reveal the next generation of the Xbox next week, and despite signs that the console… Read More
U.S. Air Force deploying 18,000 iPads to replace bulky paper flight manuals The U.S. Air Force is hoping to save as much as $50 million over the next 10 years by outfitting… Read More
Report: Facebook and Microsoft eyeing Tumblr as Yahoo sets Monday press event Where is Tumblr going to end up? Reports have been circulating that the New York-based microblogging and social networking powerhouse… Read More
GeekWire Calendar Picks: Sales for non-salespeople, HTML for beginners, and here comes Crypticon! Hopefully you’re gearing up for UFO Fest and Animation Fest coming up this weekend that we mentioned in the last Calendar Picks. When… Read More
Microsoft’s Windows Phone inches past BlackBerry for #3 in IDC’s global rankings Microsoft’s Windows Phone is making modest but steady progress in the smartphone market, according to the latest numbers from the… Read More
Q&A with Tableau CEO Christian Chabot: ‘We’ve been working our whole lives to become an overnight success’ Seven years ago in small office space in the Fremont neighborhood, Tableau Software CEO Christian Chabot boldly told me that… Read More
Video: Watch the very happy Tableau team ring the opening bell on the NYSE It doesn’t get much better than this for a group of entrepreneurs. Tableau Software made its debut on the New… Read More
When your startup feels less like a hockey stick and more like a hip check We all love to talk about the “hockey stick” moment for a company, referring to the point when users and… Read More
The next Xbox: Why this launch is so critical for Microsoft Next Tuesday, May 21, is a Very Big Day for Microsoft. With the rest of the technology world watching, the… Read More
Shares of Tableau Software surge more than 50% as IPO sparkles on Wall Street Tableau Software is starting on the New York Stock Exchange today with a bang. After pricing its initial public offering… Read More
Amazon.com and Google employees bullish on future, but 25% of Microsofties say things will get worse Microsoft just hit a five-year stock high, and during the last quarterly financial report posted profits of $6 billion. But… Read More
Shopping, sword-fighting and silliness: Meet the first-ever WIN Reactor graduates From a retro-futuristic driving game to a healthy shopping and eating app, more than six months of stealth startup work going on… Read More
Nike Accelerator Spotlight: Coachbase lets you draw up plays, strategies with an iPad Editor’s note: Nike Accelerator Spotlight takes a look at the ten startups participating in the Nike+ Accelerator, a three-month startup program based… Read More
Big offering for big data: Tableau prices stock at $31 per share Tableau Software had been boosting its proposed price for Friday’s initial public offering for the past few weeks and now we’ve got… Read More
Xbox 360 marks 28 straight months atop U.S. market; industry sales sink 25% Just days before we get our first look at the next-generation Xbox, Microsoft’s Xbox 360 continues to dominate the U.S.… Read More
This tech startup just turned a hip Seattle bar into an amazing hang-out space You’ve heard the stories of the amazing perks now being offered to employees of tech companies, from massages to paid… Read More
Microsoft stock hits 5-year high as Gates reclaims world’s richest title It’s a good day to be Bill Gates. According to Bloomberg’s Billionaire Index, Gates’ reclaimed the title of world’s richest… Read More
Students to solve 250,000 algebra equations in one week with iOS app Video games are making their way into Washington schools early next month and for all the right reasons. Using an… Read More
