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Feb 6, 2012, 3:44 PM

Are you Kinning me? Microsoft beats trademark lawsuit over Kinect

Guest Commentary: Microsoft makes the Kinect motion controller for Xbox 360, and for a while tried out a mobile phone… Read More

Feb 5, 2012, 8:22 AM

Facebook is a risky investment and other quotes of the week

“Simply put: we don’t build services to make money; we make money to build better services. And we think this… Read More

Feb 2, 2012, 10:57 AM

How Windows is still a better business than Facebook

Facebook’s financial results, revealed yesterday in the company’s IPO filing, showed 2011 profits of $1 billion from sales of more… Read More

Feb 1, 2012, 2:32 PM

Facebook files for IPO, confirms its business is pretty much advertising and Zynga

Here’s a link to hours of entertainment. Seriously. That is Facebook’s Form S-1 Registration Statement, the company’s first official step… Read More

Jan 30, 2012, 12:40 PM

Microsoft’s Facebook investment: Smartest deal Ballmer ever made?

It was a modest amount in the scheme of things — a $240 million investment by Microsoft in Facebook in… Read More

Jan 29, 2012, 3:26 PM

Oregon’s Ewok Village, Steam’s new apps, Facebook’s ticker symbol, and other weekend notes

News, notes and other interesting stuff on a drizzly Seattle weekend … The idea was “to figure out how to… Read More

Jan 27, 2012, 10:53 AM

Facebook reportedly eyeing IPO filing for next week

Facebook is reportedly planning to file for its much-awaited initial public offering, with The Wall Street Journal reporting today that… Read More

Jan 27, 2012, 7:32 AM

The Greatest innovators of all time: Edison, Jobs, Zuckerberg (but no Bill Gates?)

Maybe Bill Gates needs to burnish his legacy a bit with the kids. A survey released this week asked 1,010… Read More

Jan 26, 2012, 5:39 PM

Howard Schultz: How Twitter and Facebook are saving Starbucks money

Starbucks just turned in a record quarter, posting $3.4 billion in revenue and the highest quarterly earnings in the company’s… Read More

Jan 26, 2012, 11:45 AM

Video: Rob McKenna looks to knock multi-million dollar scheme off Facebook

Facebook unites hundreds of millions of people each day, but lurking in the shadows are some bad actors who treat… Read More

Jan 26, 2012, 10:45 AM

Facebook, Washington AG file suits over ‘likejacking’ scheme

Facebook and Washington state Attorney General Rob McKenna today filed lawsuits against Adscend Media, an ad network that allegedly is… Read More

Jan 23, 2012, 11:54 AM

Wavii moves toward reality with goal of helping people manage information overload

Wavii, the stealthy Seattle startup led by Adrian Aoun, is getting closer to unveiling a new service that’s designed to… Read More

Jan 20, 2012, 9:37 AM

With Double Down off the table, Zynga looks for playing partners in Internet gambling

The virtual coins that players wager in casino-style games on Facebook may be getting a real monetary value, at least… Read More

Jan 19, 2012, 11:44 AM

Facebook’s ‘Like’ button gets new friends: ‘LOVE!’ ‘BOO!’ ‘OMG!’ and many more

Facebook’s “Like” button has become an integral part of online life, connecting sites around the web back to the social… Read More

Jan 19, 2012, 9:43 AM

Share your grub? Urbanspoon integrates with Facebook Timeline

Just in case you aren’t sharing enough of your lives with your friends already, Facebook last night announced a series… Read More

Jan 19, 2012, 12:01 AM

A FarmVille for wetlands? Students create Facebook game with proceeds going to wetland restoration

The University of Washington Bothell is located on the edge of a marshy wetland, created by a vibrant ecosystem around… Read More

Jan 18, 2012, 9:00 PM

Get neighborly advice from your Facebook friends with new service from Zillow

One of the most important aspects of buying a new home is knowing the particulars of the neighborhood. Ask any… Read More

Jan 17, 2012, 10:53 PM

A $10 billion Facebook IPO would be bigger than every tech IPO of 2011 (combined)

Technology companies reeled in more cash via IPOs than any other sector in 2011, buoyed by public offerings from companies… Read More

Jan 14, 2012, 4:45 PM

Zuckerberg’s most admired companies: Amazon, Apple, Google (but no Microsoft?)

Microsoft may start feeling like the Rodney Dangerfield of tech. It just gets no respect. The latest example comes via an… Read More

Jan 11, 2012, 7:25 PM

Q&A: Facebook engineering VP Jay Parikh explains what they look for in developers (and much more)

One of the first things that struck me upon entering Facebook’s 17-month-old engineering office in downtown Seattle today was the… Read More

Jan 5, 2012, 11:45 AM

Tablets are the new game consoles, and other game industry predictions for 2012

Guest Commentary: The video game industry is changing like never before. Here are my best attempts at peering into the crystal… Read More

Dec 16, 2011, 10:58 AM

Zynga celebrates $1 billion IPO with a colorful infographic

Zynga’s growth over the past few years into the top maker of social media games is pretty amazing stuff. And… Read More

Dec 15, 2011, 2:56 PM

Social gaming powerhouse Zynga raises $1B in largest Internet IPO since Google

The highly-anticipated initial public offering for Zynga is moving forward, with Bloomberg News reporting that the maker of FarmVille, Mafia… Read More

Dec 13, 2011, 2:19 PM

Memory Lane, formerly Classmates.com, cuts staff

Memory Lane, the Seattle social networking site formerly known as Classmates.com, has cut an unknown number of jobs at its… Read More

Dec 9, 2011, 1:55 PM

Why Facebook’s privacy settlement may not be a done deal

Guest Commentary: “Facebook,” observes Seattle lawyer Venkat Balasubramani, writing about that company’s proposed settlement with the FTC, “is like the… Read More

Dec 7, 2011, 10:49 AM

Newsmakers 2011: Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg pushes the potential of the social infrastructure

Now that everybody is connected, things are about to get really interesting. That was the message from Mark Zuckerberg this… Read More

Dec 6, 2011, 1:18 PM

UW students hack their way to Facebook campus with music sharing and syncing app

No sleep? No problem. That’s how University of Washington seniors Ryan Ewing, Alex Juarez and Bill Cauchois and freshman Nick… Read More

Dec 4, 2011, 4:09 PM

Apple’s secretive project ‘Maverick’ may bring massive data center to Oregon

Apple is considering building a massive new data center in Prineville, Oregon, next door to where Facebook opened its own… Read More

Dec 1, 2011, 7:46 AM

Super stealthy Wavii says a bit more: Making Facebook out of Google

A few weeks ago, I wondered what was going on at Wavii, a high-profile Seattle startup that had been operating… Read More

Nov 29, 2011, 5:20 PM

A Facebook lesson from my newest friend — grandpa

I was checking my phone on Friday, recovering from the previous night’s Thanksgiving meal, when I saw the notification bubble… Read More