Jul 25, 2011, 1:58 PM Ignition backs Motif, ex-Microsoftie’s startup for ‘investing in ideas’ Bellevue-based Ignition Partners led a $20 million financing round in Motif Investing, a San Mateo, Calif.- based company founded by former… Read More
Jul 25, 2011, 9:23 AM Xbox launches Avatar Kinect: A review by my avatar After a long wait, Microsoft today is releasing Avatar Kinect, the online video chat application for Xbox that uses the… Read More
Jul 25, 2011, 8:58 AM Microsoft extends SUSE deal, agrees to buy another $100M in Linux support Linux vendor Novell Inc. is no longer a standalone company, but Microsoft today announced an agreement with its successor, Attachmate’s… Read More
Jul 25, 2011, 12:34 AM Google engineer Steve Lacey victim of Kirkland car wreck Google engineer Steve Lacey, 43, a veteran of the Seattle region’s tech community who worked for more than a decade… Read More
Jul 22, 2011, 11:18 AM Tech jobs: Microsoft growing again; Google growing faster Microsoft added a net total of more than 1,000 employees worldwide in the quarter ended June 30, bringing its total… Read More
Jul 22, 2011, 9:08 AM Microsoft’s ‘Tulalip’ dustup ends as company apologizes So I’m just settling back in after a week (mostly) off the grid, and … wait, Microsoft got into a… Read More
Jul 21, 2011, 3:22 PM Mac users are vegetarians: PC users eat fries at McDonald’s Would you rather drive a Harley or a Vespa? Your answer may predict your computer habits. Hunch.com did a user-based survey and… Read More
Jul 21, 2011, 1:57 PM Microsoft posts strong profits even as Windows revenue slumps Microsoft built its franchise on Windows. But other areas of the company are fueling some of the growth. The software… Read More
Jul 21, 2011, 12:52 PM In wake of Tulalip name dust-up, match these Microsoft code-names to the actual product Is Microsoft’s use of the Tulalip name for a secret, internal social networking effort insensitive to the Native American tribe?… Read More
Jul 21, 2011, 6:56 AM Too much tablet? Apple, Microsoft at risk of overdose The changes in Apple’s new Mac OS X Lion, released Wednesday, start with the way people get the updated operating… Read More
Jul 19, 2011, 4:30 PM Microsoft drops out of the Hulu bidding, opening door for Amazon? Microsoft has reportedly dropped out of the bidding for Hulu, the popular online video service owned by Fox, Disney, NBC… Read More
Jul 19, 2011, 2:06 PM Apple shares surge five percent after huge quarter: Company more than doubles profit, sells 20M iPhones Shares of Apple jumped more than five percent in after-hours trading today after the maker of the iPhone and iPad reported… Read More
Jul 19, 2011, 10:30 AM Apple, Microsoft and the divergence of the personal computer market Apple is set to report earnings Tuesday afternoon, amid expectations of a blowout quarter. While much of the focus will… Read More
Jul 19, 2011, 9:54 AM Go to college, buy a Windows PC and get a free Xbox 360? Amazon.com isn’t the only tech giant wooing college students this summer. Microsoft too is offering a special deal, giving away… Read More
Jul 19, 2011, 9:51 AM Tech Moves: Ex-Microsoft GM joins Motricity; Medio’s Lanphear lands at Livemocha; and more We’ve been tracking a number of key departures, appointments and new hires in the Pacific Northwest tech industry in recent… Read More
Jul 18, 2011, 5:22 PM Report: Traffic has declined on the 520 bridge despite Microsoft’s employment boom It is about that time of day when thousands of geeks hop in their cars and make the commute over… Read More
Jul 18, 2011, 1:17 PM UW researcher Shwetak Patel chosen as Microsoft Research Faculty fellow Since 2005, Microsoft has picked leading university researchers to participate in its Microsoft Research Faculty program — drawing on the… Read More
Jul 18, 2011, 10:43 AM Helping kids learn via games: Microsoft donates $15 million to new education effort Kids love computer games. But they don’t always love cracking text books in the classroom. A new effort, supported by… Read More
Jul 18, 2011, 9:43 AM Microsoft offers $250,000 bounty for information on Rustock ‘botnet’ Microsoft’s Digital Crime Unit helped knock out one of the world’s most notorious spam purveyors back in March, but the company… Read More
Jul 18, 2011, 9:23 AM Windows Phone 7 customers love their phones (even more than Android customers do) Sales of Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 have been disappointing, with IDC recently reporting that its market share has dipped to… Read More
Jul 17, 2011, 8:18 AM U.S. Army tests Android, iPhone and Windows Phone 7 The U.S. Army is nearing the conclusion of a six-week test of more than 300 smartphones and tablet computers, analyzing… Read More
Jul 16, 2011, 9:23 AM Is Microsoft about to cut off Twitter search results in Bing? Twitter may be left out in the cold when it comes to its integration with two of the biggest search… Read More
Jul 15, 2011, 3:48 PM Apple hits record high, now valued at $110 billion more than Microsoft It was just 14 months ago that Apple passed Microsoft in market value to claim the title of biggest publicly-traded… Read More
Jul 15, 2011, 12:16 PM Domain purchase fuels speculation of Microsoft-Sony partnership Earlier today, we told you about Microsoft’s leak of the Web site Socl.com, which caused all sorts of chatter about… Read More
Jul 15, 2011, 10:10 AM GeekWire Radio: Netflix, Microsoft, EA, and Seattle vs. Portland in tech … and soccer Special bonus this week: An early edition of the GeekWire radio show/podcast, including our take on the Netflix price hike;… Read More
Jul 15, 2011, 7:07 AM Did Microsoft just accidentally leak its social search site? Earlier this week, Fusible.com uncovered a Microsoft splash page at Socl.com which appeared to be part of a larger social… Read More
Jul 14, 2011, 5:10 PM Xbox 360 still tromping all over the U.S. console market June was a down month for the U.S. video-game industry overall, but not for Microsoft’s Xbox 360 –which turned in… Read More
Jul 14, 2011, 12:58 PM Geek of the Week: Jacquelyn Krones, Bing researcher Our latest Geek of the Week, Jacquelyn Krones, is a true research geek — the type of person who loves… Read More
Jul 14, 2011, 10:37 AM Car safety via the cloud: Microsoft names winners in Imagine Cup contest https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0k6KlZIlaQ Microsoft last night named the winners of its annual Imagine Cup student technology competition, held this year in New… Read More
Jul 13, 2011, 11:19 PM Microsoft vs. everybody else: The quotable Kevin Turner Microsoft’s chief operating officer, Kevin Turner, was in rare form Wednesday at the company’s Worldwide Partner Conference in Los Angeles… Read More
