Startups – Page 272 of 312

Apr 6, 2012, 7:59 AM

Startup Spotlight: Ex-Google engineers guide Schedulista to profits after just 6 months

Seattle entrepreneurs Felix Livni and Lowell Manners are lean startup acolytes. And that philosophy is already paying dividends for the founders… Read More

Apr 5, 2012, 11:12 PM

The top Tweeters in baseball

There’s perhaps no American pastime filled with as many data geeks and stat hounds as baseball, a sport where every… Read More

Apr 5, 2012, 3:59 PM

Hey, startups, users aren’t free

“Seattle’s great at building technology, but we don’t understand marketing. San Francisco’s great at marketing. That’s why great B-to-C companies… Read More

Apr 5, 2012, 9:52 AM

Video: Watch the ‘Textspresso’ machine brew the geekiest cup of coffee ever

Seattle is really known for two things: coffee and tech geeks. And I’ve never seen those two worlds collide in… Read More

Apr 5, 2012, 9:37 AM

Salaries rebound as Seattle leads U.S. in wage growth

Is it finally time to wave goodbye to the bitter recession? That’s the word from a new report out from… Read More

Apr 5, 2012, 8:48 AM

Tixie raises cash, helps music fans win free concert tickets

At the Hacker News Meetup earlier this week, I bumped into Seattle entrepreneur Forest Gibson who is working on a… Read More

Apr 4, 2012, 11:14 PM

Robotic fish swim the stories of the dead, design the future

A fish may not need a bicycle, but a bicycle could learn a lot about the mechanics of movement from… Read More

Apr 4, 2012, 12:53 PM

Coming to Bravo: A reality TV show starring Cheezburger’s Ben Huh

“Huh?” That’s the working title of new reality TV show that Bravo announced today featuring none other than Ben Huh,… Read More

Apr 4, 2012, 12:50 PM

Social purpose corporations: Good business can now do good

We all know that entrepreneurs and investors in startups hope to make money. Conveniently, the traditional corporate form allows that. … Read More

Apr 4, 2012, 10:49 AM

All the celeb gossip that’s fit to print: Wetpaint tops 10M visitors

People just can’t get enough of celebrity gossip and Hollywood scoops, which is good news for Seattle startup Wetpaint. The… Read More

Apr 4, 2012, 10:05 AM

A mirror image? Canadian real estate brokerage accused of ripping off Estately

Sutton WestCoast Realty, one of the largest real estate brokerages in Canada, has received a cease-and-desist letter asking that the… Read More

Apr 4, 2012, 7:00 AM

Hark inks deal to access movie audio clips from Warner Bros.

Hark CEO David Aronchick recently disclosed that the company — essentially a YouTube of audio clips — topped 50 million monthly… Read More

Apr 3, 2012, 9:27 AM

Amazon.com has altered the VC business as we know it

One could argue that Amazon.com has had more impact on the startup community than nearly any corporate venture capital fund,… Read More

Apr 3, 2012, 7:41 AM

BigDoor closes $5M, touts new ‘gamified rewards program’

There’s so much content clutter on the Web these days that it can be tough for online publishers to keep… Read More

Apr 3, 2012, 5:00 AM

Startup Weekend’s latest perk: Free .CO domain names

Entrepreneurs who participate in the 54-hour Startup Weekend coding marathons gain all sorts of valuable lessons, insights and contacts. And… Read More

Apr 2, 2012, 4:57 PM

Tech Moves: Robert Wise joins MTN; RealNetworks taps CFO; REI’s promotions; and more

Robert Wise has been named chief innovation officer at MTN Satellite Communications, charged with building up the company’s product and… Read More

Apr 2, 2012, 12:41 PM

Startup Spotlight: Knotis looks to turn merchants into happy daily deal users

You’ve heard the horror stories of small businesses getting overwhelmed by daily deals from the likes of Groupon and Living… Read More

Apr 2, 2012, 9:00 AM

Microsoft picks 11 startups for new Kinect Accelerator

When Microsoft introduced its new Kinect Accelerator startup program a few months ago, the company anticipated receiving about 150 applications. But… Read More

Apr 2, 2012, 8:56 AM

Husband-and-wife team turn to Kickstarter to bankroll new iPhone charging dock

Seattle area designer Mike Kemery has helped design products for Nike, T-Mobile and Yakima Products. But now Kemery, and his… Read More

Apr 2, 2012, 8:03 AM

Charts: IPOs on the upswing, but M&A deals take a fall

It’s a bit hard to judge the state of the venture-backed exit market these days. And two reports out today… Read More

Mar 30, 2012, 4:19 PM

Coders win hackathon with virtual pet fitness app

Seattle area mobile app developers Robert Mao and Haitao Li had no real intention of building a new application when… Read More

Mar 30, 2012, 7:34 AM

This ‘big data’ startup is already generating revenue after 3 weeks in business

Versium Analytics, a new startup led by former InfoSpace executives Chris Matty and Kevin Marcus, is just three weeks old.… Read More

Mar 29, 2012, 4:45 PM

Y Combinator for high-school kids? It’s students only at this new startup incubator

StudentRND has been gathering geeky and entrepreneurial high school and college kids for weekend hackathons for three years now. Now,… Read More

Mar 29, 2012, 2:47 PM

Last chance to nominate: GeekWire presents the Seattle 2.0 Startup Awards May 3

Here at GeekWire, we are incredibly proud to present the fourth annual Seattle 2.0 Startup Awards, and we’ve been enjoying watching… Read More

Mar 29, 2012, 10:44 AM

Next up for Startup Weekend: Making government move at Internet speed

You might say it is a bit of an oxymoron. But Startup Weekend is introducing a new event next month… Read More

Mar 28, 2012, 11:05 PM

Tech Moves: Medio taps Microsoft vet as chief architect; Zooppa, PATH, etc.

Medio Systems is making a big move into the predictive analytics arena, helping gaming, financial services, entertainment and other companies better… Read More

Mar 28, 2012, 10:43 AM

‘Mooning’ Microsoft: Box skips software giant in release of new mobile cloud service

Was there something traumatic about Aaron Levie’s childhood that caused an intense dislike of Microsoft? The founder of the Silicon… Read More

Mar 28, 2012, 5:35 AM

Meet the first voice-enabled Bible: A Siri for John 3:16?

Siri has transformed the way iPhone users get answers to everyday questions, using voice commands to hear driving directions or… Read More

Mar 28, 2012, 12:25 AM

Raveld reveals Klout-like score for cloud spending on AWS

It may start getting easier to make optimal Amazon Web Services purchasing decisions. Or, at least, less expensive. Raveld, a… Read More

Mar 27, 2012, 2:50 PM

Exclusive: The inside details on EMC’s $36M purchase of Likewise Software

Few details were available last week when EMC purchased Likewise Software. Now, GeekWire has learned that EMC’s Isilon unit paid $36.6… Read More