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May 1, 2011, 9:32 AM

‘Amazon still has a winning culture at their core,’ and other comments of the week

There was plenty of chatter on GeekWire this past week as discussions and debate arose over a variety of topics,… Read More

Apr 30, 2011, 3:55 PM

Former Demand Media exec Paul Stahura emerges at stealthy Donuts Inc.

Paul Stahura, who sold the domain name registrar eNom to Demand Media in 2006, has emerged at the helm of… Read More

Apr 30, 2011, 9:05 AM

GeekWire Podcast: The business, technology and art of podcasting, with Luke Burbank and Rob Greenlee

This week on a special edition of the GeekWire Podcast — a discussion about podcasting. Yeah, we’re going meta on… Read More

Apr 29, 2011, 11:14 AM

HasOffers: Twin brothers bring a new face to affiliate marketing

Twins share many common attributes. But — Winklevoss twins aside — do they actually make good co-founders of startups? The… Read More

Apr 29, 2011, 3:54 AM

PopCap pushes deeper into Facebook games, buys ZipZapPlay

PopCap Games is bolstering its position in social gaming, a move that comes as the Seattle game maker contemplates an… Read More

Apr 28, 2011, 1:09 PM

Surprise — TV and celeb gossip works online: Wetpaint boasts 15M monthly page views

Wetpaint’s recent transition to an entertainment and celebrity gossip site appears to be working. Surprise. Surprise. The Seattle startup, which… Read More

Apr 28, 2011, 11:31 AM

Sixteen budding businesses to watch, from the UW Business Plan Competition

Yesterday was my first exposure to the annual UW Business Plan Competition, held by the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship… Read More

Apr 28, 2011, 6:26 AM

The only wrong answer is 50/50: Calculating the co-founder equity split

Guest Commentary: The question of equity brings out the most fundamental differences, perceptions, and values in an aspiring startup.  In… Read More

Apr 27, 2011, 11:42 AM

Geek of the Week: Kate Matsudaira, vice president of engineering, SEOmoz

Anyone who thinks technical chops and fashion sense are incompatible needs to meet our latest Geek of the Week, Kate… Read More

Apr 27, 2011, 9:20 AM

IPO fever: Monthly filings surge to four-year high

We’ve seen an uptick in IPO activity in recent weeks, with two Seattle companies (Zillow.com and Impinj) deciding to take… Read More

Apr 26, 2011, 9:00 AM

Madrona incubates new mobile analytics startup Sewichi

Smartphones are now outselling personal computers. And that little factoid from IDC is creating an interesting opportunity to measure, track… Read More

Apr 26, 2011, 8:42 AM

Incoming UW president arrives with tech transfer chops

Could newly-appointed University of Washington president Michael Young spark a wave of innovation and commercialization at the state’s largest research… Read More

Apr 26, 2011, 8:34 AM

Mobile gaming company looks to capitalize on WikiLeaks

Two buddies who worked as interns for the National Security Agency in high school are now turning their attention to… Read More

Apr 26, 2011, 5:00 AM

Scrubly looks to clean up ‘messy’ contact lists and address books

Bob Thordarson manually tried to update his online contacts list on several occasions, but each time the Seattle entrepreneur seemed… Read More

Apr 26, 2011, 12:01 AM

Ex-Yahoo execs create ChoozOn to sift through the daily deal clutter

Groupon, Living Social and hundreds of other daily deal sites are great … when they offer something of interest. But,… Read More

Apr 25, 2011, 5:01 PM

MOD Systems ordered to pay back rent, company plans move

MOD Systems will be forced out of its downtown Seattle office space at 1301 Second Avenue, the latest setback for… Read More

Apr 25, 2011, 11:08 AM

How to become Apple’s iPhone ‘App of the Week’

That right there is the type of publicity a startup can’t buy — a huge graphic currently promoting Seattle’s Zapd… Read More

Apr 25, 2011, 9:51 AM

Ex-Microsoft and Yahoo research guru Gary Flake starts stealthy Clipboard

Gary Flake, a former technical fellow at Microsoft who up until last fall ran the company’s Live Labs research group,… Read More

Apr 24, 2011, 2:26 PM

Clearwire restores service in Seattle after outage

It’s been a tough few days for Seattle area high-tech companies. First, Amazon.com’s EC2 service went down, causing alarm among… Read More

Apr 24, 2011, 5:22 AM

‘Amazon should be the one apologizing,’ and other comments of the week

BigDoor founder Keith Smith touched a nerve after writing a guest post for GeekWire this past week explaining his frustrations… Read More

Apr 22, 2011, 9:09 PM

How Spencer Rascoff’s Tweets tossed us off the Zillow IPO trail

Team GeekWire loves nothing more than a good news tip. So, when a reader passed on a hot lead last… Read More

Apr 22, 2011, 2:11 PM

Is the new tech bubble just R&D 2.0?

Guest Commentary: We’re very clearly in a new tech bubble now.  Valuations, funding rounds, recruitment incentives are already remarkably similar… Read More

Apr 22, 2011, 1:57 PM

Startup execs vow to boost hiring, if they can find the tech talent

We’ve been writing a lot about the tech talent crunch in Seattle, noting companies such as Tableau Software, ExtraHop Networks… Read More

Apr 22, 2011, 12:20 PM

Zillow, Impinj and why Seattle needs a new crop of IPOs

It has been a big week in Seattle tech circles as two companies (Zillow.com and Impinj) filed for initial public… Read More

Apr 22, 2011, 9:15 AM

SnuggleCloud hopes to connect couples trapped in long distance relationships

Seattle entrepreneur Emily Marshall can speak to the pain of long distance relationships. Her fiancé lives more than 2,000 miles… Read More

Apr 21, 2011, 6:02 PM

Amazon.com’s real problem isn’t the outage, it’s the communication

Guest Commentary: Like many companies running on Amazon’s Web Services, BigDoor has been affected by the AWS outage today.  And… Read More

Apr 21, 2011, 3:42 PM

Rewind: UW’s Ed Lazowska on the engineering talent crunch

Our guest this past week on the GeekWire Podcast was Ed Lazowska, the longtime computer science professor who holds the… Read More

Apr 21, 2011, 3:03 PM

Impinj files for $100 million IPO

For the second time this week, a Seattle technology company has filed to go public. This time it is Impinj,… Read More

Apr 21, 2011, 1:18 PM

Earthquake-proof desk designed to withstand one million pounds of debris

The next time the “big one” hits, wouldn’t it be nice if there was a steel-plated desk (complete with oxygen… Read More

Apr 21, 2011, 12:01 PM

Avalara scores $14 million to automate sales tax collection, sets goal for $100 million in revenue

Collecting sales tax can be a real pain for merchants. But Avalara wants to make that process, well, a little… Read More

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