Startups – Page 312 of 313

Mar 16, 2011, 5:13 PM

Cheezburger’s latest: Photos of people in creepy Easter Bunny costumes

So, just how exactly is Cheezburger Network going to use a portion of the $30 million that just arrived from… Read More

Mar 16, 2011, 12:48 PM

Is BuddyTV on the block?

BuddyTV has been the subject of acquisition rumors in the past. And those surfaced again today after Kara Swisher at… Read More

Mar 16, 2011, 11:09 AM

Keiretsu pumps $8.9M into startups

Despite the tough economic times over the past 12 months, Seattle angels continue to invest. The Keiretsu Forum today announced… Read More

Mar 16, 2011, 8:58 AM

Jeremy Jaech: ‘I want to get back to the bleeding edge’

Jeremy Jaech is one of Seattle’s most accomplished entrepreneurs. So, when we learned that the founder of Aldus and Visio,… Read More

Mar 16, 2011, 6:48 AM

Knocking on Groupon’s door: Daily Ticket is no ordinary deal site

Groupon and Living Social have achieved enormous success, generating tens of millions of subscribers and valuations in the billions. But… Read More

Mar 15, 2011, 9:15 PM

Report: Zillow.com talks to investment bankers about an IPO

Is Zillow.com getting ready to go public? That’s the word on the street after BusinessWeek reported — citing three unnamed… Read More

Mar 15, 2011, 9:35 AM

Feedburner co-founder joins BigDoor

Feedburner co-founder Matt Shobe has joined BigDoor, a Seattle startup that helps online publishers engage with readers and viewers by… Read More

Mar 15, 2011, 8:05 AM

Much more than a blog commenting system, Highlighter raises $300,000

On most online news sites, including this one, readers must wait until the end of the post before they can… Read More

Mar 15, 2011, 6:38 AM

Jeopardy Fail? Contestants unable to identify FailBlog on game show

Maybe Alex Trebek is a secret FailBlog fanatic. The wildly popular humor Web site — developed by the folks at… Read More

Mar 15, 2011, 5:24 AM

Educational software maker Headsprout sells to DYMO/Mimio

Headsprout, a Seattle company that develops online reading programs for kids, has agreed to be sold to Cambridge, Mass.-based DYMO/Mimio.… Read More

Mar 14, 2011, 11:21 AM

144 million Tweets per day, and counting

We’re pretty heavy users of Twitter here at GeekWire, using the short-form communications service as our content marketing vehicle of… Read More

Mar 14, 2011, 10:04 AM

Seattle geek wins eBay ‘speed hack’ contest at SXSW

Seattle software developer Evan Jacobs wasn’t really looking to spend his Sunday afternoon building a new app on the back… Read More

Mar 14, 2011, 8:48 AM

HIV drug maker Koronis considers IPO in London

We’ve bemoaned the fact that very few Seattle area companies are considering initial public offerings. But Koronis Pharmaceuticals, a Seattle… Read More

Mar 13, 2011, 6:18 PM

GeekWire Week #1: Ups, downs and (nearly) everything in between

Our entrepreneurial adventure started six days ago in a brick building in Pioneer Square. It was an appropriate setting to… Read More

Mar 10, 2011, 12:09 PM

Ignition backs Topsy, a real-time search engine

Ignition Partners, the Bellevue venture capital firm, continues to plow cash into Bay Area startup companies. The latest to benefit… Read More

Mar 10, 2011, 11:09 AM

Following in Groupon’s footsteps: A parade of daily deal sites (List)

The New York Times today reports on the hundreds of daily deal startups that are trying to follow in Groupon’s… Read More

Mar 10, 2011, 4:00 AM

WhitePages unveils Hiya to help eliminate email contact clutter

Keeping an online address book up-to-date can be a serious chore. After all, with the frequency that people change locations… Read More

Mar 10, 2011, 1:19 AM

Gaming vets launch Playteau, roll out Fortune Stones

Seattle has a new social gaming startup. It’s called Playteau, and today its releasing its first title, Fortune Stones, on… Read More

Mar 9, 2011, 5:22 PM

King of the Web: The next great time-waster, or just a waste of time?

We’ve been wondering for some time now what Rich Barton and Nick Hanauer have been cooking up at their latest… Read More

Mar 9, 2011, 4:10 PM

Seattle techie goes to L.A., returns with Ashton Kutcher-backed startup Zaarly

So, this is what happens when a Seattle tech executive gets mixed up with Startup Weekend in L.A.? He returns… Read More

Mar 9, 2011, 8:17 AM

Another day, another daily deal site? But this one comes with a good cause

It seems like every other day we report on a new daily deal site, whether it is Bing jumping into… Read More

Mar 9, 2011, 7:20 AM

Ignition Partners, Madrona back Tier 3 with $8.5 million

Two of the Seattle area’s best-known venture capital firms have joined forces to back Tier 3, a five-year-old Seattle company… Read More

Mar 8, 2011, 11:44 PM

When will Seattle VCs start investing again in Seattle startups?

Seattle venture capitalists are spreading their wings. And while that may prove to be a smart financial decision for the… Read More

Mar 8, 2011, 9:28 PM

Advice to entrepreneurs: ‘Never stop selling your company’

Representatives from nearly all of the major Seattle angel investment groups recently gathered to discuss their craft at a meeting… Read More

Mar 8, 2011, 6:29 PM

Looking to make conferences more interactive, Pathable makes a buy

Thousands of musicians, artists, writers and geeks are headed to the SXSW conference in Austin, Texas this week. Amid that… Read More

Mar 8, 2011, 2:18 PM

Cequint to add staff in Seattle, CEO laments tough hiring climate

It’s been five months since Seattle mobile software startup Cequint got gobbled up for as much as $112.5 million by… Read More

Mar 8, 2011, 12:00 PM

Lost in the cloud? File sharing service HomePipe raises $1.1M

Sometimes you just want to access your digital files — whether music, photos or documents — wherever you go. That’s… Read More

Mar 7, 2011, 8:44 AM

Welcome to GeekWire, from John Cook and Todd Bishop

For years we’ve covered the adventures of entrepreneurs large and small, successful and not-so-much — living vicariously through their attempts… Read More

Mar 7, 2011, 8:11 AM

Attention startups: Google still prowling for M&A targets

Google plans to remain an aggressive corporate acquirer in 2011, good news for startup companies (and their venture backers) who… Read More

Mar 6, 2011, 9:40 PM

A mobile treasure hunt for the best Seattle restaurant deals

Sometimes, finding a great hamburger, pasta dish or glass of wine just isn’t good enough. In this deal-crazy world, it’s… Read More