X now marks the spot where Twitter’s blue birdie used to be, as Elon Musk rebranded the social media company he owns. Those tweeting — or X-ing (?) — about it seem… Read More
F5 Networks will be just F5 from now on. The Seattle-based company, which originally made its mark in networking technology, said this week that it’s dropping the “Networks” from its… Read More
Facebook announced a name change on Thursday intended to bring together everything that it works on under a single brand called Meta, and in turn take some of the focus… Read More
Amid Instagram’s sea of sameness, Rudy Willingham of Seattle has managed to capture people’s attention with a unique art form that strays from the social media platform’s usual offerings of… Read More
T is for T-Mobile. And tattoo, apparently. A 20-year-old Phoenix man looking to get his hands on a free iPhone 8 courtesy of Bellevue, Wash.-based wireless carrier T-Mobile used his… Read More
For anyone that has been involved in naming a startup, blog or product, you are well aware of the complexities. The good news is that you have 26 letters to… Read More
AnswerDash, a spinout from the University of Washington, offers predictive technology to answer customer questions in context on websites, aiming to reduce costs and improve the self-help experience for users. The company is currently… Read More
You might need a minute before you request your next Uber to locate and or recognize the app icon on your phone as the company unveiled a completely revamped look… Read More
[Editor’s note: Seattle entrepreneurs Barry Chu and Dave Cotter share some of their startup lessons in starting the new mobile app SquareHub. The three-part series is running this week on GeekWire, starting… Read More
What does a logo really say about a company? Oftentimes, startups don’t have the brainpower or time to mess around with a logo, slapping together something in PhotoShop of little… Read More
A few weeks ago, we wrote a story about Womple, a new startup out of Bellingham that’s developing easy ways to make mobile Web sites for restaurants, dentists and other… Read More
One of Seattle’s longest-running Internet brands is being swept into the dust bin of history — and some may say it is about time. InfoSpace, the dot-com survivor founded by… Read More
Just because you’ve built a successful company doesn’t mean you can relax. Succeeding in this ever-changing business world demands that you constantly strive to get ahead…and stay ahead. Easier said than… Read More
Are you thinking about your brand as you build your startup? If not, you should stop everything you are doing right now and pay attention to what I’m about to… Read More
At first glance, Kindle Fire seems like a pretty good name. It uses a thematically coherent naming strategy, similar to the one that Apple used when it named the Macintosh, presumably… Read More
Is Microsoft’s use of the Tulalip name for a secret, internal social networking effort insensitive to the Native American tribe? That’s the question on the minds of some in Snohomish… Read More
