The best comments, quotes, and random zingers we heard this week… “The Internet is transforming almost every element of the news business: shortening news cycles, eroding long-reliable revenue sources, and… Read More
It was another big month here at GeekWire. We unveiled our new GeekWire membership program, relaunched the popular GeekWire 200 startup list and hired superstar salesperson, Sarah Camp, as our Chief Sales Geek.… Read More
The best comments, quotes, and random zingers we heard this week… “[Microsoft has] many great assets and many great challenges. The great assets are the technology, and Windows, Office. And… Read More
The best comments, quotes, and random zingers we heard this week… “I think it’s interesting the types of adjectives journalists use to “spin” articles. For example in this article, Kindle’s… Read More
“I am honored and delighted to lead Yahoo, one of the internet’s premier destinations for more than 700 million users.”—Newly-appointed Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer commenting on her new role at… Read More
The 4th of July brought another beautiful patriotic display over Seattle’s South Lake Union. But those weren’t the only fireworks going on in the city. Microsoft’s employee ranking system (and… Read More
The best comments, quotes, and random zingers we heard this week… “I’ve been writing science and historical fiction for three decades. Well, screw that. I want to do a video… Read More
The best comments, quotes, and random zingers we heard this week… “Feature request: Deduct points … when phone is thrown across room.”– GeekWire reader Jay Force commenting on Kouply, a new… Read More
The best comments, quotes, and random zingers we heard this week… “Do you have to turn off *this* phone during takeoff and landing?” —GeekWire reader Lawrence Lam commenting on news… Read More
The best comments, quotes, and random zingers we heard this week … “I think there are great investors and great people here (in Seattle). But if you accept the premise… Read More
The best insights, observations, comments, tweets and random zingers we heard this week. “Windows really is a beautiful metaphor for computing and with the new logo we wanted to celebrate… Read More
The best insights, observations, comments, tweets and random zingers we heard this week. “This is much more than a building for us. This is a flag raising exercise. This is… Read More
The best observations, quotes, comments and zingers we heard this week. “There’s a fundamental difference between people who want to see the Internet and say — ‘Let’s lobotomize and censor… Read More
The best insights, observations, comments and random zingers we heard this week. “That (Microsoft) is gone. In its place is a slow moving, uncompetitive, over the hill oaf that has… Read More
Is Seattle’s startup community hamstrung by a lack of investment dollars or a lack of high-quality entrepreneurial ideas? That was the debate which erupted on GeekWire this past week as… Read More
It was a big week for tech news, with Facebook rolling out its online video chat service with Skype and Amazon continuing its tax battle against California and other states.… Read More
It was an epic week here at GeekWire. Not only did more than 800 people (including Sir Mix-A-Lot, Detlef Schrempf, Jenni Hogan and Seattle Sounders’ Brad Evans and Pat Noonan)… Read More
Fashion advice for Bill Gates. A new operating system that could rival … Vista. And how Seattle compares to Bangalore, India — just with nicer utilities. That was some of… Read More
Microsoft’s top brass took some heat in the GeekWire comment threads this past week, with readers complaining about everything from the slumping stock price to the company’s lack of focus… Read More
Our stories this past week about Western Washington University’s proposal to cut its computer science department sparked one of the most lively discussions on GeekWire since our launch. Many readers… Read More
There was plenty of chatter on GeekWire this past week as discussions and debate arose over a variety of topics, from Amazon.com’s AWS outage to the best way to split… Read More
BigDoor founder Keith Smith touched a nerve after writing a guest post for GeekWire this past week explaining his frustrations with Amazon.com’s lack of communication following the massive AWS outage.… Read More
Some lively discussions erupted on GeekWire this week as members of the tech community debated what it will take to make Seattle a thriving center of innovation and entrepreneurship. TeachStreet… Read More
It’s been another action-packed week here at GeekWire as we continue to scour the tech landscape for interesting, offbeat and original nuggets of information. My favorite story was a digital… Read More
We’ve been having a ball telling stories of new technologies, entrepreneurs and the exploits of some of the world’s biggest tech companies. And, of course, we love it when our… Read More