Seattle councilmember Kshama Sawant wants a municipal broadband network in the Emerald City, and she’s calling on the city’s residents to join forces to make it happen. Sawant, a former software… Read More
A long-awaited study says building a municipal gigabit fiber network in Seattle would cost $480 million to $665 million — less than past projections, but still too much for the city to… Read More
To help expand its growing fiber network, Wave Broadband today announced $130 million in additional funding. The fresh cash comes through a corporate bond led by Deutsche Bank, with participation from Wells Fargo, Sun… Read More
Karen Toering was at the Rainier Beach Public Library in Seattle one year ago when a man came to the front desk, panicked and frustrated. He was filling out a… Read More
SAN FRANCISCO– Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is fond of talking about how his company plans to connect the world, but today at Facebook’s F8 conference in San Francisco, his company… Read More
Normally, it’s not easy to own stock in privately held companies, like Uber or at Airbnb, unless you happen to work there. But that’s beginning to change, with mutual funds increasingly making investments… Read More
A new report from Internet.org presents a sobering look at the state of global Internet access: there’s growth, but it’s slowing. “State of Connectivity: 2014” from the Facebook-backed organization estimates… Read More
Viral, shareable content is Ben Huh’s bread and butter. His business is predicated on the notion that when we see an adorable kitten, a funny meme, or a GIF from our… Read More
Kshama Sawant, the former software engineer who was elected to the Seattle city council as a socialist candidate, is pressing to bring Internet access to the city’s homeless camps. MyNorthwest.com… Read More
Those living in Seattle’s Eastlake neighborhood will soon have access to extremely fast Internet connections for $80 per month. CondoInternet, a subsidiary of Wave Broadband, announced this morning that it will… Read More
Google says it’s aiming to make the Internet safer with its “HTTPS Everywhere” initiative — encouraging websites to secure their connection to your browser using HTTPS encryption. The company is giving webmasters an incentive to enable SSL… Read More
Seattle Mayor Ed Murray thinks that his citizens deserve faster and cheaper Internet. His constituents probably wouldn’t mind having more choices other than the incumbents like Comcast and CenturyLink. But Seattle… Read More
The Seattle City Council today unanimously approved legislation removing “excessive administrative requirements” for telecom companies that want to build broadband utility boxes in neighborhoods. Previously, companies had to get 60 percent approval and written consent from homeowners… Read More
How will technology transform the experience of driving? Will your Internet connectivity come through your smartphone or an embedded chip in your vehicle? Are new technologies making driving safer or more… Read More
Earlier this week, prominent venture capitalist Bill Gurley sent a warning shot across the startup industry, noting that burn rates at venture-backed companies are at an all-time high and that… Read More
The Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission announced today that it has reached a settlement with CenturyLink over billing errors related to taxes and surcharges. The telecommunications company has agreed to… Read More
What makes you happy? Sunshine. Long walks on the beach. A cool mountain stream. How about Internet connectivity? A poll conducted by the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index found that those states with… Read More
Even though one of its balloons crashed last month into power lines near Yakima, Washington, Google is pushing ahead with its ambitious project to blanket the globe with high-flying Internet-enabled… Read More
There’s another way to look at the fact that 85 percent of Seattle residents have Internet access at home. Fifteen percent — roughly 93,000 people — still do not. That’s… Read More
Does it take forever to load a webpage, or do you find that watching Netflix can be a painful experience? If your answer is “yes,” you aren’t alone. The vast majority of… Read More
In the world of startups, they call it a pivot: A change of course. An alteration of the business model. For Tom Leung of Yabbly, it is much more of… Read More
Online dog sitting marketplace Rover.com has a new best friend: Menlo Ventures. The Silicon Valley venture capital firm, an early backer of Fab.com, Uber and Tumblr, is leading a $12… Read More
Today Google named 34 cities as possible expansion locations for its Google Fiber Internet service. Seattle, however, has been left off the list. Google identified nine metro areas — including… Read More
If fast Internet is your number one priority when thinking about where to live, East Asia might your best bet. That’s one takeaway from Akamai’s Q3 2013 “State of the… Read More
Cheezburger may be best known for fuzzy little felines, and funny photographs of failure. But the Seattle online comedy network led by Ben Huh now has another thing to showcase:… Read More
While Seattle struggles to set up a city-wide fiber-to-the-home Internet network, at least one Washington town is well on its way to doing so. The Ellensburg City Council has approved plans… Read More
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – Comcast Executive Vice President David L. Cohen took the stage at The Atlantic’s Silicon Valley Summit this morning to announce a new partnership with Khan Academy to… Read More
While plans for Gigabit Squared to provide lightning-fast Internet throughout Seattle are stalling, CondoInternet doesn’t appear to be slowing down anytime soon. The local ISP, a subsidiary of Spectrum Networks… Read More
Financing problems are forcing Gigabit Squared to delay plans to implement a high-speed Internet network in 14 Seattle neighborhoods using the city’s dormant “dark fiber” network. Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn — a longtime champion… Read More
Thousands of residents in the San Juan islands northwest of Seattle have been operating without phone or Internet service for a week after an underwater cable was mysteriously severed. Now,… Read More