The new Cheezburger redesign: Faster, funnier and fewer trolls Cheezburger’s rise to the top of the Internet charts has certainly been impressive to watch, leaving some investors kicking themselves… Read More
Anatomy of a news story: How Bing and Google performed when Steve Jobs resigned A new study out today from Seattle-based Optify attempts to get behind the scenes on how Bing and Google operate… Read More
Q&A: Hulu CTO Richard Tom on the future of television It’s rather stunning to think that Hulu was just a germ of an idea five years ago. Obviously, the entertainment… Read More
Bill Gates-owned Corbis unveils an ‘iTunes for music licensing’ with GreenLight Music Corbis may be best known for licensing digital images. But the Seattle company, started by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates in… Read More
USA Today’s internal app stats show Amazon’s Kindle Fire trouncing other Android tablets Hey, looky what landed in our inbox. Here’s an interesting slide from a USA Today presentation that shows the number… Read More
Evri’s iPad app lets you create personalized news channels on just about anything Flipboard may be the big kahuna of news reader applications on the iPad, with more than 4.5 million users. But… Read More
Startup Spotlight: TinyPass looks to line publishers’ pockets with new way to charge for content In an opinion piece for Bloomberg this week, former Microsoft Chief Technology Officer Nathan Myhrvold lamented the demise of the… Read More
Bill Gates-owned Corbis buys LA product placement firm Product placements are everywhere, from movies to TV to city buses. Now, Corbis — the Seattle-based digital image company backed… Read More
Amazon’s LoveFilm inks deals with BBC and ITV as battle with Netflix intensifies in Europe Amazon.com is expanding its attack on Netflix in Europe, announcing today that it has landed deals to stream programs such… Read More
Seattlepi.com chief Michelle Nicolosi resigns to launch new electronic book publishing firm Michelle Nicolosi, who led the charge for the SeattlePI.com after Hearst Corp. shut down the physical newspaper operations in March… Read More
Ben Huh is keeping mum on Circa, his latest effort to reinvent journalism Cheezburger Network founder Ben Huh has built an online comedy empire around silly photos of cats and people engaged in… Read More
Kindle Fire Newsstand to feature GQ, Wired and dozens of other magazine titles Amazon.com continues to build buzz for next Monday’s launch of the Kindle Fire, its first touchscreen tablet computer. And today… Read More
Does Steve Jobs deserve to be Time’s Person of the Year? NBC Nightly News TV anchor Brian Williams thinks Apple co-founder Steve Jobs should be Time’s Person of the Year, noting… Read More
Rob Glaser returns to his roots, joins $24 million round for video delivery startup Qwilt Rob Glaser helped pioneer the online video, founding RealNetworks in 1995 a mere 10 years before YouTube came into existence.… Read More
Why KING TV is hosting a hackathon, with a $10k prize Seattle’s KING-5 is doing something unusual later this month, or at least something unusual for a regional television station. It’s… Read More
How Amazon’s new tablet signals the start of next generation Guest Analysis: With the announcement of the Kindle Fire, Amazon has now made the long term tablet business an interesting… Read More
Madrona, Amazon and others pump $10 million into online ad analyzer Yieldex Madrona Venture Group and Amazon.com are among the backers in a $10 million round for Yieldex, a New York-based company… Read More
Evri’s new iPad app looks to reinvent the news experience Applications like Flipboard and Pulse look to transform the way people consume news and information on the iPad. Now, Seattle… Read More
Zillow delivers real estate search listings to Curbed Zillow has built one of the most popular online real estate sites, attracting some 25 million unique visitors per month.… Read More
Does Facebook’s new ‘subscribe’ button go too far? Here’s a surprise. Facebook is copying Twitter. Again. But this time, they might be going too far — for their… Read More
PlayLater’s DVR for online video allows users to watch TV shows and movies on the go MediaMall Technologies today launched a new service called PlayLater, which allows users to record online video from sites such as… Read More
Introducing TrayVu: This airline tray doubles as an inflight entertainment system Back in 2003, I wrote a story about an Alaska Airlines baggage handler-turned-entrepreneur by the name of Bill Boyer who… Read More
“Unpaid Blogger” Michael Arrington departs TechCrunch A near two week saga at TechCrunch has come to a close. Kind of. Founder Michael Arrington has officially stepped down… Read More
Google’s bigger game: The subplot behind the Motorola acquisition “Having at least one area where we can do integrated hardware and software and learn from that probably produces better… Read More
Chart: How TV viewing habits are changing The erosion of the traditional broadcast TV business has been well documented. But it is not deteriorating as fast as… Read More
Should startup scribe Michael Arrington invest in startups? Michael Arrington, the flame-throwing founder and co-editor of TechCrunch, is starting his own venture capital fund. The $20 million CrunchFund… Read More
Ex-Jobster staffers bake new startup: MyFaveRecipes.com We must really like to eat in Seattle. Over the years, I’ve chronicled a number of online recipe and food… Read More
How The New York Times is reinventing your morning read with Microsoft Surface I’d love to get this in my kitchen nook. Megan Garber of the Nieman Journalism Lab gets an inside look… Read More
Sorry, Facebook and Twitter: Content sites remain the absolute king of referrals A new report out today indicates that links from online content sources — including news aggregators like Huffington Post and… Read More
Ex P-I journalists to shutter online news site Seattle PostGlobe The Seattle PostGlobe — an online news site started two years ago by reporters who lost their jobs at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer… Read More
