As new H-1B season begins, Microsoft renews call to loosen rules on foreign workers It’s the start of an annual tradition, and the revival of a perennial debate. Today is the first day for… Read More
Amazon.com dubbed a corporate scrooge by hometown newspaper Amazon.com’s lack of philanthropic involvement in its hometown of Seattle is getting renewed attention as The Seattle Times kicked off… Read More
Next up for Startup Weekend: Making government move at Internet speed You might say it is a bit of an oxymoron. But Startup Weekend is introducing a new event next month… Read More
Obama pledges $200 million for ‘big data’ initiative “Big data” is perhaps the hottest buzzword in technology these days. And now President Obama is jumping on the bandwagon,… Read More
The JOBS Act means different things to different people in the startup community The Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act cleared its final legislative hurdle today. It is now on its way to… Read More
AT&T exec blasts FCC over T-Mobile call center closures AT&T appears to still be smarting over its failed $39 billion bid for T-Mobile USA, a deal that fell apart… Read More
Coming to Seattle: Picnic shelters with solar panels OK, you can insert whatever Seattle rain joke that you’d like on this one. But during a week that the… Read More
State saves nearly $1.7M by scrutinizing mobile phone use And you thought your cell phone bill was getting out of control. Washington state agencies have saved nearly $1.7 million… Read More
Entrepreneurs to Congress: Please, make it easier to IPO In a letter to the U.S. Senate signed by “America’s Start-up Leaders,” more than 700 entrepreneurs today urged lawmakers to… Read More
Crowding out angels from startup financings? As early as next week, we may know whether Congress will change US securities laws to permit startups to sell… Read More
Dan Savage’s ‘Spreading Santorum’ Web spoof loses top spot on Google Seattle sex columnist Dan Savage’s cruel, yet brilliant Web joke on Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum appears to have run… Read More
Amazon Web Services to collect sales tax on customers in Washington state Amazon Web Services, the cloud computing unit of the Seattle online retailer, notified customers in Washington state this week that… Read More
Ben Huh’s love affair with the Internet (Or why we need to protect our greatest creation) Cheezburger CEO Ben Huh appeared today at the In NW social media conference in Seattle, offering an impassioned plea on… Read More
What would Wael Ghonim do? 5 lessons from the world’s most successful online community manager The world’s most successful online community manager was in Seattle last week, and you probably had no idea. Wael Ghonim,… Read More
Amazon board adds Jamie Gorelick, former Fannie Mae and DOJ official Amazon.com just added a new board member: Jamie S. Gorelick, a veteran of the U.S. government and no stranger to… Read More
MercyCorps connects geeks from Gaza to Seattle We’ve got more than our share of tech-geeks here in Seattle. You know, the guys who work at startups, or… Read More
Arizona lawmakers push for Amazon.com to collect sales tax Arizona and Amazon appear to be at loggerheads. Legislators in the state are reportedly pushing forward with a plan to… Read More
Here’s what Jay Inslee wants to do to keep the state’s tech industry humming There’s no shortage of ideas in Jay Inslee’s economic plan for Washington state. The Democratic candidate for governor released a… Read More
Obama presses Americans to win the innovation race and support the next Steve Jobs Ingenuity, innovation and entrepreneurship are cornerstones of the American experience, attributes that the United States should support, encourage and bankroll… Read More
A new era: Google outspends Microsoft in federal lobbying Google is speaking loud and clear in Washington D.C., nearly doubling its expenditures on federal lobbying efforts last year. Cnet’s… Read More
Microsoft voices support for same-sex marriage in Washington state Microsoft is among several technology companies that voiced support this week for bills that would legalize same-sex marriage in Washington… Read More
Facing pressure from tech giants, politicians postpone PIPA and SOPA votes Just three days after the blackout of Wikipedia and other sites, U.S. legislators have postponed votes on the Stop Online… Read More
Bring on the nerds! Jon Stewart’s hilarious look at the SOPA fight The Stop Online Piracy Act certainly has generated plenty of controversy in recent days, highlighted by the Wednesday blackouts of… Read More
Watch Ben Huh debate an NBC executive over SOPA It took an email from my mom in Ohio to realize just how big the controversy over the Stop Online… Read More
Seattle snow storm stops SOPA protest in its tracks For the past few days, Seattle’s Zachary Cohn has been spending his days and nights planning for a January 18th rally… Read More
And so it begins: Wikipedia turns off the lights and Google blacks out logo in SOPA protest Sorry students, journalists, Internet researchers and just about everyone else looking for a tidbit of information related to, well, just… Read More
Amazon: We dislike piracy, but ‘strongly oppose’ SOPA Amazon.com will not be blacking out its Web site tomorrow in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act as Cheezburger… Read More
Google will alter its home page as part of protest against SOPA Google often plays around with its popular home page, showing creative doodles to celebrate various activities going on in the… Read More
Cheezburger celebrates five years of LOLs, plans January 18th blackout to protest SOPA Who could have imagined that a Web site featuring oddly-worded captions accompanying cat photos could one day hold so much… Read More
Geek of the Week: U.S. CIO Steven VanRoekel is on a mobile mission at CES Posting from Las Vegas: The last time we bumped into Steven VanRoekel at the Consumer Electronics Show, he was working… Read More
