The future of health care, as imagined by a tech design firm The Industrial Designers Society of America handed out its annual IDEA product design awards this week, and one of the projects… Read More
Steve Ballmer on bringing the Sonics back to Seattle: It’s a real estate problem In a high-energy talk at the Seattle Rotary Club Wednesday, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer covered everything from Windows 8 to Kinect… Read More
Video: Live from GeekWire Launch We’re about ready to open the doors at the big GeekWire Launch Bash, and we’re looking forward to seeing hundreds… Read More
Seattle picnic shelters to double as solar energy facilities One of the challenges with solar power in Seattle — in addition to the abundance of gray skies — is… Read More
An Airbnb for your pet? A Place for Rover wins best in show at Startup Weekend Airbnb is transforming how travelers find places to stay. Now, Seattle venture capitalist Greg Gottesman wants to bring that… Read More
Comcast wants to serve Pioneer Square startups, bids on city broadband project A few weeks ago, Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn stood on First Avenue and asked Internet service providers to step up… Read More
Video: Bill Gates wrote the checks, and Melinda drove the vision for foundation campus Bill Gates may have written the checks for his foundation’s beautiful new $500 million campus in the heart of Seattle.… Read More
IPO filing reveals Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz’s stake in Groupon Groupon’s growth rate over the past two years has been absolutely insane. Consider this: The daily deal site had just… Read More
WSJ report: A wave of Silicon Valley giants arrive on Seattle’s shores Silicon Valley tech giants have been flocking to Seattle in recent for months, with companies such as Facebook, Salesforce.com and… Read More
Nerd Notes: Eat ramen 3 times a day, meditate, and don’t steal laptops with built-in cameras Microsoft’s Gamefest 2011 is now open for registration. Molly Wizenberg of Seattle is featured in The New York Times for her… Read More
Polaris Venture Partners closes Seattle office, says market ‘never developed’ When Polaris Venture Partners arrived in Seattle 15 years ago, the Boston-based firm thought the market had plenty of promise.… Read More
Nerd Notes: Sony Vaio goes gold, it’s hip to be geek and an alien scares a kid Seattle Retro Gaming Expo is going on this weekend at Hotel Deca in the UD. And don’t even think about… Read More
Seattle Retro Gaming Expo this weekend: ‘The coolest thing since that show Alf’ That console over there and many of those games occupied so many hours of my youth, it’s almost hard to… Read More
Buster Benson sells popular iPhone app, focuses efforts on new social game Seattle developer Buster Benson has sold Locavore — a popular mobile application that assists people in their quest to find… Read More
Why the CEO of one of Seattle’s hottest startups moved to Cupertino I always considered BlueKai one of the hidden gems of Seattle’s startup community, a fast-growing online advertising platform with the… Read More
Mayor McGinn promises high-speed Internet for parts of Pioneer Square Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn today laid out a proposal to encourage broadband Internet in a four-block area in Pioneer Square,… Read More
Podcast Rewind: Keith Smith, BigDoor CEO, on the economics and future of gamification Our guest this past week on the GeekWire Podcast was Keith Smith, CEO of BigDoor, a Seattle company bringing the principles… Read More
Plot thickens for Amazon with new “Thomas & Mercer” mysteries and thrillers Amazon.com is clearly having a lot of fun naming the brands that it’s using to expand further into the world… Read More
Attention mobile devs: Hack the World’s Fair this Saturday The organizers of “The Next Fifty,” a series of events that will mark the anniversary of the Seattle World’s Fair… Read More
Now arriving in Puget Sound: A gigantic, floating, missile-detecting snow globe Don’t be concerned if you see this gigantic seaborne platform, pictured above, motoring into Puget Sound sometime today. The aliens… Read More
Podcast GeekWire Podcast, from the Seattle 2.0 Awards red carpet (with video highlights, too) We’re coming to you a little early this week with a special edition of the GeekWire Podcast, recorded on the… Read More
Video: Live (Sorta) from the Seattle 2.0 Awards Red Carpet The question on the red carpet at the Seattle 2.0 Awards tonight isn’t so much what they’re wearing but what… Read More
Top 10 iPhone Music Apps: Classics, Hits and Deep Cuts It’s springtime, and the sun has begun peeking through the clouds, so music is in the air for sun-starved Seattleites.… Read More
Video game school picks Seattle Center for new campus With companies such as Big Fish, PopCap, Nintendo, Microsoft and Valve, Seattle is a well established center for video game development.… Read More
Millionaires to double in Washington, but will that spark angel investment? Seattle’s high-tech industry has minted thousands of millionaires over the years as companies such as Microsoft, Amazon.com, Isilon Systems and… Read More
How to become Apple’s iPhone ‘App of the Week’ That right there is the type of publicity a startup can’t buy — a huge graphic currently promoting Seattle’s Zapd… Read More
RealNetworks plans new ‘Rinse’ clean-up tool for iTunes RealNetworks has developed a new program called Rinse for cleaning up and organizing Apple iTunes libraries on Windows PCs and… Read More
Eternal optimists, AT&T boosts wireless capacity for crowds at Safeco Field Hey, you gotta build for the team you want, not the one you got, right? AT&T today announced that it… Read More
Mobile commerce: Innovation in Africa, by way of Seattle Femi Akinde, the CEO and founder of Seattle-based technology company SlimTrader, is one of the speakers Wednesday afternoon during a… Read More
Chart: Zillow is the third most visited real estate site, while Redfin cracks the top 20 This sure is timely. Just a few hours after Zillow.com announced its intentions of going public, Experian Hitwise released its… Read More
