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Seattle

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

Penny Arcade expands empire with new developer event

Interesting news this weekend from the team behind the ever-growing Penny Arcade Expo, better known as PAX: Building on the… Read More

Podcast

GeekWire Podcast: 60 Minutes, Zynga, and what’s hot in computer science now

This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we talk about the time we spent with a “60 Minutes” crew, the opening… Read More

Podcast

Rewind: Andy Sack on startups, TechStars and the promise of Seattle’s tech scene

Joining us for our latest GeekWire Podcast was Andy Sack of TechStars Seattle, Founders Co-op and Revenue Loan — the… Read More

Is the ‘Seattle Underground’ the key to solving Pioneer Square’s Internet woes?

The solution to Pioneer Square’s Internet connectivity problems may be found in a cavernous, mid-19th century underworld. The City of… Read More

Foursquare nerds, unite: Your day has almost arrived

As an avid Foursquare user in Seattle, Brian Groth knows he isn’t experiencing all the benefits that someone might see… Read More

Comcast rolls out 105 Mbps ‘Extreme’ Internet service

Do you really need download speeds of more than 100 megabits per second in your house? (Come on, really?) At… Read More

Seattle’s hottest tech neighborhood offers crappy Internet service, drug dealers

Pioneer Square is undergoing a major transformation as high-tech companies such as Isilon, Zynga and Blue Nile set up shop… Read More

Getting to know our Space Shuttle consolation prize

OK, so we didn’t get one of the real Space Shuttles. But the thing we got looks a lot like… Read More

Seattle teens behind ‘The Grim Tweeper’ app dream of making it big … in Silicon Valley

Wesley Zhao and Ajay Mehta have been friends since the fourth grade, attending Stevenson Elementary, Odle Middle School and Interlake… Read More

Podcast

Rewind: Can these 3 funny guys build a viable startup?

There’s no question that the guys at Seattle startup Giant Thinkwell are funny, as evidenced by their April Fool’s Day… Read More

How Facebook’s new Seattle engineers put its mobile revamp months ahead

Seattle is Facebook’s first major remote engineering base outside its Palo Alto HQ, so it’s a test case for future… Read More

Rare supercar crashes in Seattle: Details from police report; driver still a mystery

A crash in Seattle typically wouldn’t generate interest beyond the region, but car geeks around the country are buzzing about… Read More

How to write on a Nordstrom window with Microsoft’s Kinect

Nordstrom’s flagship store in downtown Seattle is currently featuring a neat little technological trick, allowing passersby to write and doodle… Read More

Podcast

GeekWire Podcast: Allen vs. Gates, Amazon Cloud Drive, Giant Thinkwell +1

This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we recap a strange week in tech news, including our first glimpse of Paul… Read More

Hey developers: Forget the cheeseburgers, have a LOLcat

The guys from Seattle startup Giant Thinkwell will be our guests on the next GeekWire Podcast. And it looks like… Read More

Q&A: Rhapsody rebounding after RealNetworks spinoff

Rhapsody International, on its own now for a full year, has added more than 100,000 new subscribers over the past… Read More

How a modest bag clip was reborn as an iPhone ‘Kickstand’

DL Byron, the Seattle entrepreneur behind such ventures as Clip-n-Seal and Bike Hugger, was struck with the idea for his… Read More

Fisher weighs possible Fisher Plaza sale, financing

Fisher Communications says has retained a financial adviser to “explore alternatives for maximizing the value of Fisher Plaza in Seattle,”… Read More

March Madness for Robots (Video)

Who cares about basketball when there are robots to watch? The Seattle regionals for the FIRST high-school robotics competition start… Read More

Is there really a hiring boom going on in tech?

It is starting to get a little wacky on the hiring front for skilled technology workers. Silicon Valley companies such… Read More

iPad 2 Mania: Big sales for Apple’s next big thing

Looks like Seattle wasn’t the only place where people showed up in droves for Apple’s iPad 2. The new version… Read More

Apple iPad 2 launch: ‘The cachet of being one of the fanboys’

So who was in line for the iPad 2 yesterday afternoon? And why were they willing to spend hours of… Read More

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