Tech – Page 262 of 319

Oct 30, 2013, 1:40 PM

DoubleDown responds to petition, apologizes and offers credits but says glitches ‘not widespread’

Seattle-based DoubleDown Interactive today issued an apology and offered a special promotional code in response to a petition signed by… Read More

Oct 30, 2013, 11:00 AM

Washington completes installation of 1,600-mile, $140M broadband network for rural areas

Fast Internet speeds are coming to those living in the not-so-populated areas of Washington. A three-year, $140 million project to… Read More

Oct 29, 2013, 12:27 PM

Toddlers on tablets: Survey finds 38% of 2-year-olds using mobile devices, up from 10% in 2011

I’m always mesmerized every time I see a toddler using a cell phone or tablet — it is incredible that… Read More

Oct 29, 2013, 12:23 PM

Report: Adobe breach is even bigger than originally thought

In the event you’re an Adobe user and you haven’t changed all the passwords that share a password with your… Read More

Oct 29, 2013, 10:01 AM

You can has cats: Cheezburger partners with Uber for $20 kitten delivery service

Want to play with a kitten for 20 minutes today? Well, Cheezburger and Uber have you covered. In celebration of… Read More

Oct 29, 2013, 8:59 AM

High stakes for Intellectual Ventures: Should patents be licensed at more than cost?

Digital security firms Trend Micro and Symantec are fighting Intellectual Ventures’ patent claims with a unique legal argument — asserting… Read More

Oct 29, 2013, 7:56 AM

Pre-revenue startup Nextdoor raises $60M for a social network for neighborhoods

Here’s another sign that things are heating up on the funding landscape. San Francisco startup Nextdoor has raised a whopping… Read More

Oct 28, 2013, 5:21 PM

UW computer science program eyes 2nd building to meet booming demand

The Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering, which opened a decade ago, houses the University of Washington’s… Read More

Oct 28, 2013, 1:39 PM

Tableau posts 90% revenue gain and tops 1,000 staffers, files for $450 million secondary offering

Tableau Software continues to grow at a rapid pace, though that growth is causing the Seattle maker of data visualization… Read More

Oct 28, 2013, 11:49 AM

Onion co-founder says satirical publication ‘doesn’t make a lot of sense in the future’

The Onion’s hilarious, degrading and matter-of-fact satirical headlines and stories have made people laugh for more than two decades. But… Read More

Oct 28, 2013, 9:19 AM

Seattle generates more nationally-trending topics on Twitter than any other U.S. city, study says

At least according to Twitter, Seattleites are trend-setters. A new study out of the Indiana University shows that Seattle has… Read More

Oct 28, 2013, 7:44 AM

Tweet-a-Coffee: You can now buy a Starbucks latte for a friend via Twitter

Here’s something that coffee-crazed and tech-mad Seattleites will certainly love. Starbucks is launching a new partnership with Twitter called Tweet-a-Coffee… Read More

Oct 25, 2013, 5:05 PM

Zulily quarterly revenue hits $167 million in run-up to IPO

Seattle-based e-commerce site Zulily amended its Form S-1 filing today to include its third quarter financial results, and they paint… Read More

Oct 25, 2013, 4:54 PM

Photos: Scenes from GeekWire Startup Day

We just wrapped up a great day of insightful startup talks at our big Startup Day. And getting underway in… Read More

Oct 25, 2013, 2:39 PM

Deutsche Telekom CEO leaves T-Mobile US board

Deutsche Telekom CEO René Obermann is stepping down from T-Mobile’s board of directors, according to the company’s latest 8-K filing with… Read More

Oct 24, 2013, 10:10 AM

Battery-free wireless communication technology highlights UW computer science show

The impressive work coming out of University of Washington’s computer science department was on full display Wednesday evening inside the… Read More

Oct 24, 2013, 10:07 AM

Vine update adds support for drafts, “Time Travel”

Have you ever wanted to re-arrange the order of video snippets in a Vine that you shot? Now you can.… Read More

Oct 23, 2013, 6:34 PM

Sustainable Seattle: City wants to recycle excess data center energy to heat up buildings

The City of Seattle is putting a new meaning to the word recycle. As first reported by The Economist, plans… Read More

Oct 23, 2013, 1:56 PM

Shares of F5 up 7% in after hours, profits increase by $8M

Shares of F5 Networks were up more than seven percent in after hours trading today following the company’s fourth quarter earnings report, which… Read More

Oct 23, 2013, 10:28 AM

These are the top universities graduating the most VC-backed entrepreneurs

Every week during the college football season, the Associated Press comes out with an updated list of the top 25… Read More

Oct 23, 2013, 9:41 AM

T-Mobile will offer iPad Air and other tablets for zero-down, free data up to 200 MB/month

T-Mobile US this morning confirmed that it will offer free data for tablets on its network up to 200 MB/month,… Read More

Oct 23, 2013, 9:18 AM

Highest paid CEOs: Mark Zuckerberg No.1; Tim Cook No. 5; Howard Schultz No. 8

CEOs are raking in the dough more than ever. That’s the findings from GMI Ratings’ 2013 CEO Pay Survey, which… Read More

Oct 23, 2013, 9:14 AM

Samsung’s Galaxy Gear smartwatch will now work with reasonably-sized phones

Samsung’s new smartwatch hasn’t exactly garnered rave reviews, and one of the criticisms of the device is that the only… Read More

Oct 22, 2013, 4:22 PM

Report: Seattle-area software engineer in Silk Road case was a federal informant

Steven Lloyd Sadler, the Bellevue, Wash., software engineer who was charged earlier this month as one of the top drug… Read More

Oct 22, 2013, 7:43 AM

Seattle interactive design firm Blue Rooster raises $3M, taps Microsoft vet as VP

Blue Rooster, an interactive design firm based in Seattle, has raised $3 million in a Series A round from PFU… Read More

Oct 22, 2013, 2:06 AM

WhatsApp has more monthly active users (350M) than Twitter

WhatsApp might not be as widely known as Twitter, but it is definitely just as popular in terms of users.… Read More

Oct 21, 2013, 4:00 PM

Advice for success: Here’s Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey’s daily to-do list

Jack Dorsey has done pretty well for himself, helping create social media giant Twitter and then founding the uber-popular mobile… Read More

Oct 21, 2013, 2:16 PM

Netflix posts $1.1B in revenue and tops 40 million subscribers: Stock soars as CEO Reed Hastings warns of ‘euphoria’

Online streaming titan Netflix has a lot to be happy about. This year, original shows that the company produced received… Read More

Oct 21, 2013, 9:07 AM

Tech columnist David Pogue leaves NYT for Yahoo, plans to launch new consumer tech site

Yahoo has been on a serious acquisition hunt in recent months, gobbling up tons of startups in a series of… Read More

Oct 18, 2013, 8:42 AM

Pew: 35% of Americans have tablets, up 10% from last year

The popularity of tablets continues to grow, according to the latest numbers from Pew. Pew’s research shows 35 percent of… Read More