Tech – Page 267 of 319

Sep 5, 2013, 1:56 PM

Next Big Thing: Kellee Khalil, Loverly founder and CEO

This week on The Next Big Thing I sit down with Kellee Khalil, the Founder and CEO of Loverly, the visual… Read More

Sep 5, 2013, 10:49 AM

Contour defaults on $7M in loans, court-appointed receiver pursuing possible sale after last exec resigns

Contour, the Seattle-based action-camera maker that surprised employees by closing its doors a month ago, has been placed in the… Read More

Sep 5, 2013, 6:00 AM

Study: ESPN viewers more likely to visit car dealerships

There’s a new television season coming up this fall, and that means new insights about product placement are here. Placed,… Read More

Sep 4, 2013, 2:39 PM

Twitter goes down for 30 minutes, social media addicts lose composure

Twitter’s homepage went down sometime around 2 p.m. PST Wednesday afternoon, but came back online about 30 minutes later. We… Read More

Sep 4, 2013, 10:44 AM

Mark Cuban, Woz and now Bill Nye: Science Guy joins ‘Dancing With The Stars’

Is there anything better than watching geeks try to dance? Well, yes. But nonetheless, it was hilarious watching Mark Cuban… Read More

Sep 4, 2013, 7:50 AM

Going beyond Siri and Watson: Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen taps Oren Etzioni to lead new Artificial Intelligence Institute

Perhaps no one has been more synonymous with the startup ethos at the University of Washington than computer science professor Oren… Read More

Sep 3, 2013, 9:45 PM

Former Egghead CEO launches LearnBig, a clearinghouse for online education content

Online learning has exploded in the past few years, with new companies like Khan Academy and Coursera offering students a… Read More

Sep 3, 2013, 10:59 AM

Transportation study: Market for ride-sharing, for-hire vehicles ‘growing rapidly’ in Seattle

Those without their own vehicles in Seattle are looking for alternatives to taxis now more than ever. That’s the conclusion… Read More

Sep 3, 2013, 7:24 AM

Ex-Dendreon CEO starts healthcare investment fund Alpine BioVentures

Former Dendreon CEO Mitch Gold has partnered with biotechnology stock researcher David Miller to create a new Seattle-based investment firm… Read More

Sep 2, 2013, 3:32 PM

Meet the first crowdsourced spam blocker for your phone

It’s the end of a long day at work and you’re relaxing at home watching some TV or eating a… Read More

Sep 2, 2013, 10:55 AM

Now you can own those body-worn cameras worn by police

For the past six years, Seattle-based Vievu has helped more than 3,000 police agencies around the world with body-worn cameras that… Read More

Sep 2, 2013, 9:37 AM

How Major League Baseball dominates the big data and mobile game

There is more data in baseball than perhaps any other sport. From the basic stats — balls, strikes, runs —… Read More

Aug 30, 2013, 2:02 PM

Microsoft: ValueAct wins option for board seat under ‘cooperation agreement’

Microsoft this afternoon announced a “cooperation agreement” with ValueAct Capital that includes the option for the activist investment firm to… Read More

Aug 30, 2013, 8:18 AM

Maveron-backed Potbelly Sandwich Shop files for $75M IPO

This IPO could be really yummy? Potbelly Sandwich Shop, a Chicago restaurant chain founded in 1977, has filed to raise… Read More

Aug 29, 2013, 8:33 PM

Lyft co-founder: Ride-sharing startups will make taxi companies more money

One by one, riders and passengers of fast-growing Lyft came up to the microphone Thursday night in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood,… Read More

Aug 29, 2013, 3:13 PM

Controversial hook-up app Bang With Friends returns to App Store as ‘Down’

Let the banging continue. Bang With Friends, an app that lets you find Facebook friends who are equally interested in… Read More

Aug 29, 2013, 11:01 AM

Ahead of city council meeting, Lyft holds community rally to drum up support for ride-sharing

Ride-sharing startups like Uber, Sidecar and Lyft are certainly causing a stir across the country and especially here in Seattle,… Read More

Aug 29, 2013, 10:19 AM

Safe rides on I-5: Tesla expands supercharger stations to Oregon

Oregon is getting in on the Tesla fun. After opening two new “supercharger” stations last month in Centralia and Burlington, Wash.,… Read More

Aug 29, 2013, 9:36 AM

Privacy is suddenly very hot: Events see influx of interest after NSA revelations

This is the fourth year of the Privacy Identity Innovation conference, which will draw hundreds of people to Seattle’s Bell Harbor… Read More

Aug 29, 2013, 7:10 AM

Intellectual Ventures spinout Evolv gets $11.8M from Bill Gates and others, aims to transform security scanning

Intellectual Ventures this morning announced a new spinout company, Evolv, that has landed $11.8 million in funding from investors including… Read More

Aug 28, 2013, 3:08 PM

Tech terms ‘selfie,’ ‘phablet,’ ’emoji,’ added to Oxford Dictionaries

The next time your parents or grandparents ask what the heck “selfie,” or “emoji” means, you can simply open up… Read More

Aug 28, 2013, 1:55 PM

Melinda Gates now has a comic book about her life

Up until now, Bill Gates was likely the only member of his family to have a comic book written about… Read More

Aug 28, 2013, 12:46 PM

Google patents ‘Scroogling’ — or at least that’s what Microsoft would call it

Google has been awarded a patent on a “System and method for targeting information based on message content in a… Read More

Aug 28, 2013, 7:44 AM

Sinofsky’s first VC deal: Car-sharing tech startup Local Motion lands $6M

Andreessen Horowitz is leading a $6 million investment in Local Motion, a Burlingame, Calif., startup whose technology can be installed… Read More

Aug 27, 2013, 9:01 PM

New Parallels app runs Mac, Windows programs on iPad

The people who popularized running Windows on a Mac have been working on another trick: Word on the iPad. That’s… Read More

Aug 27, 2013, 4:04 PM

Twitter continues growth, flocks to bigger Seattle offices

It’s been a little over a year since Twitter opened up shop in Seattle, and now the social networking giant… Read More

Aug 27, 2013, 3:29 PM

Here are the world’s best Internet cities (Seattle made the cut)

UBM’s Future Cities, a blog that focuses on how cities are developing, just put together a list of its ten… Read More

Aug 27, 2013, 9:21 AM

Political push: Intellectual Ventures opens D.C. office to support new lobbying team

In an effort to support a lobbying push as the U.S. government cracks down on “patent trolls,” Intellectual Ventures is… Read More

Aug 26, 2013, 4:12 PM

Paul Allen’s Cinerama theater to install world’s first commercial 4K laser projector

Seattle might now be the best place in the world to watch a movie if you’re into high-def screens. The… Read More

Aug 26, 2013, 2:52 PM

MOD Systems founder on hook for $4.1M in ongoing legal dispute

Seattle entrepreneur Mark Phillips was released from federal prison earlier this year, but his legal troubles continue to mount. The… Read More