Aug 26, 2013, 12:22 PM This tiny $15 lens turns your cell phone into a microscope Our smartphones can do some pretty neat stuff — surf the web, check email, take high-res pictures, give us turn-by-turn… Read More
Aug 26, 2013, 10:06 AM Study: 70% of Americans now have broadband The percentage of American homes with broadband Internet connectivity continues to increase, yet 30 percent of Americans still don’t have… Read More
Aug 22, 2013, 9:24 PM Deal of the day: Travelocity partners with rival Expedia Travelocity is holding onto its brand. But the guts of the online travel agency, which is owned by travel giant… Read More
Aug 22, 2013, 4:00 PM 5 geeky observations from a vacation in Southeast Asia I saw a lot on my recent trip to Thailand, Cambodia and Singapore. Between the epic temples and beautiful beaches,… Read More
Aug 22, 2013, 10:19 AM Tech glitch forces Nasdaq to halt trading Tech issues have halted the tech-heavy Nasdaq. Trading was stopped on the stock market — home to companies such as… Read More
Aug 21, 2013, 2:21 PM Bill Gates invests in program to help teachers discover and share education technology There are all kinds of geeky ways teachers can use technology to help their students perform better and learn more.… Read More
Aug 21, 2013, 10:20 AM TV anchors integrating Twitter into live broadcasts with Jenni Hogan’s new app Back when Jenni Hogan was working the morning show at Seattle’s KIRO 7, she became frustrated. As a small earthquake… Read More
Aug 20, 2013, 10:33 PM Bootstrap 3 launches, easing development of responsive websites Bootstrap, the wildly popular front-end framework for web development, launched version 3 this week, promising to make it easier to develop… Read More
Aug 19, 2013, 6:06 PM Those Doritos bags that police gave to pot-smokers are lighting up on eBay It was Hempfest in Seattle over the weekend, and for this particular celebration of cannabis, the local police force lent… Read More
Aug 19, 2013, 4:28 PM Disconnected: 20% of Americans still don’t use the Internet The Internet is everywhere nowadays, from our homes to our phones and now even our glasses. But that doesn’t mean… Read More
Aug 19, 2013, 2:32 PM Next Big Thing: InsideSocial Co-Founders Brewster Stanislaw and Joey Kotkins [Editor’s Note: GeekWire is pleased to present the latest episode of The Next Big Thing, the popular podcast by Seattle… Read More
Aug 19, 2013, 7:54 AM Legislators want Expedia, online travel agencies to pay more taxes Expedia and other big online travel agencies may be looking at higher tax expenses thanks to a recent push by… Read More
Aug 16, 2013, 7:02 AM Report: Boeing quietly working on automated manufacturing for 777X Even as its 787 Dreamliner continues to suffer repeated issues, Boeing is moving ahead with plans to start building the… Read More
Aug 15, 2013, 10:17 AM Battery-free wireless communication: UW research breakthrough enables ‘Internet of Things’ One of the hurdles facing the “Internet of things” is the need for every device to have a source of… Read More
Aug 14, 2013, 11:38 AM Japanese airline finds electrical fault in 787 fire extinguishers The hits just keep on coming for Boeing’s troubled 787 Dreamliner, which has been beset by a number of problems… Read More
Aug 14, 2013, 8:22 AM Stem cell biology company Fate Therapeutics files for $69 million IPO Could this be another example of a startup that got away? Fate Therapeutics, which started in Seattle six years ago… Read More
Aug 13, 2013, 3:41 PM Tech Moves: Don Mattrick is cleaning house at Zynga; Spencer Lee joins Julep as CFO; and more —Social game maker Zynga has reportedly lost its COO, CTO and head of HR as a part of a restructuring… Read More
Aug 13, 2013, 2:05 PM Microsoft faces class-action lawsuit over timing of Surface RT disclosures A lawsuit filed in federal court in Massachusetts this week alleges that Microsoft executives didn’t properly fess up to the… Read More
Aug 13, 2013, 1:40 PM Bsquare CEO ‘disappointed’ with $805,000 loss in Q2 Bsquare CEO Brian Crowley said Tuesday that he was disappointed with the company’s second quarter performance, noting that revenue fell 11… Read More
Aug 13, 2013, 10:41 AM After food poisoning incident, Seattle woman starts petition to revamp restaurant ratings Like many restaurant goers, Seattle resident Sarah Schacht turned to Yelp last February when trying to find a place to… Read More
Aug 13, 2013, 7:07 AM Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold have another wild idea: Automatically generating video from text Bill Gates and Nathan Myhrvold, the technology duo who brought us such classics as the Hurricane Suppression System for the… Read More
Aug 13, 2013, 7:00 AM Box updates Android cloud storage app, making new push on smartphones The personal cloud storage market is a tough one these days, with a large number of companies competing to be… Read More
Aug 12, 2013, 9:33 PM To fund this Kickstarter, turn to page 40: Choose Your Own Adventure tries crowdfunding When it came to elementary school literary entertainment, Choose Your Own Adventure books were, for a time, second to none.… Read More
Aug 12, 2013, 11:48 AM Tech Moves: Tim Ellis departs Redfin for Porch; Cray names VP of sales; etc. —Tim Ellis is trading in one online real estate company for another. Ellis, who has worked for Redfin and writes… Read More
Aug 12, 2013, 11:03 AM Seattle Times owner scoffs at Craigslist founder’s journalism advocacy efforts Craig Newmark, the founder of Craigslist, has taken part of his online classified ads money and gotten involved in advocating… Read More
Aug 12, 2013, 10:21 AM Rhapsody reset: Revenue slips 8% as music service drops ads and MP3 sales to focus on subscriptions Rhapsody is focusing more intently on its core music subscription service, dropping third-party ads from its Rhapsody.com website and discontinuing… Read More
Aug 9, 2013, 9:39 AM INRIX hires former Nokia exec as chief revenue officer INRIX is continuing to zoom ahead with the addition of a new chief revenue officer. The Kirkland company, which provides… Read More
Aug 8, 2013, 4:21 PM Tableau hired 96 people in Q2, plans to continue to bolster ranks at ‘healthy clip’ Tableau Software is growing fast, and it’s looking to hire aggressively to take advantage of what CEO Christian Chabot described… Read More
Aug 8, 2013, 3:02 PM Paul Allen’s raucous, soulful new album shows not all tech execs are tone-deaf It’s apparently the summer of the tech exec album. Former Groupon CEO Andrew Mason released his dud of a motivational… Read More
Aug 8, 2013, 1:37 PM Shares of Tableau soar after revenues rise 71% in first earnings report post IPO In its first earnings report as a publicly-traded company, Seattle-based Tableau wowed Wall Street, posting revenues of $49.9 million for… Read More
