Tech – Page 297 of 319

Jul 11, 2012, 5:21 PM

Asteroid miners on board with Virgin Galactic’s LauncherOne

Richard Branson and the asteroid miners are teaming up. Planetary Resources, the Bellevue-based company that plans to extract natural resources… Read More

Jul 11, 2012, 10:00 AM

INRIX names ex-Blue Nile CEO to board, strengthens management team

INRIX is bolstering its board and management team as the Kirkland provider of traffic data continues to add new customers,… Read More

Jul 10, 2012, 3:02 PM

Amazon’s impact dissected in new Financial Times series

Amazon.com is no stranger to multi-part newspaper stories, but the Financial Times does a particularly good job of putting the… Read More

Jul 10, 2012, 8:23 AM

Game Over: The Oatmeal closes book on FunnyJunk dispute with pic of cash pile

Pictured here: $211,223.04 in cash. That’s the money raised for charity by Matthew Inman, better known as the Oatmeal, the Seattle-based… Read More

Jul 9, 2012, 1:32 PM

Small tech firms outpace big counterparts with IPOs

Bigger isn’t always better, at least when it comes to initial public offerings. A new report out from Tableau Software’s… Read More

Jul 9, 2012, 10:49 AM

Seattle mayor touts South Lake Union as an ‘engine for job growth’

Anyone who has stepped foot near Amazon.com’s new headquarters in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood can feel the change happening… Read More

Jul 6, 2012, 9:18 AM

Voracious reader Bill Gates shares his favorite books of the summer

Want to get inside the mind of one of the world’s richest men? Just take a look at his bookshelf.… Read More

Jul 4, 2012, 8:14 AM

In the red: 73% of tech IPOs aren’t profitable when they debut

Earlier this week, we reported on the dearth of venture-backed initial public offerings during the second quarter. Just 11 companies… Read More

Jul 4, 2012, 7:30 AM

Get out your wallet: It is the best time of the year to buy a laptop

Are you in the market for a new laptop? You may want to hit the stores this Independence Day before… Read More

Jul 3, 2012, 10:59 PM

On the auction block: Getty Images could fetch $4B in private equity bid

Getty Images, the Seattle digital image company led by Jonathan Klein, may be headed from the arms of one private… Read More

Jul 3, 2012, 1:55 PM

RealNetworks CEO resigns, and Rob Glaser is back, for now

Thomas Nielsen has resigned as RealNetworks CEO after seven months in the job, and founder Rob Glaser has been appointed… Read More

Jul 3, 2012, 1:44 PM

Microsoft’s ‘Lost Decade’? Vanity Fair piece is epic, accurate and not entirely fair

This has not been the best of weeks for Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. First was the news that the company… Read More

Jul 2, 2012, 2:30 PM

Patent office snubs Seattle, picks Silicon Valley, Denver and Dallas for new branches

First, we lost our bid to win one of the NASA Space Shuttles (though we did pick up the consolation… Read More

Jul 2, 2012, 8:42 AM

Silicon Labs inks deal with Intellectual Ventures; Sharp renews patent deal with Pendrell

Nathan Myhrvold’s Intellectual Ventures continues to ink deals with large technology companies, adding to its list of more than 30… Read More

Jul 2, 2012, 8:24 AM

With founder and VC connections, Spoken buys HyperQuality

In a deal of undisclosed size, Bellevue-based Spoken Communications today announced its acquisition of Seattle’s HyperQuality. These two companies should… Read More

Jun 30, 2012, 7:39 AM

NASA’s Super Guppy is headed our way today

Team GeekWire and family are getting ready to head down to Seattle’s Museum of Flight this morning for what promises… Read More

Jun 29, 2012, 2:41 PM

LinkedOut? Twitter ends LinkedIn content sharing

It appears that the content-sharing partnership forged by Twitter and LinkedIn in 2009 — like “peanut butter and chocolate,” according… Read More

Jun 28, 2012, 2:20 PM

Seattle: America’s top tech city

There’s been a lot of debate and discussion in recent months about Seattle’s technology industry, and how it compares to… Read More

Jun 27, 2012, 10:43 PM

Love and marriage: How the UW is making bets on the brains of ‘big data’ and ‘machine learning’

Computer science is very much a discipline that revolves around numbers. But it was something a little less mathematical that… Read More

Jun 27, 2012, 1:49 PM

Facebook Seattle gets a ‘Weirdo’ hot tub, with a view

Source: weirdocult.com via Weirdo on Pinterest Facebook employees are taking part in a hackathon today at the company’s Seattle… Read More

Jun 27, 2012, 11:38 AM

Craziest keynote stunt ever: Skydivers, stunt cyclists deliver Google’s glasses

Google’s unveiling of its new Nexus 7 tablet wasn’t really a surprise, but this certainly was. Company co-founder Sergey… Read More

Jun 27, 2012, 8:19 AM

Cray to deliver ‘Cascade’ supercomputer to DOE researchers in $40M deal

Seattle supercomputer maker Cray announced today that it has won a $40 million contract to deliver its next-generation supercomputer, code-named “Cascade”… Read More

Jun 26, 2012, 11:41 AM

Firm files protest over Concur’s $1.4B government contract, dubs it an unfair 15-year monopoly

Shares of Concur Technologies soared earlier this month after the Redmond company was awarded a $1.4 billion contract to provide travel… Read More

Jun 26, 2012, 10:12 AM

Report: Microsoft is not making its own Windows Phone

Microsoft says it doesn’t have any plans to bring its own Windows Phone devices to market, according to an Information… Read More

Jun 26, 2012, 8:16 AM

Microsoft and Yammer: What’s the deal?

Now that Microsoft’s much-anticipated $1.2 billion acquisition of Yammer is finally official, there are several interesting elements involving the Microsoft-Yammer… Read More

Jun 26, 2012, 7:10 AM

Patent holding firm settles with Boeing for $10 million

Pendrell Corp., the Kirkland patent holding firm led by former Clearwire execs, said today that it has withdrawn a petition… Read More

Jun 25, 2012, 3:45 PM

The ‘acquihire’ of the day: TechStars Seattle grad Thinkfuse gobbled up by Salesforce.com

Thinkfuse, one of the original startups to move through the TechStars Seattle program, is being acquired by Salseforce.com in a… Read More

Jun 25, 2012, 9:50 AM

Ignite’s Brady Forrest to set sail for San Francisco with new job at Khosla Ventures

Brady Forrest doesn’t want to lose his connections to the Pacific Northwest even though he just took a job with… Read More

Jun 22, 2012, 1:47 PM

A 5-point checklist to create lucrative opportunities with disruptive technologies

Let me ask you a question: How long have you been in business? Ten years? Five years? Two years? And… Read More

Jun 22, 2012, 11:45 AM

Many residents in state live in ‘rural information ghetto’

Researchers at Washington State University have concluded that large segments of the state are marooned in what they call a… Read More