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May 21, 2012, 10:17 AM

From print to Pinterest: Digimarc expands digital watermarking service

The new issue of House Beautiful, hitting store shelves today, is being billed as the first Pinterest-enabled print magazine —… Read More

May 18, 2012, 12:49 PM

Today food trucks, tomorrow the world? Mobile wallet app LevelUp targets Seattle geeks

If you’ve gotten a free lunch at a South Lake Union food truck lately, it’s probably thanks to Boston-based mobile… Read More

May 18, 2012, 9:01 AM

Ex-Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson resigns from board of F5 Networks

Scott Thompson, who resigned as CEO of Yahoo on Sunday after a scandal broke over claims he had made about… Read More

May 17, 2012, 12:20 PM

TED curator shoots back at Hanauer, calls out Seattle VC and posts controversial talk

The controversy over Nick Hanauer’s recent TED talk about increasing taxes on the wealthiest Americans just isn’t going away. Yesterday,… Read More

May 17, 2012, 10:42 AM

Comcast to boost data limit to 300GB, test tiered approach

Comcast plans to introduce a new broadband data policy that will give its heaviest users leeway to stream as much… Read More

May 16, 2012, 4:24 PM

Too controversial: Why TED won’t post Nick Hanauer’s talk about taxing the rich

Seattle venture capitalist Nick Hanauer — an early investor in Amazon.com and aQuantive — certainly has strong opinions on economics… Read More

May 16, 2012, 3:31 PM

Coffee, pictures and gadgets: Inside Coinstar’s bid to build a kiosk empire

Coinstar may be best known for its automated coin-counting machines and Redbox movie rental kiosks. But based on what we… Read More

May 16, 2012, 1:56 PM

Q&A: Twitter’s Del Harvey on trust, safety, bullets and kittens

Del Harvey is the director of trust and safety for Twitter — a big job that covers areas including account… Read More

May 16, 2012, 10:41 AM

Mixed state jobless numbers ‘confound’ economists, but signs point to better times

Numbers sometimes tell strange stories, and that appears to be the case in the latest unemployment report from the Washington… Read More

May 16, 2012, 7:47 AM

It’s getting even better to be a geek, new survey finds

Mark your calendar, because May 25 is Geek Pride Day. And geeks have even more to be proud of this… Read More

May 16, 2012, 7:46 AM

Bill Gates-owned Corbis faces $12.75M in damages in fraud case

Corbis, the digital image company owned by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, must pay $12.75 million in damages as part of… Read More

May 14, 2012, 1:54 PM

Twitter launches email digest, building on Summify

Summify is one of the online services we use every day here at GeekWire. It provides a daily digest of… Read More

May 14, 2012, 8:15 AM

Eyeing hospitality, UIEvolution buys assets of Splat Interactive

UIEvolution is buying the assets of Splat Interactive, using the acquisition of the content management platform to expand its video… Read More

May 11, 2012, 7:00 AM

Open secret: Rhapsody tops $35 million in quarterly revenue, gets closer to profit

Rhapsody, the subscription music service based in downtown Seattle, has been a private company since spinning off from RealNetworks as… Read More

May 10, 2012, 9:57 AM

InfoSpace shares soar after big revenue boost from new TaxAct unit

Investors are liking the new face of InfoSpace. The Bellevue company, a dot-com darling and survivor, transformed itself yet again… Read More

May 9, 2012, 11:53 PM

T-Mobile USA boosts profits amid rumors of MetroPCS deal

T-Mobile USA posted higher profits in the first quarter, providing an unexpected boost to its parent company, Deutsche Telekom, according… Read More

May 9, 2012, 3:19 PM

Texting while driving? This AT&T simulator will scare the crap out of you

Less than 30 seconds into my drive this morning, I had driven on the wrong side of the road twice,… Read More

May 9, 2012, 1:26 PM

A ‘TB breathalyzer’ and other wild ideas backed by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today announced more than 100 winners of its Grand Challenges Explorations initiative, an effort whereby the… Read More

May 8, 2012, 2:03 PM

Video: T-Mobile’s Carly is making fun of AT&T again

After AT&T announced plans to acquire T-Mobile USA for $39 billion last year, federal regulators blocked the deal, contending that… Read More

May 8, 2012, 10:30 AM

Intellectual Ventures’ chief dealmaker on patents, used cars and creating a new market

Andy Elder isn’t from Seattle originally, but he’s accustomed to the rain, having grown up in England. As a kid,… Read More

May 7, 2012, 2:29 PM

Cypress Semiconductor strikes wide-ranging patent deal with Intellectual Ventures

Cypress Semiconductor has reached a patent licensing agreement with Intellectual Ventures, becoming the latest in a series of large technology… Read More

May 7, 2012, 8:16 AM

Boeing’s first iPad app is a digital coffee-table book

Boeing today released its first app for the iPad, but anyone hoping for something innovative to use in seat 37D… Read More

May 4, 2012, 10:47 AM

Northeastern University to open graduate school this fall, names Seattle attorney as dean

Northeastern University is continuing to push forward with its graduate school in Seattle, announcing today that it plans to open… Read More

May 2, 2012, 3:32 PM

Paul Allen’s Vulcan cuts 20 jobs

Vulcan, the Seattle-based investment arm of billionaire and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, today laid off 20 staffers, GeekWire has learned.… Read More

May 2, 2012, 3:21 PM

Pics: Boeing shows off the airplane wings of the future

Fuel efficiency is the Holy Grail in the airplane business, or at least one of them, and Boeing today unveiled… Read More

May 2, 2012, 2:03 PM

RealNetworks posts wider loss, new CEO cites progress

RealNetworks today posted first-quarter revenue of $67 million, a decline of 23 percent, with a quarterly loss of $17 million… Read More

May 2, 2012, 1:57 PM

Shares of Concur rise after revenues beat expectations

Concur, the Redmond maker of travel and entertainment expense management software, today reported a 28 percent increase in revenue, to… Read More

May 2, 2012, 11:47 AM

Seattle mayor kicks off app development challenge (and yes there is prize money to be won)

Have a great idea for an app that could make life a little bit better in Seattle or Washington state?… Read More

May 2, 2012, 7:48 AM

Guest column: Let’s celebrate the geeks who ‘GiveBig’

Today is Seattle Foundation’s 1-day GiveBIG challenge. Seattleites will compete for $500,000 in matching donations for their favorite local charities.… Read More

May 1, 2012, 2:50 PM

Seattle to Portland for a $1? That’s the promise of BoltBus

I just spent $5.25 getting from Sea-Tac Airport to my home in Seattle, using Link Light Rail and King County… Read More