Mar 21, 2012, 2:14 PM Sneak Peek: The ultimate Microsoft machine is a car Microsoft has been working for months with West Coast Customs, the legendary car remodeling company, to build what might just… Read More
Mar 21, 2012, 10:28 AM Jobless rate dips to 8.2 percent in Washington state, the lowest level in more than 3 years Politicians have been hesitant to declare a full economic recovery, but here’s more evidence that things are turning around (at… Read More
Mar 21, 2012, 9:22 AM The new Cheezburger redesign: Faster, funnier and fewer trolls Cheezburger’s rise to the top of the Internet charts has certainly been impressive to watch, leaving some investors kicking themselves… Read More
Mar 20, 2012, 12:04 PM Social media agency Banyan Branch launches media buying group, hires advertising vets We wondered why the social media agency Banyan Branch raised a $1.7 million round of venture capital financing last fall.… Read More
Mar 20, 2012, 8:57 AM Meet the geeks who make video games in this documentary film The critically-acclaimed documentary film Indie Game: The Movie — honored at both the Sundance Film Festival and SXSW — will be… Read More
Mar 19, 2012, 1:24 PM Blue Nile taps retail vet as CEO Harvey Kanter has been hired as the new president and CEO of Seattle online jewelry retailer Blue Nile. In the… Read More
Mar 19, 2012, 8:16 AM NetZero rolls out low-cost 4G service, turning users into ‘personal hotspots’ Working in conjunction with Clearwire, NetZero is taking aim at giants such as AT&T and Verizon. The dot-com survivor today… Read More
Mar 18, 2012, 10:25 PM Newspapers take it on the chin as online ad revenue falls into the hands of a few tech giants Americans are spending more time consuming news, using devices such as smartphones and tablets to track events on the go.… Read More
Mar 16, 2012, 10:35 AM Coming to Seattle: Picnic shelters with solar panels OK, you can insert whatever Seattle rain joke that you’d like on this one. But during a week that the… Read More
Mar 16, 2012, 9:28 AM Sprint ends partnership with LightSquared, confirming Clearwire’s initial fears Remember last summer when Clearwire’s stock nose dived following the partnership between Sprint and LTE network provider LightSquared? I am… Read More
Mar 15, 2012, 11:16 PM Corbis CEO Gary Shenk explains why they’re excited about music licensing We were pretty intrigued with the idea of GreenLight Music — the new digital music licensing business from Seattle-based Corbis… Read More
Mar 15, 2012, 3:57 PM Apptio raises $50M in new funding, led by T. Rowe Price Apptio, moving further down the path toward a possible IPO, today announced a $50 million funding round led by T.… Read More
Mar 15, 2012, 12:30 PM SXSW buzz by the numbers: Guess which app was tweeted about most? A whopping 24,569 people registered for the South by Southwest Interactive festival this year, up 27 percent from 2011. For five… Read More
Mar 13, 2012, 3:58 PM Video: Boeing’s Phantom Eye spy plane rolls closer to flight Boeing said today that its hydrogen-powered Phantom Eye aircraft performed well in a medium speed taxi test over the weekend,… Read More
Mar 13, 2012, 12:24 PM How this design geek’s toilet analogy fell flat in a 2003 pitch to Bill Gates We love hearing old stories about how Bill Gates operated at Microsoft, in part because the software titan has reshaped… Read More
Mar 13, 2012, 10:46 AM Chart: The iPad is making inroads with corporate buyers There’s been a lot of chatter recently about whether we’re living in a post-PC era dominated by tablet computers and… Read More
Mar 13, 2012, 10:17 AM March Madness: Harvard, Duke, Virginia and Georgetown in the Final 4 It’s March Madness time, which means college hoops fans everywhere are filling out brackets in anticipation of one of the… Read More
Mar 11, 2012, 5:11 PM Q&A: Hulu CTO Richard Tom on the future of television It’s rather stunning to think that Hulu was just a germ of an idea five years ago. Obviously, the entertainment… Read More
Mar 9, 2012, 1:43 PM U.S. Patent chief: New patent reforms are like an ‘intricate Swiss watch’ At the GeekWire Summit on Wednesday, former Swype CEO Mike McSherry received the loudest applause of the day when he… Read More
Mar 9, 2012, 7:21 AM Starbucks chief geek leaves for new role at Best Buy Stephen Gillett has stepped down as executive vice president of digital ventures and chief information officer of Starbucks to take… Read More
Mar 6, 2012, 11:30 PM Paramount pulls plug on ‘Scene It?’ maker Screenlife Seattle’s Screenlife Games, maker of the “Scene It?” trivia games, is being closed by its owner, Paramount Pictures, according to… Read More
Mar 6, 2012, 9:28 PM Bill Gates-owned Corbis unveils an ‘iTunes for music licensing’ with GreenLight Music Corbis may be best known for licensing digital images. But the Seattle company, started by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates in… Read More
Mar 5, 2012, 7:25 AM Gates is No. 2 in new daily ranking of world’s billionaires, Zuckerberg doesn’t make the list Not content with waiting six months or a year to find out who the world’s richest people are? Bloomberg is… Read More
Mar 1, 2012, 12:28 PM Microsoft sees 1M downloads of Windows 8 Consumer Preview Looks like of people are interested in kicking the tires on the next big thing from Microsoft Windows. Microsoft’s Windows… Read More
Mar 1, 2012, 11:48 AM Mobile data: What it really takes to get throttled on AT&T AT&T today got more specific about how it will handle heavy usage of its wireless network by people grandfathered in… Read More
Feb 29, 2012, 10:50 AM Good news: Jobless rate falls to 8.3 percent in Washington We often feel like we’re in a bubble covering the tech industry, a sector which has shown resilience and strength… Read More
Feb 28, 2012, 1:24 PM Comcast expands Xfinity Home service, announces plans for learning thermostat Comcast is rolling out its Xfinity Home residential security, energy and automation service in Washington state today, and simultaneously taking steps… Read More
Feb 27, 2012, 1:40 PM Supercomputer maker Cray expects revenue to top $400M Revenues at Seattle supercomputer slipped substantially in the fourth quarter as delays in key components led to a large deal… Read More
Feb 27, 2012, 10:33 AM Microvision CEO Tokman pledges to ‘walk the talk’ in 2012 despite ‘pain’ over sinking stock price Microvision was one of the worst performing tech stocks in Washington state last year, losing more than 80 percent of its… Read More
Feb 24, 2012, 6:54 AM Google selling entire Clearwire stake for $47M, four years after $500M investment Google this morning signaled its intent to sell its stake in Clearwire, the Bellevue-based wireless broadband company, seeking $1.60 a… Read More
