Tech – Page 304 of 319

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

Feb 23, 2012, 3:56 PM

Stealth startup CrowdStrike wants to obliterate security threats, raises $26M

George Kurtz has a deep affinity for Seattle, previously working as a consultant at Microsoft and raising cash for his… Read More

Feb 23, 2012, 1:37 PM

9 bootstrapping ideas for small business publicity

Free publicity is one of the best tools that you can use to promote and grow your small business or… Read More

Feb 23, 2012, 7:21 AM

Supercomputer maker Cray expands in China

Cray announced today that it has established a new subsidiary in China in order to sell the company’s large supercomputing… Read More

Feb 22, 2012, 10:56 PM

Tech Moves: Tableau taps new board member; Flux Drive names CEO; and more

Tableau Software, a Seattle business intelligence company whose visualization tools are used by more than 7,000 customers, has named software… Read More

Feb 22, 2012, 7:42 AM

Nest tech chief Yoky Matsuoka officially flying the coop at UW

Yoky Matsuoka, the vice president of technology for Silicon Valley startup Nest, won’t be returning to the University of Washington,… Read More

Feb 20, 2012, 5:36 AM

F5 buying Traffix Systems to support spike in mobile data

F5 Networks has agreed to buy Traffix Systems, an Israeli company whose behind-the-scenes signaling technology helps mobile operators manage all… Read More

Feb 16, 2012, 1:25 PM

Boston shows PAX East some love, secures long-term deal

I’ve been covering and attending the Penny Arcade Expo, better known as PAX, since it was a humble curiosity at… Read More

Feb 15, 2012, 1:51 PM

RealNetworks posts loss, cites ‘increased sense of urgency’

The new CEO of RealNetworks promised further changes as the company posted a net loss of $2.8 million for the… Read More

Feb 15, 2012, 10:59 AM

Klout and Simply Measured partner on social media ‘influence’ analytics

Social media analytics startup Simply Measured has struck a partnership with Klout to add data about social-media influence to the reports used by… Read More

Feb 14, 2012, 9:50 AM

UC4 Software buys Ventum

UC4 Software, a Bellevue company that specializes in IT process automation software, has acquired Ventum Solutions for an undisclosed price.… Read More

Feb 10, 2012, 1:46 PM

InfoSpace CTO to resign next month

InfoSpace has been going through a number of transformations lately, namely the company’s $287 million acquisition of TaxACT. Now, here’s… Read More

Feb 10, 2012, 11:51 AM

Our spaceship has arrived: Museum of Flight takes delivery of Soyuz capsule

Inside that gigantic wooden box is one a serious piece of space memorabilia. Seattle’s Museum of Flight today took delivery… Read More

Feb 10, 2012, 6:30 AM

Zumiez moving e-commerce operations across country, 70 people affected by shift

The Seattle region’s exports of hoodies and longboards are about to decline substantially. Zumiez, the specialty retailer known for sports… Read More

Feb 10, 2012, 3:34 AM

Wow: Test pilots trace 787 and Boeing logo across the sky, from Seattle to Iowa

How’s this for some corporate branding? A Boeing 787 test flight currently under way across the northern half of the… Read More

Feb 9, 2012, 1:29 PM

Expedia shares slump after revenue grows by seven percent in Q4

Shares of Expedia fell more than seven percent in after hours trading after the Bellevue online travel company reported fourth-quarter… Read More

Feb 9, 2012, 10:50 AM

This high-resolution imaging technology takes you inside the human body like never before

I spent a good portion of my Wednesday afternoon hanging around the University of Washington’s new startup incubator, a 23,000… Read More

Feb 9, 2012, 7:33 AM

Appature, Zipline and others nominated for WTIA awards

The Washington Technology Industry Association is gearing up for its big Industry Achievement Awards on March 15th, marking the best-of-the-best… Read More

Feb 8, 2012, 1:46 PM

Study: Game microtransactions aren’t so micro in the end

The underlying economics of video-games have been undergoing a radical transformation with the shift toward “free-to-play” titles that offer a… Read More

Feb 8, 2012, 12:57 PM

From 60M users to zero: iLike co-founder laments its demise and Murdoch’s ‘mismanagement’

Following the news that MySpace had shuttered iLike, GeekWire reached out to Hadi Partovi, one of the co-founders of iLike… Read More

Feb 8, 2012, 10:23 AM

Paul McCartney jets from streaming music services; Rhapsody calls it a ‘shock’

Paul McCartney appears to be a “Band on the Run” … at least when it comes to popular music streaming… Read More

Feb 8, 2012, 6:43 AM

Supercomputer maker Cray forms YarcData, a new unit to capitalize on ‘big data’

One of the tech buzzwords du jour right now is “Big Data,” the idea of companies mining ever-increasing data sets… Read More

Feb 7, 2012, 2:46 PM

Seattle outranks San Francisco for title of geekiest (and smartest) people

San Francisco may have better restaurants, weather, shopping and cocktails. But here’s one area where Seattle outshines the city by… Read More

Feb 7, 2012, 12:20 PM

A banner year at Urbanspoon as foodies conduct millions of mobile restaurant searches

We’ve seen a number of high-profile online services get shuffled into the dust-bin of history in recent weeks after their… Read More

Feb 7, 2012, 11:46 AM

Here’s what Jay Inslee wants to do to keep the state’s tech industry humming

There’s no shortage of ideas in Jay Inslee’s economic plan for Washington state. The Democratic candidate for governor released a… Read More

Feb 7, 2012, 10:59 AM

Study: ‘App Economy’ has created 466,000 U.S. jobs — like a 21st Century construction sector

A new study out today documents the impact of apps on the U.S. economy, concluding that 466,000 jobs have been… Read More

Feb 6, 2012, 3:43 PM

Coinstar buys NCR assets for $100M, shares soar on Redbox sales growth in Q4

It has been a very busy day at Coinstar. The Bellevue maker of coin-counting machines already announced a strategic partnership between… Read More