Articles from 2011

Our picks: GeekWire’s favorite stories (and people) of 2011

Earlier this week, we listed your favorite stories of 2011 — the 100 most-popular news items, columns and features on… Read More

Geeks Who Give Back: Brady Forrest, Ignite and O’Reilly

A tech evangelist for O’Reilly Media, Brady Forrest is the driving force behind Ignite, a popular series of fast-paced, five-minute… Read More

Most important technology of 2011? The geeks weigh in

What was the most important technology of 2011? It’s an interesting question to ask as the year winds down, but we’ve… Read More

Geeks Who Give Back: Nadia Mahmud, Jolkona Foundation

Jolkona is a Bengali word that means “drop of water.” For Nadia Mahmud, co-founder of the Jolkona Foundation, it’s a… Read More

Facebook releases standalone Messenger app for Windows 7

The messaging function built into Facebook has already replaced established IM programs for some computer users. Facebook overnight released a… Read More

Bidding heats up for AllRecipes: Are Amazon, AOL and Random House stirring in the kitchen?

It’s no secret that AllRecipes.com — the wildly popular online recipe site — is on the auction block. In fact,… Read More

Verizon backtracks on $2 fee, won’t make people pay to pay

Verizon Wireless sparked outrage this week with a plan to charge customers $2 when they pay their bills by credit… Read More

15 New Year Resolutions for Entrepreneurs

I’m sure by now your 2012 plan, budget and professional objectives are baked and ready to go. Ideally, some of… Read More

Seattle mobile app developer Ubermind finds a buyer

Ubermind’s growth over the past year has been nothing short of astonishing. The Seattle maker of mobile applications for Target,… Read More

A message from Arfa: Remembering a remarkable girl who made a mark on Microsoft

[Update Jan. 14: Arfa has passed away, according to reports from Pakistan. See our follow-up story: Arfa Karim Randhawa, 1995-2012: Hear… Read More

Stealthy Scope 5 emerges, plans to make sense out of energy data

Scope 5 has raised an undisclosed amount of angel financing as it looks for wider adoption of software to help organizations… Read More

Uptake Medical raises cash for novel emphysema treatment

Uptake Medical, which is developing new medical device technologies to treat emphysema, has raised $35 million of a $41 million venture… Read More

Google, Apple pull further ahead of Microsoft in smartphone wars

Google and Apple are pulling even further ahead of Microsoft and RIM in the smartphone wars. According to the latest… Read More

Geeks Who Give Back: Andy Sack, Geoff Entress, Chris DeVore

These angel investors are elevating Seattle to new heights. The brains behind Founder’s Co-op and TechStars not only are bankrolling… Read More

Amazon’s Bezos spends hours in computer science labs, checking in on the future

Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos spent several hours at the University of Washington Computer Science & Engineering department before the holiday… Read More

How to use marketing research tactics to grow your startup

When it comes to building a product that people will love and actually pay money to buy, you have to… Read More

Mini-documentary: ‘A symphony of computer coding’ at KING5 online news hackathon

A while back we covered the buildup to (and dustup over) the “Hacking Seattle News” event organized by KING-5. The goal of… Read More

As Champagne corks pop on New Year’s Eve, Uber plans price boost for private rides

Uber, the wildly popular private driver service that just scored $32 million from Jeff Bezos and others, is getting ready for a… Read More

Year in Review: The 100 most popular stories on GeekWire

Whoa, can we catch our breath now? We’ve certainly had plenty to cover on the tech beat over the past… Read More

Chart: Can Facebook overtake Google as top U.S. web brand?

Nielsen has released its year-end list of the top 10 web brands, based on average monthly unique visitors, and there’s… Read More

Amazon Kindle line sets new mark, topping 4M in December sales

Amazon.com this morning released new Kindle sales stats and called this the best holiday on record for the product line… Read More

Geeks Who Give Back: Hélène Martin, UW computer science

Hélène Martin taught hundreds of high-school students the power of computer programming during her two years teaching computer science at Garfield… Read More

How the high price of tolls will force the Seattle region’s workers to get creative

Landscape architect Tom Early has always been economical about his daily commute over the 520 bridge between Seattle and Kirkland,… Read More

Garden gnomes and elephants: How would you answer these 25 oddball interview questions?

The tech economy is firing on all cylinders, but that doesn’t mean it is any easier to get a job… Read More

Tech Moves: Banyan Branch expands; SonoSite taps a new CFO; Radarworks; and more

Banyan Branch, the fast-growing social media agency, has named Jennifer Blank Hecht to the positon of senior vice president of… Read More

Seven apps just for navigating the 520 tolls: GeekWire’s reviews and recommendations

What happens when the state starts tolling a bridge traversed by thousands of tech workers every day? An explosion of… Read More

A huge haul: U.S. online holiday spending tops $35B

Online retailers raked in some big bucks this holiday season, with comScore today releasing a report showing that e-commerce spending… Read More

Windows Phone: Apollo ‘superphones’ coming in 2012

The tech site WMPoweruser has an interesting glimpse into the future of Windows Phone today, posting what it describes as a leaked… Read More

Nick Hanauer-backed Qliance raises cash to expand clinics

Qliance is looking to transform the way Americans receive their health care, certainly no easy task. And now the Seattle… Read More

Amazon tops customer satisfaction survey as Netflix takes a big hit

This is hardly a surprise. Amazon.com distanced itself from Netflix in the ForeSee Holiday E-Retail Satisfaction Index, an annual study… Read More