Rob McKenna: Clicking on that Nigerian email scam, probably not a good idea With botnets, tracking tools, malware and spyware, the Internet still represents the wild, wild West. But Washington State Attorney General… Read More
Exclusive: Zynga picks historic Pioneer Square building for office Zynga, the fast growing maker of FarmVille, Mafia Wars and other social games, plans to establish its new engineering center… Read More
Now Playing: Post-it Wars There’s a lot of troubling stuff happening in the world right now, and people are looking for new ways to… Read More
Attention ‘Star Wars’ nerds: The Force is with us A traveling exhibit called “Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination” starts an extended stay in Seattle this weekend, at the… Read More
Nokia CEO: Why would Microsoft want to buy us? Shortly after Stephen Elop joined Nokia as CEO, speculation arose that Elop’s former employer, Microsoft, might make a move to… Read More
Buy the Bejeweled app, and donate to Japan earthquake relief efforts Here’s a way to give back to the relief efforts in Japan. Seattle’s PopCap, maker of popular games such as… Read More
Look out, Amazon’s Kindle unit is hiring Android devs Nice catch by the New York Times this morning: Amazon.com’s Lab 126, which develops the company’s Kindle e-reader, has posted… Read More
Why Firefox 4 isn’t abandoning Windows XP One of the most divisive aspects of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 release this week was the company’s decision to support… Read More
Ex-Microsoft GM lands CEO gig at Mac security firm Jeff Erwin, a former Microsoft general manager and Seattle area startup veteran, has been tapped as CEO of Mac security… Read More
Microsoft helps knock out notorious ‘spambot’ Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit has disrupted one of the world’s largest purveyors of spam, a complex “botnet” that was capable… Read More
March Madness for Robots (Video) Who cares about basketball when there are robots to watch? The Seattle regionals for the FIRST high-school robotics competition start… Read More
Can Groupon become a $3.75 trillion dollar company in 25 years? There’s been a lot of chatter today about Groupon talking to bankers about a possible $25 billion post IPO valuation.… Read More
Trademark or not, Apple lays claim to “the” App Store We’ve been keeping a close eye on a dispute between Microsoft and Apple over the iPhone/iPad maker’s attempt to trademark… Read More
Hydrovolts wins Imagine H20 competition with innovative turbines Hydrovolts, a Seattle startup that’s developing turbines to generate clean power from canals and other waterways, has won the Water-Energy… Read More
A Windows Phone App … just for the dudes How do you attract young men to your new slate of mobile phones? Well, you could show them photos of… Read More
Myhrvold firm: Japan crisis shouldn’t deter next-gen nukes Intellectual Ventures, the Bellevue-based patent firm and invention house run by former Microsoft tech chief Nathan Myhrvold, says in a… Read More
Exclusive: Finsphere scores $1.75M, looks to become mobile ID system for the Web Identity theft is a nasty societal problem, growing worse by the amount of data available online. But a Bellevue startup… Read More
Xbox, Windows unite in internal Microsoft video Is this the future of Windows PCs? ZDNet’s Stephen Chapman has unearthed an internal video from Microsoft’s “Windows Gaming eXperience”… Read More
What’s your real estate agent really thinking? Redfin unveils Agent Insights Redfin is launching a new feature today that allows the company’s real estate agents to speak candidly about the homes… Read More
Everything About SXSW That I Wish Someone Had Told Me Before I Went Editor’s Note: This post was originally published on Seattle 2.0, and imported to GeekWire as part of our acquisition of… Read More
4 Products That Got Hot at SXSW Editor’s Note: This post was originally published on Seattle 2.0, and imported to GeekWire as part of our acquisition of… Read More
Three universal start-up truths Editor’s Note: This post was originally published on Seattle 2.0, and imported to GeekWire as part of our acquisition of… Read More
$49 million richer, Jawbone becomes latest Bay Area darling to kiss up to Seattle Jawbone, the San Francisco Bluetooth headset and speaker maker which announced $49 million in venture financing today, is planning a… Read More
Cheezburger’s latest: Photos of people in creepy Easter Bunny costumes So, just how exactly is Cheezburger Network going to use a portion of the $30 million that just arrived from… Read More
Using business intelligence to understand the Japan crisis Business-intelligence technology is typically used to derive meaning and make decisions from data like sales, costs and other corporate trends.… Read More
Nuclear fallout? Skip the tin foil, grab a cookie sheet Seattle startup guru Mike Koss of Startpad.org was watching news coverage of the crisis in Japan when he noticed people… Read More
Is BuddyTV on the block? BuddyTV has been the subject of acquisition rumors in the past. And those surfaced again today after Kara Swisher at… Read More
Browser race: IE9 hits 2.3M; Firefox 4 set for March 22 More than 2.3 million copies of the new Internet Explorer 9 were downloaded in the first 24 hours of availability,… Read More
Bill Gates: What technology (and baseball) can teach schools The challenges facing the U.S. education system may seem intractable, at times, but schools looking for inspiration could do worse… Read More
Keiretsu pumps $8.9M into startups Despite the tough economic times over the past 12 months, Seattle angels continue to invest. The Keiretsu Forum today announced… Read More
