Microsoft debuts on list of world’s most ethical companies Take that, David Boies and Judge Jackson? Achieving an honor that would have been unthinkable a decade ago, Microsoft today… Read More
How Amazon added real page numbers to Kindle books Amazon.com last month announced that it was adding “real” page numbers to Kindle books — corresponding to the page numbers… Read More
Microsoft backs Obama plan for ‘Privacy Bill of Rights’ Microsoft says it will support a push by the Obama administration for new online new privacy legislation that would give… Read More
Jeremy Jaech: ‘I want to get back to the bleeding edge’ Jeremy Jaech is one of Seattle’s most accomplished entrepreneurs. So, when we learned that the founder of Aldus and Visio,… Read More
Knocking on Groupon’s door: Daily Ticket is no ordinary deal site Groupon and Living Social have achieved enormous success, generating tens of millions of subscribers and valuations in the billions. But… Read More
Bill Gates on Philanthropy: A How-To Guide for Techies For many years, technology executives would crowd into conference halls to listen to Bill Gates, hoping to glean some insight… Read More
Report: Zillow.com talks to investment bankers about an IPO Is Zillow.com getting ready to go public? That’s the word on the street after BusinessWeek reported — citing three unnamed… Read More
Blink Interactive makes a buy Blink Interactive, a Seattle company that specializes in user experience research and design, said today that it has acquired Eye… Read More
Information overload on Portlandia I’ve become a bit of a fan of the oddball comedy show Portlandia (though I’ve got to say some episodes… Read More
Jaech out as CEO of Verdiem Jeremy Jaech has stepped down as CEO of Verdiem, the heavily-funded Seattle company that helps businesses and government organizations better… Read More
Is there really a hiring boom going on in tech? It is starting to get a little wacky on the hiring front for skilled technology workers. Silicon Valley companies such… Read More
Netflix dominates digital movies … but where’s Amazon.com? A new report today from the NPD Group market research firm offers up some fascinating details on the digital home… Read More
Internet Explorer 9: Windows XP users, you’re out of luck Microsoft last night released Internet Explorer 9, the latest version of its widely used web browser. Download it here, but… Read More
Feedburner co-founder joins BigDoor Feedburner co-founder Matt Shobe has joined BigDoor, a Seattle startup that helps online publishers engage with readers and viewers by… Read More
Google Apps grows up with new ‘scheduled release’ option What, you didn’t want that amazing new Gmail feature rolled out to your 5,000 employees without warning? Google, doing its… Read More
Much more than a blog commenting system, Highlighter raises $300,000 On most online news sites, including this one, readers must wait until the end of the post before they can… Read More
Technical difficulties delay live online knee surgery Doctors need reliable equipment in the operating room. But one piece of technology — albeit a minor one — failed… Read More
Jeopardy Fail? Contestants unable to identify FailBlog on game show Maybe Alex Trebek is a secret FailBlog fanatic. The wildly popular humor Web site — developed by the folks at… Read More
Fond memories of Microsoft Zune … in brown, of course “This isn’t an iPod killer. This isn’t even going to give the iPod a bad case of the sniffles.” —… Read More
Educational software maker Headsprout sells to DYMO/Mimio Headsprout, a Seattle company that develops online reading programs for kids, has agreed to be sold to Cambridge, Mass.-based DYMO/Mimio.… Read More
T-Mobile’s Sidekick 4G offers texting across PCs, phones The pictures of T-Mobile’s new Google Android-based Sidekick 4G are nice, but what’s really interesting is the way the company… Read More
Surgery meets social media: Robotic procedure to be webcast, tweeted Yes, even the operating room has a hash tag now. Aiming to promote its latest robot-assisted surgical technology, Swedish Orthopedic… Read More
Photo: What better way to celebrate ‘Pi Day’ than a pie eating contest It’s national Pi Day, which means geeks and math nerds everywhere are celebrating the beauty of the mathematical constant of… Read More
Princeton, UCLA, Duke and Georgetown in the Final Four? I spent a portion of my Sunday evening analyzing the NCAA Men’s basketball pool. It was a tough task trying… Read More
Goodbye from Seattle: Microsoft ending Zune device Microsoft is finally pulling the plug on its dedicated Zune hardware but planing to keep the Zune music software running… Read More
Inside IE9: How Microsoft rewrote its browser from scratch Jason Weber’s office boasts a fantastic view, a gigantic monitor — and some of the least-impressive machines you’ll find on… Read More
144 million Tweets per day, and counting We’re pretty heavy users of Twitter here at GeekWire, using the short-form communications service as our content marketing vehicle of… Read More
Here come the free Kindles … at least in the U.K. Amazon.com has started to give away free Kindles to customers in the United Kingdom who purchase a mobile handset through… Read More
Seattle geek wins eBay ‘speed hack’ contest at SXSW Seattle software developer Evan Jacobs wasn’t really looking to spend his Sunday afternoon building a new app on the back… Read More
DOJ review of Microsoft patent buy delays Novell deal The U.S. Justice Department is taking longer than expected to review the sale of 882 patents by Novell to a… Read More
