Bing, Yahoo chip away at Google Some encouraging news for Microsoft today in its uphill climb against Google. The combination of Microsoft Bing and the Bing-powered… Read More
Ignition backs Topsy, a real-time search engine Ignition Partners, the Bellevue venture capital firm, continues to plow cash into Bay Area startup companies. The latest to benefit… Read More
Following in Groupon’s footsteps: A parade of daily deal sites (List) The New York Times today reports on the hundreds of daily deal startups that are trying to follow in Groupon’s… Read More
Suit vs. Amazon puts cloud over popular search trick The idea of suggesting possible searches in a drop-down box while a user types is far from unique to Amazon.com.… Read More
Microsoft idea: Dating service for people with a ‘source of shame’ … like comic books A newly surfaced Microsoft patent filing proposes an online matchmaking service that would have users confidentially tell the system about… Read More
Here comes the iPad 2: Is it worth getting in line? (Poll) The iPad 2 will be released Friday at 5 p.m., and you’re no doubt wondering whether it’s worth ditching work… Read More
WhitePages unveils Hiya to help eliminate email contact clutter Keeping an online address book up-to-date can be a serious chore. After all, with the frequency that people change locations… Read More
Gaming vets launch Playteau, roll out Fortune Stones Seattle has a new social gaming startup. It’s called Playteau, and today its releasing its first title, Fortune Stones, on… Read More
Video: The soda fountain of the future debuts at Taco Time It’s sleek. It’s cool. And people from all over the city are traveling to see it (and grab a taste… Read More
Zillow.com’s latest, predicting rental prices for homes Looking for a place to rent, but don’t want to overpay? Zillow.com today is unveiling a new service which assigns… Read More
Firefox 4 Release Candidate: Hot out of the oven It’s a big day for new browsers, apparently. Several hours after Microsoft announced a March 14 release date for Internet… Read More
King of the Web: The next great time-waster, or just a waste of time? We’ve been wondering for some time now what Rich Barton and Nick Hanauer have been cooking up at their latest… Read More
Seattle techie goes to L.A., returns with Ashton Kutcher-backed startup Zaarly So, this is what happens when a Seattle tech executive gets mixed up with Startup Weekend in L.A.? He returns… Read More
Ballmer slips to No. 46 on Forbes list; Gates steady at No. 2 Bill Gates’ investments in the Mexican stock market helped to increase his estimated wealth by $3 billion, to $56 billion,… Read More
Sprint CEO Dan Hesse: Clearwire will be a part of our 4G future It has been pretty interesting to watch the back-and-forth negotiating between Clearwire and Sprint Nextel, much of which has taken… Read More
Kinect tops 10 million, but Guinness world record a bit shaky Microsoft this morning announced that the Kinect motion sensor for Xbox 360 has surpassed 10 million units shipped since its… Read More
WebOS planned for every HP PC, alongside Windows Hewlett-Packard, continuing to raise questions about Microsoft’s long-term dominance in PC operating systems, plans to ship its webOS operating system… Read More
Exclusive: Microsoft vet Capossela leaving job, staying at company We’ve picked up on a notable executive move inside the Microsoft Office Division this morning: Chris Capossela, the veteran senior… Read More
Microsoft: IE9 coming March 14 Look like that big Internet Explorer party at SXSW in Austin isn’t just a party, after all. It’s a launch.… Read More
Another day, another daily deal site? But this one comes with a good cause It seems like every other day we report on a new daily deal site, whether it is Bing jumping into… Read More
New Microsoft buzzword: ‘Ventura’ Another job posting is stirring up speculation about Microsoft’s plans in digital entertainment. Working on word from her tipsters, Mary… Read More
Ignition Partners, Madrona back Tier 3 with $8.5 million Two of the Seattle area’s best-known venture capital firms have joined forces to back Tier 3, a five-year-old Seattle company… Read More
Live video: Space Shuttle Discovery set for final landing This live feed from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida should get a lot more interesting a few minutes before… Read More
When will Seattle VCs start investing again in Seattle startups? Seattle venture capitalists are spreading their wings. And while that may prove to be a smart financial decision for the… Read More
Advice to entrepreneurs: ‘Never stop selling your company’ Representatives from nearly all of the major Seattle angel investment groups recently gathered to discuss their craft at a meeting… Read More
Looking to make conferences more interactive, Pathable makes a buy Thousands of musicians, artists, writers and geeks are headed to the SXSW conference in Austin, Texas this week. Amid that… Read More
Most important story of the day: Movies on Facebook Facebook already kicks butt when it comes to “dwell time,” the measure of how long people spend on a particular… Read More
Microsoft seeks to toss Apple ‘App Store’ brief, says font too small In the legendary rivalry between Microsoft and Apple, there have been many subjects of dispute. But this may be a… Read More
Cequint to add staff in Seattle, CEO laments tough hiring climate It’s been five months since Seattle mobile software startup Cequint got gobbled up for as much as $112.5 million by… Read More
Abstaining from tech: Lessons from a time warp to 1985 Erika Bitzer, 30, an account director in the Seattle office of the Weber Shandwick public-relations firm, was perhaps the perfect… Read More
