Articles from 2011 – Page 16 of 107

Steve Jobs ‘Lost Interview’ debuts in theaters tonight

Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview will get special showings in Landmark Theatres around the country tonight and Thursday night, including… Read More

Why Warren Buffett says he will never buy Microsoft stock

Warren Buffett surprised the investing world this week when he broke his longstanding tradition of staying away from technology stocks,… Read More

Ignition’s Frank Artale leads $15M round in ServiceMesh

Back in August, I interviewed Frank Artale of Ignition Partners about the torrid investment pace that he’d engaged in since… Read More

Have fun blowing stuff up: Z2Live offers sneak peek of new iOS game Battle Nations

Seattle upstart Z2Live, the fast-growing mobile gaming company, is getting ready to unleash its latest iPhone game. And you better… Read More

Startup secrets from PopCap’s Dave Roberts, and why it really matters to be lucky

What made PopCap Games such a blockbuster success? Well, a lot of things went into the Seattle company’s growth over… Read More

Video: Facebook’s ultra-efficient server, a guided tour

I’ve been spending the afternoon at the SC11 supercomputer conference, taking place this week in Seattle, where one of the… Read More

Concur swings to net loss as CEO Steve Singh pledges significant investments

Concur CEO Steve Singh appears to be taking a page out of the Amazon.com playbook, investing heavily in the growth… Read More

Event highlights iPad stands, robots and other gadgets

Despite the release of Amazon’s new Kindle Fire and the success of Microsoft’s Kinect, Seattle at it’s core is very… Read More

Kindle Fire: Changing the game in higher education?

Guest Post by Vineet Madan, Vice President of McGraw-Hill Higher Education eLabs There’s been considerable fanfare around the Kindle Fire tablet… Read More

Microsoft: Ballmer didn’t say Windows 8 coming to phones

Where did Steve Ballmer mean for the period to go? Wherever it was, Microsoft says its CEO didn’t mean to… Read More

Worldwide smartphone sales surge, driven by Android

More and more people are buying smartphones, but fewer of those folks are choosing Windows Phone as their platform of… Read More

Trekkies beware: Cheezburger looks to corner the market on geek humor with new sites

Cheezburger may be best known for funny cat photos with captions, and the occasional break dancing mishap on Fail Blog.… Read More

Newsmakers 2011: Jeff Bezos marks a new era for Amazon

Whether or not the Kindle Fire ultimately succeeds as a low-priced alternative to Apple’s iPad, 2011 will be remembered as… Read More

Gates: Microsoft’s opportunity ‘stronger than it’s ever been’

Posting from Bellevue: Since leaving his day-to-day executive role at Microsoft, company co-founder Bill Gates has been known not to… Read More

Seattle super angels make house call to Silicon Valley’s PokitDok

Many Seattle entrepreneurs head south to Silicon Valley when raising financing, tapping into the region’s ranks of well-connected angels. But… Read More

Morning Radar: Goldberg’s Fab.com is raising a big round; Kindle Fire apps; and more

A quick rundown of stories catching our attention this morning … Jason Goldberg’s Fab.com, the New York-based daily deal site led… Read More

Microsoft annual meeting: Live notes from the scene

8:10 a.m.: I’m in Bellevue this morning for Microsoft’s annual meeting of shareholders, where CEO Steve Ballmer is currently giving… Read More

Young workers prefer Amazon to Microsoft, but they really want a job at Google

Amazon.com, Microsoft, Google and Facebook constantly compete for talent, wooing employees with lucrative stock grants, big salaries or nifty office… Read More

Bring your coffee cup to life this holiday season with Starbucks new iPhone app

This is kind of goofy, but kind of cool. Starbucks just unveiled a new mobile application for the iPhone that… Read More

Redfin picks DocuSign for electronic signatures

Two Seattle companies are hoping that they can help streamline the way people buy or sell homes. DocuSign announced today… Read More

Seattle man sues Facebook in latest online tracking complaint

A lawsuit filed in federal court in Seattle this week is the latest to accuse Facebook of tracking its users’… Read More

Supercomputer in the cloud: Amazon lands on Top500 list

Here’s a surprising name on the new list of the world’s fastest supercomputers: Amazon Web Services. Looking to promote its… Read More

Twenty-year Microsoft vet joins online backup startup as CEO

Brad Carpenter, a former Microsoft general manager who left the company in October after a 20-year career, has accepted the… Read More

Simply Measured puts ‘Excel on steroids’ with new release

Simply Measured CEO Adam Schoenfeld kind of sees his company as the “black sheep of the analytics space.” That’s because… Read More

New WA tech chief comes from Microsoft, with cloud cred

Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire today named a Microsoft veteran, Bharat Shyam, as the state’s new chief information officer. Shyam, who… Read More

Practical Nerd: Seattle vs. Amsterdam, a tale of two cities and their technology

Amsterdam has a lot that can appeal to a Seattleite. Both cities are of similar size, value walkability and bicycles,… Read More

Amazon scoffs at suit by actress upset over age disclosure

Amazon.com says that the Texas actress who is suing to prevent her age from being displayed in the company’s IMDb… Read More

AT&T, Verizon lead U.S. business Internet market, too

A new study from comScore Networks breaks down the Internet Service Providers used by large and small businesses across the U.S.,… Read More

McGinn: UW, Seattle want great ideas for unused fiber

Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn and University of Washington President Michael Young are holding a news conference right now outlining plans… Read More

NW angel groups bankroll Portland mobile location startup

The Oregon Angel Fund and Bellingham Angels Group are pumping $1 million into Meridian, a Portland startup that’s developing new… Read More