Articles from 2011 – Page 21 of 107

Facebook doubling down in Seattle, moving to larger office

Facebook’s Seattle engineering office will move to a new downtown location next year, twice the size of its existing space,… Read More

GeekWire Gala: The dish on our big year-end event

As Team GeekWire looks back on an eventful year, and ahead to the next, we can’t think of a better… Read More

Yaletown Venture Partners sets up office in Seattle

Yaletown Venture Partners, a 9-year-old Vancouver, B.C.-based venture capital firm, is establishing a new office in Seattle under the direction… Read More

TechStars: An inside look at 87 days of madness

It’s day 87 of TechStars Seattle. It’s also the last day of the program. The incubation program culminates with an… Read More

Chart: Majority of 18-to-44 year old mobile users own a smartphone

Well, the economy is in rough shape, and it’s still tough to find a job. But, somehow, more Americans are… Read More

Gates a better role model than Jobs, says Harvard scholar

Following the death of Steve Jobs, much has been written about the Apple co-founder’s impact on the world. But a… Read More

TechStars ruins your sex life

What happens when you lock a bunch of computer nerds in a room for 90-days and encourage them to create… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Bezos-backed doxo looks to transform bill paying, inks deal with AT&T

Seattle startup doxo today is announcing the expansion of its doxoPAY service, now allowing users to set up automatic bill… Read More

Video: Microsoft ‘Roborazzi’ makes us feel like Lindsay Lohan

Yesterday at the Seattle Interactive Conference downtown, I went down to the basement a few times to check in on… Read More

Tech Moves: Sony vet hired at WildTangent; Keegan Hall joins Pirq; RescueTime and more

Mark Donohue, a former senior vice president of ad sales at Sony Digital, has joined WildTangent to oversee the Redmond… Read More

Amazon Prime’s new killer app: Kindle books by subscription

This is pretty interesting. Amazon.com tonight announced the “Kindle Owners’ Lending Library” — a virtual book-borrowing service for its Kindle devices.… Read More

Why Northeastern University chose Seattle, and what the UW’s Ed Lazowska thinks about it

In the words of Steve Ballmer, it’s all about “developers. developers. developers.” Seattle needs more of them, and the University… Read More

Marchex rings up revenues on call advertising growth

Marchex placed a significant bet two years ago that the phone call wasn’t dead. Now, the Seattle online advertising company… Read More

Amazon’s ‘Flow’ iPhone app: Augmented reality for products

Amazon.com’s A9 search subsidiary surfaced today with a new iPhone app, Flow Powered by Amazon, that lets users hold their… Read More

Clearwire shares jump as it nears 10 million subscribers, cuts loss

Shares of Clearwire have been on a turbulent course in recent weeks. And the company today saw yet another double… Read More

Former Microsofties build startup on stickers and goo

Alex Malek and Will Bradley both started at Microsoft straight out of school, working for the last decade as engineers… Read More

Zillow posts record revenue, buys real estate upstart Diverse Solutions for $7.8M

In its second report as a publicly traded company, Zillow today announced record revenues and said it has acquired Diverse… Read More

Which content app is leading off your mobile lineup?

If you were to make a mobile app that serves content to users, you’d probably think a lot about how… Read More

Seven signs that you might just be an entrepreneur

I meet a lot of people who want to be an entrepreneur, but don’t really have the signs that they’d… Read More

Meet the 8 companies that just sprouted from Portland Seed Fund

The Seattle tech community is gearing up for Thursday’s Demo Day, the high-profile investment pitch session in which 10 companies… Read More

SIC: Microsoft finds that friends trump experts when we’re seeking buying advice

I’m downtown today at the inaugural Seattle Interactive Conference, where people are attending sessions on topics such as cloud computing,… Read More

Boston’s Northeastern targets Seattle for new campus, says market underserved for IT

Northeastern University of Boston may soon find a home in the Northwest. The private 113-year-old University is planning to establish… Read More

Why did Big Fish Games just issue a special dividend to employees?

It is a bit unusual for a privately-held technology company to issue dividends to employees and shareholders. But that’s exactly… Read More

Nerd rockers Kirby Krackle win Battle of the Geek Bands

They sang about Facebook, math and comic books. And one dude even busted out the geekiest instrument of all time,… Read More

Groceries on the go: A stroll down the virtual aisles of the new AmazonFresh iPhone app

Amazon.com surprised us back in June when it released a mobile application for the AmazonFresh grocery delivery service exclusively for Windows… Read More

Amazon.com starts holidays with Black Friday deals, toy list

It’s barely November, but Amazon.com has just rolled out two of its holiday traditions — the digital equivalent of decorating… Read More

NetZero taps Clearwire to offer high-speed mobile broadband

NetZero, one of surviving brands of the dot-com bust, will use Clearwire’s network to offer 4G mobile broadband service under… Read More

Startup Weekend kicks off SW Next: A multi-day bootcamp for entrepreneurs

Startup Weekend has already given thousands of developers, geeks and other tech professionals a taste of what it’s like to… Read More

RealNetworks founder Rob Glaser: New CEO fits consumer strategy

RealNetworks founder Rob Glaser thinks the company has found the right person to lead its business, saying in an interview… Read More

A record month at GeekWire, but it’s still ‘day one’

Whoa, can we finally catch our breath? Todd Bishop and I have been covering the technology beat around these parts… Read More