Articles from 2011 – Page 22 of 107

Cray cites supplier challenges, but expects profits in 2011

Citing key supplier parts challenges, supercomputer maker Cray Inc. said that revenues fells during the third quarter to $36.7 million.… Read More

RealNetworks names former Adobe exec as its new CEO

[Updated with comments from Rob Glaser] RealNetworks just named Thomas Nielsen as its new chief executive officer, filling the spot… Read More

Tech Moves: Symform taps Dawson; changes at InfoSpace; etc.

Symform, the Seattle cloud storage startup which scored $1 million in financing in September, has named Margaret Dawson to the… Read More

Gmail cleans itself up in race to catch Yahoo and Microsoft

Google’s Gmail is the No. 3 webmail service in the world, behind Yahoo Mail and Microsoft’s Windows Live Hotmail, but… Read More

As losses continue to mount, MicroVision faces cash crunch

MicroVision, the money-losing maker of visual display technologies and Pico projectors, said today that it has just two months of… Read More

Fab.com founder Jason Goldberg dares recruiters to poach his staff

Jason Goldberg was known for making some bold, brash and off-the-wall statements as the founder of Jobster, the online recruiting… Read More

Where are they now? Update on the TechStars Class of 2010

Some have gone out of business. Several have changed course. And most are still hanging their shingle in Seattle’s South… Read More

Boeing spaceship emerging from Space Shuttle’s shadow

Boeing is showing that it’s serious about developing a new spaceship, announcing that it will base the operations and manufacturing… Read More

Jeff Bezos-backed Coffee & Power perks up with market for errands, lessons and other small jobs

Philip Rosedale, the former RealNetworks employee who is best known for creating the virtual world Second Life, is launching a… Read More

Story of Microsoft Courier’s demise sheds light on Gates’ role

Today’s must-read for anyone who follows Microsoft is Jay Greene’s “inside story of how Microsoft killed its Courier tablet” on CNet News.com.… Read More

Microsoft ‘augmented projectors’ mix real and virtual worlds

If the concept video shown by Microsoft last week demonstrated a path to the future, think of this project as one… Read More

Urbanspoon bites OpenTable, claims 1,000 users of Rezbook

Urbanspoon has been nipping at the heels of OpenTable for the past 18 months since launching its new restaurant reservation… Read More

Who did it better? Microsoft Bing vs. Google on Halloween

The two major search engines, Google and Microsoft Bing (does Yahoo count anymore?) outdid themselves on Halloween this year. Google’s… Read More

Evening Radar: Steve Jobs’ last words, Gates video, and an error message on Halloween

A collection of noteworthy headlines and links on this Halloween evening … In case you missed it this weekend, be… Read More

Urban Airship takes flight with purchase of SimpleGeo

Urban Airship, a Portland startup that specializes in push notifications and in-app transactions, has acquired San Francisco’s SimpleGeo in an… Read More

Vote now to roast your favorite geek (and help a good cause)

On November 11th, one Seattle area super geek is going to get roasted onstage. Now, it’s up to you to… Read More

Former Microsoft researcher learns solution in developing world isn’t always technology

Engineers from around the world are gathered in Seattle this week for the IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology conference, talking about… Read More

Zillow inks deal to bring mortgage marketplace to AOL

Zillow announced a deal today to bring its mortgage marketplace offering to AOL Real Estate and Daily Finance, marking the… Read More

Poll: Are you tempted by Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7.5?

Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7.5 “Mango” update has already been distributed as an update for existing Windows Phone devices, but now… Read More

F5 Networks hires Cisco veteran to lead charge in security

F5 Networks, fresh off its blockbuster financial announcement last week, continues to strengthen its executive bench. The Seattle company today… Read More

Welcome to Geek-O-Ween: Double rainbows, superheroes and the super rockers of KISS

We’ve seen double rainbows. We’ve seen superheroes. And the executive team at Big Fish Games is dressed up as members… Read More

HTC sells 13.2 million smartphones, releases new Vivid with AT&T

HTC, the Taiwanese mobile phone maker whose North American operations are based in Bellevue, today said that it sold 13.2… Read More

Microsoft marks Kinect’s first year with great video, old data

Microsoft this morning marked the upcoming first anniversary of its Kinect for Xbox 360 with this inspiring video showing how… Read More

Sounders kick off Windows Phone app amid awful playoff showing

This has got to be one of the more depressing product launches in Seattle tech and sports history. The Seattle… Read More

Gates on Jobs’ zingers: ‘None of that bothers me at all’

What does Bill Gates think about all that biting criticism from Steve Jobs in the biography released after the Apple… Read More

Amazon strikes Disney-ABC deal, Netflix basically matches it

Amazon.com announced a content deal with Disney-ABC Television Group this morning, continuing to expand the catalog of streaming movies and TV shows… Read More

Zuckerberg: Jeff Bezos is one of the greats, and startups don’t need to be in the Valley to win

Mark Zuckerberg refers to Jeff Bezos by his last name only, like some guy from the dorm. The Facebook CEO… Read More

Bill Gates was lucky … and good

Was Bill Gates just a lucky upper middle class kid who happened to stumble into the PC revolution? Or was… Read More

Bill Gates on the price of burgers; and other quotes of the week

The best insights, observations, comments, tweets and random zingers we heard this week. “I can understand wanting to have millions… Read More

Video: Zillow co-founder Rich Barton’s Seattle rallying cry

Zillow co-founder Rich Barton thinks Seattle needs to do more to support its own technology products and entrepreneurial ventures, emulating… Read More