Articles from 2011 – Page 34 of 107

Success is brewing in Seattle’s vibrant coffee shop culture

Living in the Northwest, we’re far enough removed from the majority of the populace to sit back and notice the… Read More

TalentSpring founder Bryan Starbuck emerges with stealthy new startup

Seattle entrepreneur Bryan Starbuck — who sold the online recruiting company TalentSpring last year to Talent Technology– is getting back… Read More

Chart of the Week: IBM > MSFT

Apple made headlines when it surpassed Microsoft in market value, the stock market’s measure of a company’s overall worth. And… Read More

Exponential scores cash for Hollywood trivia games, names DeGiulio as marketing chief

Exponential Entertainment, which makes the HollywoodPlayer online trivia and puzzle game, has raised a new round of cash and tapped… Read More

Microsoft issues fix after security tool mistakenly removes Google Chrome as malware

Uh, whoops? Microsoft this morning scrambled to release a fix after reports surfaced that its Security Essentials software was mistakenly… Read More

Zillow added to Russell stock index

That didn’t take long. A little more than two months after its initial public offering, Zillow has been added to… Read More

How a father-and-son Lego project sparked an iPad game

Seattle entrepreneur Hillel Cooperman loves Legos. So, each year, the founder of Jackson Fish Market gets excited for BrickCon, a… Read More

Microsoft idea: Kinect body scans could estimate age, automate parental controls

Sorry, kid, but you’ve got the arms of a 12-year-old, and you’re not watching the Spice Channel tonight. That’s the… Read More

Amazon buying Palm? This doesn’t make a whole lot of sense

A report by VentureBeat overnight quotes an anonymous source saying that Amazon.com is “in serious negotiations” to buy Palm from… Read More

3 Things I Changed at My Startup After Going to Startup Day

Editor’s Note: This post was originally published on Seattle 2.0, and imported to GeekWire as part of our acquisition of… Read More

Analysts: Kindle Fire will lose Amazon a ton of money, at first

The attention-grabbing price of $199 for the new Kindle Fire will generate a huge amount of demand for Amazon’s tablet,… Read More

Poll: Is T-Mobile’s new store design too girly for guys?

T-Mobile has long targeted women with Catherine, Carly, and a rose-tinted focus on families. But as a girl looking at the… Read More

New phase in Seattle Post-it Wars: It’s on like … Angry Birds

The year is 2011, and all of your downtown neighbors are trying to one-up each other by installing elaborate depictions… Read More

Microsoft Zune cuts price, moves away from monthly song credits

Microsoft’s Zune music service today announced plans to reduce its monthly subscription rate to $9.99, from the current $14.99, but… Read More

Geek of the Week: Jeff Teper, father of Microsoft SharePoint

Our latest Geek of the Week, Jeff Teper, had been at Microsoft for about six years in 1998 when he… Read More

The name Kindle Fire: Hot or not?

At first glance, Kindle Fire seems like a pretty good name. It uses a thematically coherent naming strategy, similar to the… Read More

Wetpaint iPhone app feeds celeb-watching guilty pleasures

If you are looking for dirt on the cast of Gossip Girl or simply want to keep up with Kardashians,… Read More

Full Video: Watch Jeff Bezos unveil Amazon’s new Kindles

There’s nothing quite like watching a big product unveiling in its entirety, and getting to know the ins and outs… Read More

Startup Stars: A brief history of the best 20th century business launches

There are more ways now than ever for you to start a business. Startups are a hot topic and it… Read More

Ben Huh: The history of cat photos and advice for entrepreneurs

Ben Huh chats with Microsoft’s Channel 9 about the early days at Cheezburger and offers some wise advice based on… Read More

Madrona, Amazon and others pump $10 million into online ad analyzer Yieldex

Madrona Venture Group and Amazon.com are among the backers in a $10 million round for Yieldex, a New York-based company… Read More

Estimate: Microsoft making $444M a year on Android

Microsoft’s royalties from its patent claims on Google Android devices are now in the range of $444 million a year,… Read More

Redfin’s new ‘Scouting Report’ reveals the insider stats on real estate agents

It’s kind of the equivalent of the stats on the back of a baseball card, but in this case for… Read More

T-Mobile stores getting upscale redesign … in magenta, of course

T-Mobile USA this morning showed off a new look that will be rolled out to nearly 400 of its stores.… Read More

Pendrell forks over $90 million for ContentGuard, gobbling up more than 250 patents

Pendrell Corp., the Kirkland company formerly known as ICO Global, today announced that it is paying $90.1 million in cash… Read More

Microsoft’s big Skype acquisition faces opposition in Europe

Skype competitor Messagenet is asking European regulators to prevent Microsoft from integrating Skype with Windows as a condition of approval… Read More

Post-it Wars Part Two: Space Invaders attack Pine Street

It started simply enough. Drew Bennett, an engineer at SEOMoz, used some of his artistic talents last week to recreate… Read More

Amazon’s new Kindle lineup: A Kindle app developer’s take

Guest Commentary: In science fiction stories, everybody has that amazing device that people can carry in their pockets but magically expands… Read More

Internet ad revenues soar to nearly $15B in first half of 2011

Advertisers continue to pump dollars into online advertising campaigns, including search, display, classifieds and email. The Interactive Advertising Bureau reported… Read More

Tablets, mobile payments and more: A quick view of the future from Mobilize 2011

Guest Post: Summing up a conference with an agenda as broad as GigaOM’s Mobilize 2011 in San Francisco is no… Read More