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Articles from 2011

Amazon tablet? Sept. 28 press conference set for NYC

Here comes the Amazon tablet. Look out iPad? Amazon.com just sent out invitations to members of the tech media alerting… Read More

NFL great Lawyer Milloy is an iPhone app fanatic: And, yes, he’s an Angry Birder too

As a free safety for the New England Patriots, Lawyer Milloy was known for some smashing hits. Now, the Tacoma… Read More

CoinLab: New center for Bitcoin projects in Seattle

A group of Seattle entrepreneurs is forging ahead into the uncertain and intriguing world of Bitcoin with a new center… Read More

One place for daily deals: Microsoft Bing’s new aggregation site

Microsoft this morning launched Bing Deals, aiming to make its search engine a destination for the wide variety of daily… Read More

Fresh off its PopCap buy, EA taps Microsoft vet Rajat Taneja as CTO

Electronic Arts, which just spent up to $1.3 billion on Seattle-based PopCap Games, is discovering even more talent from the… Read More

Clearwire CEO: ‘We want to be the Switzerland of mobile broadband’

Clearwire CEO Erik Prusch says that the company is talking to AT&T, Verizon and others about entering into wholesale agreements,… Read More

ValueAppeal hires Eric Brown, moves to South Lake Union

ValueAppeal, the Seattle startup that allows home owners to lower property taxes through an online appeal process, has named Eric… Read More

Amazon feeling the heat over warehouse allegations, says it spent $2.4M on air conditioning

A recent report in the Allentown Morning Call newspaper alleged what could only be described as harsh working conditions in Amazon.com’s Breinigsville,… Read More

Rouxbe Cooking School partners with Ex-Microsoftie

After losing her job at Microsoft, Kathleen Flinn went on to become a best-selling author with her book The Sharper Your… Read More

Intersect CEO says Facebook Timeline ‘falls far short’

Upon hearing about the new Facebook Timeline feature today, my immediate reaction was: “Huh, isn’t that exactly what Seattle’s Intersect… Read More

Geek of the Week: Matt Shobe, BigDoor chief design officer

Our latest Geek of the Week, Matt Shobe, is in charge of design for BigDoor, a Seattle-based company bringing the… Read More

Microsoft expecting up to 20,000 at employee meeting Friday

Microsoft will hold its giant annual company meeting — the one for employees, not shareholders — at Safeco Field in… Read More

Venture capitalist Vinod Khosla coming to Seattle for Startup Weekend Edu

Venture capitalist Vinod Khosla plans to deliver one of the keynote addresses at the upcoming Startup Weekend Edu event, which… Read More

Facebook Music: Rhapsody chimes in with 30-day trial

Rhapsody made a surprise appearance at Facebook’s f8 conference today, at least in the form of its logo on a… Read More

India’s HCL arrives in Redmond with big growth plans

HCL Technologies, which has morphed from one of India’s “garage startups” into a multi-billion dollar IT services juggernaut, has established… Read More

Livemocha opens door on language learning at Seattle Public Library

Visitors to the 28 branches of the Seattle Public Library will now have the ability to pick up some new… Read More

Laser Motive beams up cash to transmit electricity without wires

Imagine being able to transmit electricity without the wires. That’s the promise of Laser Motive, a Kent-based startup that’s announcing… Read More

New from Facebook: ‘Timeline’ view, lifestyle apps, music and movies with friends

[UPDATED] Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is on stage at the company’s f8 conference for developers in San Francisco right now,… Read More

Does Google have monopoly power? Watch Eric Schmidt dance around this one

The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearing yesterday on Google was closely watched for parallels to Microsoft’s antitrust quagmire of the… Read More

Zulily, Redfin named to list of the 100 most valuable startups

Fast-growing Seattle startups Zulily and Redfin have been named to Alley Insider’s Digital 100 ranking of the most valuable startups… Read More

An ‘impatient’ Melinda Gates joins Twitter, tops 17,000 followers in a day thanks to Tweet from BillG

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates joined Twitter in January 2010, and has quickly assembled an audience of some 3.5 million followers.… Read More

Verizon CEO: The merger of AT&T and T-Mobile ‘had to occur’

A number of big technology companies, including Microsoft, Facebook and Oracle, have come out in support of AT&T’s $39 billion… Read More

Bayou Blast: GameHouse’s ‘most important social game’

GameHouse, the RealNetworks game division, is placing a big bet on social and mobile games. The company says it’s investing… Read More

Oracle buys 16-year-old GoAhead

Oracle today announced that it is buying GoAhead Software, a Bellevue communications software company which has developed technology used by… Read More

RealNetworks names new SVP for Unifi after Skorny’s exit

RealNetworks this morning named one of its existing executives, Judith Bitterli, as the new senior vice president of its Unifi… Read More

Microsoft vets launch Buddy to provide the ‘plumbing’ for mobile app development

About three years ago, Jeffrey MacDuff and Dave McLauchlan designed an iPhone application called Buddy which allowed users to locate running, study… Read More

Social media monitoring firm Visible raises $4 million

Visible Technologies, the Bellevue company which provides social media monitoring technologies to Boost Mobile, DirecTV, Vail Resorts and others, has… Read More

This 21-year-old is looking to transform online invitations from his dorm room

Growing up in the Seattle area, Sam Franklin developed a love of the outdoors. But it was on a backpacking… Read More

Practical Nerd: When Amazon can’t be trusted

Recently, I bought a new Android phone. It didn’t come with everything I wanted, so I turned to my default… Read More

Q&A: How an automotive secret can make for better software

Having studied the work of W. Edwards Deming and other pioneers in just-in-time auto production back in college, I was… Read More

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