Meet the Washington state companies that just landed on the Inc. 500 list Contour CEO Marc Barros is moving just as fast as one of the snowboarders who use his company’s helmet-mounted 3-D… Read More
Classmates users to split $2.5M in suit over phantom friends See who’s signed your guestbook! Classmates.com users will be splitting $2.5 million among themselves in the latest proposed legal settlement… Read More
Amazon funnels more cash to anti-tax campaign in California The battle over online sales tax collection in California continues to heat up. Bloomberg News reports that Amazon.com has added… Read More
Vertafore to buy unit of Kaplan, plans to add its 100 employees Vertafore might be one of the biggest software companies in the Seattle area that you’ve never heard of. And the… Read More
Maker of the ‘baddest earphones on the planet’ acquired by BDA Munitio earphones are made out of 9mm bullet casings, and they are built to provide mind-blowing sound. Now, the high-end… Read More
Microsoft teams with China’s top Linux vendor in the cloud Microsoft and China Standard Software Co. plan to work together develop and sell cloud cloud computing technologies in the country. The… Read More
Please Help Stack the Deck for Seattle Startups! Editor’s Note: This post was originally published on Seattle 2.0, and imported to GeekWire as part of our acquisition of… Read More
Tablets changing video habits, playing into Amazon’s strategy It might seem like the market for television shows and movies has already been turned upside down, with many of… Read More
Tech Moves: Datacastle hires Craig Blessing; Opscode co-founder Jesse Robbins honored; and more Datacastle, a Seattle company that helps organizations securely protect data as employees access corporate resources via the Web and mobile… Read More
Amazon ‘ElastiCache’ promises to boost web app performance Amazon Web Services this morning made a new pitch for running web apps on its cloud computing platform, introducing a… Read More
Seattle Sonics make comeback in latest ‘NBA Jam’ remake Here’s a rare bit of good news for Seattle’s jilted NBA fans: The Glove, The Reign Man and even Detlef… Read More
Microsoft vs. Motorola, webOS vs. WP7, and a notebook that goes nine days on one charge News and notes from the Microsoft beat … Microsoft and Motorola are squaring off starting today in front of the… Read More
An inside look at Google’s Kirkland campus through the eyes of a startup veteran If Google can’t lure prospective employees with high salaries and stock grants, maybe it will convert them with the chocolate… Read More
Seattle named No. 1 tech city in U.S. by Scientific American* A new ranking by Scientific American magazine names Seattle the top city for technology in the country — ahead of… Read More
Video: Microsoft bridges Xbox, Windows Phone games via Kinect and QR codes Microsoft this morning showed a new way share game content across Xbox 360 and Windows Phone. One Microsoft executive described… Read More
Morning Radar: TouchPad is a best seller; Online video rankings; and more How do you drive interest in your consumer electronics gadget? Well, you discontinue it, of course. Engadget notes that HP’s… Read More
Android devices account for majority of smartphone sales in the U.S. New research out today from the NPD Group shows that Google’s mobile operating system, Android, now accounts for 52 percent… Read More
Could old connections lead Hulu into the arms of Amazon.com? Bids for the online video service Hulu are expected Wednesday, and The Wall Street Journal reports that Amazon.com, Google, Yahoo… Read More
Microsoft allies Ford and Toyota to collaborate on technology standards A new partnership announced between Ford and Toyota this morning is attracting lots of attention, primarily focused on the companies’ plans… Read More
Amazon gets ‘KindleScribe’ domains, dropping more hints Everything Amazon.com does these days is being scrutinized for ties to its expected Android tablet launch, a possible offshoot of… Read More
Exec turmoil continues at Motricity as CEO Ryan Wuerch steps down Ryan Wuerch has stepped down as CEO of Motricity, the publicly-traded Bellevue mobile software company that he’s run for a… Read More
Inrix speeds ahead with buy of rival ITIS, looks to reduce global traffic congestion Inrix, the provider of real-time traffic information, just got a lot bigger. The Kirkland company said that it has completed… Read More
Inspired by daughter’s illness, Medify CEO sets out to transform health info discovery Some startup companies are born out of complete necessity. Take, for instance, the situation facing Derek Streat who learned in… Read More
Trapeze artists, TouchPads, Angry Birds … and other quotes of the week The best insights, observations, comments, tweets and random zingers we heard this week. “I am last to speak at #is15. The… Read More
Future Microsoft division Skype makes buy of its own, striking a deal for GroupMe Skype, in the process of being acquired by Microsoft for $8.5 billion, this afternoon got more company on the road… Read More
Fan bikes, hovercrafts and other wacky inventions from Seattle’s ThingOut geek fest What do true geeks do on a hot summer afternoon? Of course, they bring their homegrown inventions out of the… Read More
Amazon seeks Lab126 trademarks in advance of expected tablet debut Amazon.com has quietly applied for trademarks on the name and logo of Lab126 — the internal group behind the Amazon… Read More
Chart: Hundreds of thousands of apps, but only a fraction really matter in the end Much is made of the sheer size of each mobile platform’s library of third-party apps. iPhone and Android ring up… Read More
Weekend Humor: Hitler gets the bad news about HP ditching the TouchPad I am huge fan of Downfall, a classic war film that depicts Adolf Hitler’s last days in Berlin. But even… Read More
Podcast GeekWire Radio: A wild week in tech, the future of computing, and tips from a PC insider This week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast, we recap a wild week in the technology world — including… Read More
