Articles from 2011 – Page 5 of 107

11 holiday gift ideas for geeks and entrepreneurs

Sure, you could give a nice bottle of wine or Scotch. But for the entrepreneur, geek or start-up junkie in… Read More

Zynga celebrates $1 billion IPO with a colorful infographic

Zynga’s growth over the past few years into the top maker of social media games is pretty amazing stuff. And… Read More

Check out this startup’s amazing office mural, created by the aerosol artist Weirdo

Some companies reward staffers with holiday parties. Others give a nice little bonus or extra time off. Evo Media Group… Read More

Startup Spotlight: 16-year-old Internet entrepreneur juggles school and startup life at Benelab

Jack Kim spends his days as a student at King’s High School in Shoreline, taking advanced placement courses in hopes of… Read More

Novel scores $1.6M, looks to transform how companies hire

Novel Inc., a Redmond startup that uses game mechanics to help corporations hire more qualified employees, has raised $1.6 million… Read More

Cheezburger cans ‘collectibles,’ discontinues virtual coins

Cheezburger’s experiment with an online currency and collectibles program has ended in … failure. The Seattle company announced this week… Read More

Microsoft Bing makes headway in 2011, almost matching Yahoo in market share

Microsoft’s Bing search engine is still No. 3 in the U.S. search market, but not by much. The Redmond company… Read More

Video: This iPad app could change the way real estate agents market homes

For years, real estate agents have used bound and printed marketing materials to convince home sellers that they have what… Read More

Geek of the Week: Vertafore’s Eric Danas, from petrophysics to user-experience design

Eric Danas has worked for more than 15 years in the field of user-experience design — currently working with Vertafore, a… Read More

Social gaming powerhouse Zynga raises $1B in largest Internet IPO since Google

The highly-anticipated initial public offering for Zynga is moving forward, with Bloomberg News reporting that the maker of FarmVille, Mafia… Read More

Microsoft unleashes year-end flurry of apps for iPhone, Windows Phone and Android

Who says Microsoft doesn’t ship products quickly enough? It has actually been tough keeping up with the company lately …… Read More

Pirq raises $1.9 million to dish up more mobile restaurant deals

Seattle entrepreneur James Sun traveled to Silicon Valley to raise cash for his new startup, the mobile coupon site Pirq.… Read More

Hooked on growth: Nine ways to expand your business now

Starting a business takes a lot of research, time and money. You probably read a bunch of books, talked to… Read More

Hardware: Microsoft has a $50 keyboard for your iPad

Microsoft Hardware today announced a new Bluetooth mobile keyboard that might just turn the heads of a few iPad owners.… Read More

New Zealand cloud computing company sets up shop in Seattle

GreenButton, a New Zealand company that helps businesses more easily move information to the cloud, has established new offices in… Read More

Inside details: Microsoft opening ‘So.cl’ learning experiment to more users

Microsoft is talking for the first time publicly about its “So.cl” network today, explaining what it is — and what… Read More

Amazon selling more than a million Kindles per week, says demand accelerating for the Fire

It’s going to be a Kindle kind of holiday for many folks around the globe. Amazon.com today said that it… Read More

Morning Radar: Steve Jobs is ‘most fascinating’ of 2011; Cheezburger’s latest; Big Fish; Wetpaint and more

A quick rundown of stories and offbeat tidbits catching our attention this morning … Pet and animal lovers can now get… Read More

Microsoft vets emerge with cloud computing upstart Uhuru Software

Former Microsoft vice president Jawad Khaki drew on his Tanzanian heritage as inspiration for his new startup company, Uhuru Software. In… Read More

Fujufilm paying $995M to acquire SonoSite medical device company

SonoSite, the publicly traded ultrasound device company headquartered near Seattle, will be acquired by Tokyo-based Fujifilm Holdings Corp. for $995… Read More

Microsoft plans true auto updates for Internet Explorer

Microsoft plans to streamline the way Internet Explorer is upgraded through its Windows Update process, aiming to move more PC… Read More

Starbucks appoints 29-year-old social media expert with Microsoft and Google roots to its board

Starbucks is getting more serious about its social media efforts, and the Seattle coffee giant just named a 29-year-old rising… Read More

Nokia’s first U.S. Windows Phone, Jan. 11 from T-Mobile

Nokia will return to the U.S. smartphone market starting Jan. 11 with a Nokia Lumia 710 Windows Phone — a… Read More

Former Expedia execs unveil Fitropolis, a guide for gym rats

Maybe it’s because of the growing obesity problem in the U.S. Or, perhaps, cubicle-bound techies just want to spend their… Read More

Poll: Are you still talking and texting behind the wheel?

The problem of talking and texting while driving was put back into the spotlight yesterday as the National Transportation Safety… Read More

Sprint becomes NBA sponsor as T-Mobile shifts to sidelines

Sprint today announced a “sweeping multiyear marketing partnership” with the NBA as the league’s official wireless sponsor, filling a role… Read More

Washington’s jobless rate dips as employers ramp up hiring

Here’s some good news for hump day. Washington’s jobless rate fell to 8.7 percent in November as employers in the… Read More

34-year-old startup vet Chris Kemp is back, with Nebula — taking risks and not mincing words

At 34 years old, Chris Kemp has a resume that many would call a career — Silicon Graphics systems engineer, Classmates.com… Read More

Generation Gamer: NWCN takes an inside look at the booming video game industry

Valve Software co-founder Gabe Newell, DoubleDown Interactive CEO Greg Enell, ZipLine Games co-founder Todd Hooper and many others from Seattle’s… Read More

Ignition, Trilogy bankroll cloud database startup Xeround

Cloud database startup Xeround has reeled in $9 million in venture capital financing from Benchmark Capital and Giza Venture Capital. Seattle area… Read More