Articles from 2011 – Page 51 of 107

Morning Radar: T-Mobile unveils the 4G BlackBerry Bold; state jobless rate stuck at 9.3%; etc.

T-Mobile USA today rolled out its first 4g BlackBerry device, dubbed the BlackBerry Bold 9900. And the super thin smartphone… Read More

Windows Phone games: Details on Microsoft’s ‘Fast Async’ service

As part of an update about upcoming Windows Phone gaming features, Microsoft this week offered a teaser about a new service… Read More

Bezos donates $10M to Seattle history museum, creating new ‘Center for Innovation’

Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos has often been criticized for his company’s lack of contributions to the Seattle community. But the… Read More

New data: Amazon attracts 20% of Internet, Apple 10%

Research firm comScore is out with an interesting report on worldwide traffic for retail and auction sites this morning, demonstrating… Read More

Executive purge continues at struggling Motricity

During its second quarter financial statement last week, Bellevue’s Motricity hinted at upcoming changes and cost-cutting measures in response to… Read More

Rhapsody lands MetroPCS deal, bundling music service with monthly mobile plan

Rhapsody has struck a deal with MetroPCS Communications to make the Rhapsody Unlimited Music service a new feature of the… Read More

How book stores can compete against Amazon: John Hodgman suggests ‘downloading pods’

Amazon.com continues to grab market share from traditional book stores, and just last month Border’s bit the dust. But resident… Read More

Amazon Publishing inks deal with best-selling author Timothy Ferriss

Timothy Ferriss, the best-selling author of the 4-Hour Workweek and The 4-Hour Body, has chosen Amazon.com to publish his upcoming… Read More

SEOMoz considers $20M to $30M VC round, but Rand Fishkin says no ‘done deal’ yet

SEOMoz CEO Rand Fishkin may raise a massive venture capital round in the range of $20 million to $30 million.… Read More

Jason Goldberg reflects on the ups and downs at Jobster and why it missed becoming LinkedIn

Jason Goldberg, who co-founded the online recruiting startup Jobster in 2003, was one of the more colorful characters in Seattle’s… Read More

Tech Moves: Redfin bets big on analytics; Startup Digest curator lands at PopCap; and more

Here’s a quick look at some of the folks taking on new roles at Pacific Northwest technology companies. Redfin is… Read More

Amazon launches U.S. ‘GovCloud’ with plug from NASA Jet Propulsion Lab

Amazon Web Services is aiming to land more business from the U.S. government and its contractors with the rollout of… Read More

Google overhauls search results with giant swaths of sitelinks

Google is making a major change to its search results pages, giving a huge amount of real estate to the… Read More

Netflix for Kids, LinkedIn apps, and other new stuff to try

Interesting new releases and downloads catching our attention today … Netflix rolled out a new section of its website called… Read More

Cheezburger’s latest pursuit: Captions on polar bear photos and other random stuff

Cheezburger Network grew to prominence by allowing its users to attach funny captions to dog and cat photos. But who… Read More

Firefox releases get smaller, as do Internet Explorer cakes

Mozilla debuted Firefox 6 today, less than two months after coming out with Firefox 5. The new rapid release schedule might seem… Read More

Seattle Children’s lands $2.3M Gates Foundation grant for innovative respiratory device

Seattle Children’s Research Institute has secured a $2.3 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to finish developing… Read More

Morning Radar: HasOffers to double staff; Mega Startup Weekend; Swype; and more

HasOffers, the affiliate marketing company started by twin brothers Lucas and Lee Brown, is looking to hire 30 more staffers… Read More

Venture capital is hot again as ‘up rounds’ surge

Need more evidence that there’s a bubble forming in the tech industry. Look no further than a new report by… Read More

Starbucks giving out free iPhone apps, expanding Apple partnership

Here’s another reason to get your caffeine fix at Starbucks: It might come with a free iPhone app. The Seattle… Read More

Former Xbox chief Robbie Bach resurfaces on Sonos board

Robbie Bach, the former head of Microsoft’s Xbox business, is returning to the technology world, sorta. Bach, a 22-year Microsoft… Read More

Ballmer critic boosts Microsoft stake by more than 60 percent

David Einhorn isn’t a Steve Ballmer fan, but he’s still a big believer in Microsoft — at least at its… Read More

What Having a Baby Taught Me About Running A Startup

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

New outlet for T-Mobile phones: Family Dollar discount stores

Looks like T-Mobile is serious about this whole low-cost wireless provider thing. Two weeks after inking a deal to sell… Read More

Microsoft adding more voice to Xbox, Windows Phone, and pretty much everything else

Speech technology from Microsoft’s Tellme group is quickly becoming a bigger part of the company’s products, starting with the upcoming revamps… Read More

Digital Chocolate finds a sweet deal, gobbles up Sandlot Games

There’s been quite a bit of M&A activity in recent weeks in the casual gaming industry, highlighted by Electronic Arts’… Read More

Microsoft downgrades Linux threat, and Sinofsky blogging again

News and notes from the Microsoft beat … Linux no longer a Windows threat? Microsoft’s latest annual report with the… Read More

Google, Motorola, and Microsoft’s role in one of the strangest tech deals ever

Companies sometimes do odd things in response to their competitors, but Google’s $12.5 billion agreement to acquire Motorola ranks up… Read More

This 19-year-old just dropped out of Wharton to sleep on an air mattress and build a new startup

When we introduced you to Wesley Zhao back in April, he was just a fresh-faced 18-year-old kid kicking around a new… Read More

Californians launch boycott of Amazon.com over sales tax

Amazon.com is facing a backlash in California where a group of citizens, supported in part by Democratic politicians, is urging… Read More