Articles from 2011 – Page 54 of 107

Starbucks sells Pioneer Square buildings, including future home of Isilon, for $125 million

Pioneer Square is a hub for the region’s growing technology companies. And perhaps no buildings symbolize the promise of the… Read More

Spoof: What happens when Microsoft’s top execs carpool to work together

Following the leak of Microsoft’s recent “Gmail Man” spoof, a new video from the company’s annual sales confab has surfaced… Read More

Amazon’s stealth social network for Kindle: Why it’s suddenly interesting

Amazon.com launched the “Public Notes” feature for its Kindle electronic reader earlier this year, allowing people to share the highlights… Read More

Looking to remove the pain of venture investing, Microsoft BizSpark allies with CapLinked

Raising venture capital has pretty much worked the same way for years. Entrepreneurs hop on a plane or in a… Read More

Ignition leads $10 million round in New York’s Apprenda

We’ve been writing a lot lately about how Ignition Partners is transforming itself into a national firm, doing deals wherever… Read More

Another CEO change at DocuSign as Silicon Valley vet Krach takes helm

Seattle electronic signature company DocuSign has tapped Keith Krach — a Silicon Valley veteran best known for co-founding Ariba —… Read More

Ex-Avanade boss Mitch Hill jumps back into the startup world, joins Opscode as CEO

As the founding CEO of Avanade, Mitch Hill once oversaw close to 9,000 employees. In his latest gig, there won’t… Read More

Amazon Web Services suffers another outage: Company says issue now resolved

Amazon.com’s EC2 service suffered another outage this evening, taking out several high-trafficked Web sites and adding another black eye to… Read More

An ugly day on Wall Street as tech stocks get hammered: A look at the biggest losers

Ok, now that everyone has had a moment to take a breath, let’s look back at the carnage on Wall… Read More

The technology behind the Boeing 787’s new windows

Seeing all the coverage of Boeing’s 787 rollout for All Nippon Airways this weekend, one thing that stood out was just… Read More

Fruit Ninja to give Microsoft’s Xbox Kinect some extra juice

Fruit Ninja debuts this week for Microsoft’s Xbox Live — using the Kinect motion sensor to let gamers slice through… Read More

Tech startups: Ice cream is great, but utilities make the world go around

Guest Commentary: Lately I have had a recurring theme running through my head – “didn’t I see that startup idea before,… Read More

Spotify or not, Rhapsody rules U.S. paid music subscriptions, for now

Peter Kafka at AllThingsD has gotten his fingers on some interesting stats from Spotify that show the European music service’s… Read More

Skype’s feature frenzy continues with Mac update, HD video calls

Skype seems to be savoring its final moments of independence with a flurry of new features. With Microsoft’s $8.5 billion… Read More

Windows Phone GM leaving Microsoft, with a rallying cry

Microsoft veteran Charlie Kindel, who led the effort to get independent app developers on board with Windows Phone, is leaving… Read More

Refurbished Kindle now $99: Sign of new Kindles soon?

Hey, the Kindle has finally dropped to the magic price of $99.99 … if you don’t mind getting a refurbished… Read More

Zipline names ex-Microsoft gaming vet Shane Kim to board, raises $400,000

Shane Kim has helped put some of the most recognizable gaming titles on the map, including Halo and Gears of… Read More

Launching on Lifehacker

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

Microsoft figures out how to make a nearly perfect 3D model of the human face

You know you’re on to something in computer graphics when you get to explain in your research paper how you’ve advanced… Read More

Comcast rolls out $9.95 per month Internet service for low income families

Comcast is launching a new program to provide Internet service to low income families in the US. at a discount.… Read More

Search for ET continues as Paul Allen-backed telescope hits short-term funding goal

The search for alien life may be back on — at least in the short-term. A group established to raise… Read More

Marcelo Calbucci baffled by his own algorithm … and other quotes of the week

The best insights, comments, tweets and random zingers we heard this week. “I wrote the code, but I’m still puzzled… Read More

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GeekWire Radio: Sex, phones, Internet Explorer and Bitcoin

This week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast, we assess a new study that demonstrates just how devoted (or… Read More

Wrapup: gdgt live Seattle, and the outcome of GeekWire’s Galaga challenge

John and I had fun reconnecting with familiar faces and making a ton of new friends at gdgt live in… Read More

A few tips for companies thinking about going global

International markets can offer technology companies significant opportunities to expand and diversify their product and service offerings, increase brand awareness… Read More

Rise of mobile apps could spell the end of traditional texting

Sending text messages remains the single most common thing people do with their phones — well, other than using them… Read More

We’re in an Android state of mind, while Oregonians love their BlackBerries

Computer geeks used to ask one another whether they were a Mac or PC. But, these days, you’re more like… Read More

How the cool night air of the desert led Facebook to Prineville, Oregon

For the longest time, I assumed that Facebook chose Prineville, Oregon for its new data center because of hydroelectric power.… Read More

Blind Microsoft engineer setting triathlon records

At the Memorial Hermann Ironman Texas competition three months ago, Microsoft software engineer Patricia Walsh put in an impressive time of 11… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Infactio.us spreads Web content like a virus

Infactio.us founders Loyd Zhao and Shek Ho want to turn digital content into a virus of sorts, helping to spread it… Read More