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Articles from 2011

Pic of the Day: Juno takes off for Jupiter on an Atlas V

Hey, at least the end of the Space Shuttle Era doesn’t mean the end of spectacular blast-offs. That’s an Atlas… Read More

Why this 29-year-old entrepreneur left Seattle for Silicon Valley

Aaron Franklin has been an active member of the Seattle startup community over the years. He’s participated in Startup Weekend… Read More

Mobile phone back-up service Dashwire sells to HTC for $18.5M

This is giving new meaning to the term “daily deal.” In a continued flurry of activity in the M&A market,… Read More

Google vs. Microsoft: Top 5 Moments in (Recent) History

“When Patents Attack Android.”  That was the headline on the Google post this week that attempted to skewer Microsoft and Apple… Read More

Bing brings mall maps to mobile: No more getting lost in the market (or J Crew)

A new mobile browsing option from Bing is going to make it a bit easier to find your way to… Read More

First-time conference aims to bridge tech and design in Seattle region

A grassroots initiative to improve the connections among technology companies, user-experience specialists and designers in the Seattle region has spawned… Read More

Seattle supercomputer maker Cray loses veteran CTO

Steve Scott, who worked for Cray since 1992, most recently serving as senior vice president and chief technology officer, is… Read More

Tech Earnings Roundup: Blue Nile, Bsquare, Market Leader, Marchex

Marchex, the Seattle call advertising company, reported net income of $80,000 and revenues of $38.8 million for the second quarter.… Read More

Google responds to Microsoft’s ‘gotcha’, and Microsoft fires back

Feel free to skip the soaps today — this little saga should be more than enough for your daily allotment… Read More

Antiques Roadshow for Geeks: Why you should bring an old mobile phone to gdgt Seattle

One of the attractions at the gdgt live event in Seattle tomorrow night (register here) will be AT&T’s Revolve Project —… Read More

Tech Moves: Kindle veteran Julie Sandler joins Madrona

Madrona Venture Group has long mined Amazon.com for talent, not only backing entrepreneurs with ties to the online retailer but… Read More

This is the guy who convinced everyone that IE users are dumb

His name is Tarandeep Gill. He’s a web developer and entrepreneur, a graduate of the Georgia Tech computer science program,… Read More

Meet the 15-year-old whose game wowed the crowd at DigiPen’s summer camp

For Jeannette Yu, a 15-year old art-loving teen, stepping into a gaming programmer’s shoes for a two-week long summer camp… Read More

Morning Radar: Pirq launches a Groupon rival; Insitu’s new aircraft

Pirq, the mobile daily deal startup led by James Sun, the former star on “The Apprentice,” has officially launched its… Read More

New Bungie film goes behind the games (Watch it with us)

Bungie, the Seattle-area game studio best known for the blockbuster Halo franchise for Microsoft’s Xbox, just released a nearly hour-long… Read More

Obama to pick ex-Microsoft executive as new CIO

Steven VanRoekel, a former Microsoft executive, is expected to be chosen by President Barack Obama as the country’s next chief… Read More

Ben Huh challenges GQ to a geek fashion duel

The GQ fashion police on Wednesday called out Cheezburger CEO Ben Huh as one of the 15 worst dressed men… Read More

Mobile marketing firm Hipcricket sells to Augme for $44.5 million

The M&A market continues to heat up, and today saw another Seattle area technology company taken out. Hipcricket, which helps… Read More

Market Leader makes a buy, gobbles up SharperAgent

Market Leader today announced the purchase of SharperAgent, a Denver company that helps real estate agents roll out print and… Read More

T-Mobile still losing customers — but hey, it’s at a slower rate

AT&T is getting another good look at what it’s buying for $39 billion … and it’s a good thing the… Read More

The story of AdXpose: The path to liquidity was not a straight line

The path to building AdXpose — which sold to comScore today for $22 million — was definitely not a straight… Read More

Microsoft: Google declined invite to bid together on Novell patents

The war of words is escalating quickly between Microsoft and Google over patents and Android. Microsoft’s general counsel responded this… Read More

Digitizing the night sky … inside the UW’s planetarium

It’s a quiet, sunny summer afternoon at the University of Washington’s physics-astronomy complex. But inside the hushed, empty auditorium building,… Read More

Geek of the Week: Julia Ferraioli, DocuSign evangelist

Our latest Geek of the Week, Julia Ferraioli, knows a thing or two about electronic signatures, graphing calculators, autonomous aerial robots,… Read More

Seattle biotech star Dendreon cuts outlook, signals layoffs

Dendreon, one of the great hopes of Seattle’s biotech industry, today reduced its financial projections for the year and said… Read More

Clearwire embraces LTE as subscribers top 7.6 million and losses mount

Clearwire made a bold — yet highly-anticipated step today — as the Kirkland broadband wireless company announced plans to build… Read More

Google: Microsoft, Apple trying to strangle Android with ‘bogus’ patents

[Follow-up: Microsoft says Google declined an invitation to bid together on Novell patents.] Google is fighting back publicly against what… Read More

Seattle’s AdXpose sells out to comScore for $22 million

Seattle startup AdXpose, which has had more lives than a cat since it was founded in 2005, is getting ready… Read More

Ben Huh and Bill Gates among GQ’s 15 worst-dressed in tech

Here’s an honor that two prominent Seattle geeks might not want to add to their résumés. Cheezburger Network founder Ben… Read More

Which would you give up first: Sex, coffee, or your phone?

TeleNav, the location-based technology company, is out today with results from a fun survey that demonstrates just how attached many of… Read More

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