Smartphone users to get 2 months of free Wi-Fi on Alaska Air flights Smartphone users traveling on Alaska Airlines will soon have an added benefit. During the months of August and September, any… Read More
Amazon expands Start-Up Challenge worldwide Amazon Web Services today announced that it is expanding its annual Start-Up Challenge competition to include a total of 15… Read More
Space Needle launches contest to send someone into space The observation deck of Seattle’s Space Needle offers sweeping views of the city and region. But for the 50th anniversary… Read More
Photo sharing service Smilebox sells for up to $40 million Smilebox, the six-year-old Redmond company that lets users create electronic greetings with their photos and videos, has agreed to be… Read More
Data centers aren’t sucking as much electricity as predicted Massive data centers — many of which dot the Columbia River basin in Washington and Oregon — have historically been… Read More
Bridging the gap between Design and Tech (sponsored) Editor’s Note: This post was originally published on Seattle 2.0, and imported to GeekWire as part of our acquisition of… Read More
If Microsoft Bing is Muhammad Ali, this is its best punch An extensive look at Microsoft Bing’s attempt to challenge Google, published by the New York Times today, will get lots… Read More
The Internet Explorer IQ test: Come on, we’re not that dumb A study released this past week by AptiQuant, a Vancouver, B.C., “psychometric consulting” company, found that Internet Explorer users, on average,… Read More
After working with Oprah, Tina Kirkpatrick looks to put Gilt City on the map in Seattle Tina Kirkpatrick spent the past few years in Chicago, including a stint working as a buyer for Oprah’s Harpo Productions.… Read More
Dave Matthews concert? Free Kinects? Ah, the sweet life of a Microsoft intern OK, so we know that Microsoft interns work really hard, in the process of getting some great experience and contributing… Read More
Bitcoin, Ballmer’s memo and other top stories of the month It was an unusually busy month of July on the technology beat in Seattle. And here’s my theory why: The… Read More
NYT’s David Pogue back on tour, playing the classics David Pogue, tech columnist for the New York Times, brought down the house at a real-estate technology conference in San… Read More
Podcast GeekWire Radio: Tech jobs, Bill Nye, Microsoft vs. Apple, and a GeekGirlCon preview This week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast, we talk about one Seattle woman’s creative attempt to land a… Read More
Patent verdict vs. Microsoft shrinks from $500M to $70M It turned out to be another big week for patent news. A federal jury in San Diego today found that… Read More
Super angel Ron Conway’s advice to entrepreneurs and why this isn’t a bubble Ron Conway is one of the best known angel investors on the planet. So, when the early backer of Facebook,… Read More
‘Headshot’ Windows Phone project wins contest to exhibit at gdgt live Seattle next week Last week GeekWire invited members of the Seattle tech community to make a pitch to win a sponsor table at… Read More
Tributes to Steve Lacey, on Facebook and in Flight Sim Family, friends and colleagues of Steve Lacey are still grappling with the loss of the respected Google engineer and Microsoft… Read More
ESPN split screen on Xbox: Sports overload, in a good way Microsoft today confirmed plans to launch an updated version of the ESPN service on Xbox Live on Aug. 25. One… Read More
Lucid Commerce scores $8M to tell TV advertisers if campaigns are working There’s no shortage of companies that help advertisers make better sense of how ad campaigns perform online. But what about… Read More
The toughest ‘Name that Tech Tune’ ever: The answer, and our winner We always have fun digging up sound clips for the “Name that Tech Tune” contests that air regularly in the… Read More
Google tosses support behind the Portland Incubator Experiment We’ve talked before about how Google has Portland fever — using the Rose City to test new products like Google… Read More
Ex P-I journalists to shutter online news site Seattle PostGlobe The Seattle PostGlobe — an online news site started two years ago by reporters who lost their jobs at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer… Read More
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center wins $8.2M grant to study link between obesity and cancer The American Cancer Society estimates that about 30 percent of cancer deaths are tied to poor nutrition, lack of exercise… Read More
GROW Conference Connects Pacific Northwest with Silicon Valley (sponsored) Editor’s Note: This post was originally published on Seattle 2.0, and imported to GeekWire as part of our acquisition of… Read More
Bill Nye tries to convince Fox News that science isn’t politics On certain cable news channels these days, it seems like every story is a chance to subtly (or not-so-subtly) score… Read More
Bill’s Book Club: Twenty books Bill Gates has been reading Look out, Oprah: A new Books section of Bill Gates’ website, The Gates Notes, offers a glimpse of some of… Read More
As patent debate rages, Google gobbles up IBM inventions GeekWire readers have been engaged in an intense debate over the past week about the role of software patents —… Read More
This Seattle woman really, really wants to work at Valve Valve Software is one of the Seattle area’s hottest gaming companies. And Erin Michael Vondrak, a Seattle artist and photographer,… Read More
Geek of the Week: Stephen Meyles, Appature Inc. Our latest Geek of the Week, Stephen Meyles, spent a good chunk of his career as an educator at the… Read More
Bartell Drugs to exchange free photos for Facebook friends Bartell Drugs is one of Seattle’s oldest businesses. And the company has been able to stick around for more than… Read More
