Articles from 2011 – Page 58 of 107

RealNetworks giving back $136M to shareholders in major overhaul

RealNetworks today announced a series of moves to “reinvigorate” the business and make the 16-year-old Seattle company more attractive to… Read More

Expedia’s mobile app downloads soar as revenue tops $1 billion

Shares of Expedia gained seven percent today in after hours trading following news that the company posted a 23 percent… Read More

Video: Microsoft’s ‘Gmail Man’ jabs at Google’s email ads

https://youtu.be/OrkAuwaoFGg Microsoft isn’t saying whether this video is really one of its productions, but like ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley (who… Read More

InfoSpace posts revenue of $54M, continues to eye acquisitions

InfoSpace today reported a net loss of $3.9 million on revenue of $54.3 million. The Bellevue Internet search company posted… Read More

Microsoft spends a mere $75M on acquisitions in fiscal 2011

Microsoft’s 2011 fiscal year, which ended in June, was one of its lightest on record for acquisitions. The company, which… Read More

Why this iOS app developer uses an Android phone

Guest Commentary: Colleagues are often surprised when they realize I own an Android phone. With my career now centered around iOS… Read More

Shares of Clearwire plummet after Sprint inks deal with LightSquared

Shares of Clearwire sank nearly 20 percent this morning after Sprint inked a network hosting deal with LightSquared valued at… Read More

Tech Moves: Ex-Microsoft ad exec Scott Howe takes CEO post at Acxiom and more

We’ve been tracking some departures, appointments and new hires in the Pacific Northwest tech industry in recent days. Here are… Read More

Fish & chips with your Moby Dick? Microsoft seeks patent on ads inside e-books

A newly surfaced Microsoft patent application proposes to serve ads inside e-books, adjusting their relevance based on the contents of… Read More

Big Fish brings ‘Hidden Expedition: Amazon’ to Kindle

The Kindle isn’t really known as a gaming device. But that’s not stopping developers from expanding onto Amazon’s popular electronic… Read More

Amazon buys Pushbutton, nabs Universal for Prime

Two interesting pieces of news from Amazon.com this morning could improve the company’s online video offerings and help lay the… Read More

Chart: Android commands 39% of U.S. smartphone market

Android devices are landing in the hands of more Americans, according to a new survey by Nielsen. The fast-growing mobile… Read More

The price of early adoption: Nintendo cutting 3DS to $170

Apart from the dizzy spells, the biggest criticism of Nintendo’s 3DS has been the price. At $250, the handheld game… Read More

Traffic tech company Inrix bids $60M for European rival

That didn’t take long. A few days after landing $37 million in venture capital financing, saying it planned to use… Read More

Rich Barton unveils Trover, a new way to explore the world through photos

Rich Barton may be best known for Zillow or Expedia. But the 44-year-old entrepreneur-turned-venture capitalist has a few other things up his… Read More

Tell Me A Story

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

Photo sharing site PhotoRocket chops staff, names Cockrill CEO

PhotoRocket, the photo sharing service that launched to much fanfare at the DEMO conference earlier this year, has cut about… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Carnegie Mellon transplant takes root in Seattle with Panopto

Panopto was founded in 2007 with technology from Carnegie Mellon University. But the company is now growing its presence in… Read More

Next up for Amazon.com … India?

One of the overlooked tidbits in Amazon.com’s recent quarterly earnings report is that North American sales continue to grow at… Read More

BuddyTV looks to make the remote control smarter, unveils new iOS app

There’s certainly plenty of choices these days when it comes to cable or satellite TV programming. But finding the programs… Read More

Microsoft confirms fall store opening at University Village

We’ve known this was happening for a while, based on my previous digging into city permit filings, but Microsoft today made… Read More

Intellectual Ventures, Mac OS X Lion, and Windows 8 (KUOW)

This American Life’s investigation of Intellectual Ventures offers some important lessons for the tech industry, Mac OS X Lion signals… Read More

How smartphones, tablets are killing Wi-Fi on city transit

It seemed like a scene from the future: Step onto a bus, find a good seat, crack open a laptop,… Read More

Twitter firehose from Seattle police makes point, loses followers

The Seattle Police Department is catching a ton of grief for transforming its Twitter feed from a selective news channel… Read More

No joke: Senator Al Franken says AT&T’s proposed buyout of T-Mobile will hurt consumers

AT&T’s proposed buyout of T-Mobile for $39 billion has run into a number of opponents, including Sprint CEO Dan Hesse… Read More

Windows Phone ‘Mango’ is ripe, now Microsoft needs to keep it from going bad

Microsoft’s Windows Phone team has completed its well-reviewed “Mango” software update and shipped the code to handset makers and wireless… Read More

Facebook to expand data center operations in central Oregon

Yesterday, we told you about Facebook’s desires to find more office space in downtown Seattle. But that’s not the social… Read More

Venture capital industry sees ‘slow and steady’ improvement

Venture capitalists took it on the chin for a few years as the initial public offering and M&A markets simply… Read More

What a long strange trip it has been: Highway 12 Ventures to wind down new investing

Venture capital firms are bit like old soldiers. They never really die, they just sort of fade away. And that… Read More

Bitcoin befuddles U.S. customs agents, thwarting Seattle visit by digital currency guru

A developer who specializes in the Bitcoin digital currency says he was sent back to China last week after he… Read More