Articles from 2011 – Page 76 of 107

Inside look at The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s new Seattle HQ

It spans 12 acres in the heart of the city, just a stone’s throw from The Seattle Center where the… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Postcardly brings a high-tech twist to the old-fashioned postcard

In an era of Facebook and Twitter and Tumblr, postcard writing oftentimes gets forgotten as a communications mechanism. But two… Read More

Tech Moves: Medio taps ex-Amazon, VMware vet Biswas to head engineering

Medio Systems, a heavily-funded Seattle company that specializes in mobile analytics, has named Prabudda Biswas senior vice president of engineering.… Read More

Clearwire shifts another 700 workers off its books

What’s going to be left of Clearwire? That’s what we thought after the Kirkland broadband wireless company announced this morning… Read More

WSJ report: A wave of Silicon Valley giants arrive on Seattle’s shores

Silicon Valley tech giants have been flocking to Seattle in recent for months, with companies such as Facebook, Salesforce.com and… Read More

Windows 8: A radical change for Windows, and a huge gamble for Microsoft

Early versions of Microsoft’s Windows Mobile, developed a decade ago, had the feel of the Windows PC desktop. The theory… Read More

Alaska Air expands inflight Wi-Fi, offers free Facebook access for June

Alaska Airlines continues to go high-tech. The Seattle airline is expanding its inflight Wi-Fi system, saying today that 92 percent… Read More

Skype, Sparkbuy, Steve Ballmer at USC and other top stories for May

At a Belltown coffee shop yesterday, I spotted a guy at a nearby table reading GeekWire. I got a bit… Read More

Nerd Notes: Eat ramen 3 times a day, meditate, and don’t steal laptops with built-in cameras

Microsoft’s Gamefest 2011 is now open for registration. Molly Wizenberg of Seattle is featured in The New York Times for her… Read More

Windows 8, the first real glimpse: Tiles on a tablet

[Updated below] Microsoft’s Windows 8 will offer new start screen optimized for tablet/slate computers that uses a tile interface reminiscent… Read More

Graphic: Thirteen percent of Americans use Twitter

A new study out from the Pew Internet & American Life Project shows that 13 percent of online adults are… Read More

Why your product must be social — not just your marketing

Guest Commentary: If you market to consumers, you will be out of business in 10 years if you don’t have… Read More

Nirvana’s Nevermind reborn as interactive iPad app

It seems like ages ago that I was sitting in my college dorm room listening to Nirvana’s Nevermind on my… Read More

Expedia, Groupon plan to partner on travel deals

One of the veterans of online commerce, Bellevue-based travel giant Expedia, is announcing a partnership with daily deals site Groupon… Read More

Geek of the Week: Sendi Widjaja, Avvo CTO

Our latest Geek of the Week, Sendi Widjaja, is the CTO at lawyer and doctor ratings site Avvo. He has… Read More

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings on his Microsoft board position, Steve Ballmer dustup

Following Google chairman Eric Schmidt’s digs at Microsoft last night, the Redmond company continued to serve as a subplot at… Read More

Act-On Software scores $10M from Trinity, Voyager and others

With revenue expected to grow by 300 percent this year, Act-On Software has raised $10 million in financing from Trinity… Read More

Last words from a Sidekick 3: ‘iPhone can suck it’

Last night, as the clock ticked down toward the shutdown of the online service for legacy T-Mobile Sidekick devices, I… Read More

Is Portland the new Peoria? Google Offers arrives at Floyd’s

For years, marketers wondered how their products or services would play in Peoria. Now, is Portland becoming that marketing hotspot… Read More

Tippr buys DealPop social buying site from WhitePages

Tippr, the group buying technology company, has acquired the social buying website DealPop from WhitePages. The deal was was announced… Read More

ValueAppeal raises cash to help homeowners cut property tax bills

It took just three weeks for ValueAppeal founder Charlie Walsh to attract financing for his startup company. I guess that’s… Read More

Internet sales tax battle heats up for Amazon in California, Texas

California and Texas look to be headed in different directions on a contentious online sales tax debate, an issue that could… Read More

Google’s Eric Schmidt: Microsoft ‘not driving the consumer revolution’

There were plenty of headline-grabbing comments from Google chairman Eric Schmidt tonight coming out of the D9 conference in California. Many… Read More

Hawaiian beach vacation from hell sparks Urbanspoon co-founder to start Dwellable

Adam Doppelt Urbanspoon helped transform the way people discover new restaurants. Now, Adam Doppelt, one of the co-founders of that… Read More

MetalStorm iPhone game takes off, approaches five million downloads

Z2Live’s new air combat game, MetalStorm, is turning on the after burners. Since its release in Apple’s App Store on… Read More

Chart: Steve Ballmer’s approval rating plummets among Microsoft employees

Hedge fund manager David Einhorn created a stir last week when he suggested that it was time for Steve… Read More

Microsoft Bing takes Streetside out of the bubble

Microsoft today rolled out a new version of its Streetside feature for Bing Maps that is getting some credit for… Read More

UW researchers develop trick to help devices use less energy

University of Washington researchers have come up with a way to reduce energy consumption in computers and mobile devices by… Read More

Rep. Weiner claims Twitter hack as lewd photo sent to Seattle college student

A Seattle college student has found herself in the middle of an Internet kerfuffle after a lewd photo was allegedly… Read More

Apple brings iWork to iPhone, Microsoft’s Mac unit still mum on Office for iPhone

Apple this morning debuted versions of its iWork productivity applications for iPhone and iPod touch, adapting the Pages word processing,… Read More