Articles from 2011 – Page 77 of 107

Startup Spotlight: Toolz.me helps organize your tools

Talk about building a startup in hyperspeed. Seattle entrepreneur and WordPress guru Joshua “Red” Russak came up with the idea… Read More

College bookstores question Amazon’s legal tactics

The National Association of College Stores, battling with Amazon.com over the online retailer’s textbook advertising, is questioning Amazon’s decision to… Read More

Micron, Intellectual Ventures enter licensing agreement

Intellectual Ventures continues to ink deals with big technology companies, gobbling up patents and helping some of the industry stalwarts… Read More

Nokia, struggling against Android, looks to Windows Phone this year

Nokia this morning dropped a bomb with new sales forecasts “substantially below” its previous expectations for the current quarter. The… Read More

Redfin CEO Kelman on IPO plans: ‘We’re not ready yet’

IPO fever is spreading once again through the tech ranks. And while Zillow.com recently filed, Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman says don’t… Read More

Practical Nerd: Three ‘secrets’ of the digital classroom

If you think you understand what’s happening in digital education because you follow digital consumer or business developments, think again.… Read More

Facebook making desktop software for Mac, Windows with new Seattle-based team

In this era of browser apps and mobile devices, here’s some news that cuts against the grain. A new Facebook… Read More

A YouTube star in the making?

Ethan Newberry wants to be a YouTube star. And the Seattleite is moving closer to that goal having been selected… Read More

Seattle Symphony’s ode to video games: The music of Halo, Zelda and Mario

Forget about Brahms, Beethoven or Bach. The Seattle Symphony is bringing some other classics — with names like Mario, Master… Read More

Microsoft cashing in on Android? Amazing, yet not surprising

We’ve known for a while that Microsoft was getting a cut of HTC’s sales of Android devices, under a patent… Read More

How Amazon’s 99 cent Lady Gaga promotion mirrors Walmart’s age-old strategy

Amazon.com spent $3.2 million on last week’s Lady Gaga promotion, with Billboard magazine citing industry sources who said that the… Read More

Music Ideas and Problems

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

Google your name, and you might just find an Intelius advertisement

Forbes columnist Kashmir Hill recently Googled her name, and to her surprise found an advertisement in the search results from… Read More

What’s your startup DNA: Automizer, Social Transformer, Integrator or Challenger?

Can you predict which startup companies will succeed? It’s a mystifying question for sure, but one that the Startup Genome Project… Read More

Amazon.com’s latest promotion: Free milk for a year

Got milk? Amazon.com does. And the Seattle online retailer is using the staple to lure customers to its Amazon Fresh… Read More

An inside look at Startup Weekend: ‘High energy startup fever’

Not everyone can afford to devote 54 hours of their life to Startup Weekend. But, if you’ve got 13 minutes… Read More

Podcast

GeekWire Podcast: Lady Gaga crashes Amazon, iPads in the cockpit, and Ben the PC Guy

This week on the GeekWire Podcast, our guest is Microsoft’s Ben Rudolph, better known as “Ben the PC Guy,” who… Read More

Polaris Venture Partners closes Seattle office, says market ‘never developed’

When Polaris Venture Partners arrived in Seattle 15 years ago, the Boston-based firm thought the market had plenty of promise.… Read More

Cheezburger’s latest hire: A data scientist with a love of numbers

It’s not just laughs, giggles and videos of failure at the Cheezburger Network. Fresh off its recent $30 million venture… Read More

Trilogy, Madrona back stealthy mobile security startup Mobilisafe

Two of Seattle’s top venture capital firms are tossing their support behind Mobilisafe, a stealthy Bellevue startup led by former… Read More

From Danger to Android: The saga of the T-Mobile Sidekick

One of the iconic devices of the mobile revolution, the T-Mobile Sidekick, will reach a milestone next Tuesday with the… Read More

Gist CEO T.A. McCann: ‘To be an entrepreneur takes a tremendous amount of courage’

Gist founder T.A. McCann just completed a successful sale of his startup to RIM. So, why did the Seattle entrepreneur… Read More

What any startup can learn from Starbucks

As I drove past the Starbucks headquarters today I glanced up at their big green logo. Instantly I thought “man,… Read More

Analyst: Microsoft can still be a player in tablets

Microsoft is certainly playing a tough game of catch-up against Apple’s iPad. But the software giant can make a comeback… Read More

Goodbye paper flight manuals: Alaska Airlines to outfit pilots with iPads

Last fall, I reported that Alaska Airlines planned to provide pilots with iPads, speculating that the touchscreen devices could be… Read More

Clean water startup PotaVida takes top prize at UW business plan competition

From healthy French fries to to online travel planning services to urban grocery stores in converted shipping containers, this year’s… Read More

Nerd Notes: Sony Vaio goes gold, it’s hip to be geek and an alien scares a kid

Seattle Retro Gaming Expo is going on this weekend at Hotel Deca in the UD. And don’t even think about… Read More

Don’t call it an app store: Amazon launches new ‘Mac Software Downloads’ section

Amazon.com today quietly launched a new section of its site dedicated to digital downloads of software for Apple Macs, providing… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Viafo integrates Facebook and Twitter into mobile apps

Viafo reminds us a bit of the old BASF marketing line about “not making the products you buy, just making… Read More

Q&A: VMWare CTO Steve Herrod on cloud competition and the future of apps

Steve Herrod, chief technology officer for VMWare, made a swing through Seattle today, amid news that the company is planning a… Read More