Articles from 2011 – Page 87 of 107

Amazon’s outage, Jesse Jackson Jr.’s iPad rant and other top stories of the month

From biting guest posts to the legalities of non-compete agreements to the unusual rants of politicians, April was a big… Read More

Podcast

GeekWire Podcast: The business, technology and art of podcasting, with Luke Burbank and Rob Greenlee

This week on a special edition of the GeekWire Podcast — a discussion about podcasting. Yeah, we’re going meta on… Read More

Nerd Notes: Social Vending Machines and the Grinch of the royal wedding

Mario gets a Portal gun. If Princess Peach had one she wouldn’t be stuck in another castle all the time.… Read More

Amazon starts MP3 price war with 69 cent popular tracks

Used to be that Amazon.com’s 69-cent MP3 section was the digital equivalent of the bargain bin at the record store,… Read More

Chart: Google, Amazon hiring fast; Microsoft takes it slow

Microsoft added a net total of 684 employees worldwide last quarter — the largest increase in its employment since the… Read More

HasOffers: Twin brothers bring a new face to affiliate marketing

Twins share many common attributes. But — Winklevoss twins aside — do they actually make good co-founders of startups? The… Read More

Idea Man? Ex-Microsoft geek reviews Paul Allen’s memoir

Guest Commentary: I want to thank Paul Allen for writing his memoirs. It’s great to hear the story of the… Read More

GeekWire contest: Win a Galaxy S 4G phone from T-Mobile USA

Update, May 5: Results and winners. We have a fun contest today for GeekWire followers on Facebook, with a chance… Read More

Amazon apologizes for outage, promises big improvements in communication

Amazon.com has issued a formal apology to customers who suffered through last week’s Elastic Block Store outage, offering a 10-day… Read More

PopCap pushes deeper into Facebook games, buys ZipZapPlay

PopCap Games is bolstering its position in social gaming, a move that comes as the Seattle game maker contemplates an… Read More

Grades changed at Seattle high schools after teacher passwords stolen

A high-tech hack has resulted in grades being altered at Seattle area high schools, according to a report by KIRO… Read More

Whoops: T-Mobile overestimates potential severance for ‘large number’ of employees

Somebody at T-Mobile USA is having a not very good day. Actually, make that lots of somebodies. Employees at the… Read More

Redbox getting into video games, like for reals this time

Coming soon to the front stoop of your local 7-Eleven: Master Chief and Mario. Redbox, the movie-rental subsidiary of Bellevue-based… Read More

Profits fall at Expedia as online travel giant invests in technology

Amazon.com isn’t the only big tech company that’s decided to cut into profits in order to invest in technology. Expedia,… Read More

Microsoft profits climb as Xbox, Office trump PC slump

Microsoft’s Xbox, Office and Windows Server businesses helped the company overcome a down quarter for the Windows PC market. The… Read More

Surprise — TV and celeb gossip works online: Wetpaint boasts 15M monthly page views

Wetpaint’s recent transition to an entertainment and celebrity gossip site appears to be working. Surprise. Surprise. The Seattle startup, which… Read More

Meet the four finalists for Zino’s $50,000 ‘green investment’ prize

Twenty one entrepreneurs in the areas of clean tech, green IT, energy efficiency and more competed at the ZINO Society’s… Read More

Time for A New Apartment? How Your Phone Can Help

It’s springtime and, in addition to tulips, baseball, and short sleeves, that means apartment-hunting time for many people. Traditionally, that… Read More

Hulu Plus on Xbox Live … just in time for PlayStation outage

Microsoft plans to launch the long-awaited Hulu Plus service for its Xbox Live network tomorrow, allowing Xbox Live Gold members… Read More

Sixteen budding businesses to watch, from the UW Business Plan Competition

Yesterday was my first exposure to the annual UW Business Plan Competition, held by the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship… Read More

Tech Moves: Fascitelli and Barokas together again, and other recent hires

We’ve been tracking a number of key appointments in the Seattle tech industry in recent weeks. Here are a few… Read More

The only wrong answer is 50/50: Calculating the co-founder equity split

Guest Commentary: The question of equity brings out the most fundamental differences, perceptions, and values in an aspiring startup. In… Read More

Kyle of South Park surprised by iPhone location tracking

You know you’ve got a PR situation on your hands when the South Park creators get involved. Apple is no… Read More

Unpleasant Horse arrives on the iPhone … ‘uncensored’

4th & Battery’s first mobile game, Unpleasant Horse, is now available in Apple’s app store, and it arrives “totally uncensored,”… Read More

Are You Leaving Money On The Table?

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

More Ideas for you

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

Nerd Notes: Tattooed teeth, the battleshoe and a Borderlands proposal

Eric Schmidt interviews Tina Fey at Google HQ. Highlights include Tina telling Eric he would be the kind of guest… Read More

So this is how it ends: Microsoft antitrust pact winding down, quietly

It might be hard to remember just how big Microsoft’s U.S. antitrust case was in its day, in part because… Read More

InfoSpace boosts profits, names Bill Ruckelshaus CEO

InfoSpace has had more lives than a cat. But the Bellevue Internet search company appears to be reinventing itself pretty… Read More

Nine-year-old boy gets his wish, creates an iPhone game

Most nine-year-old boys dream of meeting sports stars like Ichiro, Matt Hasselbeck or Kasey Keller. Not Owain Weinert. Weinert simply… Read More