Tech companies are starved for talent, but the jobless rate doesn’t budge The market for software developers and engineers in the Seattle area is pretty tight, as evidenced by Zynga’s swanky party… Read More
RealNetworks huddles with (what’s left of) its employees RealNetworks has experienced a huge shakeup over the past couple years. Its founder Rob Glaser left the CEO’s office. The… Read More
The Daily What, Zillow and Justin Bieber nominated for Webbys Nominations were released this week for the 15th annual Webby Awards, the Oscars-style bash for Internet innovation, creativity and other… Read More
Zynga CEO Mark Pincus: ‘We are a confederation of entrepreneurs’ Zynga’s remarkable growth may be tied to hit games such as FarmVille, CityVille and Mafia Wars. But there’s another secret… Read More
Getting to know our Space Shuttle consolation prize OK, so we didn’t get one of the real Space Shuttles. But the thing we got looks a lot like… Read More
Amazon tells music labels it doesn’t need their permission for Cloud Drive, yet Billboard magazine has gotten its hands on a letter from Amazon.com to the major music labels that illustrates the philosophical… Read More
Ex-Microsoft employee charged with stealing $450k from company Federal prosecutors in Seattle have charged a former Microsoft business development director, Robert D. Curry, with three counts of wire… Read More
California dreaming: Ignition backs another startup with ties outside the region One of the interesting trends in the venture capital business around these parts over the past few months has been… Read More
Seattle social commerce startup Lockerz scores massive $30 million round Last week, Lockerz CEO Kathy Savitt told GeekWire that we’d have to “stay tuned” for news about the company’s future… Read More
Allen Institute: Human brains are more than 90% alike The Allen Institute for Brain Science this morning revealed a first-of-its-kind map that charts the complex inner workings of the… Read More
The sniping continues: Trulia heralds itself as the top dog over Zillow in online real estate Trulia CEO Pete Flint took a shot at his Seattle competitor Zillow.com last month, telling GeekWire that it was “just… Read More
IE10? Yep, Microsoft gives early preview of next browser Fresh off the release of Internet Explorer 9, Microsoft this morning gave the first small glimpse of its plans for… Read More
Calling Active Angels and Entrepreneurs! Open Angel Forum April 27th Editor’s Note: This post was originally published on Seattle 2.0, and imported to GeekWire as part of our acquisition of… Read More
Bad news, space fans: Seattle loses bid for Space Shuttle We’ve been watching with eager anticipation for today’s announcement on where the retired Space Shuttles will land. But it is… Read More
Sprint is the best wireless carrier in Seattle, while AT&T is the worst Sprint Nextel may be trailing rivals such as AT&T and Verizon on a national basis. But the third place carrier… Read More
Opera browser update boosts Turbo, improves Speed Dial New and upcoming versions of Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome have been getting a lot of attention lately, but Opera… Read More
Former Microsoft GM Anna Collins named president of PhotoRocket Anna Collins, a former general manager at Microsoft, has been tapped as president of PhotoRocket. Collins spent the past seven… Read More
Free Kindle? Don’t count on it For many months there has been speculation that Amazon.com might ultimately give away its Kindle e-reader as a way of… Read More
You Are Not Betting Big Enough 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: The Winklevoss twins go away, video games go for the Grammy and Brazil plays with LEGOs Judge tells Winklevoss twins to take the money, settlements don’t come in pairs. Google launches a daily trivia game, a… Read More
Sneak peek: Is this Microsoft’s Windows 8 App Store? Microsoft’s early planning documents for Windows 8, the next version of the PC operating system, suggested that the company was… Read More
University of Washington team wins National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition Next time your business is under a cyber attack, you may want to pick up the phone and call Alexei Czeskis. Czeskis… Read More
Wal-Mart to test ‘Project Titan,’ an online grocery delivery service The online grocery business is littered with the carcasses of old dot-coms, from HomeGrocer.com to Webvan to PublixDirect. But companies… Read More
The project that just won Microsoft’s U.S. Imagine Cup Earlier today I stopped by the Microsoft campus in Redmond to check out many of the finalists in the company’s… Read More
Kindle for Cheapskates: Amazon debuts $114 e-reader, with ads and deals Amazon.com’s Kindle just got cheaper for anyone willing to put up with some ads, or wanting to score some special… Read More
Data: Bing, Yahoo gain on Google Microsoft Bing and Yahoo both posted gains in the U.S. search market in March, lifting their combined market share to… Read More
Zapd tops 100,000 downloads, aims for 900,000 more People must really want to build Web sites, and build them fast. Zapd, the new iPhone app developed by Seattle… Read More
Ignition Partners’ Steve Hooper joins board of InfoSpace Steve Hooper, one of the founding members of Ignition Partners and the former CEO of AT&T Wireless, has joined the… Read More
Where will all the shuttles land? Seattle’s Museum of Flight among top bidders [Update, Tuesday morning: Bad news, space fans: Seattle loses bid for Space Shuttle] Tomorrow marks the 30 year anniversary of… Read More
Sprint’s latest ad strategy: Wish a Missouri woman a happy 100th birthday Sprint is locked in a heated battle with Verizon and AT&T, a situation that got more challenging with AT&T’s planned… Read More
