Articles from 2011 – Page 94 of 107

Zillow.com makes its first buy: Online listing service Postlets

Zillow.com has pretty much grown on its own since Rich Barton and Lloyd Frink founded the company in 2005, preferring… Read More

Windows app store Allmyapps reaches 100,000 users

Allmyapps, an online app store for Windows PC reminiscent of Apple’s App Store for Mac, this morning announced that it… Read More

Chart: Money flows to the top of the class in venture capital

Some may say that the venture capital model is broken. But that’s not stopping money from flowing into the coffers… Read More

Microsoft calls Google out after U.S. disputes Google Apps for Gov’t security claim

Documents unsealed last week by a federal court, and posted online by Microsoft this morning, show the U.S. government disputing… Read More

CPMs or CPCs? Nope, BigDoor has its eye on the CPQ: Cost Per Quest

You may have heard of CPMs or CPCs. But Seattle startup BigDoor wants to start a movement around another online… Read More

Marcelo Calbucci lands CTO gig at EveryMove, Andy Liu joins board

Marcelo Calbucci has a new gig. The founder of Seattle 2.0 today was named the chief technology officer at EveryMove,… Read More

Microsoft ‘TouchStudio’ uses phone to program phone

The capabilities of mobile phones have come a long way in the past few years, but a new Windows Phone… Read More

Marchex increases bet on the phone call, agrees to buy Jingle Networks for $62.5M

About a year ago, Marchex placed a big bet on call advertising. And now the Seattle company is doubling down… Read More

Keeping it simple – things we didn’t do which made our business better

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

Seattle teens behind ‘The Grim Tweeper’ app dream of making it big … in Silicon Valley

Wesley Zhao and Ajay Mehta have been friends since the fourth grade, attending Stevenson Elementary, Odle Middle School and Interlake… Read More

Hands-on with the Sounders FC iPhone app at Qwest Field: We’d call it a draw

The Seattle Sounders finally secured a victory at Qwest Field on Saturday, led by goalkeeper Kasey Keller who repelled several… Read More

‘The second bubble started with Twitter and Facebook,’ and other comments of the week

It’s been another action-packed week here at GeekWire as we continue to scour the tech landscape for interesting, offbeat and… Read More

Ticket Giveaway: Here’s your chance to attend WordCamp Seattle for free

GeekWire is proud to be built on the back of WordPress. We’ve been absolutely blown away by the flexibility and… Read More

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GeekWire Podcast: Sports, Twitter, beer, apps and startups

We’ve got sports on our brains this week, with a roundup of the latest technological “innovations” at Mariners and Sounders… Read More

Nerd Notes: Woz seems lonely, YouTube seems bored and Apple doesn’t seem to like horses

Woz says he’d mull return to Apple if asked — which he hasn’t been. Geek Zodiac. Too bad geeks don’t… Read More

Early Microsoft partner HTC rides Android past new Microsoft partner Nokia

Microsoft and HTC tied their fortunes together in the emerging smartphone market a decade ago, back when people were still… Read More

Marooned on Bainbridge, fast-growing Avalara establishes Seattle outpost

We’ve seen high-tech companies — including Google, Microsoft and Tableau Software — open offices on both sides of Lake Washington… Read More

U.S. lets Google’s ITA deal fly, with some baggage

The U.S. Justice Department and Google have reached a deal clearing the way for the search giant’s $700 million acquisition… Read More

Struggling MOD Systems places employees on leave

MOD’s kiosk technology MOD Systems has placed a number of its employees on leave as the Seattle maker of digital… Read More

Apple finds PopCap game ‘Unpleasant Horse’ just a little too unpleasant

This probably was not the way that PopCap Games’ experimental game studio 4th & Battery wanted to start off. Then… Read More

SEC to review rules on how startups raise money

Guest Commentary: Breathtaking, front-page news in the Wall Street Journal this morning. Securities and Exchange Commission chief Mary Schapiro has… Read More

Comcast iPad app adopts Microsoft media technology

In a bit of cross-lake collaboration, Microsoft is now working with thePlatform, Comcast’s Seattle-based tech subsidiary, to integrate some of… Read More

Adeo Ressi to Seattle angels: It’s time to get off the sidelines

Adeo Ressi was in town this week, battling a nasty case of pink eye and a broken toe. But those… Read More

Two Days in Silicon Valley: An inside look at 23 startups from Dave McClure’s Demo Days

I’ve been thinking a lot about passion lately — passion for ideas, teams, the shared pursuit of common goals. More… Read More

‘Hoarders’ psychologist helps me stop being a digital packrat

A couple weeks ago I cleared more than 10,000 emails from my primary personal webmail inbox, dating back almost three… Read More

Expedia to split into two companies, separating out TripAdvisor

Expedia announced today that it plans to separate into two publicly-traded companies, one which will operate the more traditional online… Read More

Facebook shakes things up, shares data center secrets

Facebook today took the unusual step of starting to share with the world the techniques it has developed to make… Read More

Play Ball! A lineup of the top five Android baseball apps

Major League Baseball is in full swing and, with all the new Android users out there, we at AppStoreHQ thought… Read More

Coming soon to our local Laser Dome: Bieber Fever

Seattle’s Pacific Science Center Laser Dome is one of our favorite local attractions — a geeky night out that everyone… Read More

Podcast

Rewind: Can these 3 funny guys build a viable startup?

There’s no question that the guys at Seattle startup Giant Thinkwell are funny, as evidenced by their April Fool’s Day… Read More