Microsoft’s IE team: Pay no attention to those stats … yet Much has been made over the past week about Firefox 4 trouncing Internet Explorer 9 in total downloads since the… Read More
Rhapsody so far avoiding Apple’s 30%, ‘hopeful’ about resolving subscription dustup An updated version of Rhapsody’s app for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad was made available for download today. Yes, the… Read More
Exclusive: Fast-growing Swype scores cash from Ignition, hints at Apple iOS integration One of Seattle’s hottest startup companies has scored cash from one of the region’s biggest venture capital firms. Swype, which… Read More
Ex-Microsoft and Google interns launch Summify, with cash from Rob Glaser and others Two Romanian Web developers who recently landed in Vancouver, B.C. have just scored a first round of capital from RealNetworks… Read More
Google +1: Does this put the Internet search titan back in the social search game? Can Google make Internet search more social? That’s the goal with +1, a new service that allows Google users to… Read More
Washington AG Rob McKenna is keeping tabs on AT&T’s planned buy of T-Mobile One of the big fears surrounding AT&T’s proposed buyout of T-Mobile is that the deal will decrease competition in the… Read More
Microsoft marketing chief leaving after 22 years Mich Mathews, the senior vice president in charge of Microsoft’s global marketing initiatives — more than $1 billion in annual… Read More
Seattle: One miserable place Ok, there’s the darkness and the rain and the traffic and the political gridlock. But, really, Seattle is one of… Read More
Report: Paul Allen book has ‘created a rift’ with Bill Gates In telling the story of his early days with Bill Gates, a new memoir by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen appears… Read More
Salesforce.com buys Radian6 for $326 million: So, where’s Visible? Salesforce.com today announced plans to pay as much as $326 million for Radian6, a Canadian upstart whose tools help monitor… Read More
As ‘smartphone wars’ brew, RIM partners with Intellectual Ventures We’ve seen plenty of litigation in the mobile industry in recent months, with Microsoft, Apple, Google and others engaged in… Read More
Bill Gates and Paul Allen: The raw truth, as told by Allen The first excerpt from Paul Allen’s upcoming memoir, Idea Man, was published online by Vanity Fair tonight. After reading it,… Read More
Nightly Notes: Nintendo 3DS, Amazon’s Scratchpad, Android, Space Shuttles and spam First-day U.S. sales of the Nintendo 3DS set a new company record. Look next for aspirin shortages. The record labels… Read More
Amazon Cloud Drive: What the critics, naysayers and fanboys say Since its debut Monday night, Amazon.com’s new Cloud Drive music storage service has attracted plenty of attention. (Team GeekWire, in… Read More
Report: Windows Phone to add NFC mobile payments One of the biggest buzzwords in the mobile industry right now is NFC, or Near Field Communication — a short-range… Read More
Zapd: ‘We built it, they came, but Facebook pulled up the drawbridge’ Guest Commentary: We launched Zapd yesterday to great fanfare — hundreds of users were signing up each hour and posting… Read More
Microsoft uses Amazon to bolster Apple ‘App Store’ fight Microsoft’s fight against Apple’s attempt to trademark the phrase “App Store” took on new significance last week when Apple sued… Read More
Stats: Hotmail still on top worldwide; Gmail gets bigger While researching this morning’s story about the latest interactive features from Microsoft’s Windows Live Hotmail, I realized it had been… Read More
Bobber Interactive brings gamification to personal finance for the Facebook set Gamification is the hot buzzword these days. And Seattle startup Bobber Interactive is looking to capitalize on the trend, bringing… Read More
Jonathan Sposato: Why I’m on Team GeekWire When you love the startup scene as much as I do, you want to breathe, eat, and sleep in that… Read More
Meet the other GeekWire partner: Jonathan Sposato There’s another piece to the GeekWire story, and we’re excited to talk about it. When we launched this technology news… Read More
Prediction: Windows Phone will top iPhone by 2015 A new study from the IDC research firm predicts that Microsoft’s Windows Phone will surpass the iPhone and Blackberry in… Read More
TechStars lands $8 million TechStars has raised $8 million in fresh funding as it looks to support its technology incubator programs in Seattle, Boston,… Read More
Dan Shapiro launches Sparkbuy, a search engine for laptops and TVs Dan Shapiro got really frustrated trying to find a new laptop. So frustrated, in fact, that the Seattle entrepreneur decided… Read More
Hotmail gets interactive with Netflix, Posterous, LivingSocial Microsoft’s Hotmail team today will show how more companies plan to use its “Active Views” technology — interactive email messages… Read More
Frazier Healthcare buys Onsite Services Seattle venture capital firm Frazier Healthcare has purchased Onsite Services, an instrument and management repair business previously owned by publicly-traded… Read More
Exiting RealNetworks CEO gets $2M on the way out Bob Kimball, the departing RealNetworks CEO, will receive a severance payment of $1.7 million from the company plus another $283,000… Read More
Moving Without The Ball Editor’s Note: This post was originally published on Seattle 2.0, and imported to GeekWire as part of our acquisition of… Read More
Indochino stitches together $4M, plans to revolutionize men’s suit design Buying a high-quality, custom-made suit is typically something reserved for the rich and famous. But imagine if you could get… Read More
Amazon unveils Cloud Drive, a cloud-based online music service Can Amazon.com knock Apple off its digital music perch? The Seattle online retailer sure is trying to make inroads against… Read More
