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Tablets are the new game consoles, and other game industry predictions for 2012

Guest Commentary: The video game industry is changing like never before. Here are my best attempts at peering into the crystal… Read More

Barnes & Noble ponders spinning off Nook e-reader business

Yesterday, The Wall Street Journal reported that Barnes & Noble was looking to sell its book publishing arm. Today, the company… Read More

Welcome to Seattle, where 1 out 124 people own a Kindle Fire

The Kindle Fire has been an absolute smashing success, and nowhere has it caught ablaze quite like Amazon.com’s hometown of… Read More

As Amazon accelerates into book publishing, rival Barnes & Noble plans exit

This certainly is interesting timing. As Amazon.com accelerates its push into the book publishing business, Barnes & Noble appears to… Read More

Walmart scoops up mobile dev shop that built iPhone apps for Starbucks, Zipcar and others

Small Society, a tiny Portland mobile application development firm which in the past has developed apps for Starbucks, Amazon.com, Zipcar… Read More

Seattlepi.com chief Michelle Nicolosi resigns to launch new electronic book publishing firm

Michelle Nicolosi, who led the charge for the SeattlePI.com after Hearst Corp. shut down the physical newspaper operations in March… Read More

Apple vs. Amazon: Plot thickens with reports of iBooks event

Amazon.com’s growing rivalry with Apple appears poised to take an interesting twist. Apple is planning a press event later this month… Read More

Nasdaq closes with a loss for 2011: A look back at the top and bottom performers

It was a tough year for most of the publicly-traded tech companies in Washington state, with just a handful posting… Read More

Our picks: GeekWire’s favorite stories (and people) of 2011

Earlier this week, we listed your favorite stories of 2011 — the 100 most-popular news items, columns and features on… Read More

Bidding heats up for AllRecipes: Are Amazon, AOL and Random House stirring in the kitchen?

It’s no secret that AllRecipes.com — the wildly popular online recipe site — is on the auction block. In fact,… Read More

Amazon’s Bezos spends hours in computer science labs, checking in on the future

Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos spent several hours at the University of Washington Computer Science & Engineering department before the holiday… Read More

Year in Review: The 100 most popular stories on GeekWire

Whoa, can we catch our breath now? We’ve certainly had plenty to cover on the tech beat over the past… Read More

Amazon Kindle line sets new mark, topping 4M in December sales

Amazon.com this morning released new Kindle sales stats and called this the best holiday on record for the product line… Read More

Garden gnomes and elephants: How would you answer these 25 oddball interview questions?

The tech economy is firing on all cylinders, but that doesn’t mean it is any easier to get a job… Read More

A huge haul: U.S. online holiday spending tops $35B

Online retailers raked in some big bucks this holiday season, with comScore today releasing a report showing that e-commerce spending… Read More

Amazon tops customer satisfaction survey as Netflix takes a big hit

This is hardly a surprise. Amazon.com distanced itself from Netflix in the ForeSee Holiday E-Retail Satisfaction Index, an annual study… Read More

Kindle case maker calls Amazon.com a corporate bully in federal lawsuit

M-Edge Accessories, a 50-person Maryland maker of sleeves and protective cases for electronic reading devices, is suing Amazon.com for patent infringement,… Read More

Amazon.com quietly acquires the social shopping whizzes at Quorus

A few weeks ago, we reported that Quorus co-founder Logan Bowers had left the upstart to become a senior software… Read More

Infographic: Amazon versus Apple, PayPal, Dropbox and the rest of the tech world

We’ve been watching in amazement over the past 18 months or so as Amazon.com has risen to prominence as one… Read More

From Amazon to Zillow: The eight big tech triumphs of 2011

As the year draws to a close, we’ve been looking back at some of the key moments of 2011 in… Read More

Amazon.com picks Boston for new development center

Amazon.com has been growing like a weed over the past year, hiring hundreds of engineers and developers at its new… Read More

Google, Microsoft and Yahoo lead list of the top 50 most visited Web properties in the U.S.

Google ranked as the most visited Web site during the month of November, attracting 186 million visitors. That was just… Read More

Geek Humor on Conan: Fake Jeff Bezos offers a few fixes for Kindle Fire

Problems with Amazon.com’s new tablet computer have been well documented, with the Seattle online retailer today announcing a software update… Read More

Ask Andru: Eight last-minute ideas for cool tech gifts

[Editor’s Note: Andru Edwards of Gear Live and the Ask Andru column joined us on this week’s GeekWire radio show and… Read More

Amazon rolls out Kindle Fire update to fix early problems

With just a few days to spare before Christmas, Amazon.com has released a previously promised Kindle Fire software update (Version… Read More

Whoa, Amazon considered buying BlackBerry maker RIM

I guess Amazon.com really is serious about getting into the mobile phone business. Reuters today reported that the Seattle online… Read More

Americans post biggest week in online shopping since dawn of time

If you bought something online last week, you were part of history. Americans spent nearly $6.3 billion to buy stuff over… Read More

Amazon makes last-minute Kindle holiday push with free shipping

Amazon.com has already sold millions of Kindles this holiday season, but it’s still hoping to get more of them under… Read More

Is Amazon.com the new grinch?

Walmart used to be the menace of main street. But now, small mom-and-pop retailers (along with their big box brethren)… Read More

Amazon signs big-name Hollywood producers for its first crowdsourced films

Amazon Studios has lined up three well-known Hollywood producers for three movies that have emerged from its unique public development… Read More