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Android 5.0 is here, and it’s one slick-looking Lollipop

As expected, Google launched its latest version of Android today alongside a new Nexus 6 smartphone and Nexus 9 tablet.… Read More

Google’s Nexus 9 marks the end to HTC’s three-year long tablet hiatus

Google announced the Nexus 9 this morning, a new 8.9-inch tablet built in partnership with HTC. Google will start taking… Read More

Google undercuts Amazon Prime fees by charging $95 a year for same-day delivery

Google said today it is launching its same-day delivery service in three new markets and unveiled a new pricing scheme that offers… Read More

Google’s Eric Schmidt: Our biggest search competitor is Amazon — not Microsoft or Yahoo

When it comes to competition for search engine traffic, Google isn’t most worried about Microsoft Bing or Yahoo as a threat… Read More

John Legere

What’s next for T-Mobile? The list of potential acquirers may surprise you

French Telecom provider Iliad said today it was pulling the plug on its plans to acquire T-Mobile. So, if not… Read More

Chart: BlackBerry may have finally hit rock bottom in U.S. market share

Watching BlackBerry’s share of smartphone subscribers in the U.S. has been like watching a very slowly deflating balloon. It seems… Read More

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Google, Apple, Microsoft: Propelled, and trapped, by their brands

Thought experiment: You have developed a groundbreaking computing device, a worthy hardware challenger to every laptop, tablet, phablet, and phone… Read More

What happened when we asked geeky kids, ‘Who’s better: Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, or Google?’

A few weeks ago, GeekWire put out a casting call on the site for geeky kids, inviting their parents to… Read More

Time for another cloud pricing war: Google announces price cuts for Compute Engine

Google kicked off what’s sure to be another pricing war in the public cloud services arena today by dropping the… Read More

Adobe brings streaming version of Photoshop to Google’s Chromebooks

Google’s Chromebooks are continuing to gather steam. Today, the company announced that Adobe will be bringing its Creative Cloud software… Read More

DHL beats Amazon, Google with first drone deliveries

Amazon and Google may have received all the attention so far with their drone delivery plans, but it’s actually a long-standing… Read More

Tech Moves: Google X founder leaves, Urbanspoon names CTO, Avanade bolsters board

—Sebastian Thrun, the co-founder of Google X, has left his roles as a Vice President and Fellow at the Mountain View… Read More

Google revives partnership with HTC to build the Nexus 9 tablet

HTC hasn’t developed a tablet in three years, so a partnership between Google and HTC to do just that seems a little odd. But… Read More

Should I switch to iPhone? Help this longtime Android user pick his next smartphone

There’s something all the initial iPhone 6 reviews share in common: They’re incredibly positive. The Verge. Mashable. Engadget. Walt Mossberg. David… Read More

News Brief

Starbucks finally updates Android app to allow for digital tipping

Starbucks has finally updated its Android app to enable its customers to tip their baristas using their phone. Customers will now have… Read More

Google’s 1,400 Washington employees donate to local schools through crowdfunding campaigns

Google’s 1,400 employees in Washington state surprised teachers by fully funding classroom requests from every teacher in King, Pierce, and… Read More

Microsoft to release new keyboard for iPads, Android tablets

People on the lookout for a new iPad keyboard will soon be able to pick up a new model from…Microsoft?… Read More

Amazon spent $158 million on Google search ads in 2013, more than anyone

Amazon.com is competing with Google in a number of arenas, from phones to cloud services to drones. But this could… Read More

Chromebooks aren’t just for kids anymore: How my mom made the switch from Windows

Like many GeekWire readers, I’m the de-facto IT support guy in our family. So when my mother’s laptop began to fail… Read More

Google Cloud Platform courts startups with $100K in credits

In an attempt to gain market share among up-and-coming startups, Google announced a new Cloud Platform for Startups program today… Read More

Yep, time to change passwords: 5 million Gmail credentials posted online

Almost 5 million Gmail usernames and passwords were posted to a Russian bitcoin forum today, causing a whole bunch of email… Read More

Taking stock of the winners and losers: How Wall Street reacted to Apple’s announcements

You would have thought that new iPhones, the Apple Watch and an extensive mobile payments service would be enough to… Read More

5 reasons Apple is poised to finally usher in a cashless society

A endless list of companies — from wireless carriers and handset makers to tech giants as big as Google — have… Read More

Apple picks up U.S. smartphone market share, Microsoft sees slight gains

It looks like Apple’s back-to-school shopping promotion has done good things for the company’s sales of iPhones, according to a… Read More

Google agrees to refund customers $19M over kids’ in-app purchases

Google will refund at least $19 million to parents who paid for in-app purchases that their children made on Android devices without their knowledge… Read More

News Brief

Google rebrands enterprise products as ‘Google for Work’

Google announced today that it is rebranding its products for businesses as “Google for Work” as a part of the… Read More

Amazon Prime Air drone

Avoiding news copters and skyscrapers: NASA developing automated air traffic control system for drones

Everyone is talking about drones. From bans at National Parks to Google’s new experimental Project Wing, unmanned aerial vehicles are… Read More

Podcast

GeekWire Radio: How the big wireless carriers stack up

Are you happy with your current wireless carrier? This week on the GeekWire radio show, we explore the relative strengths… Read More

Look out, Amazon: Google is taking to the skies with its own delivery drones

As it turns out, Amazon isn’t the only major internet company that plans to provide drone delivery. Google has been… Read More

Watch out, GoDaddy: Google’s no-fuss domain service poses threat to traditional registrars

Yesterday morning, Google let me into its new invite-only domain registration service, and I decided to give it a test run… Read More

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