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Jon Stewart: Google+ a good way to keep your secrets

Jon Stewart had quite a bit of fun at the expense of Google and Google+ last night, lampooning the FCC’s… Read More

Microsoft reaches carbon goal, but Greenpeace says its cloud is still too dirty

Reaching a goal it established three years ago, Microsoft says it has reduced its carbon emissions as a proportion of its… Read More

With Picnik set to shut down, former Picnik engineers scratch itch with PicMonkey

Google’s decision earlier this year to pull the plug on Picnik caught many by surprise, causing anger, frustration and sadness… Read More

As battle with Amazon rages, Walmart nominates Google vet Marissa Mayer to board

Walmart’s intensifying rivalry with Amazon.com has been well documented. And Walmart’s desires to become an even bigger presence in the… Read More

WildTangent opens new Seattle office, plans to hire more than 20 engineers for ‘secret’ project

We’ve seen a number of Silicon Valley technology companies pick Seattle for new development offices, highlighted most recently by Facebook’s… Read More

What your startup ought to know about Google search updates

If you don’t keep up with the top search engine blogs or Google’s own search blog, then you likely miss… Read More

Amazon launches new ‘CloudSearch’ for sites and apps

Amazon has tried a variety of different projects in search over the years, with its A9 search engine never becoming… Read More

New Google+ design hints at bigger ambitions for search giant’s social network

Google rolled out a major redesign for its Google+ social network this morning, aiming for a cleaner look overall. New… Read More

Comedian Jon Stewart rips Google glasses and Instagram’s $1B valuation

The weird and wild gyrations of the technology industry are certainly open to ridicule. And comedian Jon Stewart of The… Read More

Reality check: Google’s glasses, as viewed by an augmented-reality veteran

Google caused a big stir last week with the unveiling of its Project Glass augmented reality project, including a video… Read More

Video: What if Google’s glasses were made by Microsoft?

Google caused a stir in the tech world last week with the concept video above for its augmented reality glasses,… Read More

Podcast

GeekWire Radio: Google’s crazy glasses, text-spresso and predicting the price of your next gadget

This week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast, we debate the merits of Google’s augmented reality glasses, talk about… Read More

Poll: Would you wear these Google glasses in public?

Google co-founder Sergey Brin caused a stir at an event in San Francisco last night, sporting a prototype of the… Read More

Microsoft uses cash to boost Windows Phone, but some app developers aren’t biting

One of the big challenges Microsoft faces in mobile phones is that developers don’t have the time — or resources… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Ex-Google engineers guide Schedulista to profits after just 6 months

Seattle entrepreneurs Felix Livni and Lowell Manners are lean startup acolytes. And that philosophy is already paying dividends for the founders… Read More

Microsoft investigated Bing GM’s ties to handbag company

When Microsoft Bing marketing general manager Danielle Tiedt was hired by YouTube in February, Microsoft took the unusual step of… Read More

Google reveals Project Glass: Is this your augmented reality?

Google is providing the first public glimpse of the augmented-reality glasses being developed by its Google X research group under… Read More

Amazon tests in-app purchasing

In a bid to compete with Apple and Google, Amazon.com has begun testing a new service that would allow in-app… Read More

Majority of U.S. smartphone users now own an Android device

For the first time in history, a majority of smartphone users in the U.S. now own an Android device, according… Read More

Will a $199 Google tablet hurt or help the Kindle Fire?

Next to politics, perhaps no industry loves speculation more than tech. We may couch it as “analysis” or — if… Read More

Top 10 tech CEOs: Amazon’s Jeff Bezos takes a big fall (and Steve Ballmer is nowhere to be found)

Apple is not only killing it in the stock market and in the living room. The company’s top brass also… Read More

Microsoft embraces, extends open source mapping

File this under “the enemy of my enemy is my friend:” Microsoft is reportedly lending “big support and big dollars”… Read More

Facebook employees gripe about the long hours, while Googlers want more money

Google and Facebook are two of the hottest companies in tech. And with expanding operations in the Seattle area, both… Read More

Say, what? Myspace moves up in ranking of top 50 U.S. Web sites

Facebook and Pinterest may be all of the rage. But a social networking site of another era is having a… Read More

Google patent: Background noise from phone calls could be used to target ads

You’re attending a baseball game and call Google’s 411 service for information about a nearby restaurant. The cheers of the… Read More

Last hurdle for Google’s $12.5B Motorola deal: China

Antitrust regulators in Europe and the United States gave clearance last month to Google’s proposed $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola… Read More

Microsoft seeks patent on monetizing buttons of TV remote

How much would you pay to watch a replay of a great play, or skip a bunch of television commercials?… Read More

Back at Microsoft, ex-Googler gives changes at search giant a minus-1

Software testing guru James Whittaker left Microsoft to join Google back in 2009. Now he’s back at Microsoft, working as… Read More

Anatomy of a news story: How Bing and Google performed when Steve Jobs resigned

A new study out today from Seattle-based Optify attempts to get behind the scenes on how Bing and Google operate… Read More

Drunk driver who killed Google engineer Steve Lacey sentenced to 4 year maximum

The drunk driver who killed popular Google engineer Steve Lacey in a horrific accident on I-405 last July was sentenced… Read More