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Mobile News

No cross-town love from T-Mobile’s John Legere, who predicts the Amazon phone will fail on AT&T

T-Mobile’s John Legere still must be bitter from having to move his press conference to accommodate Amazon’s big unveiling, which was coincidentally… Read More

Nuance sale talks put valuable speech-recognition patent portfolio up for grabs

Nuance Communications, a company with deep expertise in speech-recognition industry, may be up for sale. The Burlington, Mass.-based company has been in talks… Read More

Mayday button could broaden appeal of Amazon smartphone

The rumored 3D interface for Amazon’s expected smartphone may get the buzz later this week. But there is another potential killer… Read More

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GeekWire Radio: Amazon music, Lively shutdown, and the new world of tech design

We’ve got a lot to discuss on this week’s GeekWire radio show, starting with our thoughts on Amazon’s new Prime Music… Read More

T-Mobile hosting another Macklemore performance for ‘Uncarrier 5.0’ event

Those attending T-Mobile’s “Uncarrier 5.0” event in Seattle next Wednesday will get to enjoy live music from what appears to… Read More

News nearby! Breaking News app adds ‘proximity alerts’ based on user location

The Breaking News app for iPhone is breaking new ground in the world of personalized mobile news alerts. An update to… Read More

Music app Lively closing doors: ‘We just ran out of time’

In a surprise move, Seattle music startup Lively has closed it doors, laying off most of its 22 employees. “We… Read More

Nokia acquires mobile analytics company Medio for ‘Here’ location platform

Nokia today announced its acquisition of Medio Systems, a Seattle-based mobile predictive analytics startup. Nokia ‘Here‘ location platform — which is not… Read More

A T-Mobile and Sprint tie-up will look more pink than yellow

What do you get when you mix the third-and-fourth-largest wireless phone carriers together? You get a combined wireless carrier that… Read More

Bootstrapping vacation rentals startup Dwellable raises $2M from Seattle angels

For years, Adam Doppelt refused to take venture capital financing, using a strict bootstrapping ethos to build companies such as… Read More

What if the World Cup was like the wireless industry? T-Mobile imagines the outcome

Have you ever wondered what it’d be like if soccer followed similar rules to those found in the wireless industry? No,… Read More

T-Mobile moves next week’s Uncarrier event to Seattle, riding Amazon’s coattails

T-Mobile told members of the press planning to attend its “Uncarrier 5.0” event in Los Angeles next week that it… Read More

The 5 coolest features in Apple’s iOS 8 that you may have missed

Earlier this week, Apple outlined many of the cool new features in iOS 8, but one part of the presentation… Read More

Study: Majority of people don’t mind sharing their location with apps

Not sure about you, but I’m typically wary of letting apps on my smartphone track my location. According to a new… Read More

Sprint, T-Mobile reportedly moving closer to $50B merger

Sprint’s merger with T-Mobile is moving closer to reality. Sources tell Bloomberg that Sprint is set to offer 50 percent stock… Read More

Meet Wagon: An Uber for delivering giant objects

Back in 2008, Mike Hanson decided to do a little A/B test on Craigslist. He listed the same piece of… Read More

Hey AT&T, don’t throttle me!

There’s a great debate that occasionally rages here in the GeekWire offices. Unlimited cellular data plans, or lower-cost metered plans?… Read More

Smartphone market share: Android stays ahead of Apple, Microsoft widens lead over Blackberry

comScore is out with its latest monthly U.S. smartphone market share stats, and Android continues to stay ahead of the pack… Read More

Time Inc. buys family scheduling app Cozi

Seattle startup Cozi, founded in 2005 by former Microsoft manager Robbie Cape, has been acquired by Time Inc. in a… Read More

Sprint chairman hints again at T-Mobile merger plans, praises John Legere

Sprint Chairman Masayoshi Son isn’t giving up on a merger between T-Mobile and Sprint, based on his comments at Re/code’s… Read More

Mary Meeker’s full Internet trends presentation: Mobile booming while online slows

Mary Meeker, the former Wall Street analyst now working at Kleiner Perkins, gave her highly quotable and tweetable Internet trends report… Read More

Microsoft buys Paris startup Capptain to better analyze mobile app usage

Microsoft is buying Capptain, a small Paris-based startup that helps mobile developers get a better sense of how people are using… Read More

The next battleground for Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook and Google: Artificial Intelligence

  Digital personal assistants today can help you send messages, place phone calls, schedule meetings or find answers from the… Read More

58% of Seattle residents now have a smartphone; cable TV subscriptions dropping

A majority of people have smartphones, everybody wants faster Internet, and cable subscriptions are dropping as a result of online video.… Read More

Mobile? What’s that? Google claims ignorance in response to SEC inquiry

Google’s argument for why it shouldn’t have to break out mobile revenues is because it’s not sure how to differentiate one… Read More

Smart address book Addappt expands to Android, adds new iPhone features

Addappt, a smart address book created by veterans of LinkedIn and Microsoft, rolled out a new version of its iPhone app… Read More

Here comes yet another marketplace to connect home owners with service providers: HouseCall raises $1.5 million

Home owners should have little trouble these days finding plumbers, house painters and other service providers to work on their… Read More

Mike McSherry departs Nuance three years after selling Swype for $100 million

Mike McSherry, a Seattle start-up veteran, has left Nuance Communications nearly three years after the company purchased Swype, GeekWire has learned.… Read More

AT&T’s $48.5 billion DirecTV deal boosts chances of Sprint combining with T-Mobile

AT&T’s deal to acquire DirecTV for $48.5 billion will significantly expand AT&T’s reach, adding more than 38 million digital TV customers and… Read More

Hanauer brothers and others back Sworl, an easy way to frame your mobile photos

Looking to do something meaningful with those photos trapped on your iPhone? Here comes Sworl, a new photo framing service… Read More

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