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Mobile News

Report: Location based services market to hit $10 billion by 2016

Earlier this week, we told you about Pirq, a new Kirkland startup that uses a mobile phone user’s location to… Read More

Want to avoid an avalanche? A new Android app might just help

Next time you’re facing an avalanche, you may want to make sure your Android phone is securely in your pocket.… Read More

Amazon.com exec: We haven’t been trying very hard in mobile … yet

Amazon.com conducted more than $1 billion in sales through its mobile channel last year. Not bad, considering that the company… Read More

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Startup Spotlight: AppsJack looks to streamline mobile app development

A number of startup companies are looking to make it painless for companies to build and manage mobile applications across… Read More

WildTangent, T-Mobile plan free Android mobile game service

WildTangent today announced that it plans to unveil a new gaming service in partnership with T-Mobile later this summer that… Read More

Zillow’s new iPhone app helps home shoppers get mortgage quotes on the go

Zillow’s mobile applications are some of the most frequently downloaded in the real estate industry. Now, it is adding a… Read More

Microsoft HealthVault enables Facebook login, vows not to tell friends about your test results

Microsoft’s HealthVault personal online repository for health data and electronic medical records has enabled Facebook authentication as an optional method… Read More

Shakeup at RootMetrics: Paul Griff out as CEO, replaced by Bill Moore

Paul Griff has stepped down as CEO of RootMetrics, the Bellevue startup that tracks the performance of wireless networks in… Read More

Clearwire shifts another 700 workers off its books

What’s going to be left of Clearwire? That’s what we thought after the Kirkland broadband wireless company announced this morning… Read More

Nirvana’s Nevermind reborn as interactive iPad app

It seems like ages ago that I was sitting in my college dorm room listening to Nirvana’s Nevermind on my… Read More

MetalStorm iPhone game takes off, approaches five million downloads

Z2Live’s new air combat game, MetalStorm, is turning on the after burners. Since its release in Apple’s App Store on… Read More

Trilogy, Madrona back stealthy mobile security startup Mobilisafe

Two of Seattle’s top venture capital firms are tossing their support behind Mobilisafe, a stealthy Bellevue startup led by former… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Viafo integrates Facebook and Twitter into mobile apps

Viafo reminds us a bit of the old BASF marketing line about “not making the products you buy, just making… Read More

Clearwire shareholder to CEO John Stanton: Time to sell some spectrum in order fill ‘cash hole’

Clearwire faces a nagging “cash hole in its business plan and Sprint is the only game in town to fill… Read More

BlueStacks brings Android apps to Windows, raises cash from ex-Microsofties

Have you ever wanted to take your favorite Android games, news or travel apps to your Windows PC? A new… Read More

Buster Benson sells popular iPhone app, focuses efforts on new social game

Seattle developer Buster Benson has sold Locavore — a popular mobile application that assists people in their quest to find… Read More

Amazon.com and T-Mobile want your dusty old gadgets

Suddenly that old phone gathering dust in your drawer is in high demand. Amazon.com today expanded its existing trade-in program… Read More

Zaarly looks to take on Craigslist, with help from LeVar Burton and Ashton Kutcher

Need a plumber, a DJ or a chainsaw carving of a bear? Welcome to Zaarly. Born at Startup Weekend in… Read More

Ericsson taking over management of Clearwire network, 700 employees making shift

Big move by Clearwire this morning, announcing that Ericsson will take over day-to-day management of the Kirkland company’s wireless 4G broadband… Read More

Video: Mobile startup lets you listen to Twitter

Google News rolled out some new features last week, allowing mobile phone users to find relevant news tied to nearby… Read More

Q&A: Starbucks mobile exec on Android, mobile ordering

At some point in the future, you may be able to order that Mocha Coconut Frappucinno from your mobile phone.… Read More

Are iPads mobile devices? A few experts weigh in

Are iPads and other tablet computers mobile devices? That was one of the lively discussions today at the MobileNorthwest conference in… Read More

Billing Revolution rings up $6.6 million, powers mobile payments for Zynga and others

The mobile phone is turning into a mobile purchasing device. And Billing Revolution wants to help lead that charge. The… Read More

Attention mobile devs: Hack the World’s Fair this Saturday

The organizers of “The Next Fifty,” a series of events that will mark the anniversary of the Seattle World’s Fair… Read More

Nordstrom testing iPods, other devices for checkout

Seattle-based retailer Nordstrom mentioned during its annual shareholders meeting yesterday that it has been testing mobile point-of-sale devices at its… Read More

How Big Fish knocked Angry Birds off its iPad perch (at least on Mother’s Day)

Call it the Mother’s Day mobile blitz. Big Fish Games made a serious push this past weekend with its mobile… Read More

This bulb is pretty brilliant: How Google wants to light up the home, starting with a light

Apart from the debut of a new music service and details of the next Android version, Google’s I/O conference today… Read More

Confirmed: Qik will become part of Microsoft, too

Hey, for $8.5 billion, you’d expect a little extra as part of a deal, and it turns out that Microsoft’s… Read More

A night at the Seattle 2.0 Awards: Watch the speeches of the 10 winners

Seattle’s startup community partied Thursday night at the annual Seattle 2.0 Awards, a celebration of the region’s top tinkerers, geeks,… Read More

Clearwire slaps Rover into oblivion

Remember Rover, the youth-oriented pay-as-you-go wireless service that Clearwire launched last summer? Probably not. And now you may never get a… Read More

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