Paul Allen is sticking with the Blazers for now, but says there’s no joy to losing money Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen isn’t getting out of the basketball business, but his days of spending big bucks may be… Read More
Urban Airship takes flight with purchase of SimpleGeo Urban Airship, a Portland startup that specializes in push notifications and in-app transactions, has acquired San Francisco’s SimpleGeo in an… Read More
Fast-growing startup BankSimple flees NYC for Portland: Here’s why Portland’s startup technology community often gets treated as second fiddle to Seattle. But the city got a nice boost today… Read More
Ignition, Founder’s Co-op and Madrona join forces to back AppFog Three Seattle area venture capital firms are allying to back Portland’s AppFog, which has created new technologies that allow developers… Read More
Portland’s Cedexis scores cash from Madrona and ATV, looks to help Web sites boost performance In the late 1990s, Len Jordan was working on content distribution networking technologies at RealNetworks when some of the folks… Read More
Google tosses support behind the Portland Incubator Experiment We’ve talked before about how Google has Portland fever — using the Rose City to test new products like Google… Read More
Seattle and Portland should do more to become BFFs Now, admittedly, I’m getting to write this guest post because I lost a bet. But let’s not let that muddy… Read More
Portland Seed Fund tests public-private VC model: Could a similar idea take root in Seattle? On the GeekWire podcast last week, we chatted with Rick Turoczy of Portland’s Silicon Florist blog about the differences between… Read More
Podcast Rewind: Sizing up the Seattle and Portland tech scenes Our guest this past week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast was Rick Turoczy of Portland-area tech news blog… Read More
Tech Moves: ISB attracts an all-star fundraiser; Blue Nile taps a Starbucks vet; and more We’ve been tracking a number of key departures, appointments and new hires in the Pacific Northwest tech industry in recent… Read More
Podcast GeekWire Radio: Netflix, Microsoft, EA, and Seattle vs. Portland in tech … and soccer Special bonus this week: An early edition of the GeekWire radio show/podcast, including our take on the Netflix price hike;… Read More
Geek of the Week: Dave Howell, Avatron Software Nope, that’s not the Seattle skyline in the background of that picture. For this week’s Geek of the Week, we’re… Read More
Startup incubator reheats in Portland with help from Coke, Nike and Target The Portland Incubator Experiment, also known as PIE, is looking to hatch a new batch of startups this fall with… Read More
Act-On Software scores $10M from Trinity, Voyager and others With revenue expected to grow by 300 percent this year, Act-On Software has raised $10 million in financing from Trinity… Read More
Is Portland the new Peoria? Google Offers arrives at Floyd’s For years, marketers wondered how their products or services would play in Peoria. Now, is Portland becoming that marketing hotspot… Read More
ShopIgniter lands $8 million to help retailers establish storefronts on Facebook ShopIgniter has helped Nike, CafePress and more than 100 other customers establish retail outposts on Facebook. Now, the Portland startup… Read More
