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Startup Spotlight: Diptic app makes photo collages a breeze

Peak Systems has been around for more than a decade, building Web sites and mobile applications for a number of… Read More

OneWed helps you plan your wedding on an iPad

Trying to plan for a wedding can be an arduous process. You have to decide on everything from the gown… Read More

Q&A: Chao Zhang explains how humans will interact with computers in the future

Chao Zhang has followed technology around the world — from China to Germany and finally to Seattle, where he joined… Read More

Startup Weekend to ring NYSE Opening Bell, marking entrepreneur milestone

Startup Weekend has come a long way since its birth just three years ago, and the non-profit will celebrate the… Read More

Seattle cloud services startup 2nd Watch raises $4.2 million

Madrona Venture Group is finishing the year with a bang, bankrolling a series of startup companies.  The latest is 2nd… Read More

TechStars grad MobileDevHQ raises cash to help app developers get more downloads

Mobile app developers need all of the help they can get when trying to build momentum. After all, hundreds of… Read More

Deutsche Telekom boss to step down at end of next year

Deutsche Telekom, the parent company of Bellevue-based T-Mobile, announced today that CEO Rene Obermann plans to step down by the end… Read More

Startup orphans: More than 1,000 seed-stage companies to be abandoned

It is typical for seed-stage startups to fizzle out before they really get going, oftentimes unable to raise the next… Read More

How geeks do charity: Use your GPU to churn out goats

Your computer’s graphics processor might be more charitable than you think. CoinLab, a Seattle-based tech startup that focuses on the… Read More

Redfin to top $50M in sales: Kelman says there’s more to the Internet than ‘just running ads for other people’

Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman popped by the TechCrunch offices earlier today to talk about the company’s new Collections photo service,… Read More

Startup CEOs predict a funding level bump in 2013, but VCs aren’t so sure

It’s never easy trying to figure out what will happen in the venture capital business. But, nonetheless, it is predictions… Read More

A familiar face at AdReady: Aaron Finn returns as CEO

AdReady co-founder Aaron Finn stepped down from the online advertising rat race a few years ago to return to his… Read More

Stop slouching! Startup scores cash for high-tech posture-sensing waistband

Now, here’s a product that just seems perfect for desk-bound, laptop-typing geeks like us. Meet the Lumo BodyTech, a device… Read More

Appnique looks to help mobile developers stand out in a crowded sea of apps

There’s no shortage of mobile applications floating around, with Apple’s app store alone counting nearly 340,000 apps created just this year.… Read More

Introducing GeekWire 200: Seattle’s Startup Leaderboard

GeekWire is excited to reintroduce a Seattle tech tradition today: a ranked index of the region’s technology startups, using publicly available… Read More

Concur leads $9 million investment in Nor1, a service to help hotels upsell guests

Concur continues to put money to work in the online travel arena, announcing today that it is leading a $9… Read More

This Kickstarter campaign is a puzzle fan’s dream — and a puzzle unto itself

Puzzazz, the Redmond-based puzzle technology startup, is turning its creative energy loose on Kickstarter with a new campaign to fund… Read More

Garmin navigation apps speed ahead with location sharing from Glympse

Seattle startup Glympse continues to  gain momentum, announcing a partnership agreement today with navigation leader Garmin. As part of the… Read More

Meritshare aims to help companies motivate, retain teams

Companies spend days, hours and weeks making sure they hire the right people. Sometimes, though, they forget to keep their… Read More

INRIX hires new CFO as it heads down the IPO path, picks startup vet to lead mobile efforts

INRIX is driving toward an initial public offering, and today the Kirkland-based provider of traffic information analysis hired a new… Read More

Meet Rudy Gadre: This former Facebook and Amazon exec is lighting up Seattle’s angel scene

Rudy Gadre admits it. He’s a Seattle “homer.” And that deep hometown pride might be a very good thing for… Read More

Q&A: OfferUp’s Nick Huzar on startup lessons from facing off with a rhino

OfferUp CEO Nick Huzar knows you have a bunch of stuff in your garage, and he wants to help you… Read More

Commentary: Strategies for accelerating clean tech startups

Recently, the Northwest Energy Angels convened a breakfast briefing on cleantech investing, and I had the honor of moderating a… Read More

Blue Box raises more cash, this time from David Frankel’s Founder Collective

Jesse Proudman’s Blue Box has reeled in $800,000 in fresh capital, part of an oversubscribed venture capital round that the… Read More

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Podcast: Google Maps, Amazon + Facebook, and EveryMove’s ‘mileage program’ for your health

You can get rewarded for shopping, eating, gambling, flying and pretty much everything else these days. But what about rewards… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Amazon and Microsoft vets unpack Boxella to track product manuals

Vikas Khandelwal and Pankaj Sethi met as classmates nearly 16 years ago at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur. As… Read More

Q&A: Former Microsoft exec Brian Arbogast on why he’s betting big on clean tech

Brian Arbogast cut his teeth in the software business, spending more than two decades at Microsoft. But now the former… Read More

Dropbox ‘acqui-hires’ Seattle music service Audiogalaxy

Audiogalaxy, a music streaming service that was initially created more than a decade ago by developer Michael Merhej, has been… Read More

Rich Barton and Nick Hanauer on startups, the fiscal cliff and ‘creative disruption’

Zillow chairman Rich Barton and aQuantive co-founder Nick Hanauer are two of Seattle’s most accomplished entrepreneurs, having created billion-dollar companies… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Tether Technologies makes sure you never lose master keys again

Tether Technologies founder Randy Neely’s entrepreneurial spark occurred more than a decade ago when a security company he managed lost… Read More

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