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Seattle cloud startup Hubspan acquired by Liason Technologies

In a deal of undisclosed size, Seattle-based Hubspan has been acquired by Liaison Technologies. Atlanta-based Liason is a provider of cloud integration… Read More

Four minutes on the train with … Portland startup guru Rick Turoczy of PIE

Editor’s note: Team GeekWire participated in the Geeks on a Train voyage between Portland, Seattle and Vancouver, B.C. Tuesday night… Read More

Sequoia sinks $5M in FutureAdvisor to transform how people manage money

Sequoia Capital is investing $5 million in FutureAdvisor, a two-year-old Seattle startup that’s looking to transform the way people choose… Read More

Four minutes on the train with … Microryza’s Denny Luan

Editor’s note: Team GeekWire participated in the Geeks on a Train voyage between Seattle and Vancouver, B.C. as part of… Read More

iPad and iPhone accessory maker Discovery Bay Games uncovers $15 million

Discovery Bay Games, a maker of gaming accessories and add-ons for tablet computers and smartphones, has raised $15 million from Trilogy… Read More

QuestionPro gobbles up PollBob to bolster mobile offerings

QuestionPro is buying PollBob, a small New Orleans consumer Internet startup that specializes in online and mobile polling technology. Terms of… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Womple makes it easy to convert Web sites to mobile

With technology advancing quickly, it’s hard for small businesses to keep up with growing trends.  Do I manage my Yelp… Read More

Best of Startup Day: Angel investor Dave McClure — don’t do a startup you idiot!

Editor’s Note: We’ve got a fantastic lineup of speakers on tap for GeekWire’s Startup Day, taking place Saturday, Sept. 22nd at… Read More

Madrona’s returns from the dot-com bust still shine

The late 1990s were tough times for many VC firms, which overextended themselves into money-losing (and often pointless) dot-com startups that… Read More

‘Cloak’ protects Apple devices from snooping, developed by Microsoft vets

One of our more interesting finds at last night’s gdgt live Seattle event was a service called ‘Cloak’ that protects… Read More

As launch date nears, Solavei collects cash for cell service that pays users for signing up friends

Perhaps no startup in the Seattle area has driven as much discussion and debate in recent weeks as Solavei, a… Read More

Education upstart Empower.me looks to help kids boost learning (and earn a bit of cash for it)

We’ve been wondering what Seattle area entrepreneur Bryan Starbuck has been building over the past few months, first encountering the… Read More

Massively Fun sets sail with new fast-paced multi-player Settlers of Catan game

As you may know, I’m a pretty big fan of the German board game Settlers of Catan, even hosting the… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Fantasy Football Life looks to tackle giants of fantasy sports world

Are you ready for some football? Fantasy football that is? It’s that time of year when fantasy football fanatics assemble… Read More

A next-gen PowerPoint? Haiku Deck looks to help people make beautiful presentations

There are startup pivots. And then there are massive reboots. Haiku Deck, which today is taking the covers off its… Read More

RIM to shut down contact manager Gist on September 15

RIM is planning to shut down Gist, the personal contact management service that it acquired in February 2011. The service… Read More

SEOMoz buys Twitter analytics upstart Followerwonk

Ever want to know how your Twitter standing stacks up against friends, business rivals or celebrities? That’s the idea behind… Read More

Jeff Bezos, Eric Schmidt, Evan Williams and others bankroll D.C. education upstart EverFi

Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt and Twitter co-founder Evan Williams are among the tech heavyweights bankrolling EverFi,… Read More

Social media agency Ant’s Eye View purchased by PwC

Ant’s Eye View, a three-year-old social media agency with operations in Seattle, Austin and Silicon Valley, has agreed to be… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Utrip aims to take the headaches out of travel planning

Planning a vacation can sometimes be more stress than it’s actually worth.  Flight times, tickets, events, hotels, transportation, food —… Read More

Big data startup SpaceCurve lands $3.5 million

Seattle big data startup SpaceCurve has pulled in $3.5 million in new financing, including investments by Reed Elsevier Ventures and new… Read More

Q&A: Solensphere looks to make solar power cheaper and more reliable

Solensphere Renewables has developed a solar concentrator system that intensely focuses sunlight using a reflector fashioned after a telescope. Concentrating… Read More

Olympics traffic jams not as bad as feared, INRIX finds

Gearing up for the Summer Olympics in London, one of the concerns in London was about the traffic. But it… Read More

Meet the startups that just got accepted into TechStars Seattle

TechStars Seattle just accepted its latest batch of companies, choosing 10 young upstarts from around the world to participate in the… Read More

What the startup world looks like from the outside

The Stranger’s Paul Constant is clearly feeling a little cranky, and you might disagree with his perspective, but for anyone… Read More

Bing Fund opens doors for Buddy Platform and Pinion Tech

Microsoft surprised us last month when word spread of its Bing Fund, a new angel investment fund and startup incubator… Read More

Startup Spotlight: RockStar Motel aims to put the power in the hands of music fans

Music is one of the scariest industries for startups. With giant record labels dominating, it’s hard to move quickly without… Read More

Photo app Trover takes a new turn as users expand focus

Photo sharing app Trover launched one year ago with the goal of helping people use pictures to find cool stuff… Read More

Online game maker En Masse Entertaiment cuts staff

En Masse Entertainment, which is developing the online game TERA, has cut staff at its operations in Seattle, according to… Read More

Rich Barton, Nick Hanauer bankroll stealthy Front Desk

Some entrepreneurial ideas are born in the lab. Jon Zimmerman’s latest entrepreneurial effort emerged at the Crossfit gym that he… Read More

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