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The inside story of how a Seattle angel investor discovered Swype

Guest commentary from Bill Bryant: I have been in the software business for more than 20 years now, spanning some… Read More

AppStoreHQ expands to include Windows Phone apps

AppStoreHQ said today that it has added Windows Phone apps to its web-based search and recommendation engine for mobile apps. Microsoft’s… Read More

Venture capitalist Thong Le tapped as chair of biotech group

Thong Le, the managing director of WRF Capital, has been named chairman of the Washington Biotechnology and Biomedical Association. Le… Read More

Internet kings celebrated on … old-fashioned billboards

King of the Web is a quirky Web-based competition where individuals compete to win monthly online elections by posting funny… Read More

Swype CEO on acquisition by Nuance: ‘It is a great outcome’

Swype built a powerful technology that allowed mobile phone users to input text with the swipe of a finger rather… Read More

Ex-Microsoft VP emerges at stealthy Indix

In his last role at Microsoft, Sanjay Parthasarathy oversaw the Startup Business Accelerator program where the goal was to jumpstart new business… Read More

LaserMotive to work on NASA power-beaming project

LaserMotive, a company south of Seattle developing ways of beaming power via lasers, has been named as one of the… Read More

Wishpot jumps into the very crowded arena of travel deals

Wishpot faces no shortage of competition with its new daily deal service for travel. After all, in the past few… Read More

Glympse CEO on Apple’s location sharing app: We’re not worried

Bryan Trussel, the founder and CEO of Glympse, the popular mobile location tracking app, is accustomed to watching large tech… Read More

A hunger for the best sci-fi books sparks geek’s latest quest

Adam Doppelt is a developer, tinkerer and accomplished entrepreneur. And he’s also a science fiction geek. Those passions all collided… Read More

SpaceCurve lands in Seattle, raises cash to analyze data feeds

SpaceCurve founder J. Andrew Rogers has kept a pretty low profile since moving to Seattle from Silicon Valley 13 months… Read More

Redfin pulls the plug on Scouting Reports after just five days

Redfin is terminating its newly-launched Scouting Report service, ending a tumultuous five-day period in which the company took heat for… Read More

Top 10 reasons why Darth Vader was an amazing project manager

The Sith Lord Darth Vader, of Star Wars fame, often gets a bad rap, particularly in what we all think of as his ‘dark… Read More

San Diego startup SweetLabs picks Seattle for new office

We’ve been writing a lot about California tech juggernauts establishing operations in Seattle, from Facebook to Salesforce.com to Zynga. But it… Read More

Zulily’s Mark Vadon: ‘This is more QVC than Amazon’

I’ve been absolutely fascinated by the meteoric rise of Zulily, the Seattle daily deal site which now boasts more than… Read More

Problems nag Redfin’s Scouting Report, CEO says ‘we screwed up’

Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman apologized today for the poorly conceived launch of Scouting Report, a new online service designed to provide… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Lightning strikes (literally) to create online backup startup Newline

Entrepreneurs often talk about when lightning strikes, that special a-ha moment when inspiration hits. But for former Microsoft engineer Kory… Read More

Mitch Kapor: It’s a great time to start a company, but still really tough to reach ‘high altitudes’

It may be easier than ever to build a new startup company. But it is still exceptionally hard to reach… Read More

Adapx links digital pen technology with SharePoint

Adapx, the maker of data capture and digital pen software technologies, has released a new version of its Capturx software… Read More

Social media agency Banyan Branch takes root with $1.7M

Banyan Branch, the Seattle-based social media marketing firm whose clients include Hartz, Porsche and Gilt Groupe, has raised $1.7 million… Read More

Amazon lockers, the iPhone cool factor and other top stories

Amazon.com made some waves in New York City this week with the release of the Kindle Fire. And while the… Read More

Vinod Khosla on failure, thinking big and why the best entrepreneurs are under 25

Don’t call Vinod Khosla a venture capitalist. After all, the venerable Silicon Valley investor, entrepreneur and philanthropist doesn’t really have… Read More

Vinod Khosla invests in Michael Arrington’s CrunchFund

At a talk this evening on the University of Washington campus, it didn’t take long for Michael Arrington to break… Read More

Microsoft startup film to debut at Napa Valley Film Festival

Microsoft has made a full-length feature film — a professionally produced documentary on the startup life, of all things —… Read More

Success is brewing in Seattle’s vibrant coffee shop culture

Living in the Northwest, we’re far enough removed from the majority of the populace to sit back and notice the… Read More

TalentSpring founder Bryan Starbuck emerges with stealthy new startup

Seattle entrepreneur Bryan Starbuck — who sold the online recruiting company TalentSpring last year to Talent Technology– is getting back… Read More

Exponential scores cash for Hollywood trivia games, names DeGiulio as marketing chief

Exponential Entertainment, which makes the HollywoodPlayer online trivia and puzzle game, has raised a new round of cash and tapped… Read More

How a father-and-son Lego project sparked an iPad game

Seattle entrepreneur Hillel Cooperman loves Legos. So, each year, the founder of Jackson Fish Market gets excited for BrickCon, a… Read More

Wetpaint iPhone app feeds celeb-watching guilty pleasures

If you are looking for dirt on the cast of Gossip Girl or simply want to keep up with Kardashians,… Read More

Startup Stars: A brief history of the best 20th century business launches

There are more ways now than ever for you to start a business. Startups are a hot topic and it… Read More

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