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RadioShack dumps T-Mobile for Verizon Wireless

RadioShack announced that it plans to stop selling mobile handsets and wireless service plans from T-Mobile USA effective September 14, a… Read More

SeniorHomes.com raises $3 million, plans national expansion

SeniorHomes.com, an online directory designed to help families find nursing homes, retirement centers and other elder care facilities, has raised… Read More

Tweets and Swype as art? Museum of Modern Art explores new masterpieces

I usually don’t think of mobile software — or Tweets for that matter — as art. But, then again, the… Read More

Ignition backs Motif, ex-Microsoftie’s startup for ‘investing in ideas’

Bellevue-based Ignition Partners led a $20 million financing round in Motif Investing, a San Mateo, Calif.- based company founded by former… Read More

Comcast inks deal with NW companies to stream video to the iPad and iPhone

With Hulu reportedly for sale and Netflix taking heat over its price hike, Comcast is making a bigger push to… Read More

Google engineer Steve Lacey victim of Kirkland car wreck

Google engineer Steve Lacey, 43, a veteran of the Seattle region’s tech community who worked for more than a decade… Read More

Inrix scores $37 million from Kleiner Perkins and others, eyes initial public offering

No matter whether you live in Copenhagen, Chengdu or Cincinnati, everyone hates traffic jams. But that very painful aspect of… Read More

Intellectual Ventures responds to This American Life exposé: ‘We fundamentally disagree’

Intellectual Ventures, the patent holding firm and invention house founded by former Microsoft technology chief Nathan Myhrvold, was already-well known… Read More

Seattle developer partners with Futurama, unleashes Head-in-a-Jar iPhone app

We’ve seen a lot of silly mobile apps emerge in our time on the tech beat. But here’s one that… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Earn rewards for exercising with Earndit

Sometimes it can be a little tough to motivate yourself to go for a jog, paddle or bike ride. That’s… Read More

Time Waster: Cheezburger’s top 10 summer fails

It’s Friday, and the sun is finally shining in Seattle. But we’ve certainly missed out on a big chunk of… 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

Manufacturing startup FluxDrive raises $1.5M in region known for IT investors

The Pacific Northwest may be best known for its software and Internet industry. But Philip “Chip” Corbin, the founder and… Read More

Geek of the Week: Delane Hewett, DataSphere CTO

Our latest Geek of the Week, Delane Hewett, has been around the Seattle region’s tech community for years, at Boeing… Read More

Meet the 10-year-old who just released an iPhone game (with some help from PopCap)

Remember the story of Owain Weinert? He’s the 10-year-old who dreamed of developing his own iOS game. Well, that dream… Read More

The 14 hottest startups in Seattle (at least in the view of Business Insider)

We’ve been talking a lot about the lack of investment dollars flowing to entrepreneurial ventures in the Seattle area. But… Read More

Avelle reverts to Bag Borrow or Steal name, raises $4M

Avelle, the luxury handbag rental service, said today that it plans to reinstitute the name Bag Borrow or Steal. The… Read More

Startup Spotlight: PressOK touts mobile gaming tournaments

Mobile gaming can be a solitary pursuit. But PressOK Entertainment, a three-year-old Seattle startup led by Alex Koloskov and Ryan… Read More

From bad to worse: State slips to 10th in venture capital investment

GeekWire readers have been engaged in an active debate over the past few days on the ailments facing the Seattle… Read More

Hivemyne buys dot-com survivor AskMe

AskMe has certainly been around the startup block in Seattle. Formed in 1999 by former Microsoft employees, the company barely… Read More

Seattle online travel startup Yapta lands $5 million investment from Concur

Concur Technologies has been making a number of strategic bets in the online travel business in recent months, gobbling up… Read More

Microsoft drops out of the Hulu bidding, opening door for Amazon?

Microsoft has reportedly dropped out of the bidding for Hulu, the popular online video service owned by Fox, Disney, NBC… Read More

Zillow prices IPO at $20 per share, signaling strong demand for the online real estate company

Call it a little IPO euphoria. For anyone wondering whether investors would bite on Zillow’s initial public offering, here’s your… Read More

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For the most part, readers of this online news site and most others are forced to leave their comments at… Read More

Tech Moves: Ex-Microsoft GM joins Motricity; Medio’s Lanphear lands at Livemocha; 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

Zillow set to price IPO this week: Six things to think about

It has been just over a year since a technology company in Washington state — Bellevue-based Motricity —  completed an… Read More

Winshuttle buys ShareVis to help non-techies tap into business apps

One of the hidden success stories of the Seattle software community is Winshuttle, which has quietly grown into a powerful… Read More

Guest Commentary: Four keys to selling beyond early adopters

The life and early path of a disruptive entrepreneur can be lonely indeed.  By definition, you’re building something that nobody… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Canappi helps builds iPhone and Android apps

Convergence Modeling, a 7-month-old Bellevue startup, wants to make it dead simple for people to create mobile applications that work… Read More

DocuSign faces new threat as Adobe inks deal to buy EchoSign

DocuSign is facing a new competitive challenge today as one of the company’s biggest rivals, EchoSign, was just gobbled up… Read More

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