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Entellium founder P.J. Johnston to be released from prison today

Entellium founder Paul Thomas Johnston is scheduled to be released from a federal prison in California today, closing the chapter… Read More

BigTip: A deal site for the burbs

We’ve certainly seen a number of daily deal sites trying to emulate the success of Groupon and Living Social. And… Read More

Cozi lays it on the line, goes for world record in rubber duckies

Cozi wants to make sure that families keep their “ducks in a row.” And just how is the Seattle online… Read More

Benaroya backs smart grid software startup Calico Energy

Calico Energy has developed technologies to help residential and business customers reduce energy costs, a proposition that’s winning the Bellevue company… Read More

Yahoo buys Jim Heckman’s online ad startup 5to1.com

5to1.com, an online advertising startup led by Seattle entrepreneur and former Fox Interactive media exec Jim Heckman, has been acquired… Read More

Chris Pirillo’s CDN in a Box looks to make Web sites hum at ‘Google-like speeds’

Seattle super geek Chris Pirillo has a loyal following who love his offbeat musings on technology. But sometimes Pirillo’s network… Read More

Geek of the Week: Arianna O’Dell — entrepreneur, marketer, startup sparkplug

Arianna O’Dell, GeekWire’s latest Geek of the Week, has an infectious entrepreneurial spirit, a mind for marketing, and a million startup… Read More

Venture capital returns rebound as IPOs come back

Returns at venture capital firms improved across most time horizons during the fourth quarter of last year, driven by a… Read More

Zaarly looks to take on Craigslist, with help from LeVar Burton and Ashton Kutcher

Need a plumber, a DJ or a chainsaw carving of a bear? Welcome to Zaarly. Born at Startup Weekend in… Read More

With gas prices rising, Zebigo.com rolls out new carpooling service in Seattle

Seattle drivers are accustomed to clogged roadways. But a new startup called Zebigo.com is hoping to relieve some of that… Read More

Video: Mobile startup lets you listen to Twitter

Google News rolled out some new features last week, allowing mobile phone users to find relevant news tied to nearby… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Art Sumo tracks down cool art all over the world (so you don’t have to)

Startup ideas strike at all different times, and in all different places. For Naysawn Naderi, inspiration hit when he bumped… Read More

Meet Marcy: An original Web comedy from Lockerz

Lockerz just scored $30 million in venture capital financing from the likes of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and former Microsoft… Read More

Socrata unveils the new data.gov, opening vault on government data

At the Technology Alliance annual luncheon in Seattle earlier this month, U.S. Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra explained how the… Read More

Old relationships pay off: Divergent sees big return on $327M Pliant buy

Divergent Ventures, a small Seattle venture capital firm, saw a big payoff today when Milipitas, California data storage drive company… Read More

Billing Revolution rings up $6.6 million, powers mobile payments for Zynga and others

The mobile phone is turning into a mobile purchasing device. And Billing Revolution wants to help lead that charge. The… Read More

AdXpose names former Razorfish exec Jeff Lanctot to board

Fresh off a name change and a $3 million venture round, Seattle startup AdXpose has named former Razorfish chief strategy officer… Read More

Marketfish nabs $4.5 million, names chief privacy officer

Marketfish, a Seattle startup which operates an online marketplace for email marketing lists, has reeled in $4.5 million in new… Read More

Never dine alone again: Grubwithus brings people together over good meals

If you’re new to a city or just looking to find some interesting people to chat with, a new service… Read More

A $1M prize for the best product recommendation algorithm

How do you get people to buy more stuff on e-commerce Web sites? That’s the $1 million question, literally. RichRelevance… Read More

‘Google creeps me out,’ and other comments of the week

Our stories this past week about Western Washington University’s proposal to cut its computer science department sparked one of the… Read More

Koester to Congress: It’s time to remove regulatory friction

Zaarly co-founder Eric Koester, the Seattle startup attorney-turned-entrepreneur, testified in front of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on… Read More

Seven marketing mistakes most startups make

Guest commentary: Marketing for a startup is different than anything you may have done before. It’s different from the big-company… Read More

Attention mobile devs: Hack the World’s Fair this Saturday

The organizers of “The Next Fifty,” a series of events that will mark the anniversary of the Seattle World’s Fair… Read More

Open Letter to Geeks: An introduction to ‘Lovelletters’

After my last sports injury, my doctor, having grown weary of well over a decade of everything from concussions to… Read More

Entrepreneurs: Born or made?

Can you actually teach people to be entrepreneurs? That question is open to debate. But a recent Zogby survey indicates… Read More

SEOMoz CEO Rand Fishkin on Google’s Panda update: It’s been ‘great for our business’

At the Seattle 2.0 Awards last week, Team GeekWire had the chance to chat with SEOMoz founder Rand Fishkin about… Read More

A Twitter crime thriller, and why laptop tracking could save you some heartache

I got hooked tonight on an amazing Twitter drama, watching in real time as Sean Power live Tweeted about his… Read More

The Spotlight: ZippyCart reviews e-commerce shopping carts

You can find online reviews these days for just about anything, from restaurants to lawyers to new gadgets. But what… Read More

Venture capitalists upbeat about Microsoft’s massive $8.5 billion buyout of Skype

Microsoft has been fairly quiet on the M&A front over the past 18 months, a fact that has not been… Read More

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