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Ignition joins with Ron Conway, Dave McClure and others to back stealthy Inporia

Ignition Partners has joined with angel investors Ron Conway, Dave McClure and others to back Inporia, a stealthy e-commerce startup… Read More

Alliance of Angels chooses LiquidPlanner as startup Company of the Year

Over the past seven years, The Alliance of Angels has picked one startup company that represents the promise of the… Read More

America’s chief geek Aneesh Chopra: ‘Today is the best time to be an innovator’

Aneesh Chopra, the chief technology officer of the U.S., laid out his vision for how America can boost entrepreneurship, spark… Read More

BigDoor ‘gamifies’ America’s pastime, strikes deal with MLB

Baseball already has pennants. Now, it is getting badges too — at least of the digital variety. Seattle startup BigDoor… Read More

Prosodic to help brands cut through social media noise by predicting what Facebook posts will resonate

As the head of social media agency Nology Media, Leigh Fatzinger would sometimes publish as many as 5,000 Facebook posts… Read More

Eric Koester to testify in D.C. on how to simplify startup financing

Eric Koester thinks the startup company formation process needs to be streamlined, eliminating “friction points” tied to government regulation. And… Read More

Bungie Aerospace? Halo maker stirs speculation with mysterious filings

Is Bungie the new Boeing? Probably not. But the company behind the blockbuster “Halo” games for Microsoft’s Xbox appears to… Read More

How Z2Live accidentally hired a 17-year-old whiz for its new iPhone air combat game

In the annals of high-tech, this may be one of the more unusual hiring stories. Z2Live, maker of the popular… Read More

Redfin cleans house, removes 50 partner agents including some who faked reviews

Call it a little Spring cleaning. Redfin announced on its corporate blog this week that it has removed 50 partner… Read More

Five Things I Learned at Startup Weekend: #3 Learn to Code

Guest Commentary: Startup Weekend was the most exhilarating and exhausting 54 hours since the birth of my (and my wife’s)… Read More

Meet Rob Ward: A Silicon Valley venture capitalist who loves what’s going on in Seattle

At the Seattle 2.0 Awards last night, venture capitalist Mark Suster said that Seattle needs to encourage “foreign direct investment”… Read More

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GeekWire Podcast, from the Seattle 2.0 Awards red carpet (with video highlights, too)

We’re coming to you a little early this week with a special edition of the GeekWire Podcast, recorded on the… Read More

Software maker Geospiza acquired by PerkinElmer

Geospiza, a Seattle maker of gene analysis software, has been acquired by PerkinElmer in a deal of undisclosed size. The… Read More

A night at the Seattle 2.0 Awards: Watch the speeches of the 10 winners

Seattle’s startup community partied Thursday night at the annual Seattle 2.0 Awards, a celebration of the region’s top tinkerers, geeks,… Read More

Profitable digital media agency Smashing Ideas finds a buyer in Bertelsmann

Smashing Ideas, a 15-year-old Seattle digital media agency, has been acquired by Bertelsmann AG’s Random House unit for an undisclosed… Read More

Video: Live (Sorta) from the Seattle 2.0 Awards Red Carpet

The question on the red carpet at the Seattle 2.0 Awards tonight isn’t so much what they’re wearing but what… Read More

Discovery Bay Games scores $12M to create a new class of iPad accessories

Discovery Bay Games CEO Craig Olson didn’t expect to raise $12 million when he set out on the fundraising trail… Read More

Swayable: Rating everything from Justin Bieber hairstyles to high-end vodka

What haircut do you like best on Justin Bieber? Do you prefer Steve Jobs or Steve Ballmer? And what’s your… Read More

Video game school picks Seattle Center for new campus

With companies such as Big Fish, PopCap, Nintendo, Microsoft and Valve, Seattle is a well established center for video game development.… Read More

Reading the Situation Room photo with startup eyes

Guest Commentary: Blogging Tuesday about the already famous White House photo of the Situation Room during the bin Laden operation,… Read More

Q&A: Straight-talking VC Mark Suster challenges entrepreneurs to think big

Mark Suster is a bit of an oddity in the venture capital business — a straight-talking, no-nonsense former entrepreneur who… Read More

Jeff Bezos goes nuclear, backs B.C. startup’s plan to create safe nuclear power

What is it with Seattle area billionaires and their love of nuclear power? Earlier this week, Microsoft co-founder touted the… Read More

CityGrid Media buys social media monitoring service BuzzLabs

The consolidation continues in the social media monitoring space. And now one of Seattle’s upstarts is benefiting. BuzzLabs, a 2-year-old… Read More

Millionaires to double in Washington, but will that spark angel investment?

Seattle’s high-tech industry has minted thousands of millionaires over the years as companies such as Microsoft, Amazon.com, Isilon Systems and… Read More

Geek of the Week: Joseph Sunga of TeachStreet, WeHeartMMA, Crowdsort.me

Our latest Geek of the Week, Joseph Sunga, is one of those crazy people who gave up a rare sunny… Read More

Tech moves: New hires at Point Inside, RescueTime, etc.

We’ve been tracking some key hires in the Seattle tech industry in recent days. Here are a few… Jason Grimes,… Read More

Zulily lands a Big Fish, hooks Michael Vernon as finance chief

Zulily just hooked one of Seattle’s best known high-tech CFOs, a possible sign of big things to come at the… Read More

Mindbloom’s Life Game scores a giant customer: Aetna

Seattle startup Mindbloom has reached a multi-year agreement with health insurance giant Aetna, which will offer an enhanced version of… Read More

What’s your secret sauce? A guide to measuring startup success

Guest Commentary: At a startup, measuring everything is like prioritizing everything. It’s impossible, frustrating, and a recipe for failure. Instead… Read More

Bill Gates touts nuclear energy, says coal kills more people

Nuclear energy can be made safe in part through advanced computer simulation and next-generation power plant designs, according to Microsoft… Read More

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