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Back in the M&A game, Getty Images makes another buy

Throughout its 16-year history, Getty Images has been an acquisitive company. In fact, part of the reason why Getty calls… Read More

The beauty of being lean: Tips and tricks from entrepreneurs

Everyone wants to be lean. Not thin, trim or slender, just lean. The lean startup movement — heralded by author Eric… Read More

A black Town Car at the ready: Uber to bring private driver service to Seattle

Now, you too will soon be able to travel like a high-ranking diplomat. Uber, the hot San Francisco startup that… Read More

New geek on the GeekWire team: Rebecca Lovell

We’ve been overwhelmed by the response to GeekWire since our launch in early March. But there’s been one key ingredient… Read More

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ExtraHop Networks didn’t have to raise cash. But the fast-growing company has reeled in $14 million in a hot, oversubscribed… Read More

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Well, you probably saw this one coming. Gist today unveiled its first BlackBerry app, a launch that comes less than… Read More

Coding geeks ignore the sun, launch 15 projects in 54 hours at Seattle Startup Weekend

It was a glorious weekend in Seattle. The sun glistened off the slopes of Mount Rainier. Sailboats cruised across the… Read More

‘Amazon still has a winning culture at their core,’ and other comments of the week

There was plenty of chatter on GeekWire this past week as discussions and debate arose over a variety of topics,… Read More

Former Demand Media exec Paul Stahura emerges at stealthy Donuts Inc.

Paul Stahura, who sold the domain name registrar eNom to Demand Media in 2006, has emerged at the helm of… Read More

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GeekWire Podcast: The business, technology and art of podcasting, with Luke Burbank and Rob Greenlee

This week on a special edition of the GeekWire Podcast — a discussion about podcasting. Yeah, we’re going meta on… Read More

HasOffers: Twin brothers bring a new face to affiliate marketing

Twins share many common attributes. But — Winklevoss twins aside — do they actually make good co-founders of startups? The… Read More

PopCap pushes deeper into Facebook games, buys ZipZapPlay

PopCap Games is bolstering its position in social gaming, a move that comes as the Seattle game maker contemplates an… Read More

Surprise — TV and celeb gossip works online: Wetpaint boasts 15M monthly page views

Wetpaint’s recent transition to an entertainment and celebrity gossip site appears to be working. Surprise. Surprise. The Seattle startup, which… Read More

Sixteen budding businesses to watch, from the UW Business Plan Competition

Yesterday was my first exposure to the annual UW Business Plan Competition, held by the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship… Read More

The only wrong answer is 50/50: Calculating the co-founder equity split

Guest Commentary: The question of equity brings out the most fundamental differences, perceptions, and values in an aspiring startup.  In… Read More

Geek of the Week: Kate Matsudaira, vice president of engineering, SEOmoz

Anyone who thinks technical chops and fashion sense are incompatible needs to meet our latest Geek of the Week, Kate… Read More

IPO fever: Monthly filings surge to four-year high

We’ve seen an uptick in IPO activity in recent weeks, with two Seattle companies (Zillow.com and Impinj) deciding to take… Read More

Madrona incubates new mobile analytics startup Sewichi

Smartphones are now outselling personal computers. And that little factoid from IDC is creating an interesting opportunity to measure, track… Read More

Incoming UW president arrives with tech transfer chops

Could newly-appointed University of Washington president Michael Young spark a wave of innovation and commercialization at the state’s largest research… Read More

Mobile gaming company looks to capitalize on WikiLeaks

Two buddies who worked as interns for the National Security Agency in high school are now turning their attention to… Read More

Scrubly looks to clean up ‘messy’ contact lists and address books

Bob Thordarson manually tried to update his online contacts list on several occasions, but each time the Seattle entrepreneur seemed… Read More

Ex-Yahoo execs create ChoozOn to sift through the daily deal clutter

Groupon, Living Social and hundreds of other daily deal sites are great … when they offer something of interest. But,… Read More

MOD Systems ordered to pay back rent, company plans move

MOD Systems will be forced out of its downtown Seattle office space at 1301 Second Avenue, the latest setback for… Read More

How to become Apple’s iPhone ‘App of the Week’

That right there is the type of publicity a startup can’t buy — a huge graphic currently promoting Seattle’s Zapd… Read More

Ex-Microsoft and Yahoo research guru Gary Flake starts stealthy Clipboard

Gary Flake, a former technical fellow at Microsoft who up until last fall ran the company’s Live Labs research group,… Read More

Clearwire restores service in Seattle after outage

It’s been a tough few days for Seattle area high-tech companies. First, Amazon.com’s EC2 service went down, causing alarm among… Read More

‘Amazon should be the one apologizing,’ and other comments of the week

BigDoor founder Keith Smith touched a nerve after writing a guest post for GeekWire this past week explaining his frustrations… Read More

How Spencer Rascoff’s Tweets tossed us off the Zillow IPO trail

Team GeekWire loves nothing more than a good news tip. So, when a reader passed on a hot lead last… Read More

Is the new tech bubble just R&D 2.0?

Guest Commentary: We’re very clearly in a new tech bubble now.  Valuations, funding rounds, recruitment incentives are already remarkably similar… Read More

Startup execs vow to boost hiring, if they can find the tech talent

We’ve been writing a lot about the tech talent crunch in Seattle, noting companies such as Tableau Software, ExtraHop Networks… Read More

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