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One of the pleasant surprises after starting GeekWire was the number of people who asked if we would continue doing… Read More

Ex-Microsoft GM lands CEO gig at Mac security firm

Jeff Erwin, a former Microsoft general manager and Seattle area startup veteran, has been tapped as CEO of Mac security… Read More

Can Groupon become a $3.75 trillion dollar company in 25 years?

There’s been a lot of chatter today about Groupon talking to bankers about a possible $25 billion post IPO valuation.… Read More

Hydrovolts wins Imagine H20 competition with innovative turbines

Hydrovolts, a Seattle startup that’s developing turbines to generate clean power from canals and other waterways, has won the Water-Energy… Read More

Exclusive: Finsphere scores $1.75M, looks to become mobile ID system for the Web

Identity theft is a nasty societal problem, growing worse by the amount of data available online.  But a Bellevue startup… Read More

What’s your real estate agent really thinking? Redfin unveils Agent Insights

Redfin is launching a new feature today that allows the company’s real estate agents to speak candidly about the homes… Read More

Cheezburger’s latest: Photos of people in creepy Easter Bunny costumes

So, just how exactly is Cheezburger Network going to use a portion of the $30 million that just arrived from… Read More

Is BuddyTV on the block?

BuddyTV has been the subject of acquisition rumors in the past. And those surfaced again today after Kara Swisher at… Read More

Keiretsu pumps $8.9M into startups

Despite the tough economic times over the past 12 months, Seattle angels continue to invest. The Keiretsu Forum today announced… Read More

Jeremy Jaech: ‘I want to get back to the bleeding edge’

Jeremy Jaech is one of Seattle’s most accomplished entrepreneurs. So, when we learned that the founder of Aldus and Visio,… Read More

Knocking on Groupon’s door: Daily Ticket is no ordinary deal site

Groupon and Living Social have achieved enormous success, generating tens of millions of subscribers and valuations in the billions. But… Read More

Report: Zillow.com talks to investment bankers about an IPO

Is Zillow.com getting ready to go public? That’s the word on the street after BusinessWeek reported — citing three unnamed… Read More

Feedburner co-founder joins BigDoor

Feedburner co-founder Matt Shobe has joined BigDoor, a Seattle startup that helps online publishers engage with readers and viewers by… Read More

Much more than a blog commenting system, Highlighter raises $300,000

On most online news sites, including this one, readers must wait until the end of the post before they can… Read More

Jeopardy Fail? Contestants unable to identify FailBlog on game show

Maybe Alex Trebek is a secret FailBlog fanatic. The wildly popular humor Web site — developed by the folks at… Read More

Educational software maker Headsprout sells to DYMO/Mimio

Headsprout, a Seattle company that develops online reading programs for kids, has agreed to be sold to Cambridge, Mass.-based DYMO/Mimio.… Read More

144 million Tweets per day, and counting

We’re pretty heavy users of Twitter here at GeekWire, using the short-form communications service as our content marketing vehicle of… Read More

Seattle geek wins eBay ‘speed hack’ contest at SXSW

Seattle software developer Evan Jacobs wasn’t really looking to spend his Sunday afternoon building a new app on the back… Read More

HIV drug maker Koronis considers IPO in London

We’ve bemoaned the fact that very few Seattle area companies are considering initial public offerings. But Koronis Pharmaceuticals, a Seattle… Read More

GeekWire Week #1: Ups, downs and (nearly) everything in between

Our entrepreneurial adventure started six days ago in a brick building in Pioneer Square.  It was an appropriate setting to… Read More

Ignition backs Topsy, a real-time search engine

Ignition Partners, the Bellevue venture capital firm, continues to plow cash into Bay Area startup companies. The latest to benefit… Read More

Following in Groupon’s footsteps: A parade of daily deal sites (List)

The New York Times today reports on the hundreds of daily deal startups that are trying to follow in Groupon’s… Read More

WhitePages unveils Hiya to help eliminate email contact clutter

Keeping an online address book up-to-date can be a serious chore. After all, with the frequency that people change locations… Read More

Gaming vets launch Playteau, roll out Fortune Stones

Seattle has a new social gaming startup. It’s called Playteau, and today its releasing its first title, Fortune Stones, on… Read More

King of the Web: The next great time-waster, or just a waste of time?

We’ve been wondering for some time now what Rich Barton and Nick Hanauer have been cooking up at their latest… Read More

Seattle techie goes to L.A., returns with Ashton Kutcher-backed startup Zaarly

So, this is what happens when a Seattle tech executive gets mixed up with Startup Weekend in L.A.? He returns… Read More

Another day, another daily deal site? But this one comes with a good cause

It seems like every other day we report on a new daily deal site, whether it is Bing jumping into… Read More

Ignition Partners, Madrona back Tier 3 with $8.5 million

Two of the Seattle area’s best-known venture capital firms have joined forces to back Tier 3, a five-year-old Seattle company… Read More

When will Seattle VCs start investing again in Seattle startups?

Seattle venture capitalists are spreading their wings. And while that may prove to be a smart financial decision for the… Read More

Advice to entrepreneurs: ‘Never stop selling your company’

Representatives from nearly all of the major Seattle angel investment groups recently gathered to discuss their craft at a meeting… Read More

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