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Real estate dorks unite: Trulia developing a Google Glass app

Is this the future of home search? Trulia today announced that it is working on a new Google Glass app,… Read More

WhitePages rings up acquisition, buys call and text blocking app Mr. Number

WhitePages has acquired Mr. Number, a popular Android app that allows users to easily block spam calls and text messages.… Read More

These high-schoolers developed a community safety app for the Portland Police

Portland high-schoolers are helping keep its community safe all thanks to a mobile app they created. Partnering with the Portland… Read More

Startup lesson #2: Don’t ignore the enablers

[Editor’s note: Seattle entrepreneurs Barry Chu and Dave Cotter share some of their startup lessons in starting the new mobile app… Read More

Bootlegs 2.0: Lively app allows you to take concert memories home for $9.99

Has this ever happened? You just saw an amazing musical performance at one of your favorite concert venues, and you’d… Read More

SquareHub emerges with high-profile backers and a goal to connect families

Dave Cotter is a divorced father of three girls — a busy guy who struggles to keep up with his… Read More

The significance of Amazon’s Appstore launch in China

Amazon launched its app store in China last weekend, becoming the first Western company to offer both free and paid Android apps to… Read More

Panna brings celeb chefs into home kitchens with digital tutorials, raises $1.35M

From cooking shows to cooking competitions, it’s no secret we like watching chefs at work — it’s nearly as exciting… Read More

OneBusAway finds a new home with Sound Transit

OneBusAway helps thousands of people each day find their way home. Now, the popular app, started as a side project… Read More

The Geek’s Guide to International Travel

On my recent vacation to Europe, I traveled without folded maps, paper guidebooks and journals, or physical backup copies of my passport,… Read More

Microsoft’s Start button revival: Will this help or hurt Windows 8’s chances?

Microsoft does plan to bring back the Start button on the traditional desktop in an upcoming Windows 8 update, but… Read More

Missing Google Reader? Bing updates News app with RSS support, offline reading

Those of you still pissed that Google Reader is going away may like the latest updates to Bing’s News App for… Read More

Microsoft to developers: Here’s $100 to make a Windows 8 app

Is this really enough to entice developers to consider Microsoft? Looking to jumpstart its Windows 8 app ecosystem for the… Read More

Bing Fund backs mobile app Sonar to help people discover who is hanging out nearby

Do you want to know who is hanging around you at the coffee shop, airport or bar? A new mobile… Read More

Seattle super angels sink cash in shopping app Zoomingo

Some of Seattle’s top angel investors are tossing their support behind Zoomingo, the mobile shopping application developed by serial entrepreneur… Read More

How far is the Sheraton from the Space Needle? Walk Score unveils hotel finder

Walk Score is best known for their rankings of residences, assigning a score on a scale of 1 to 100… Read More

Cozi scores cash to help busy families organize their lives

Cozi, the Seattle startup which helps busy families manager calendars, track locations and find babysitters, has raised an additional $5.7… Read More

TechStars grad Leanplum raises cash, looks to help game developers test apps

Leanplum, a TechStars Seattle grad which is building technology to test features within gaming apps, has raised  $825,000 in angel… Read More

Is this Kozmo 2.0? Postmates brings its ‘Get It Now’ courier service to Seattle

I’ve been on the tech news beat long enough that I remember the rise and, more importantly, the fall of… Read More

Sports Hack Day Diary: Lessons from a journalist jumping into a hackathon

The demos concluded, judges had left and computers were tucked away. Yet an hour after Sports Hack Day wrapped up Sunday afternoon,… Read More

Let’s get ready to rumble: Join me this weekend for my first-ever hackathon adventure

I’m part nervous, a little excited and honestly, a bit scared. My first hackathon experience, which I’m going to document… Read More

Postcardly puts stamp on mobile postcard market, unveils new iOS app to rival Postagram

As many devoted listeners of the GeekWire podcast know, one of our favorite mobile apps is Postagram, a simple-to-use service… Read More

Mindbloom hires a big brain: Ex-msnbc.com, InfoSpace exec McElfresh joins as CTO

Seattle startup Mindbloom has hired Travis McElfresh as chief technology officer and vice president of product development and engineering, a… Read More

Why this app maker targeted Windows Phone first, and what happened after that

Christopher Ross views the mobile world a little differently than most entrepreneurs. He worked at Microsoft for the better part… Read More

How this tiny startup was chosen to build the official app for President Obama’s 2nd inauguration

President Barack Obama will be sworn into office next Monday in a historic inauguration, capping a week of festivities organized… Read More

Apple App Store tops 40 billion downloads — half of them in past year

Microsoft recently announced that the Windows Phone more than doubled the size of its app catalog in 2012, adding more than… Read More

Windows Phone adds 75,000 apps and games in 2012

Microsoft’s Windows Phone more than doubled the size of its app catalog in 2012, adding more than 75,000 new apps… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Diptic app makes photo collages a breeze

Peak Systems has been around for more than a decade, building Web sites and mobile applications for a number of… Read More

Lark’s Johnathan Sundstrom tells us his tastiest food apps

Smartphones are transforming almost everything we do, from the way we travel to how we play games. And they are… Read More

TechStars grad MobileDevHQ raises cash to help app developers get more downloads

Mobile app developers need all of the help they can get when trying to build momentum. After all, hundreds of… Read More

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