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Bill Gates on Google’s Internet balloons; Contour hits the wall; and other comments of the week

The best comments, quotes, and random zingers we heard this week… “The Internet is transforming almost every element of the… Read More

Saying farewell to the iPhone; Bill Gates’ reading list; and other top posts of the month

It was another big month here at GeekWire. We unveiled our new GeekWire membership program, relaunched the popular GeekWire 200 startup list and… Read More

Comments of the Week: Oprah ‘loves’ the Surface; Hastings’ Microsoft analysis; and more

The best comments, quotes, and random zingers we heard this week… “[Microsoft has] many great assets and many great challenges.… Read More

The difference between Kindle Fire and Windows Phone and other comments of the week

The best comments, quotes, and random zingers we heard this week… “I think it’s interesting the types of adjectives journalists… Read More

Microsoft’s blunders; the meaning of Marissa Mayer; and other comments of the week

“I am honored and delighted to lead Yahoo, one of the internet’s premier destinations for more than 700 million users.”—Newly-appointed… Read More

Microsoft’s ‘demoralizing’ stack ranking system; and other comments of the week

The 4th of July brought another beautiful patriotic display over Seattle’s South Lake Union. But those weren’t the only fireworks… Read More

Comments of the Week: Ballmer and basketball; Sword fighting authors; etc.

The best comments, quotes, and random zingers we heard this week… “I’ve been writing science and historical fiction for three… Read More

A 6-year-old’s pitch; an app to save your marriage; and other comments of the week

The best comments, quotes, and random zingers we heard this week… “Feature request: Deduct points … when phone is thrown… Read More

Comments of the week: Will this phone really take off?

The best comments, quotes, and random zingers we heard this week… “Do you have to turn off *this* phone during… Read More

Quotes of the week: Seattle is a ‘red dwarf’ and Silicon Valley is the sun

The best comments, quotes, and random zingers we heard this week …  “I think there are great investors and great… Read More

Microsoft Windows as a ‘beautiful metaphor’ and other comments of the week

The best insights, observations, comments, tweets and random zingers we heard this week. “Windows really is a beautiful metaphor for… Read More

Porsches in the parking lot; Etch-a-Sketch in the sky; and other quotes of the week

The best insights, observations, comments, tweets and random zingers we heard this week. “This is much more than a building… Read More

SOPA is a lobotomy, Google’s cutbacks are heartless … and other fun quotes of the week

The best observations, quotes, comments and zingers we heard this week. “There’s a fundamental difference between people who want to… Read More

Paul Allen on space travel; Seattle’s risk-averse VCs… and other comments of the week

The best insights, observations, comments and random zingers we heard this week. “That (Microsoft) is gone. In its place is… Read More

Scandinavian roots, Netflix price hikes and other top comments

Is Seattle’s startup community hamstrung by a lack of investment dollars or a lack of high-quality entrepreneurial ideas? That was… Read More

Comments of the Week: Nintendo is the Apple of video games

It was a big week for tech news, with Facebook rolling out its online video chat service with Skype and… Read More

Teenage entrepreneurs, PopCap in play and other comments of the week

It was an epic week here at GeekWire. Not only did more than 800 people (including Sir Mix-A-Lot, Detlef Schrempf,… Read More

‘Seattle feels a lot like Bangalore,’ and other comments of the week

Fashion advice for Bill Gates. A new operating system that could rival … Vista. And how Seattle compares to Bangalore,… Read More

Comments of the week: Ballmer at USC, Gates on the BBC, etc.

Microsoft’s top brass took some heat in the GeekWire comment threads this past week, with readers complaining about everything from… 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

‘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

‘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

Root beer peeing unicorns, and other comments of the week

Some lively discussions erupted on GeekWire this week as members of the tech community debated what it will take to… Read More

‘The second bubble started with Twitter and Facebook,’ and other comments of the week

It’s been another action-packed week here at GeekWire as we continue to scour the tech landscape for interesting, offbeat and… Read More

‘If you don’t like IE don’t use it,’ and other comments of the week

We’ve been having a ball telling stories of new technologies, entrepreneurs and the exploits of some of the world’s biggest… Read More

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