Advice from startup vet Oren Etzioni: Take intellectual risks Oren Etzioni hates taking risks. His first car was a Volvo, for example, and he’d just rather play it safe more… Read More
Startup Spotlight: Decide’s Mike Fridgen taps power of data to change how we shop Mike Fridgen already helped change the way people buy airfares, getting Seattle startup Farecast off the ground in 2005. Now,… Read More
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Consumer Reports for geeks: New ‘Decide Score’ uncovers the best and worst products Decide.com already tells consumers when they should buy cameras, phones, refrigerators and other gadgets and appliances, analyzing price drops and… Read More
Get out your wallet: It is the best time of the year to buy a laptop Are you in the market for a new laptop? You may want to hit the stores this Independence Day before… Read More
Podcast GeekWire Radio: Google’s crazy glasses, text-spresso and predicting the price of your next gadget This week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast, we debate the merits of Google’s augmented reality glasses, talk about… Read More
Geek of the Week: Oren Etzioni on Siri, Burning Man and the promise of algorithms Our new Geek of the Week, Oren Etzioni, is a computer scientist and serial entrepreneur who has a knack for… Read More
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Amid California sales tax kerfuffle, Shopobot relocates to Seattle As a new Amazon affiliate, Shopobot co-founder Dave Matthews found himself in the middle of a big tax fight in California recently.… Read More
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The 14 hottest startups in Seattle (at least in the view of Business Insider) We’ve been talking a lot about the lack of investment dollars flowing to entrepreneurial ventures in the Seattle area. But… Read More