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Revealed: Foosball bracket for the big GeekWire Summer Bash

We’ve been watching with amazement as some of the world’s top footballers compete in the Euro 2012 soccer championship in… Read More

Ping pong mania: Introducing the field of 64 for the big GeekWire tourney

[Bracket updated on 6/19] Are you ready for some ping pong? After months of planning, we’re excited to get the… Read More

Wacky weekend fun: Pinball mania arrives in Seattle

I grew up with an old pinball machine in the basement, spending countless hours knocking the silver ball against the… Read More

GeekWire open house and ping-pong warm up Friday

I’ve been making the rounds to various tech companies over the past few weeks, not to dig up stories. But… Read More

We just joined the 10,000 club on Facebook

We’ve been hard at work building GeekWire over the past 16 months, striving to bring you top-notch technology news and… Read More

Ready for some ping-pong?

Silicon Valley Bank’s Minh Le has been engaged in private training sessions at the Washington Table Tennis Center. Madrona Venture… Read More

Stephen Hawking to speak at Seattle Science Festival

Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking has been added to the lineup of speakers for the Seattle Science Festival next month. The… Read More

Study: Washington state tech jobs grow 4% since 2010

The last couple of years have been rocky ones for jobs overall, as the economy struggles to emerge from the… Read More

Who will be the first ever GeekWire ping-pong champ?

We’re big fans of ping-pong around here. In fact, GeekWire was hatched over a series of ping-pong matches (and karaoke,… Read More

Internet Week NYC: A Seattle view

“Boy was I ever important,” New York Times columnist David Carr declared during his Internet Week keynote. That’s when the… Read More

Get ready: GeekWire Summer Bash and Ping-Pong Tourney

We love to throw big parties, and we especially love ping-pong, the national pastime of the technology industry. We’ve engaged… Read More

PopCap’s John Vechey on the power of listening, and how they turned down a $300M buyout

Entrepreneurs need all sorts of personality traits in order to be effective leaders, from honesty and passion to confidence and… Read More

Seattle Startup Awards: Watch the speeches of the 14 winners

We had a blast last night hosting the Seattle 2.0 Startup Awards, entertaining more than 600 of the region’s geeks,… Read More

PopCap co-founder to share startup secrets at Seattle 2.0 Awards

One of the coolest things about PopCap Games — which sold to Electronic Arts last year in a deal valued… Read More

Top 6 startup ideas from NWEN’s First Look Forum

The Northwest Entrepreneur Network’s First Look Forum, a coaching program for early-stage entrepreneurs, has graduated such varied companies as bootstrapped and Kickstarter-funded… Read More

Startup Awards: Vote for Bootstrapper of the Year

Getting a new company off the ground is no easy task, especially for those who decide to do so without… Read More

Seattle 2.0 Startup Awards: Vote for Deal of the Year

From IPOs to M&A deals to big venture capital financing rounds, today’s featured category in the Seattle 2.0 Startup Awards… Read More

Startup Awards: Vote for Innovation of the Year

The word “innovation” is thrown around a lot in the tech industry, but it comes in many different forms.  For… Read More

Startup Awards: Vote for Seattle’s Investor of the Year

Even though it’s cheaper than ever to get a software or Internet company off the ground these days, money still… Read More

Startup Awards: Vote for Seattle’s Startup of the Year

Today’s featured category in the Seattle 2.0 Startup Awards is a big one, getting to the heart of what this competition is… Read More

Startup Awards: Vote for Seattle’s Do-Gooder of the Year

Today’s featured category in the Seattle 2.0 Startup Awards shines a light on some of the people who work selflessly… Read More

Startup Awards: Vote for Seattle’s ‘Geek of the Year’

Since kicking off the official voting yesterday, we’ve already collected hundreds of votes for the upcoming Seattle 2.0 Startup Awards.… Read More

Cast your ballot: Finalists announced, voting open for Seattle 2.0 Startup Awards

In case you didn’t notice, it’s a big election year. But before we get to the presidential contest this November,… Read More

Robotic fish swim the stories of the dead, design the future

A fish may not need a bicycle, but a bicycle could learn a lot about the mechanics of movement from… Read More

Don’t pay up, just show up: What’s Amazon’s obligation to the local idea economy?

Is Amazon as involved as it should be in Seattle? How involved is that? And how much does it matter?… Read More

GeekWire Meetup Preview: Catching up with former Microsoft design director Bill Flora

Microsoft and great design haven’t exactly been synonymous over the years, but the company has been changing its reputation with the… Read More

Photo Gallery: Weird scenes from Emerald City Comicon

It’s always the pleasantly strange things at Emerald City Comicon that catch my eye. A wizard eating a burrito.  Darth… Read More

Comicon poll: Which superhero would you elect U.S. president?

Let’s take a pause for a moment from the heated rhetoric and political grandstanding coming out of the Barack Obama… Read More

Comedy superhero web series premieres at Seattle Comicon

Super Friends meets The Office? That, in a nutshell, is how Seattle production company Moon Bullet Studios describes its new… Read More

Last chance to nominate: GeekWire presents the Seattle 2.0 Startup Awards May 3

Here at GeekWire, we are incredibly proud to present the fourth annual Seattle 2.0 Startup Awards, and we’ve been enjoying watching… Read More

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