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Vox Media to acquire Re/code as tech media landscape continues to shift

Vox Media, owner of The Verge, SB Nation and Vox among others, is acquiring startup tech media site Re/code in a stock… Read More

Hulu, Amazon and Yahoo reportedly in running to grab ‘Seinfeld’ streaming rights

The puffy shirt. Risk, a game about world domination being played by two men who can barely run their own… Read More

Seattle Times publisher Frank Blethen touts $4M digital upgrade, looks to keep pace with innovation

The Seattle Times is making a big bet on digital, hoping to capture a new generation of readers who’ve fled… Read More

GeekWire at 4 years: How we’ve evolved, and what’s next in our startup adventure

Four years ago this week, we left our jobs at a big media company and launched GeekWire — determined to finally control our… Read More

Outspoken mavericks unite: Richard Sherman inks endorsement deal with John Legere’s T-Mobile

This is going to be fun to watch. Two of Seattle’s most outspoken media personalities — Richard Sherman of the… Read More

Amazon at the movies: Company to debut up to 12 films a year in theaters, with quick release on Prime

Fresh off its big Golden Globe win for the TV series Transparent, Amazon today announced that it will produce and… Read More

Amazon and Netflix buy full-page ads in NYT to promote Web TV series

Netflix and Amazon.com are going old-school in their attempts to gain viewers for their Web TV series, with both companies… Read More

YouTube tests new GIF creation tool, promising to flood the Internet with quippy pics

Finding the perfect animated response is about to get a lot easier. That’s because YouTube is quietly testing a new… Read More

Washington Post’s new Kindle Fire app has Jeff Bezos written all over it

Not every newspaper can lean on one of the world’s top tech executives as a beta tester and adviser when developing a new… Read More

Startup vet Terry Drayton is getting sued again, this time by his longtime PR advisor

Mark Firmani served as Terry Drayton’s trusted public relations counsel, helping the Seattle entrepreneur and former HomeGrocer.com CEO navigate some… Read More

FBI created fake Seattle Times news story in scheme to implant spyware on bomb-threat suspect’s computer

Should the FBI be permitted to impersonate the news media in order to nab criminals? That’s the question being raised… Read More

Glenn Fleishman to shutter The Magazine, an experiment in long-form online journalism

Longtime Seattle-based journalist Glenn Fleishman is pulling the plug on The Magazine, a bi-weekly independent digital tech publication originally started by… Read More

Tech scribe Kara Swisher: ‘Journalism has never been less influential’

Kara Swisher is one of the most trusted and feared technology journalists on the planet, with a massive social following… Read More

4 cultural traps to avoid, courtesy of this leaked New York Times report

The New York Times ran a fantastic story last week about the struggles companies face in a digital world. Its… Read More

Bing Don’t Lie: Microsoft algorithm accurately predicts outcome of ‘The Voice’

So far, so good for Microsoft’s foray into pop-culture predictions. By crunching data from social networks and the company’s Bing search engine, Microsoft was able… Read More

Bummed in ‘Silicon Valley’: Why I can’t stand these new shows about startups

Last week I did something I rarely do. I posted an angry tweet: “Everyone,” huh? Again, TV people, would it… Read More

This startup wants to reinvent TV as we know it, without blowing up the industry

Apple TV. Roku. Google Chromecast. Amazon Fire TV. There are no shortage of ways to watch video programming these days… Read More

Gawker’s Nick Denton knows exactly what Jeff Bezos should do with The Washington Post: Ditch print, distribute Kindles

Nick Denton is a controversial new media titan, uncovering the gossip that no one else in the news business will… Read More

Social TV startup Wetpaint acquired by Viggle for $30M

Wetpaint, an 8-year-old Seattle startup led by entrepreneur Ben Elowitz, has been sold to New York-based Viggle for a purchase… Read More

Jeff Bezos says Don Graham talked him into buying Washington Post

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos dropped something of a bombshell in an interview with Charlie Rose that was posted on the 60… Read More

Chart: It’s not looking good for print publishers

It’s a bad time to be a print publisher in America. That’s the clear takeaway from a new chart published… Read More

Former Cheezburger and Garden.com exec launches firm to gobble up emerging digital media properties

Seattle Internet executive Cliff Sharples is currently on an around-the-world adventure with his wife and five kids — writing about… Read More

Hark hits the wall: Corporate records list ‘void’ status, co-founder now at Amazon

The story of Hark — a Seattle startup that was attempting to build the YouTube of audio clips and once… Read More

iSpot.tv raises $5M, looks to provide better advertising insights by analyzing 35,000 TV commercials

Sean Muller didn’t have to raise cash for his fast-growing Seattle area startup iSpot.tv. After all, the 15-person company —… Read More

Which Jeff Bezos just bought The Washington Post?

William Randolph Hearst. Joseph Pulitzer. John S. Knight. Katharine Graham. And now … Jeff Bezos. Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos has… Read More

The next wave of news: Peer-to-peer livestreaming

Twitter enabled any person to reach anyone in the world directly with 140 characters of text. And, of course, you… Read More

What Bezos buying The Post teaches us about business threats

Jeff Bezos set off quite a bit of handwringing and soul-searching when he purchased The Washington Post earlier this month for $250… Read More

Community news site Patch pulls plug in Washington state, lays off staffers

Online news site Patch is pulling up roots in Washington state as part of a larger shakeup at the AOL-owned… Read More

A wild idea for Bezos and the Post: Develop a ‘Kindle Printer’ and shut down the main press

The economics of delivering a local newspaper to your doorstep just don’t make sense anymore. The reasons? Declining subscriber counts… Read More

Comedians have fun with Jeff Bezos buy of The Washington Post

Jeff Bezos’ purchase of The Washington Post was the big news of the week, making great fodder for late-night comedians.… Read More