Paul Allen’s Vulcan cuts 20 jobs Vulcan, the Seattle-based investment arm of billionaire and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, today laid off 20 staffers, GeekWire has learned.… Read More
Podcast GeekWire Radio: Paul Allen’s sub, Ray Ozzie’s legacy, and more from our live events This week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast: Seattle rock legend Dave Dederer shares the inside secrets of digital… Read More
Paul Allen gets into Twitter spat with sports columnist Twitter is such an equalizing force. How else can the billionaire owner of a struggling NBA franchise make his feelings… Read More
Seattle’s first Science Fiction Film Festival starts ticket sales With a kick-off Facebook post propelled by a tweet from major science-fiction fan Paul Allen, tickets have gone on sale… Read More
Paul Allen bankrolls Wikidata: Project to help Wikipedia editors more easily enter information It sure has been a busy couple of weeks for Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. From squashing rumors about the sale… Read More
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen victim of identity theft Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has become the subject of identity theft, with a an AWOL U.S. soldier in Pittsburgh charged… Read More
Paul Allen-backed Xiant Mobile brings ‘smarter’ email to Kindle Fire with $9.99 app Amazon.com’s Kindle Fire is known as a solid reading and media device. But when it comes to email, well, maybe… Read More
Paul Allen narrates as James Cameron navigates to the depths of the ocean floor I never took Paul Allen — the billionaire software tycoon — for a citizen journalist. But that’s what the Microsoft… Read More
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen donates $300M to help solve the mysteries of the human brain Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen is doubling down on his efforts to better understand the human brain, announcing plans today to… Read More
Evri apologizes after iPad app crashes for first-time users There’s certainly no shortage of competition when it comes to creating news reader applications for the iPad, from Flipboard to… Read More
Can Paul Allen bring a Super Bowl to Seattle? Maybe if the billionaire can change the weather Super Bowl Sunday could find its way to Seattle some time after 2015 if the Microsoft co-founder and Seattle Seahawks… Read More
From film festivals to art museums, Paul Allen’s giving has a distinctive local flair Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s philanthropic efforts don’t get quite as much attention as the sweeping global health efforts of Bill… Read More
Paul Allen-backed Audience files for $75 million IPO Audience, an audio software company backed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, has filed to raise $75 million in an initial… Read More
Our picks: GeekWire’s favorite stories (and people) of 2011 Earlier this week, we listed your favorite stories of 2011 — the 100 most-popular news items, columns and features on… Read More
Paul Allen is sticking with the Blazers for now, but says there’s no joy to losing money Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen isn’t getting out of the basketball business, but his days of spending big bucks may be… 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
Podcast GeekWire Radio: Paul Allen in space, Chrome vs. IE, Twitter reconsidered, tech gift ideas This week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast, we explore Paul Allen’s new space venture, assess Google Chrome’s rise… Read More
With Stratolaunch project, Paul Allen makes a big bet on commercial spaceflight As he began speaking at the news conference for Paul Allen’s Stratolaunch space project today, renowned aerospace engineer Burt Rutan… Read More
Paul Allen’s new space project will launch rockets into orbit from world’s biggest plane Paul Allen is taking the wraps off his new space venture this morning, and it’s a big one. The… Read More
Amazon founder and brainiac Jeff Bezos donates $15 million to Princeton Neuroscience Institute Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen isn’t the only Seattle billionaire interested in the study of the brain. Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos… Read More
Paul Allen calls for ‘open science’ and wider sharing of data Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen makes the case for broader sharing of scientific data — an “open science” model — in a… Read More
Tech Moves: Varolii hires Amdocs exec; Allen Institute promotes Dang; etc. Varolii, a Seattle company whose communications software is used by banks, airlines and utilities to send alerts to customers, has… Read More
Newsmakers 2011: Paul Allen is the ‘Idea Man’ Paul Allen made headlines in 2011 not as much for what he did, but for what he wrote. The Microsoft… Read More
Paul Allen’s Vulcan leads $14M round in mobile ad company 4INFO Vulcan Capital has been a bit quiet on the venture capital financing front lately. But that changed today with news… Read More
Did Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen just derail the NBA season? Billionaire Paul Allen has a lot of interests, from music to megayachts to mansions to mapping mouse brains. Now, can… Read More
TechStars’ plea to Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and the other ‘godfathers’ of Seattle tech Andy Sack, the director of TechStars Seattle, is accustomed to critiquing the pitches of entrepreneurs. Now, Sack is doing an… Read More
Amazon.com, Costco among the most trusted brands Amazon.com has been taking some hits lately, with at least two congressmen arguing that the company’s new Silk browser for… Read More
Paul Allen buys $25M pad in NYC Last year, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen forked over more than $25 million for a beautiful oceanfront home in Malibu, California.… Read More
Former Paul Allen security guards file lawsuit, allege unethical behavior at Vulcan Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and his private investment arm, Vulcan, have been sued by four former security guards at the… Read More
Mick Jagger’s new music studio: Paul Allen’s megayacht Where does someone like Mick Jagger go to record a new album when he’s seeking the ultimate in privacy and… Read More
