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Photos: 4 massive container cranes arrive in Washington’s Puget Sound by ship

Four unusual seafarers are arriving in Washington’s Puget Sound today after a long journey from China. At 434 feet tall… Read More

Dramatic photos of historic SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch from GeekWire camera 1,200 feet away

[Editor’s Note: This post has been updated with additional pictures, including the one above, retrieved Wednesday from a third camera… Read More

Instagram 700 million

Instagram adds another 100M users faster than ever to reach 700M monthly actives

Instagram’s growth is showing no signs of letting up. The Facebook-owned photo- and video-sharing platform announced Wednesday that its community… Read More

Thirsty Thursday with GeekWire: Photos from our hoppin’ happy hour at Pike Brewing

There’s nothing quite like waking up on a sunny morning after an evening clinking glasses, playing games, and chatting with… Read More

Microsoft shows off powerful tech with ‘Sprinkles’ photo editor — but there’s no need for Snapchat to panic

Another day, another photo app targeted at teens. This time, it’s Microsoft hoping to lure Gen Z users and millennials… Read More

Facebook announces Messenger Day, a Snapchat clone inside the Messenger app

These days you don’t even need to download Snapchat to build Snapchat Stories. Facebook on Thursday rolled out yet another… Read More

Amazon rolls out unlimited photo storage for Prime members and their families

Amazon continues to beef up perks of its $99 per year Prime program, this time with unlimited photo storage for… Read More

High-tech aerial photos reveal neighborhoods decimated by Alberta wildfires

Wildfire is spreading aggressively through Alberta, Canada, damaging hundreds of thousands of hectares along its path. Emergency management officials in Alberta… Read More

Generation App: Why Snapchat is more than just sexting

Snapchat, more commonly known by the over-30 crowd as “that sexting app,” is experiencing a meteoric rise. The app has an… Read More

Being wasted on Facebook won’t hurt your credit score — at least not yet

You know I love a good privacy outrage as much as anyone.  But a story last week in the Financial… Read More

Costco’s online photo center delayed again, may not return until September

Costco’s photo website will likely be down until early September as it tries to recover from a hacking incident that occurred… Read More

Costco Photo still down after hacking incident, won’t return until early August

During the height of summer vacations, several retailers, including Costco, have had to take down their online photo services after reports… Read More

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GeekWire Radio: The new world of photos, with Mylio’s David Vaskevitch, former Microsoft CTO

Do you know where all your digital photos are? Can you sync and share your entire collection across your mobile devices?… Read More

Google releases universal Photos app, offers unlimited photo and video storage free

Google is pulling ahead in the race to solve photo overload. Its new Google Photos service backs up and organizes… Read More

App of the Week: Layout from Instagram makes collages a snap

The weekend is here, a chance for people to spend time out with their friends and families taking photos on their… Read More

Apple releases new public beta of next Mac OS X, with Photos app

People who want to take a crack at the upcoming Photos app for OS X Yosemite can get a taste… Read More

App of the Week: Cleen empties out your iPhone’s clogged photo library

As iPhone cameras have steadily improved over the past several years, it has become easier to use them as an… Read More

Amazon opens up Cloud Drive to third-party developers

As the online storage wars heat up, Amazon said today it was opening up Cloud Drive to third-party developers as a… Read More

Beautiful pics on the iPhone: Lens maker Moment raises $1.5M from Maveron, Founder’s Co-op, others

Marc Barros knew that people loved taking spectacular photos on their smartphones, but even he was blown away by the… Read More

Apple says celebrity accounts were part of a ‘targeted attack’ on usernames, passwords

Apple has responded to concerns today that certain celebrities’ private photos were leaked this weekend from their online accounts. In a statement this afternoon, Apple… Read More

From Picnik to PicMonkey: How these entrepreneurs rebuilt one of Seattle’s hottest startups

When Google shut down the photo-editing site Picnik in early 2012, millions of users were left frustrated and angry. Some of Picnik’s original… Read More

Picture this: Top 10 tech photos of 2013

They made us smile; they made us think; they made us ponder what’s humanly possible. We saw and shared hundreds… Read More

The photo frame of the future? Familiar looks to stitch together photos and videos on idle iPads

There are so many photo sharing apps floating around today — from Flickr to Instagram to PhotoBucket — that it… Read More

Q&A: Photo sharing upstart Linea raises $4 million to fix ‘broken photo libraries’

It’s 2013 — nearly 10 years after the founding of Flickr and more than a year after Facebook bought Instagram… Read More

Galleries HQ lets you browse fine art galleries with your iPad

There’s not a whole lot you can’t find on the Internet these days, and now Seattle entrepreneur and UW alumnus… Read More

An app for your apps: WideAngle puts your photos in one place

Say you’ve just returned from a weekend trip in Vegas. You and all your raging friends took many, many pictures… Read More

Madrona-backed photo storage service ThisLife reportedly in acquisition talks

Shutterfly is reportedly in talks to buy Madrona-backed photo organizer ThisLife for as much as $25 million, according to a… Read More

Familiar keeps growing, tops 47M photos displayed in Nov.

Photo sharing may be one of the most hyped parts of the consumer Internet world, tracing back to Facebook’s big… Read More

Bill Gates-owned Corbis buys crowd-powered photo newswire service Demotix

Corbis is expanding its footprint in the arena of photojournalism, announcing today that it has purchased photo newswire Demotix for an… Read More

Ignition-backed photo sharing app Batch pulls the plug

Batch is latest casualty in the online photo sharing arena. The company, which was backed by the likes of Ignition… Read More

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