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Google’s Nest Labs plans ‘top secret’ project at new Seattle engineering center

Nest Labs co-founder Matt Rogers was in Seattle on Wednesday to kick off the company’s new engineering center and to… Read More

Zones co-founder Firoz Lalji returns to CEO position, replacing Murray Wright

Zones has replaced CEO Murray Wright with founder and former CEO Firoz Lalji. Wright was appointed as chief executive in… Read More

Uber says it’s tired of waiting, calls on Port of Seattle to allow airport pickups ‘immediately’

Uber says tens of thousands of Seattle travelers walk out of Seattle-Tacoma International Airport each month and pull out their… Read More

GeekWire Game Night 2015: Scenes from our fun fall meetup

More than 225 people braved some blustery weather on Tuesday evening to join us for GeekWire Game Night, our annual fall meetup. It… Read More

Sprint cuts competitors’ price in half again, calls it the ‘biggest wireless offer in U.S. history’

Sprint once again threw down the gauntlet in the wireless price-cutting war on Wednesday, introducing a promotion that will give… Read More

Transpose shifts strategy to business customers, starts charging for its info management platform

Transpose announced a major strategy shift on Wednesday, as the Seattle startup is about to turn its full attention to business… Read More

China Diary: Microsoft Research in Asia, visiting the Uber of China, and eating duck in Beijing

BEIJING, China — Microsoft Research Asia. The Uber of China. Tsinghua University. And, some incredible Peking duck. It’s been a… Read More

Rdio to shut down streaming music service, sells assets to Pandora for $75M

Streaming music service Rdio will play its last song soon. The service, founded by Skype co-founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstroem,… Read More

Seattle city council votes down municipal broadband pilot project

The Seattle City Council voted against a $5 million municipal broadband pilot program on Monday, delivering a major blow to groups that want to… Read More

HP boss Meg Whitman sees big opportunity to become ‘paragon of stability’ with Dell and EMC distracted by $67B merger

PALM DESERT, Calif. — Big acquisitions can be complex, time consuming and downright messy. HP knows this better than most,… Read More

Meg Whitman: ‘Turning around HP was relatively easy versus running for governor of California’

PALM DESERT, Calif. — Meg Whitman didn’t anticipate becoming CEO of HP, the storied Silicon Valley tech powerhouse that she… Read More

Political masterminds Karl Rove and Jim Messina: How data is changing politics, why polling sucks, and which social network matters now

PALM DESERT, Calif. — Two political foes faced off Friday here at the EY Strategic Growth Forum, but the dialogue… Read More

Billionaire businessman Charles Koch believes in biotechnology, biofuels and ‘the bathroom of the future’

PALM DESERT, Calif. — Charles Koch is known for a lot of things, from running the second largest privately-held company in… Read More

T-Mobile will be first mobile carrier to sell Samsung Gear VR sets, starting Black Friday

T-Mobile will be the first mobile carrier to sell Samsung’s virtual reality headset. The Samsung Gear VR headset will be… Read More

SAP CEO Bill McDermott: We took our lumps and made the transition to the cloud

PALM DESERT, Calif. — SAP CEO Bill McDermott started his entrepreneurial career as a teenager serving deli sandwiches at a corner… Read More

China Diary: Testing Uber, eating dumplings, and catching up with a Seattle startup vet in Shanghai

SHANGHAI, China — I told y’all I’d step up my food game in China, and on Friday morning here in Shanghai,… Read More

Angie’s List rebuffs $500M acquisition offer from Internet behemoth IAC

Internet behemoth IAC — which once owned Expedia and now controls brands like Tinder, About.com and Vimeo — made public… Read More

Dear GeekWire: A coding bootcamp is not a replacement for a computer science degree

[Editor’s Note: University of Washington computer science professor Ed Lazowska offered this response to a piece yesterday by Jeff Meyerson of Software… Read More

Alibaba founder Jack Ma: Being an entrepreneur isn’t about making money

HANGZHOU, China — To produce more entrepreneurs that help build innovative companies, Jack Ma says we should rethink how young students… Read More

Alibaba breaks record with $14.3 billion in Singles’ Day sales, up 60% from last year

It was another lucrative Singles’ Day for Alibaba. The Chinese tech giant broke its own sales record on Nov. 11,… Read More

Angie’s List launches new tool to lure home services providers from Porch, Amazon and others

Angie’s List launched a new tool on Wednesday that it says may be the key to stealing home services… Read More

Mobilize.Net brings enterprise apps to web and smartphones with latest WebMAP tools

Before the rise of the smartphone and our persistent connection to the Internet, it made perfect sense for big companies… Read More

Day 1 in China: Initial observations from this GeekWire reporter in Shanghai

SHANGHAI, China — Everybody uses WeChat, some Chinese taxi drivers are a bit crazy, and yes, the pollution is pretty… Read More

Inside Alibaba: Photos from the Chinese technology giant’s headquarters

HANGZHOU, China — Alibaba may have reported $3.4 billion in revenue for its most recent financial quarter, but the company’s main headquarters are… Read More

Singles’ Day from Alibaba HQ: Employees pitch tents to prepare for huge online shopping event

HANGZHOU, China — Spend a few minutes walking around Alibaba’s main campus, and it’s pretty clear that something important is going… Read More

Juno Therapeutics misses expectations in Q3 with $1.6M revenue, $47.6M net loss

Juno Therapeutics missed analyst expectations with its Q3 earnings report on Tuesday, posting a net loss of $47.6 million, or… Read More

Software Engineering Daily: Coding bootcamps question the need for computer science degrees

Demand for programmers has surged since 2008. Programmers rarely have trouble finding a job, and college students are flocking to… Read More

Seattle officials debate $5M proposal to test municipal broadband network

The Seattle City Council is debating behind closed doors this week over whether to move forward with a pilot program that would… Read More

Ubi Interactive’s new hardware brings 20-point multi-touch to any screen

Touchscreens are naturally intuitive. Hand an iPad to a toddler and they’re quickly swiping at virtual pets or building Minecraft cities.… Read More

RealNetworks counting on Verizon partnership to pay off as it posts $21M loss in Q3

RealNetworks posted a stronger earnings report than expected on Monday, showing a net loss of $21.2 million on revenue of $30.8… Read More