Tech – Page 179 of 306

Amazon Prime Day by the numbers: 51,000 headphones, 47,000 TVs, 24,000 pressure cookers

Amazon.com sold a lot of stuff on Wednesday. Yesterday was the company’s first-ever “Prime Day,” a major online Black Friday-like shopping event… Read More

TweetDeck experiences brief hiccup, reporters freak out

Twitter client TweetDeck experienced an outage this morning, sending reporters of all stripes into a panic that they might miss… Read More

Startup Weekend EDU finds new home following UP Global acquisition

Startup Weekend EDU, an offshoot of the popular 54-hour Startup Weekend entrepreneurial bootcamps, has a new home. The organization is… Read More

Meet the GolfBoard: This electric skateboard helps golfers get around the course

An Oregon startup born on Kickstarter is giving golfers an entirely new way to navigate the course. GolfBoard, a two-year-old company based… Read More

Geek fashion: Entrepreneur creates custom-knit scarves showing mathematical algorithms

Fabienne Serriere, founder of Seattle-based KnitYak, combined her hardware-hacking and hand-knitting hobbies to develop something truly unique: custom knit scarves… Read More

‘Uber for kids’ service HopSkipDrive raises $3.9M from Maveron, others

HopSkipDrive wants to be the Uber for kids, and now it has some funding to do so. The Los Angeles-based… Read More

Seattle-based Marchex to provide click-to-call ad tracking for world’s largest advertising group

For advertisers, tracking clicks is easy, but tracking calls resulting from online ads can be a hassle. A solution from Seattle-based… Read More

Lyft loophole allows illegal pickups at Seattle airport, puts drivers at risk of citations

Lyft driver Nick Starr was waiting for a ride request on Monday when he received a notification from a passenger needing a… Read More

How Nintendo employees are honoring late President Satoru Iwata at Redmond headquarters

As video game fans around the world honor and remember the late Nintendo President Satoru Iwata, employees at Nintendo of America in… Read More

Seattle tech leaders tackle voter apathy, offer council endorsements for politicians who don’t ‘punish’ tech sector

Seattle’s tech industry often gets slapped with an apathetic label when it comes to local politics. Fast-moving tech CEOs and… Read More

RealNetworks trims staff as repositioning under Rob Glaser continues

RealNetworks has cut nine employees at its Seattle headquarters as the streaming media and gaming company continues to transition under… Read More

Comcast offers $15 a month streaming service to Internet subscribers, live TV limited to at-home viewing

Comcast announced today that it’s launching a streaming service for its Internet subscribers. The $15 per month service, called Stream, allows… Read More

Nintendo president Satoru Iwata dies of cancer at age 55

Nintendo Co. President Satoru Iwata has died of cancer at the age of 55. Iwata, who did not travel to… Read More

Testing the Seattle Public Library’s new Wi-Fi hotspot: It’s worth the wait

In late May, the Seattle Public Library announced a program to lend Wi-Fi hotspots to library card holders, free of… Read More

Ignition raising new venture fund to support existing portfolio companies

Ignition Partners, the backer of companies such as Chef, Couchbase, Heroku and others, is raising a new annex fund to… Read More

Ellen Pao steps down as Reddit CEO, co-founder Steve Huffman takes over

Ellen Pao is out at Reddit. The New York Times reported Friday afternoon that the interim CEO, who took over this… Read More

Geek on the Street: Are you using Venmo to replace cash?

There is one particular experience that many college students have shared, including me, over the past year. A strange and unfamiliar word quickly… Read More

PebbleBee crushes crowdfunding goal for new device that controls your smartphone from afar

PebbleBee already helps more 30,000 people locate lost personal items with its Bluetooth-enabled device called Honey. Now the company is developing… Read More

Fast-growing Tableau inks huge lease in Seattle, with room to accommodate 1,300 employees

Tableau continues to take over “The Center of the Universe.” The Seattle-based maker of data visualization software today announced that… Read More

We’re not smoking something: This marijuana startup is valued at half a billion dollars

We all know there’s a lot of money to be made in the pot business, especially in states like Washington… Read More

SEC filing: Ex-Microsoft manager raises $202M for enterprise software-focused venture fund

Tola Ventures co-founder Sheila Gulati is not saying much about her Seattle firm, with the former investment banker and ex-Microsoft… Read More

Why this startup has an ‘unfair advantage’ making apps for Microsoft HoloLens

We’ve already seen some awesome applications for the HoloLens, from teaching a reporter how to replace a light switch to a… Read More

Cat picture pioneer Ben Huh steps down as CEO of Cheezburger

It’s the final roar, or should we say meow for Ben Huh. The charismatic CEO of Seattle-based online humor site… Read More

Electronic fleet tracking company Zonar Systems raises $50M, including cash from Daimler Trucks

Zonar Systems, a Seattle area company that provides electronic fleet inspection and tracking systems for public and private fleets, has scored… Read More

Court rejects Intellectual Ventures appeal in Capital One case, citing ‘unpatentable abstract ideas’

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has ruled against Intellectual Ventures in a dispute with Capital One… Read More

A victory for anonymous commenters: Appeals court protects reviewer’s identity, in win for Avvo

Anonymous commenting has won in Washington state. A state appeals court sided with Avvo on Monday in the lawyer review site’s legal fight against… Read More

The IPO market reignited in Q2 for venture-backed companies, but M&A deals slowed to a 12-year low

There’s a lot of talk of unicorns these days — private companies that are raising piles of venture capital at… Read More

GoPro’s new Hero4 Session is its smallest camera ever, at a not-so-small price

GoPro announced its smallest camera ever today. The Hero4 Session is cube-shaped camera that’s waterproof right out of the box, forgoing the… Read More

Microsoft’s executive shake-up and new mission, a DIY air conditioner and other top posts for the month of June

Things certainly heated up at GeekWire during the month of June. We reported live from the U.S. Open golf tournament,… Read More

UW still pursuing new computer science building despite budget setback

The University of Washington’s Computer Science & Engineering Department is pressing ahead with plans for a second building on campus, despite… Read More