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Wired magazine editor Bill Gates has a very special holiday wish list

Getting involved with dead-tree publishing seems to be the thing to do if you’re a tech billionaire from Seattle. While… Read More

Washington reports 9,500 job losses: Unemployment rate consistent for past 2 months

The latest stats from the state’s Employment Security Department show Washington’s unemployment rate staying consistent over the past two months despite… Read More

RealNetworks sells remaining stake in LoEn digital music company for $29.3M

RealNetworks has sold its remaining stake in Korean digital music distribution company LoEn Entertainment, netting $29.3 million in cash, according… Read More

Supercomputer maker Cray wins $30M contract from German university

Seattle supercomputer maker Cray announced today that it has signed a $30 million deal to expand its XC30 system at… Read More

UW computer science professor Ben Taskar passes away at 36

Ben Taskar, a rising star in the University of Washington’s Department of Computer Science & Engineering, passed away on Sunday… Read More

Bitcoin surges to all-time high of $900, then drops below $650 in 30 minutes

It’s Bitcoin-madness today. On the same day the U.S. government began discussions about Bitcoin, the value of the digital currency… Read More

Yahoo to encrypt internal server traffic by early next year, trying to thwart NSA

In a post to Yahoo’s official blog, CEO Marissa Mayer announced that the company plans to have all of its… Read More

Day 2 of Zulily on Wall Street: Stock drops but market value still above $4 billion

Zulily’s warm reception on Wall Street last Friday cooled some Monday, as stock in the Seattle daily deal site for… Read More

The corporate Web site is dead, long live the new corporate Web site

Earlier this week, Coca-Cola declared the corporate website dead. Take one quick look at their new corporate website and I… Read More

CenturyLink repairs severed underwater cable, restores Internet service to San Juan Islands

Good news for the thousands of folks who have been disconnected for the past week in the San Juan Islands… Read More

Seattle’s new billion dollar man: Here’s who scored in Zulily’s spectacular IPO

Zulily’s initial public offering today represented a huge milestone for the Seattle company. It also made the founders and venture… Read More

Six-person triple blind date: Reliving my fun, awkward Grouper dating experience

Slightly awkward. Super exciting. And lots of fun. That pretty much sums up my first Grouper experience last night, when myself… Read More

Q&A: CEO Darrell Cavens on Zulily’s IPO and its future as a public company

Zulily CEO Darrell Cavens built an online retailing powerhouse over the past four years, driving massive growth while keeping a… Read More

Here’s how Seattle’s King County uses online public meetings to learn what citizens actually care about

Government officials often hold public meetings as a way to hear from citizens and find out what’s going on in… Read More

Shares of Zulily skyrocket in IPO debut, open at $39.40

Everything about Zulily throughout its short history has been fast, so much so that employees of the Seattle daily deals… Read More

Photo of the day: 5-year-old son of Darrell Cavens introduces Zulily to Wall Street

Shares of Zulily are to begin trading this morning after the Seattle-based daily deals site priced its IPO at $22… Read More

Digital marketing firm AudienceScience lands funding

AudienceScience, the Bellevue-based digital marketing company, has raised additional funds according to a recent SEC filing. The company declined to comment… Read More

Zulily prices IPO at $22 per share, raising $140 million for fast-growing daily deal site

Zulily, the fast-growing daily deal site for kid’s gear and apparel, priced its initial public offering at $22 per share… Read More

The new-and-improved six-person triple blind date: Prepping for my first Grouper dating experience

I’m 23, single, and ready to freakin’ mingle. That’s why I’m excited — and a tad bit nervous — to go… Read More

Visualant partners with Intellectual Ventures to help commercialize light-based identification technology

Visualant, a Seattle-based company that offers authentication and diagnostic solutions, today announced a partnership with Intellectual Ventures to spur commercialization of… Read More

Watson has an API: IBM takes Jeopardy champ to the cloud

IBM announced today that it’s opening up partnerships for developers to work with Watson, its Jeopardy-winning supercomputer. What made it… Read More

Instapiration: Skedadel uses Instagram photos to help recommend things to do, places to see

Discovery apps like Yelp, Urbanspoon and Foursquare have proven useful to millions of people, but Peter Boctor sees a problem… Read More

Europe set follow U.S., allow use of electronic devices during takeoff and landing

Frequent fliers across the pond in Europe will soon be able to use their electronic devices from gate-to-gate. Similar to… Read More

Want to own sandwich.com? Yahoo has an auction for you

As a part of doing business on the Internet, Yahoo picked up a bunch of domains. They were holding onto… Read More

Here’s how Cheezburger executed a kickass kitten delivery viral marketing stunt with Uber

It’s not easy putting together a one-day viral marketing campaign in three cities that involves cute kittens, customized cupcakes and… Read More

University of Washington part of 5-year, $37.8M effort to apply data science to genetics, economics and other fields

It’s becoming an increasingly data driven world. And those organizations that can make sense of the vast arrays of information… Read More

Survey: Majority of tech execs say talent shortage is stunting growth

New survey results from Technology Councils of North America reaffirm the lack of tech talent available to employers. TECNA, a non-profit… Read More

Money-losing Dendreon to cut 150 employees in bid to become ‘nimble’ biotech company

Once a rising star in Seattle’s biotechnology community, Dendreon Corp. announced Tuesday that it is reducing its staff by 15… Read More

Study: Black Friday shoppers most likely to showroom at bookstores

Smartphones are changing the way we go shopping at brick-and-mortar stores, and now a new study shows how people plan… Read More

Smartwatch Diary: The good, bad and ugly of wearing a Samsung Galaxy Gear for the past week

It’s been fun wearing Samsung’s new Galaxy Gear smartwatch for the past week. Nearly everyone who sees it has some… Read More