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Big History: Bill Gates wants you to take his ‘favorite course of all time’ for free online

Ever want to learn like Bill Gates? Now you can. Bill Gates announced today that the course Big History is now available… Read More

Murray voices support for Gigabit Internet, as McGinn calls Seattle mayoral rival ‘Comcast’s candidate’

State Sen. Ed Murray, running against incumbent Mike McGinn for Seattle mayor, says he supports a plan to bring alternative… Read More

Broadband politics: Comcast backs Murray vs. McGinn in mayor’s race as Seattle preps for Gigabit Internet

Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn, answering questions from Reddit users in a recent Ask-Me-Anything session, was asked what would happen to Gigabit Squared’s planned high-speed… Read More

DevLocal: Seattle’s new coworking space for developers, by developers

If you’re a developer in Seattle looking for a place to write some software and meet fellow engineers, there’s a… Read More

FAA: You can now use your personal electronic device during takeoff and landing

Alec Baldwin can now play as much Words with Friends on the plane as he’d like. Baldwin, and the millions… Read More

Sales sparkle at jewelry retailer Blue Nile, up 10.1 percent

Blue Nile, the Seattle online retailer of diamonds and jewelry, said that third quarter revenues increased 10.1 percent to $98.9… Read More

BuddyTV launches ‘Vibes’ TV playlist app — a smarter way to find the perfect show

After a long day at work, it can be nice to plop down on the couch and fire up the… Read More

Intuit buys online appointment startup Full Slate

Full Slate, a Seattle-based company that provided appointment scheduling tools to small businesses, announced today that it has been acquired… Read More

World’s first Bitcoin ATM sees 81 exchanges, $10,000 in transactions during first day

History was made in Bitcoin world on Tuesday when the world’s first Bitcoin ATM opened in Vancouver, B.C. At the… Read More

RealNetworks posts $31.4M 3Q loss, Glaser ‘pleased with progress’

RealNetworks keeps on losing money, but interim CEO Rob Glaser remains confident that the company is on the right track.… Read More

Shares of Expedia soar as travel giant posts 17% revenue gain

Shares of Expedia jumped nearly 20 percent in after hours trading after the Bellevue online travel agency beat expectations, showing… Read More

DoubleDown responds to petition, apologizes and offers credits but says glitches ‘not widespread’

Seattle-based DoubleDown Interactive today issued an apology and offered a special promotional code in response to a petition signed by… Read More

Washington completes installation of 1,600-mile, $140M broadband network for rural areas

Fast Internet speeds are coming to those living in the not-so-populated areas of Washington. A three-year, $140 million project to… Read More

Toddlers on tablets: Survey finds 38% of 2-year-olds using mobile devices, up from 10% in 2011

I’m always mesmerized every time I see a toddler using a cell phone or tablet — it is incredible that… Read More

Report: Adobe breach is even bigger than originally thought

In the event you’re an Adobe user and you haven’t changed all the passwords that share a password with your… Read More

You can has cats: Cheezburger partners with Uber for $20 kitten delivery service

Want to play with a kitten for 20 minutes today? Well, Cheezburger and Uber have you covered. In celebration of… Read More

High stakes for Intellectual Ventures: Should patents be licensed at more than cost?

Digital security firms Trend Micro and Symantec are fighting Intellectual Ventures’ patent claims with a unique legal argument — asserting… Read More

Pre-revenue startup Nextdoor raises $60M for a social network for neighborhoods

Here’s another sign that things are heating up on the funding landscape. San Francisco startup Nextdoor has raised a whopping… Read More

UW computer science program eyes 2nd building to meet booming demand

The Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering, which opened a decade ago, houses the University of Washington’s… Read More

Tableau posts 90% revenue gain and tops 1,000 staffers, files for $450 million secondary offering

Tableau Software continues to grow at a rapid pace, though that growth is causing the Seattle maker of data visualization… Read More

Onion co-founder says satirical publication ‘doesn’t make a lot of sense in the future’

The Onion’s hilarious, degrading and matter-of-fact satirical headlines and stories have made people laugh for more than two decades. But… Read More

Seattle generates more nationally-trending topics on Twitter than any other U.S. city, study says

At least according to Twitter, Seattleites are trend-setters. A new study out of the Indiana University shows that Seattle has… Read More

Tweet-a-Coffee: You can now buy a Starbucks latte for a friend via Twitter

Here’s something that coffee-crazed and tech-mad Seattleites will certainly love. Starbucks is launching a new partnership with Twitter called Tweet-a-Coffee… Read More

Zulily quarterly revenue hits $167 million in run-up to IPO

Seattle-based e-commerce site Zulily amended its Form S-1 filing today to include its third quarter financial results, and they paint… Read More

Photos: Scenes from GeekWire Startup Day

We just wrapped up a great day of insightful startup talks at our big Startup Day. And getting underway in… Read More

Deutsche Telekom CEO leaves T-Mobile US board

Deutsche Telekom CEO René Obermann is stepping down from T-Mobile’s board of directors, according to the company’s latest 8-K filing with… Read More

Battery-free wireless communication technology highlights UW computer science show

The impressive work coming out of University of Washington’s computer science department was on full display Wednesday evening inside the… Read More

Vine update adds support for drafts, “Time Travel”

Have you ever wanted to re-arrange the order of video snippets in a Vine that you shot? Now you can.… Read More

Sustainable Seattle: City wants to recycle excess data center energy to heat up buildings

The City of Seattle is putting a new meaning to the word recycle. As first reported by The Economist, plans… Read More

Shares of F5 up 7% in after hours, profits increase by $8M

Shares of F5 Networks were up more than seven percent in after hours trading today following the company’s fourth quarter earnings report, which… Read More