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Mayer: Yahoo sees 800M users a month, 12k resumes

SAN FRANCISCO– While the rest of the internet has fretted over Yahoo’s new logo, Marissa Meyer is more interested in… Read More

Pandora picks online advertising vet Brian McAndrews as CEO

Brian McAndrews, the former CEO of online advertising juggernaut aQuantive and partner at Seattle venture capital firm Madrona Venture Group,… Read More

Marketing mess-up: People furious with AT&T’s ‘tacky’ attempt to honor 9/11 victims

AT&T tried to honor those affected by the 9/11 tragedy today with a photo, but it doesn’t look like it… Read More

F5 latest tech company to open Bellevue office, set to hire 50

Add F5 Networks to the growing list of tech companies setting up an extra development office east of Seattle. F5,… Read More

Marchex’s Archeo debuts domain marketplace, minimum prices set at $30,000

If you’re thinking of starting a sushi bar, manufacturing airbags or opening a dance studio in the near future and… Read More

New Seattle arena renderings show off gigantic outdoor LED board

After the bid to bring the Sacramento Kings to Seattle this fall crumbled in May, we don’t know when or if… Read More

Twitter CEO Dick Costolo: ‘Managing by trying to be liked is the path to ruin’

SAN FRANCISCO – According to Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, leaders should prize clarity over likability when it comes to guiding… Read More

Snapchat founder Evan Spiegel: We’re not for sharing ‘mean secrets’

SAN FRANCISCO – While ephemeral messaging service Snapchat is one of the toasts of the startup scene, having raised $60… Read More

Udacity announces Open Education Alliance to prepare students for tech jobs

SAN FRANCISCO–If you want to land a job at Google, a new industry alliance, not a fresh B.S. in Computer… Read More

Worse than drunk driving? Washington motorists texting too much behind the wheel, study says

Even though texting or calling on a phone while driving is illegal in Washington, people continue to do so. A… Read More

GoDaddy relaunches its brand, with a little help from Jean-Claude Van Damme

GoDaddy, the online services company led by former Yahoo and Microsoft executive Blake Irving, relaunched its brand today with a… Read More

Next Big Thing: Kellee Khalil, Loverly founder and CEO

This week on The Next Big Thing I sit down with Kellee Khalil, the Founder and CEO of Loverly, the visual… Read More

Contour defaults on $7M in loans, court-appointed receiver pursuing possible sale after last exec resigns

Contour, the Seattle-based action-camera maker that surprised employees by closing its doors a month ago, has been placed in the… Read More

Study: ESPN viewers more likely to visit car dealerships

There’s a new television season coming up this fall, and that means new insights about product placement are here. Placed,… Read More

Twitter goes down for 30 minutes, social media addicts lose composure

Twitter’s homepage went down sometime around 2 p.m. PST Wednesday afternoon, but came back online about 30 minutes later. We… Read More

Mark Cuban, Woz and now Bill Nye: Science Guy joins ‘Dancing With The Stars’

Is there anything better than watching geeks try to dance? Well, yes. But nonetheless, it was hilarious watching Mark Cuban… Read More

Going beyond Siri and Watson: Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen taps Oren Etzioni to lead new Artificial Intelligence Institute

Perhaps no one has been more synonymous with the startup ethos at the University of Washington than computer science professor Oren… Read More

Former Egghead CEO launches LearnBig, a clearinghouse for online education content

Online learning has exploded in the past few years, with new companies like Khan Academy and Coursera offering students a… Read More

Transportation study: Market for ride-sharing, for-hire vehicles ‘growing rapidly’ in Seattle

Those without their own vehicles in Seattle are looking for alternatives to taxis now more than ever. That’s the conclusion… Read More

Ex-Dendreon CEO starts healthcare investment fund Alpine BioVentures

Former Dendreon CEO Mitch Gold has partnered with biotechnology stock researcher David Miller to create a new Seattle-based investment firm… Read More

Meet the first crowdsourced spam blocker for your phone

It’s the end of a long day at work and you’re relaxing at home watching some TV or eating a… Read More

Now you can own those body-worn cameras worn by police

For the past six years, Seattle-based Vievu has helped more than 3,000 police agencies around the world with body-worn cameras that… Read More

How Major League Baseball dominates the big data and mobile game

There is more data in baseball than perhaps any other sport. From the basic stats — balls, strikes, runs —… Read More

Microsoft: ValueAct wins option for board seat under ‘cooperation agreement’

Microsoft this afternoon announced a “cooperation agreement” with ValueAct Capital that includes the option for the activist investment firm to… Read More

Maveron-backed Potbelly Sandwich Shop files for $75M IPO

This IPO could be really yummy? Potbelly Sandwich Shop, a Chicago restaurant chain founded in 1977, has filed to raise… Read More

Lyft co-founder: Ride-sharing startups will make taxi companies more money

One by one, riders and passengers of fast-growing Lyft came up to the microphone Thursday night in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood,… Read More

Controversial hook-up app Bang With Friends returns to App Store as ‘Down’

Let the banging continue. Bang With Friends, an app that lets you find Facebook friends who are equally interested in… Read More

Ahead of city council meeting, Lyft holds community rally to drum up support for ride-sharing

Ride-sharing startups like Uber, Sidecar and Lyft are certainly causing a stir across the country and especially here in Seattle,… Read More

Safe rides on I-5: Tesla expands supercharger stations to Oregon

Oregon is getting in on the Tesla fun. After opening two new “supercharger” stations last month in Centralia and Burlington, Wash.,… Read More

Privacy is suddenly very hot: Events see influx of interest after NSA revelations

This is the fourth year of the Privacy Identity Innovation conference, which will draw hundreds of people to Seattle’s Bell Harbor… Read More