Intellectual Ventures spinout Evolv gets $11.8M from Bill Gates and others, aims to transform security scanning Intellectual Ventures this morning announced a new spinout company, Evolv, that has landed $11.8 million in funding from investors including… Read More
Tech terms ‘selfie,’ ‘phablet,’ ’emoji,’ added to Oxford Dictionaries The next time your parents or grandparents ask what the heck “selfie,” or “emoji” means, you can simply open up… Read More
Melinda Gates now has a comic book about her life Up until now, Bill Gates was likely the only member of his family to have a comic book written about… Read More
Google patents ‘Scroogling’ — or at least that’s what Microsoft would call it Google has been awarded a patent on a “System and method for targeting information based on message content in a… Read More
Sinofsky’s first VC deal: Car-sharing tech startup Local Motion lands $6M Andreessen Horowitz is leading a $6 million investment in Local Motion, a Burlingame, Calif., startup whose technology can be installed… Read More
New Parallels app runs Mac, Windows programs on iPad The people who popularized running Windows on a Mac have been working on another trick: Word on the iPad. That’s… Read More
Twitter continues growth, flocks to bigger Seattle offices It’s been a little over a year since Twitter opened up shop in Seattle, and now the social networking giant… Read More
Here are the world’s best Internet cities (Seattle made the cut) UBM’s Future Cities, a blog that focuses on how cities are developing, just put together a list of its ten… Read More
Political push: Intellectual Ventures opens D.C. office to support new lobbying team In an effort to support a lobbying push as the U.S. government cracks down on “patent trolls,” Intellectual Ventures is… Read More
Paul Allen’s Cinerama theater to install world’s first commercial 4K laser projector Seattle might now be the best place in the world to watch a movie if you’re into high-def screens. The… Read More
MOD Systems founder on hook for $4.1M in ongoing legal dispute Seattle entrepreneur Mark Phillips was released from federal prison earlier this year, but his legal troubles continue to mount. The… Read More
This tiny $15 lens turns your cell phone into a microscope Our smartphones can do some pretty neat stuff — surf the web, check email, take high-res pictures, give us turn-by-turn… Read More
Study: 70% of Americans now have broadband The percentage of American homes with broadband Internet connectivity continues to increase, yet 30 percent of Americans still don’t have… Read More
Deal of the day: Travelocity partners with rival Expedia Travelocity is holding onto its brand. But the guts of the online travel agency, which is owned by travel giant… Read More
5 geeky observations from a vacation in Southeast Asia I saw a lot on my recent trip to Thailand, Cambodia and Singapore. Between the epic temples and beautiful beaches,… Read More
Tech glitch forces Nasdaq to halt trading Tech issues have halted the tech-heavy Nasdaq. Trading was stopped on the stock market — home to companies such as… Read More
Bill Gates invests in program to help teachers discover and share education technology There are all kinds of geeky ways teachers can use technology to help their students perform better and learn more.… Read More
TV anchors integrating Twitter into live broadcasts with Jenni Hogan’s new app Back when Jenni Hogan was working the morning show at Seattle’s KIRO 7, she became frustrated. As a small earthquake… Read More
Bootstrap 3 launches, easing development of responsive websites Bootstrap, the wildly popular front-end framework for web development, launched version 3 this week, promising to make it easier to develop… Read More
Those Doritos bags that police gave to pot-smokers are lighting up on eBay It was Hempfest in Seattle over the weekend, and for this particular celebration of cannabis, the local police force lent… Read More
Disconnected: 20% of Americans still don’t use the Internet The Internet is everywhere nowadays, from our homes to our phones and now even our glasses. But that doesn’t mean… Read More
Next Big Thing: InsideSocial Co-Founders Brewster Stanislaw and Joey Kotkins [Editor’s Note: GeekWire is pleased to present the latest episode of The Next Big Thing, the popular podcast by Seattle… Read More
Legislators want Expedia, online travel agencies to pay more taxes Expedia and other big online travel agencies may be looking at higher tax expenses thanks to a recent push by… Read More
Report: Boeing quietly working on automated manufacturing for 777X Even as its 787 Dreamliner continues to suffer repeated issues, Boeing is moving ahead with plans to start building the… Read More
Battery-free wireless communication: UW research breakthrough enables ‘Internet of Things’ One of the hurdles facing the “Internet of things” is the need for every device to have a source of… Read More
Japanese airline finds electrical fault in 787 fire extinguishers The hits just keep on coming for Boeing’s troubled 787 Dreamliner, which has been beset by a number of problems… Read More
Stem cell biology company Fate Therapeutics files for $69 million IPO Could this be another example of a startup that got away? Fate Therapeutics, which started in Seattle six years ago… Read More
Tech Moves: Don Mattrick is cleaning house at Zynga; Spencer Lee joins Julep as CFO; and more —Social game maker Zynga has reportedly lost its COO, CTO and head of HR as a part of a restructuring… Read More
Microsoft faces class-action lawsuit over timing of Surface RT disclosures A lawsuit filed in federal court in Massachusetts this week alleges that Microsoft executives didn’t properly fess up to the… Read More
Bsquare CEO ‘disappointed’ with $805,000 loss in Q2 Bsquare CEO Brian Crowley said Tuesday that he was disappointed with the company’s second quarter performance, noting that revenue fell 11… Read More
