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After food poisoning incident, Seattle woman starts petition to revamp restaurant ratings

Like many restaurant goers, Seattle resident Sarah Schacht turned to Yelp last February when trying to find a place to… Read More

Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold have another wild idea: Automatically generating video from text

Bill Gates and Nathan Myhrvold, the technology duo who brought us such classics as the Hurricane Suppression System for the… Read More

Box updates Android cloud storage app, making new push on smartphones

The personal cloud storage market is a tough one these days, with a large number of companies competing to be… Read More

To fund this Kickstarter, turn to page 40: Choose Your Own Adventure tries crowdfunding

When it came to elementary school literary entertainment, Choose Your Own Adventure books were, for a time, second to none.… Read More

Tech Moves: Tim Ellis departs Redfin for Porch; Cray names VP of sales; etc.

—Tim Ellis is trading in one online real estate company for another. Ellis, who has worked for Redfin and writes… Read More

Seattle Times owner scoffs at Craigslist founder’s journalism advocacy efforts

Craig Newmark, the founder of Craigslist, has taken part of his online classified ads money and gotten involved in advocating… Read More

Rhapsody reset: Revenue slips 8% as music service drops ads and MP3 sales to focus on subscriptions

Rhapsody is focusing more intently on its core music subscription service, dropping third-party ads from its Rhapsody.com website and discontinuing… Read More

INRIX hires former Nokia exec as chief revenue officer

INRIX is continuing to zoom ahead with the addition of a new chief revenue officer. The Kirkland company, which provides… Read More

Tableau hired 96 people in Q2, plans to continue to bolster ranks at ‘healthy clip’

Tableau Software is growing fast, and it’s looking to hire aggressively to take advantage of what CEO Christian Chabot described… Read More

Paul Allen’s raucous, soulful new album shows not all tech execs are tone-deaf

It’s apparently the summer of the tech exec album. Former Groupon CEO Andrew Mason released his dud of a motivational… Read More

Shares of Tableau soar after revenues rise 71% in first earnings report post IPO

In its first earnings report as a publicly-traded company, Seattle-based Tableau wowed Wall Street, posting revenues of $49.9 million for… Read More

T-Mobile CEO John Legere: ‘We’re not done’ upending the wireless industry

T-Mobile US CEO John Legere, talking with analysts this morning after a strong quarterly earnings report, said the company is… Read More

Ubuntu’s hybrid PC-smartphone gets price drop, but can it reach $32M goal?

Canonical this morning reduced the price of the Ubuntu Edge — its hybrid smartphone that doubles as a desktop computer… Read More

T-Mobile on the rebound: Wireless renegade adds 1.1M customers in second quarter

T-Mobile US added a net total of 1.1 million customers in the second quarter, including 678,000 for its T-Mobile and… Read More

RealNetworks posts $18.5M loss, Glaser still ‘very confident’ in turnaround

RealNetworks today posted a loss of $18.5 million for the second quarter, as revenue declined in each of its core businesses.… Read More

The Next Big Thing: Social media badass Jessica Northey shares Google Plus secrets

[Editor’s Note: GeekWire is pleased to present the latest episode of The Next Big Thing, the popular podcast by Seattle media entrepreneur… Read More

Code Fellows to offer ‘Code Camp’ to at-risk youth, underprivileged women

Code Fellows, the Seattle-based program that works to offer vocational training in modern programming practices, will be holding a free,… Read More

Simply Measured partners with Tumblr on analytics, as Yahoo courts big brands

Following Yahoo’s acquisition of Tumblr earlier this year, CEO Marissa Mayer and her team are trying to make the blogging… Read More

Comcast wants to give pirates a legal alternative to torrenting: Make them paying customers

The cat-and-mouse game between media companies and pirates has a long and sordid history. Currently, “big content” is relying on… Read More

Michael Schutzler named CEO of the Washington Technology Industry Association

The Washington Technology Industry Association has tapped Seattle entrepreneur and angel investor Michael Schutzler to serve as president and CEO.… Read More

Crowdfunding, eh? Kickstarter launches in Canada

Following its launch in the United Kingdom late last year, one of the world’s most popular crowdfunding platforms is coming… Read More

Ubers aweigh! Grab a ride in San Francisco by boat

Looking for a windier way to get back to the East Bay Area from San Francisco tonight? Uber wants to… Read More

Social media storm continues with #DempseyFound: This startup is helping Sounders FC manage the chaos

What happens when an international soccer star arrives secretly in your hometown, setting off a social media storm of epic… Read More

Tech Moves: Zones names CEO; Zillow promotes Philips

—Zones has named Murray Wright as its new CEO effective September 1, replacing Firoz Lalji who will remain as chairman.… Read More

Yahoo buys, kills Rockmelt in the same day

The question floating around Silicon Valley seems to be: what isn’t Yahoo buying these days? Social browser company Rockmelt is… Read More

This guy was nearly arrested for taking photos of cops with his smartphone

What happens when you notice cops surrounding a man and decide to take a few photos of the scene? Well,… Read More

Tech Moves: Marina Martin named CTO of Veterans Affairs; Bob Bemis out at Zillow; Scout Analytics; and more

—Seattle’s Marina Martin has been named chief technology officer at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Martin, who organized the Startup… Read More

Blucora to buy Monoprice for $180M, marking big move into electronics accessories

Bellevue-based Blucora is expanding its diverse set of product offerings today with the announcement that it plans to acquire Rancho… Read More

Families rejoice: Netflix rolling out user profiles

Netflix this morning started rolling out a feature that has been long-awaited by many families who use the service. The… Read More

The Next Big Thing: Social Innovation with Julep’s Jane Park

[Editor’s Note: GeekWire is pleased to present the latest episode of The Next Big Thing, the popular podcast by Seattle… Read More