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Condom competition: Gates Foundation needs your help to design the next-gen rubber

In terms of preventing STDs and unwanted pregnancy, the condom has been pretty revolutionary. But the Bill & Melinda Gates… Read More

Geek Madness: Help us pick the greatest geek of all time

UPDATE: Day 10 of Geek Madness UPDATE: Day 9 of Geek Madness UPDATE: Day 8 of Geek Madness UPDATE: Day 7 of… Read More

Kymeta: Is this Bill Gates’ next billion-dollar company?

Wireless technology company Kymeta Corp. has been in business for a grand total of seven months, but already it has… Read More

Starbucks roasted over Square confusion, glitches

Have you tried Square to pay for your coffee at Starbucks? If your experience was anything like what FastCompany’s correspondents… Read More

Out of juice? AAA debuts Washington roadside charging service for electric cars

Electric car owners rejoice: If you ever run out of juice on Washington roads, there’s a new service to help… Read More

Nielsen study shows ‘significant’ correlation between Twitter and TV ratings

The more people Tweet about a television show, the better its ratings are. That’s what a new study from Nielsen… Read More

Chart: Seattle’s jobless rate dips below six percent for first time in more than four years

In the tech industry, we’ve been seeing a steady stream of hiring for several years now. In fact, companies like… Read More

Video game vet creates books you can play with, reaches $10K Kickstarter goal in 4 days

It all added up for Joe Booth. Having spent 25 years in the video game industry at places like Microsoft,… Read More

Rhapsody revenue hits new peak of $143M, losses narrow

Rhapsody, the digital music subscription service based in downtown Seattle, saw its revenue rise nearly 13 percent in 2012, to… Read More

Placed offers way for app developers to make money from user location data

App developers can already monetize location data of its users, but often times it comes with messy and disruptive advertisements.… Read More

CFOs on the hot seat: Students tell Expedia and Zillow execs how they could improve

Expedia’s Mark Okerstrom and Zillow’s Chad Cohen are accustomed to fielding tough questions from Wall Street analysts. But the chief… Read More

Nathan Myhrvold’s Intellectual Ventures sues Symantec for second time

It’s round two of filing complaints against Symnatec for Nathan Myhrvold’s Intellectual Ventures (IV). IV is suing the security software firm today for… Read More

Supreme Court refuses to hear case of streaming video startup Ivi, handing key victory to big media

Ivi, a Seattle startup that was attempting to shake up the media industry by rebroadcasting TV programming over the Internet,… Read More

Climb atop the world’s most-famous mountains with Google Maps update

If you don’t feel like hopping on a plane to another country and climbing thousands of feet to reach the… Read More

Internet fax provider MetroFax sold to j2Global

MetroFax, a 16-year-old Bellevue company, has been sold to j2Global for an undisclosed price. The company’s services are used by… Read More

Welcome aboard: Humor site Cheezburger adds five top-level staff

There’s been quite a bit of movement happening among the ranks at Seattle-based humor site Cheezburger and now we know… Read More

Dropbox expands into email business with Mailbox deal

Here’s a new bar for startups: Mailbox, the trendy iPhone email app, has been acquired even before clearing its wait-list… Read More

Dwellable overhauls app, partners with Flipkey

Urbanspoon co-founder Adam Doppelt is liking the way business is going at his Seattle upstart Dwellable. “Things are hopping,” Doppelt told… Read More

What do you think of Expedia’s new design with big, bold photos?

The homepages of travel websites are usually chock-full of information, from travel offers, trip itineraries and advertisements. Expedia, however, is looking to… Read More

Boeing details 787 battery fix solution, says flights may resume within weeks

At a briefing in Tokyo, Boeing executives detailed their 787 Dreamliner battery fix and said the jet could be back… Read More

Boeing to host webcast explaining 787 battery fixes tonight at 6 p.m.

Thousands of miles away across the Pacific Ocean in Tokyo, Boeing executives will flesh out details on the proposed solution… Read More

Redbox Instant by Verizon now available to public

The doors have finally swung open on Redbox Instant, and now anyone can stream content via the new service powered by… Read More

SXSW in Tweets: 40% increase from 2012; people prefer parties over panels

Here’s what we now know about SXSW: People love to party. The folks over at Seattle-based social media analytics startup Simply… Read More

High-tech readers: Seattle libraries lead nation in e-book checkouts

About a month ago, we penned a post that showed how Seattle was slipping in the annual “most literate” cities list.… Read More

7 questions about the Seattle Police Department’s high tech surveillance program

Rapid advances in technology are making all kinds of high-tech snooping easier and cheaper. As a result, the Seattle Police… Read More

Seattle’s new arena might look like a SuperSonic jet turbine

Aerospace fans are going to like the proposed designs for the new $500 million SoDo sports arena. The Seattle investment group… Read More

City of Seattle green lights study for new high-tech traffic signals

Sick and tired of being stuck in nasty Seattle traffic gridlock? Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn feels your pain, and today he… Read More

Video: Mark Zuckerberg tells the story of how he inspired one kid to code

Code.org, the non-profit created by entrepreneurs Ali and Hadi Partovi, continues to gain momentum around its public relations campaign stressing… Read More

F.A.A. approves Boeing certification plan to test 787 battery fixes

The Federal Aviation Administration today approved Boeing’s certification plan to test the 787 Dreamliner’s battery system. Late last month, Boeing… Read More

Washington House votes to count computer science for math, science credit

In overwhelming fashion, the Washington State House voted 95-3 to pass a new bill in the Washington State Legislature that may allow computer science… Read More