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Milestone: Geocaching.com approaches 2M geocaches

Wow — this is a lot of canisters, log sheets and trackables. Geocaching.com, the database of record for the worldwide… Read More

Boeing creates website to explain 787 problems

To help you better understand what exactly is going on with the 787 Dreamliner fiasco, Boeing has created an informational… Read More

Zulily starts national TV ad campaign, looking to boost mom members

Millions of moms across the country receive the daily email alerts from Zulily each day, tuning in to get discounts… Read More

Joining the jet set: My first time flying on Arrow’s new private jet service

My first mistake in testing out Arrow — the new private jet club which unveiled plans today to run daily… Read More

Dethroned: Burger King Twitter account hacked to look like McDonalds

The Burger King social media team sure is having an eventful Monday morning. The fast food company’s Twitter account, @BurgerKing,… Read More

Report: Lisa Sharples to leave AllRecipes.com in March

Lisa Sharples is stepping down as the top chef at AllRecipes.com, the popular online recipe service that was acquired 13… Read More

Rhapsody app arrives for Windows Phone 8

Less than a week after Spotify jumped onto Windows Phone 8, Rhapsody is doing the same. Seattle-based Rhapsody just debuted… Read More

Hey, Seattle: We’re not quite as book smart as 8 years ago

Think of Seattle. And whether it’s Amazon.com or Elliott Bay Book Company or the amazing main Seattle library, reading is a… Read More

Cray reports $420M yearly revenue, up 78% from 2011

Seattle supercomputer maker Cray Inc. reported its fourth quarter results today with a revenue of $188.8 million, up over 100… Read More

What the decline of the U.S Postal Service means for technology

Our guest this past week on the GeekWire Podcast was Steve Shivers, co-founder and CEO of Doxo, a Seattle startup that… Read More

Shares of Blucora soar as revenue grows 46 percent

Blucora, the Bellevue search and tax preparation company formerly known as InfoSpace, today reported a 46 percent in revenue for… Read More

FareBot tracks your public transit card history, raises privacy issues

Your ORCA card probably contains a lot more publicly accesible information than you think. Crosscut is out today with a story… Read More

American Express links with Twitter: Will security risks sink this buy-by-Tweet experiment?

Social commerce is about ease. And what’s easier than using a hashtag to make a purchase? Today American Express, in… Read More

A high-tech governor? It’s time for Inslee to take innovation message on the road

Governor Jay Inslee was sworn into office less than a month ago. Is it time for him to take a… Read More

SpaceCurve claims Big Data record after processing petabytes of data per day

Seattle big data startup SpaceCurve announced today that it has set a real-time Big Data performance record for ingesting streaming data and… Read More

As 787 tests continue, Boeing announces leadership changes

While Boeing continues to conduct test flights of the 787 Dreamliner, the company announced some leadership changes today. Greg Hyslop,… Read More

3 ways to enhance your State of the Union viewing experience

President Barack Obama will deliver his fourth State of the Union address tonight at 6 p.m PST with Apple CEO… Read More

Gas Powered Games cancels Kickstarter for ‘Wildman’

Gas Powered Games unplugged its Kickstarter campaign for ‘WIldman‘ this afternoon with four days left and more than $500,000 to raise. We’ve… Read More

World championship-bound robotics team learns life skills by designing and programing world-class robots

A local team is headed to a world championship later this year, but we aren’t talking football, basketball or baseball.… Read More

Intellectual Ventures sues AT&T, CenturyLink and Windstream over DSL patents

Intellectual Ventures has filed suit against AT&T, CenturyLink and Windstream Communications, alleging that their DSL Internet services violate some of… Read More

Northwest Energy Angels invest record $4.7 Million in 2012

Despite decreasing overall venture capital investments in cleantech worldwide, Northwest Energy Angels announced today that its members invested $4,696,500 in 15 clean technology… Read More

Seattle mayor pulls plug on controversial drone program

Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn is ending the controversial unmanned aerial vehicle program — before the drones ever took official flight.… Read More

VIDEO: Boeing’s badass Phantom Eye spy plane completes taxi tests

Boeing’s liquid hydrogen-powered high altitude autonomous Phantom Eye plane is inching closer toward flight again. The Phantom Eye completed taxi… Read More

Scientists crowdsource atmospheric data from smartphones to improve weather forecasts

Meteorologists may become better at their jobs thanks to your smartphone. Atmospheric scientists at the University of Washington are collecting data… Read More

Obama picks REI exec Sally Jewell as Interior secretary

Big news out today in the world of politics with President Barack Obama announcing that he’s chosen former REI Chief… Read More

Adult app store and streaming service MiKandi reaches 1M registered users — no ads required

Mikandi, the Seattle-based adult app store and streaming video service, today announced that it has reached 1 million registered users,… Read More

Expedia revenue hits $975M on strength of hotel business

Expedia is flying high again. The Bellevue-based online travel giant today posted fourth quarter revenue of $975 million, a 24… Read More

Citing favorable tax rates, Flowroute moves HQ to Seattle from California

Flowroute, which provides wholesale voice-over-Internet services to businesses, has moved its headquarters from Southern California to Seattle. The company cited… Read More

OncoGenex finance chief resigns after ‘personal relationship’ develops with CEO

Michelle Burris, the chief financial officer at Bothell biotechnology company OncoGenex Pharmaceuticals, has resigned from her post after disclosing a “developing… Read More

A big win for BC: Annual TED conference headed to Vancouver

TED is heading north of the border. To mark the organization’s 30th anniversary, it just announced today that it plans… Read More

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