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Hulu home to movies, TV shows and now video games

Hulu is known for its TV shows, movies and other related video. Now, they’re venturing into the video game space.… Read More

Grab your tissues, video game fans: Nintendo Power is shutting down

Whether you dashed out to the mailbox to read up on Mario Kart 64 strategy or just loved sifting through… Read More

Welcome to the Hall of Fame, Gabe: Valve founder inducted to Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences

The Hall of Fame. Whether it’s baseball, cars or rock-n-roll, the Hall is synonymous as a place for the people who… Read More

Video games: Oberon Media settles charges over “deceptive” free trials

Free trials are great. Signing up for them and struggling to cancel before you get hit with a monthly charge?… Read More

Chart: Washington state jobless rate falls to 8.2 percent

Washington state’s unemployment rate fell to 8.2 percent during October as 9,600 private sector jobs were added. That compares to… Read More

This 10-year-old cable company just raised $1B (and no one really knows them)

I’ll be honest, I’d never heard of WaveDivision Holdings until this week when a longtime Seattle area PR veteran reached… Read More

Museum of the future: Trover hosts cloud-based, crowdsourced art exhibit

Here’s an example of a museum adapting to the digital age. Born from conversation by Southern Polytechnic State University new… Read More

Expedia expands mobile app to include 200-plus airlines, 140,000 hotels

While it was Priceline making headlines last week with its acquisition of Kayak, Bellevue-based Expedia has gone behind the scenes… Read More

Bill Gates-owned Corbis buys crowd-powered photo newswire service Demotix

Corbis is expanding its footprint in the arena of photojournalism, announcing today that it has purchased photo newswire Demotix for an… Read More

Barnes & Noble debuts Nook app for Windows 8, first joint product with Microsoft

Barnes & Noble launched its Nook reading app for Windows 8 overnight. It’s a few weeks behind Amazon’s Kindle app… Read More

WhitePages Mailer uses Facebook profiles to track down mailing addresses

Lots of people — 88 percent, in fact — do not post an address to their Facebook profiles and it… Read More

Roku billboard tells Mitt Romney to cheer up, watch more TV

It has been just one week since Mitt Romney lost in his bid for president. And while the defeat is… Read More

Valve’s Gabe Newell: Three beta controllers, new game engine in the works

Here’s one way to get Gabe Newell talking about Valve’s latest creations: Go wish him happy birthday. That’s what a… Read More

Cray-Z speed: Meet the world’s fastest supercomputer from Seattle-based Cray

We wrote about the latest supercomputer creation from Seattle-based Cray a few weeks ago, and now it’s official: Titan is… Read More

Internet speed: eTicketbuster online legal service fights traffic tickets

A Seattle law firm that helps people craft written traffic violation challenges may be breaking new ground for handling a specific… Read More

Federal funding alone can’t deliver wireless broadband

Americans in urban and suburban areas take wireless service for granted. This is not so much so for those living… Read More

Supercomputer deal: Cray to acquire Appro for $25M

Seattle-based Cray is aiming to improve its position in high-performance computing with a $25 million cash acquisition of Appro International… Read More

Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn: We are the city of the future

When Seattle hosted the World’s Fair 50 years ago, people predicted a 2012 full of flying cars and jetpacks. Of… Read More

Priceline acquires Kayak for $1.8 billion

Priceline.com Inc. announced today the acquisition of fellow travel website Kayak. Priceline paid approximately $500 million of the consideration in cash… Read More

Intellectual Ventures, Olympus reach truce in patent dispute

Intellectual Ventures, the patent holding company run by former Microsoft technology chief Nathan Myhrvold, just announced a legal settlement with… Read More

T-Mobile USA posts mixed results, big MetroPCS charge

T-Mobile USA was able to add a net total of 160,000 customers in the third quarter, growing to 33.3 million… Read More

What legalization means for a medical marijuana startup

Over the past few years, Leafly CEO Brendan Kennedy has told potential investors that marijuana legalization is both inevitable and… Read More

VIDEO: Nintendo president hosts official Wii U sneak peek ‘unboxing ceremony’

You’ve likely watched an at-home unboxing of a new gadget on the internet. But probably not an official one …… Read More

Trump freaks with Tweets, has meltdown on Twitter after Obama victory

UPDATE, 4:30 p.m. Wednesday: Trump ended up deleting some of his Tweets, including one about him calling for a revolution… Read More

President Barack Obama touts victory on Twitter

As the host of the PBS News Hour noted tonight, this might be the beginning of a new era in… Read More

Bill Gates, Vinod Khosla and Peter Thiel bankroll energy storage startup LightSail

LightSail Energy, a Berkeley, California-based company that’s designing systems to store energy generated by wind and solar power, has landed… Read More

PHOTOS: Master Chief, Cortana and hundreds of fans celebrate Halo 4 launch

Signing autographs in one corner of a bustling University Village Microsoft Store was Steve Downes, the all-too-familar voice of Master… Read More

Wow! Our Geek of the Week, Bill Sleeper, makes his national television debut

Bill Sleeper, you are officially our Geek of the Century. A national television ad for Best Buy, making its debut… Read More

SideCar expands community-based ride-sharing platform to Seattle, offers $10 credit

There’s a new taxi-service in town, but the cars aren’t yellow and the drivers could very well be your next… Read More

Oprah loves Microsoft Surface: It ‘feels like a Mercedes-Benz to me, people!’

Wowser! Microsoft Surface scored a major endorsement today as Oprah put the new tablet on her coveted list of “Favorite… Read More