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Homes made out of milk bottles; networked water purifiers and other winners from the Clean Tech Open

Sixteen cleantech startups from around the Northwest gathered in Portland this week to learn which lucky three would represent the… Read More

Battery breakthrough: New technology promises to triple lithium ion capacity

Remember those Energizer Bunny commercials touting batteries that kept going, and going, and going? Well, researchers at Washington State University have developed… Read More

Tech Moves: Broderick jumps from Uber to Groundspeak; Eddy takes new CTO role; etc.

Michelle Broderick is on the move again. The marketing whiz who was promoted to a new role at Uber four… Read More

Bieber bummer: Pop icon’s laptop stolen in Tacoma

This certainly isn’t what Beliebing is all about, Tacoma. Justin Bieber performed in front of a raucous sold out crowd… Read More

CityGrid Media cuts staff, but Urbanspoon keeps growing

CityGrid Media, the parent company of Urbanspoon, Insider Pages, Buzz Labs and Citysearch, announced today that it is cutting 15… Read More

Tech workers making more money, new research shows

Last week, we wrote about how tech salaries are expected to increase in 2013, and another study is out today… Read More

T-Mobile defends MetroPCS deal vs. rumored Sprint bid

T-Mobile USA’s chief technology officer is defending the technical underpinnings of the company’s proposed combination with MetroPCS, suggesting that T-Mobile… Read More

Decide.com trumps outdated Consumer Reports, study says

Out with the old and in with the new — that’s what a study comparing Consumer Reports to Decide.com concludes.… Read More

NBCNews.com’s Mike Davidson joins Twitter as VP of Design, announcing move in 10,000th Tweet

Mike Davidson reserved a very special announcement for his 10,000th Tweet. Today, the co-founder and former CEO of Newsvine announced… Read More

Alaska Air apologizes after network outage impacts check-ins, causing long delays

The severing of a fiber optic cable in Wisconsin is causing havoc for those traveling on Alaska Airlines today, with… Read More

Clearwire apologizes for sending inadvertent emails to customers

Clearwire, the Bellevue-based high-speed wireless provider, has apologized to customers for sending them a series of inadvertent emails. One GeekWire… Read More

Cha-ching: Tech salaries projected to increase in 2013

Great news for those in the tech industry and others hoping to get there: projected technology salaries are increasing across… Read More

Ask Andru: How do I convert cassette tapes to digital format?

With the move to cloud and digital content that’s taken the world by storm, older technologies have fallen by the… Read More

Zynga shares free-fall after announcing forecast cuts

San Francisco-based Zynga pre-announced significant forecast cuts for its full-year earnings report on Thursday and is now seeing the affects… Read More

Ticketmaster challenger? Redbox to offer event tickets

First DVDs, then coffee, and as recently as last week, streaming video. Now, Redbox is entering the live event arena.… Read More

Expanding into event listings, Startup Weekend buys StartupDigest

Startup Weekend announced today that it has acquired StartupDigest, the email newsletter which lists startup-oriented events in 99 cities around… Read More

Live from TechNW: The future of e-commerce

Team GeekWire is settled in here at the third annual TechNW forum at Seattle’s City Hall, where 360 attendees are… Read More

GeekWire Debate: How Mitt Romney will fuel the ‘opportunity economy’

America is at a crossroads. We can continue to support a president who embraces a government-driven, economic redistribution strategy. Or,… Read More

GeekWire Debate: Why Barack Obama should get your vote for president

I’m not a partisan. I’m nominally a Democrat, but I served as co-chair (with Marc Benioff) of George W. Bush’s… Read More

Rhapsody targets the living room on TVs and Xbox Live

Rhapsody is expanding its presence to the living room, rolling out its digital music service to LG, Panasonic and Samsung… Read More

A police scanner for the Twitter generation: Seattle PD introduces ‘Tweets by Beat’

Whenever there’s a disturbance in my Seattle neighborhood, I fire up the online police scanner or visit the hyperlocal news blog… Read More

City of Seattle looks to expand fiber leasing plan

Seattle’s excess fiber optic cabling is officially for sale. Mayor Mike McGinn released a request for information today to private… Read More

Clearwire may choose to delay LTE network build out

An SEC filing from Clearwire indicates that the Bellevue-based broadband wireless provider may elect to delay its transition to a… Read More

Ad-supported Internet firms responsible for 5.1M jobs

A new report out from the Interactive Advertising Bureau shows that the ad-supported Internet business now account for 5.1 million jobs… Read More

Report: Venture-backed IPOs and M&A deals slow in Q3

The red-hot market for initial public offerings and mergers and acquisitions slowed during the third quarter, perhaps damaged by Facebook’s… Read More

Social media agency Spring Creek Group cuts staff

Nearly a year after it was acquired by Interpublic Group’s Mediabrands unit, Seattle social media agency Spring Creek Group has laid… Read More

Tim Cook says Apple is ‘extremely sorry’ for Maps glitches, suggests alternatives

Apple CEO Tim Cook this morning issued a public apology for Apple’s homegrown Maps app in iOS 6 and the… Read More

Leaning left or right? This browser plugin looks to bring balance to political news

It’s an election year, which means a lot of mud is being slung in various media outlets. Oftentimes, it’s hard… Read More

Valve for sale? Asian firms reportedly in talks to purchase video game studio

Even though Valve CEO Gabe Newell said it’s more likely that his company will “disintegrate,” rather than be bought out,… Read More

Q&A: Pterofin borrows wind turbine design from bird wings

Seattle-based Pterofin has copied designs from nature to develop eye-catching turbines for wind and hydro power. That has earned the… Read More