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IPO Friday: Kayak and Palo Alto Networks soar in debuts

It was one year ago today that Zillow competed its initial public offering, a milestone that we noted in our… Read More

Police arrest suspect wanted in killing of Zillow engineer

An arrest has been made in the fatal shooting of Seattle software developer Justin Ferrari, a Zillow employee who was… Read More

New CEO Marissa Mayer cashing in over at Yahoo

It’s official. New Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is making serious bank at the struggling tech giant. All Things D wrote… Read More

Lessons learned from Jobster, Jason Goldberg’s Fab.com lands $105M

I’ve always been intrigued with Jason Goldberg’s entrepreneurial path, in part because the former T-Mobile manager and White House aide… Read More

Amid ‘cautious spending environment’ revenue growth slows at F5 Networks

F5 Networks said that revenue slowed during its fiscal third quarter amid what CEO John McAdam dubbed a “more cautious… Read More

Employment picture brightens in June as Washington state adds 10,200 jobs

The dark clouds from the recession are fading into the rear view mirror in Washington state, but there’s still a… Read More

AT&T’s new data plans set stage for multi-device world

AT&T this morning followed its rival Verizon Wireless by announcing new shared data plans that move away from limits for… Read More

Judge dismisses Novell’s Windows 95 antitrust claims

The year is 2012, Microsoft is getting set to release Windows 8, and the court system just disposed of a… Read More

RealNetworks names Seattle angel investor to board

Just two weeks after RealNetworks reinserted founder Rob Glaser as interim CEO, more changes are coming to the Seattle technology… Read More

Northwest Energy Angels funding of cleantech clears $1M for 2012

Cleantech funding appears to be alive and well in the earth-friendly Pacific Northwest. The cleantech investment organization Northwest Energy Angels,… Read More

As violence rises in Seattle, city considers acoustic sensors to pinpoint gunshots

Could a high-tech solution help solve Seattle’s rising gun violence problem? On Thursday, The City of Seattle’s Public Safety Committee plans… Read More

Asteroid miners on board with Virgin Galactic’s LauncherOne

Richard Branson and the asteroid miners are teaming up. Planetary Resources, the Bellevue-based company that plans to extract natural resources… Read More

INRIX names ex-Blue Nile CEO to board, strengthens management team

INRIX is bolstering its board and management team as the Kirkland provider of traffic data continues to add new customers,… Read More

Amazon’s impact dissected in new Financial Times series

Amazon.com is no stranger to multi-part newspaper stories, but the Financial Times does a particularly good job of putting the… Read More

Game Over: The Oatmeal closes book on FunnyJunk dispute with pic of cash pile

Pictured here: $211,223.04 in cash. That’s the money raised for charity by Matthew Inman, better known as the Oatmeal, the Seattle-based… Read More

Small tech firms outpace big counterparts with IPOs

Bigger isn’t always better, at least when it comes to initial public offerings. A new report out from Tableau Software’s… Read More

Seattle mayor touts South Lake Union as an ‘engine for job growth’

Anyone who has stepped foot near Amazon.com’s new headquarters in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood can feel the change happening… Read More

Voracious reader Bill Gates shares his favorite books of the summer

Want to get inside the mind of one of the world’s richest men? Just take a look at his bookshelf.… Read More

In the red: 73% of tech IPOs aren’t profitable when they debut

Earlier this week, we reported on the dearth of venture-backed initial public offerings during the second quarter. Just 11 companies… Read More

Get out your wallet: It is the best time of the year to buy a laptop

Are you in the market for a new laptop? You may want to hit the stores this Independence Day before… Read More

On the auction block: Getty Images could fetch $4B in private equity bid

Getty Images, the Seattle digital image company led by Jonathan Klein, may be headed from the arms of one private… Read More

RealNetworks CEO resigns, and Rob Glaser is back, for now

Thomas Nielsen has resigned as RealNetworks CEO after seven months in the job, and founder Rob Glaser has been appointed… Read More

Microsoft’s ‘Lost Decade’? Vanity Fair piece is epic, accurate and not entirely fair

This has not been the best of weeks for Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. First was the news that the company… Read More

Patent office snubs Seattle, picks Silicon Valley, Denver and Dallas for new branches

First, we lost our bid to win one of the NASA Space Shuttles (though we did pick up the consolation… Read More

Silicon Labs inks deal with Intellectual Ventures; Sharp renews patent deal with Pendrell

Nathan Myhrvold’s Intellectual Ventures continues to ink deals with large technology companies, adding to its list of more than 30… Read More

With founder and VC connections, Spoken buys HyperQuality

In a deal of undisclosed size, Bellevue-based Spoken Communications today announced its acquisition of Seattle’s HyperQuality. These two companies should… Read More

NASA’s Super Guppy is headed our way today

Team GeekWire and family are getting ready to head down to Seattle’s Museum of Flight this morning for what promises… Read More

LinkedOut? Twitter ends LinkedIn content sharing

It appears that the content-sharing partnership forged by Twitter and LinkedIn in 2009 — like “peanut butter and chocolate,” according… Read More

Seattle: America’s top tech city

There’s been a lot of debate and discussion in recent months about Seattle’s technology industry, and how it compares to… Read More

Love and marriage: How the UW is making bets on the brains of ‘big data’ and ‘machine learning’

Computer science is very much a discipline that revolves around numbers. But it was something a little less mathematical that… Read More