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Facebook Seattle gets a ‘Weirdo’ hot tub, with a view

Source: weirdocult.com via Weirdo on Pinterest Facebook employees are taking part in a hackathon today at the company’s Seattle… Read More

Craziest keynote stunt ever: Skydivers, stunt cyclists deliver Google’s glasses

Google’s unveiling of its new Nexus 7 tablet wasn’t really a surprise, but this certainly was. Company co-founder Sergey… Read More

Cray to deliver ‘Cascade’ supercomputer to DOE researchers in $40M deal

Seattle supercomputer maker Cray announced today that it has won a $40 million contract to deliver its next-generation supercomputer, code-named “Cascade”… Read More

Firm files protest over Concur’s $1.4B government contract, dubs it an unfair 15-year monopoly

Shares of Concur Technologies soared earlier this month after the Redmond company was awarded a $1.4 billion contract to provide travel… Read More

Report: Microsoft is not making its own Windows Phone

Microsoft says it doesn’t have any plans to bring its own Windows Phone devices to market, according to an Information… Read More

Microsoft and Yammer: What’s the deal?

Now that Microsoft’s much-anticipated $1.2 billion acquisition of Yammer is finally official, there are several interesting elements involving the Microsoft-Yammer… Read More

Patent holding firm settles with Boeing for $10 million

Pendrell Corp., the Kirkland patent holding firm led by former Clearwire execs, said today that it has withdrawn a petition… Read More

The ‘acquihire’ of the day: TechStars Seattle grad Thinkfuse gobbled up by Salesforce.com

Thinkfuse, one of the original startups to move through the TechStars Seattle program, is being acquired by Salseforce.com in a… Read More

Ignite’s Brady Forrest to set sail for San Francisco with new job at Khosla Ventures

Brady Forrest doesn’t want to lose his connections to the Pacific Northwest even though he just took a job with… Read More

A 5-point checklist to create lucrative opportunities with disruptive technologies

Let me ask you a question: How long have you been in business? Ten years? Five years? Two years? And… Read More

Many residents in state live in ‘rural information ghetto’

Researchers at Washington State University have concluded that large segments of the state are marooned in what they call a… Read More

Live: GeekWire Summer Bash and Ping-Pong Tourney

Update: The event is over, but we’ve embedded the archive of the championship match live stream below. Thanks to everyone… Read More

Boeing sees foreign interest in Phantom Eye spy plane

Boeing has captured widespread attention with its liquid-hydrogen powered Phantom Eye autonomous plane — not just from the United States, but… Read More

Windows Phone reaches 100k apps, still taking a back seat for top titles

Microsoft just wrapped up the keynote at its Windows Phone Summit down in San Francisco with the announcement that its… Read More

Windows Phone 8 gets new Start screen, shares common core with Windows 8

Microsoft this morning confirmed that Windows Phone will share a common underlying core with Windows 8 starting later this year,… Read More

BuddyTV adds movie and TV trailers, self-loathing binges on ‘Real Housewives’ optional

Don’t you hate it when you invest a good six or seven minutes into something like Lifetime’s “7 Days of… Read More

Jeff Bezos-backed robotics startup changes name, raises $30 million

Jeff Bezos loves robots, with Amazon.com shelling out $775 million for Cambridge, Massachusetts robot maker Kiva Systems earlier this year.… Read More

Xbox Surface: Is this Microsoft’s new tablet?

Posting from Hollywood: New details have emerged about an Xbox-branded Microsoft tablet in advance of a mystery news conference planned… Read More

‘Xbox 720’ leak points to augmented-reality glasses

It’s being called the “Mother of All Microsoft Leaks,” a 56-page document that details plans for the next version of… Read More

Pacific NW semifinalists for Cleantech Open announced

Seventeen Pacific Northwest companies made it to the semifinals of the Clean Tech Open, noted for their efforts in keeping… Read More

Seattle private equity firm buys Thermal Dynamics

Evergreen Pacific Partners, a Seattle private equity firm with $700 million under management, has acquired Thermal Dynamics in a deal… Read More

Ask.com butters up Seattle with free pedicab rides, and by filling up wading pools

Advertising usually doesn’t offer the consumer anything of real tangible value — other than a few funny one-liners to toss around.… Read More

Reports: Microsoft in talks to buy Yammer for $1 billion

#OH at the Creamery SF. Microsoft just acquired @Yammer. True or not true? Kinda curious. — Sarah Taylor (@SarahTaylor) June… Read More

Washington’s unemployment rate rises in May, but that actually could be a good thing

Washington state’s unemployment rate rose slightly to 8.3 percent in May even as more than 11,700 jobs were added, according… Read More

Intermec cutting 170 staffers in corporate restructuring

Intermec, an Everett maker of rugged mobile computers and bar coding and RFID technologies, said that it plans to cut… Read More

AMD and ARM get cozy with security deal, industry group

Chip maker AMD, holding its big software developer conference in Bellevue this week, announced a new partnership with ARM Holdings… Read More

How to buy an electric car: A shopper’s guide

I’ve been thinking about upgrading to an electric car for a while now. And in today’s market, there are plenty… Read More

President Obama recognizes math and science teachers, including 3 from the Pacific Northwest

There’s a critical need in the U.S. to make sure that public schools are churning out kids who are strong… Read More

Dutch hacker ‘Fortezza’ extradited to U.S. on 14 counts

David Benjaim Schrooten, a 21-year-old Dutch computer hacker who operates under the name “Fortezza,” is scheduled to make his first… Read More

LinkedIn: No accounts hacked as result of stolen passwords

LinkedIn today updated its users on the stolen password fiasco that arose last week in which 6.4 million passwords were… Read More