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Jeff Bezos defends Amazon, police lead protesters out of annual shareholder meeting

Amazon’s annual shareholder meeting ended this morning with chanting and protests as police escorted a boisterous group of people out… Read More

Deutsche Telekom CEO: ‘Complete sale’ of T-Mobile is unlikely

We’ve been wondering what direction T-Mobile will head following last year’s failed $39 billion bid by AT&T. Now, the company’s… Read More

A web browser from Yahoo!? ‘Axis’ makes surprise debut

Here’s some news you probably didn’t expect to read today: Yahoo just released its own web browser. The new software,… Read More

Groupon pays $8.5M in settlement over voucher expirations at Nordstrom, other retailers

Groupon has agreed to pay $8.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging that expiration dates and other restrictions on… Read More

Pictures: Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin offers a public peek at its first flying vehicle

Visitors to Seattle’s Museum of Flight will get a surprise treat starting today. Blue Origin, the often-secretive commercial space venture… Read More

Is Getty Images looking to go public, again?

Getty Images, the Seattle-based provider of digital photos, videos and music, has hired investment bankers Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase… Read More

Geek on the Street: What would you do to improve Seattle’s tech economy?

Hundreds of members of the Seattle tech community gathered at the Technology Alliance annual State of Technology luncheon in downtown… Read More

F5 Networks CEO John McAdam: Why Seattle works for his $1 billion company

F5 Networks has been operating in the Seattle area for more than 15 years, quietly building one of the biggest… Read More

Diablo III accounts hacked, players’ inventories plundered

Diablo III is the latest chapter in one of the most popular PC gaming titles out there. Coming out twelve… Read More

Study: Washington state tech jobs grow 4% since 2010

The last couple of years have been rocky ones for jobs overall, as the economy struggles to emerge from the… Read More

Boeing develops 3D technology to help build planes, dock spacecraft

Boeing this week unveiled new technology for creating detailed three-dimensional renderings of its assembly lines using low-powered lasers mounted on… Read More

From print to Pinterest: Digimarc expands digital watermarking service

The new issue of House Beautiful, hitting store shelves today, is being billed as the first Pinterest-enabled print magazine —… Read More

Today food trucks, tomorrow the world? Mobile wallet app LevelUp targets Seattle geeks

If you’ve gotten a free lunch at a South Lake Union food truck lately, it’s probably thanks to Boston-based mobile… Read More

Ex-Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson resigns from board of F5 Networks

Scott Thompson, who resigned as CEO of Yahoo on Sunday after a scandal broke over claims he had made about… Read More

TED curator shoots back at Hanauer, calls out Seattle VC and posts controversial talk

The controversy over Nick Hanauer’s recent TED talk about increasing taxes on the wealthiest Americans just isn’t going away. Yesterday,… Read More

Comcast to boost data limit to 300GB, test tiered approach

Comcast plans to introduce a new broadband data policy that will give its heaviest users leeway to stream as much… Read More

Nick Hanauer

Too controversial: Why TED won’t post Nick Hanauer’s talk about taxing the rich

Seattle venture capitalist Nick Hanauer — an early investor in Amazon.com and aQuantive — certainly has strong opinions on economics… Read More

Coffee, pictures and gadgets: Inside Coinstar’s bid to build a kiosk empire

Coinstar may be best known for its automated coin-counting machines and Redbox movie rental kiosks.  But based on what we… Read More

Q&A: Twitter’s Del Harvey on trust, safety, bullets and kittens

Del Harvey is the director of trust and safety for Twitter — a big job that covers areas including account… Read More

Mixed state jobless numbers ‘confound’ economists, but signs point to better times

Numbers sometimes tell strange stories, and that appears to be the case in the latest unemployment report from the Washington… Read More

It’s getting even better to be a geek, new survey finds

Mark your calendar, because May 25 is Geek Pride Day. And geeks have even more to be proud of this… Read More

Bill Gates-owned Corbis faces $12.75M in damages in fraud case

Corbis, the digital image company owned by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, must pay $12.75 million in damages as part of… Read More

Twitter launches email digest, building on Summify

Summify is one of the online services we use every day here at GeekWire. It provides a daily digest of… Read More

Eyeing hospitality, UIEvolution buys assets of Splat Interactive

UIEvolution is buying the assets of Splat Interactive, using the acquisition of the content management platform to expand its video… Read More

Open secret: Rhapsody tops $35 million in quarterly revenue, gets closer to profit

Rhapsody, the subscription music service based in downtown Seattle, has been a private company since spinning off from RealNetworks as… Read More

InfoSpace shares soar after big revenue boost from new TaxAct unit

Investors are liking the new face of InfoSpace. The Bellevue company, a dot-com darling and survivor, transformed itself yet again… Read More

T-Mobile USA boosts profits amid rumors of MetroPCS deal

T-Mobile USA posted higher profits in the first quarter, providing an unexpected boost to its parent company, Deutsche Telekom, according… Read More

Texting while driving? This AT&T simulator will scare the crap out of you

Less than 30 seconds into my drive this morning, I had driven on the wrong side of the road twice,… Read More

A ‘TB breathalyzer’ and other wild ideas backed by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today announced more than 100 winners of its Grand Challenges Explorations initiative, an effort whereby the… Read More

Video: T-Mobile’s Carly is making fun of AT&T again

After AT&T announced plans to acquire T-Mobile USA for $39 billion last year, federal regulators blocked the deal, contending that… Read More

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