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George Rathmann, 1927-2012: Biotech pioneer led Amgen and Icos

George Rathmann, the biotechnology pioneer who served as the first CEO of Amgen and Icos, has died at the age… Read More

RealNetworks’ top lawyer is leaving the company

[Follow-up: Departing RealNetworks legal chief gets to keep $200k bonus for Intel patent work] Tracy Daw, a 12-year veteran of… Read More

DreamBox re-positions itself for focus on K-12 market

Digital education company DreamBox Learning has solidified its shift to emphasize the K-12 school market over the consumer market by… Read More

MicroVision losses continue as cash supply dwindles

MicroVision just can’t seem to cut its losses. The maker of visual display technologies and Pico projectors announced today that it… Read More

Apple CEO’s visit to Valve? Turns out it didn’t happen

A report that Apple CEO Tim Cook visited the Bellevue headquarters of video game company Valve last week stirred up… Read More

Seattle 2.0 Awards: Vote for Startup CEO of the Year

Leading a startup these days takes vision, smarts, confidence and good old-fashioned luck. Not to mention a solid business plan.… Read More

‘Big data’ company Splunk, backed by Ignition, soars in IPO

Shares of business intelligence company Splunk are up more than 80 percent in their first day of trading today —… Read More

Decide.com unveils daily deal site, promises cash if prices later fall on gadgets

Prior to his appearance on the GeekWire podcast a few weeks ago, Decide.com CEO Mike Fridgen hinted that the Seattle online shopping service… Read More

F5 adds 190 employees in latest quarter as revenue inches up 5%

F5 Networks, which makes software and hardware products that speed the delivery of applications over the Internet, said today that its… Read More

Washington state adds 3,300 jobs, but jobless rate doesn’t move in March

Washington state added 3,300 jobs in March, a modest amount which didn’t put a dent in the unemployment rate which… Read More

Charts: Online ad revenues surge 22 percent, top $30 billion for the first time

More companies are pushing dollars to online advertising, including mobile platforms and digital video, than ever before. According to a… Read More

Google’s Gmail suffers outage, causing uproar on Twitter

We lost connectivity to Google’s Gmail about 15 minutes ago, and hundreds of users of the service are turning to… Read More

Bullets hit Gates Foundation HQ in weekend incident

A weekend shooting near Seattle Center damaged windows at the headquarters of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Seattle… Read More

Inside Nathan Myhrvold’s office: The ultimate ‘geekspace’

Recently we invited GeekWire readers to tweet us photos of their “geekspaces” — the places where they really get in… Read More

Pendrell stock falls 45% after court overturns $603 million verdict in Boeing case

Pendrell Corp., the Kirkland patent holding firm led by former executives of Clearwire, said it was disappointed after the Court… Read More

Google profits climb, company announces stock split

Google’s profits rose sharply in the first quarter, to $2.89 billion, with CEO Larry Page saying the company is seeing… Read More

Microsoft wins round vs. Motorola in key patent case

In a closely watched technology patent dispute, a federal judge in Seattle this afternoon granted Microsoft’s motion for a temporary… Read More

Surprise: Worldwide PC shipments rise slightly

New numbers released this afternoon show an increase of about 2 percent in worldwide PC shipments for the first quarter,… Read More

From software geeks to lumberjacks: The top 10 best and worst jobs in the U.S.

The lumber industry and the software industry each play a critical role in the Pacific Northwest, anchored by giant corporations… Read More

Photo Gallery: The Heroines of Sakura-Con

On the first warm weekend of Spring, more than 14,000 costumed characters flooded the Convention Center in Seattle for Sakura-Con,… Read More

GeekWire Update: Where we stand, one year later

GeekWire’s one-year anniversary was March 7, but we were so busy with the GeekWire Summit that we didn’t get a… Read More

‘Shadowrun Returns’ fully funded, $400k in 28 hours

Veteran Seattle-area video-game designer Jordan Weisman and his colleagues at Harebrained Schemes turned to Kickstarter yesterday to fund “Shadowrun Returns,”… Read More

Patent filing: Google’s self-driving car could pick up the kids, swerve to avoid deer

A Google patent application made public today goes into great detail about the possibilities of its self-driving car project — and… Read More

Shadowrun Returns: Fan funding revives a dream

[Follow-up, Thursday: Shadowrun Returns fully funded, $400k in 28 hours] Seattle-area video-game designer Jordan Weisman has long aspired to revive… Read More

Emerald City Comicon attracts record 53,000 people, plans to expand next year

If the crowds felt bigger at Emerald City Comicon in Seattle this past weekend, it wasn’t a Jedi mind trick. The… Read More

Browsium lands biggest customer yet, moving UK agency from IE6 to IE9

Browsium, the Redmond startup whose technology lets companies run legacy web apps in the latest versions of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer… Read More

Direct Impact buys Crowdverb to bolster ‘grassroots’ campaigns

Crowdverb, a Seattle social media monitoring startup led by Todd Herman, Sally Poliak and Cyrus Krohn, has been acquired in… Read More

Flickr adopts Bezos-backed Aviary for photo editing, replacing Google’s Picnik

Flickr today is announcing a partnership with startup Aviary to roll out a new photo-editing experience for Flickr users starting… Read More

Starbucks’ latest perk: A discount on Google Offers to help boost American jobs

Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz may sit on Groupon’s board. But the Seattle coffee retailer appears to have developed a taste… Read More

Craig McCaw-backed Pendrell makes a big patent buy

Nathan Myhrvold’s Intellectual Ventures may be the best known of the patent holding firms in the Seattle area. But another… Read More