Tech – Page 291 of 306

Chart: The iPad is making inroads with corporate buyers

There’s been a lot of chatter recently about whether we’re living in a post-PC era dominated by tablet computers and… Read More

March Madness: Harvard, Duke, Virginia and Georgetown in the Final 4

It’s March Madness time, which means college hoops fans everywhere are filling out brackets in anticipation of one of the… Read More

Q&A: Hulu CTO Richard Tom on the future of television

It’s rather stunning to think that Hulu was just a germ of an idea five years ago. Obviously, the entertainment… Read More

U.S. Patent chief: New patent reforms are like an ‘intricate Swiss watch’

At the GeekWire Summit on Wednesday, former Swype CEO Mike McSherry received the loudest applause of the day when he… Read More

Starbucks chief geek leaves for new role at Best Buy

Stephen Gillett has stepped down as executive vice president of digital ventures and chief information officer of Starbucks to take… Read More

Paramount pulls plug on ‘Scene It?’ maker Screenlife

Seattle’s Screenlife Games, maker of the “Scene It?” trivia games, is being closed by its owner, Paramount Pictures, according to… Read More

Bill Gates-owned Corbis unveils an ‘iTunes for music licensing’ with GreenLight Music

Corbis may be best known for licensing digital images. But the Seattle company, started by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates in… Read More

Gates is No. 2 in new daily ranking of world’s billionaires, Zuckerberg doesn’t make the list

Not content with waiting six months or a year to find out who the world’s richest people are? Bloomberg is… Read More

Microsoft sees 1M downloads of Windows 8 Consumer Preview

Looks like of people are interested in kicking the tires on the next big thing from Microsoft Windows. Microsoft’s Windows… Read More

Mobile data: What it really takes to get throttled on AT&T

AT&T today got more specific about how it will handle heavy usage of its wireless network by people grandfathered in… Read More

Good news: Jobless rate falls to 8.3 percent in Washington

We often feel like we’re in a bubble covering the tech industry, a sector which has shown resilience and strength… Read More

Comcast expands Xfinity Home service, announces plans for learning thermostat

Comcast is rolling out its Xfinity Home residential security, energy and automation service in Washington state today, and simultaneously taking steps… Read More

Supercomputer maker Cray expects revenue to top $400M

Revenues at Seattle supercomputer slipped substantially in the fourth quarter as delays in key components led to a large deal… Read More

Microvision CEO Tokman pledges to ‘walk the talk’ in 2012 despite ‘pain’ over sinking stock price

Microvision was one of the worst performing tech stocks in Washington state last year, losing more than 80 percent of its… Read More

Google selling entire Clearwire stake for $47M, four years after $500M investment

Google this morning signaled its intent to sell its stake in Clearwire, the Bellevue-based wireless broadband company, seeking $1.60 a… Read More

Stealth startup CrowdStrike wants to obliterate security threats, raises $26M

George Kurtz has a deep affinity for Seattle, previously working as a consultant at Microsoft and raising cash for his… Read More

9 bootstrapping ideas for small business publicity

Free publicity is one of the best tools that you can use to promote and grow your small business or… Read More

Supercomputer maker Cray expands in China

Cray announced today that it has established a new subsidiary in China in order to sell the company’s large supercomputing… Read More

Tech Moves: Tableau taps new board member; Flux Drive names CEO; and more

Tableau Software, a Seattle business intelligence company whose visualization tools are used by more than 7,000 customers, has named software… Read More

Nest tech chief Yoky Matsuoka officially flying the coop at UW

Yoky Matsuoka, the vice president of technology for Silicon Valley startup Nest, won’t be returning to the University of Washington,… Read More

F5 buying Traffix Systems to support spike in mobile data

F5 Networks has agreed to buy Traffix Systems, an Israeli company whose behind-the-scenes signaling technology helps mobile operators manage all… Read More

Boston shows PAX East some love, secures long-term deal

I’ve been covering and attending the Penny Arcade Expo, better known as PAX, since it was a humble curiosity at… Read More

RealNetworks posts loss, cites ‘increased sense of urgency’

The new CEO of RealNetworks promised further changes as the company posted a net loss of $2.8 million for the… Read More

Klout and Simply Measured partner on social media ‘influence’ analytics

Social media analytics startup Simply Measured has struck a partnership with Klout to add data about social-media influence to the reports used by… Read More

UC4 Software buys Ventum

UC4 Software, a Bellevue company that specializes in IT process automation software, has acquired Ventum Solutions for an undisclosed price.… Read More

InfoSpace CTO to resign next month

InfoSpace has been going through a number of transformations lately, namely the company’s $287 million acquisition of TaxACT. Now, here’s… Read More

Our spaceship has arrived: Museum of Flight takes delivery of Soyuz capsule

Inside that gigantic wooden box is one a serious piece of space memorabilia. Seattle’s Museum of Flight today took delivery… Read More

Zumiez moving e-commerce operations across country, 70 people affected by shift

The Seattle region’s exports of hoodies and longboards are about to decline substantially. Zumiez, the specialty retailer known for sports… Read More

Wow: Test pilots trace 787 and Boeing logo across the sky, from Seattle to Iowa

How’s this for some corporate branding? A Boeing 787 test flight currently under way across the northern half of the… Read More

Expedia shares slump after revenue grows by seven percent in Q4

Shares of Expedia fell more than seven percent in after hours trading after the Bellevue online travel company reported fourth-quarter… Read More