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Uptake Medical raises cash for novel emphysema treatment

Uptake Medical, which is developing new medical device technologies to treat emphysema, has raised $35 million of a $41 million venture… Read More

Chart: Can Facebook overtake Google as top U.S. web brand?

Nielsen has released its year-end list of the top 10 web brands, based on average monthly unique visitors, and there’s… Read More

Oblivious game-accessory marketer turns unhappy customer into PR disaster

Today’s lesson in customer relations — as in, what not to do — comes from this painfully entertaining email thread… Read More

How this tiny Seattle startup is connected to the chatter around Yahoo’s next CEO

Yahoo is in hot pursuit of a new CEO. And as the one-time tech leader scans the landscape of available… Read More

Geeks Who Give Back: Jenny Lam & Hillel Cooperman

The co-founders of Seattle’s Jackson Fish Market software company, Jenny Lam and Hillel Cooperman are also deeply involved in the… Read More

In-flight Wi-Fi provider GoGo is looking to take off with $100M IPO

In-flight Wi-Fi provider GoGo is looking to raise as much as $100 million through an initial public offering, one of… Read More

Terrible Teacher and Mentor, Top 10 Reasons Yoda Was

The Grand Master of the Jedi Order, Yoda, is one of the most beloved movie characters of all time. You will find references to him in… Read More

Study: People are more likely to lie when texting

Researchers at the University of British Columbia have concluded that text messaging leads people to be more deceitful than other… Read More

GameHouse expands in Canada, plans to double size of social games studio

GameHouse says it will open a larger office for its games studio in Victoria, B.C., and plans to more than double its… Read More

Rhapsody tops 1M paying subscribers, and its president has the shaved head to prove it

Rhapsody says it has surpassed 1 million paying subscribers — leveraging its MetroPCS partnership, its recent acquisition of Napster and… Read More

Geeks Who Give Back: Kevin Ross, Washington FIRST Robotics

[Editor’s Note: GeekWire has identified more than a dozen “Geeks Who Give Back” — people who work in non-profits, mentor… Read More

From BlackBerry to Qwikster: The 11 big tech debacles of 2011

Tech companies like to celebrate their successes, but where would the industry be without reflecting upon and learning from its… Read More

Ben Huh is keeping mum on Circa, his latest effort to reinvent journalism

Cheezburger Network founder Ben Huh has built an online comedy empire around silly photos of cats and people engaged in… Read More

Microsoft says this Consumer Electronics Show will be its last

[Updated below with statement from Consumer Electronics Association.] In a major twist for one of the technology industry’s largest annual events,… Read More

TripAdvisor takes flight from Expedia as a $4 billion company

After months of preparation, Expedia is finally waving goodbye to TripAdvisor. The companies announced today that they’ve successfully split operations,… Read More

Cool Video: Bringing down the roof at UW’s Husky Stadium

The renovation of Husky Stadium at the University of Washington in Seattle is well under way, and demolition crews today… Read More

Report: Cardeas Pharma raises $5M

Cardeas Pharma, a biotechnology company led by Seattle biotech entrepreneur Bruce Montgomery, has reeled in $5 million in venture financing… Read More

Geeks Who Give Back: Marc Nager, Startup Weekend

[Editor’s Note: GeekWire has identified more than a dozen “Geeks Who Give Back” — people who work in non-profits, mentor… Read More

Package-tracking startup Fara looks to move e-commerce away from email

Online shopping is booming this holiday season, and many of us have tons of email messages in our inboxes right… Read More

Zynga, Groupon and others reignite IPO market

IPOs from Zynga, Michael Kors and Laredo Petroleum this month have helped revive the market for public offerings, with 28… Read More

AT&T breakup promises to boost T-Mobile’s wireless coverage

It’s the corporate equivalent of getting to keep the ring. Following AT&T’s decision to give up its $39 billion bid… Read More

Download this: Introducing GeekWire’s new iPhone app

Hey, look what we found in the App Store today! Yep, it’s GeekWire’s first mobile app, a tidy package of… Read More

It’s official: AT&T ends $39B bid to buy T-Mobile USA

The deal was jaw-dropping news when it was announced in March, but it wasn’t meant to be: AT&T just announced… Read More

Cool, huh? 16 great geek gifts from Seattle

GeekWire put out a call for geeky gifts from the Seattle region and your ideas came pouring in. So without further… Read More

Report: AT&T struggles to ditch T-Mobile assets as bid hits additional roadblocks

Here’s what appears to be another nail in the coffin for AT&T’s bid for T-Mobile. The Wall Street Journal is… Read More

Zynga is having another rough day on Wall Street

Zynga’s first day as a publicly-traded company was more of a flop, than a big pop. And now the second… Read More

Facebook says it’s your birthday: Respecting the ritual of the birthday wall post

I mentioned my birthday and her eyes went wide. “Oh my gosh! I’m so sorry!” My friend stopped, gasped. Threw… Read More

Afternoon Radar: BlackBerry’s downward spiral, Facebook Timeline dilemma, and Bing’s Brangelina moment

A rundown of noteworthy news and headlines on our radar this afternoon … Can it get any worse for Research… Read More

Inside details: Microsoft opening ‘So.cl’ learning experiment to more users

Microsoft is talking for the first time publicly about its “So.cl” network today, explaining what it is — and what… Read More

Fujufilm paying $995M to acquire SonoSite medical device company

SonoSite, the publicly traded ultrasound device company headquartered near Seattle, will be acquired by Tokyo-based Fujifilm Holdings Corp. for $995… Read More