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Starbucks appoints 29-year-old social media expert with Microsoft and Google roots to its board

Starbucks is getting more serious about its social media efforts, and the Seattle coffee giant just named a 29-year-old rising… Read More

Washington’s jobless rate dips as employers ramp up hiring

Here’s some good news for hump day. Washington’s jobless rate fell to 8.7 percent in November as employers in the… Read More

34-year-old startup vet Chris Kemp is back, with Nebula — taking risks and not mincing words

At 34 years old, Chris Kemp has a resume that many would call a career — Silicon Graphics systems engineer, Classmates.com… Read More

Know a great geeky gift from Seattle? Tell us about it

Every geek loves geeky gifts. Like my pizza cutter shaped like the U.S.S. Enterprise. Amazing. Similarly, we at GeekWire submit… Read More

Paul Allen’s new space project will launch rockets into orbit from world’s biggest plane

Paul Allen is taking the wraps off his new space venture this morning, and it’s a big one. The… Read More

Amazon founder and brainiac Jeff Bezos donates $15 million to Princeton Neuroscience Institute

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen isn’t the only Seattle billionaire interested in the study of the brain. Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos… Read More

Expedia maps out its future as Web 3.0 ‘personal travel assistant’ for mobile world

Over at the Expedia headquarters today, executives met up with travel and technology bloggers to talk about the company’s vision… Read More

Cerevast Therapeutics raises $6.5 million for clot-busting headframe device

Cerevast Therapeutics, which is developing an unique ultrasonic headframe device that’s used to break up blood clots in the brain,… Read More

Rich venture capitalist Nick Hanauer sounds off (again) on why his taxes need to be raised

Seattle venture capitalist Nick Hanauer was one of the most vocal supporters last year of Initiative 1098, a measure that… Read More

Lockerz continues acquisition spree, buys travel site Off & Away

In what could best be described as a “talent acquisition,” Seattle startup Off & Away has been purchased by fast-growing… Read More

Bill Gates plotting a Microsoft comeback? Extremely doubtful

[Update: In comments to AllThingsD and CNet News, a spokesman for Gates says the Microsoft chairman is not considering coming back full-time to… Read More

Shares of Coinstar soar on news that its RedBox DVD business will ally with Verizon

Shares of Coinstar gained more than seven percent today after news emerged that the Bellevue company’s Redbox DVD movie rental… Read More

List: The 25 people who did big stuff this year in Seattle tech and beyond

After considerable discussion, careful deliberation and more than a few debates at the neighborhood bar, the GeekWire team has finished… Read More

Planking, Pepper Spray Cop and other top Internet memes of 2011

Cheezburger is the master of memes, and 2011 created some memorable moments for lovers of Internet culture. From planking to… Read More

Ready for this? Tolling to start Dec. 29 on 520 bridge

They’ve been warning that it was coming, and today the Washington State Transportation Department gave us a date: Electronic tolling… Read More

Seattle venture capitalists pick their top deal of the year, and it’s a slightly untraditional one

Venture capitalists are known for bankrolling biotech, medical device, software and Internet companies. But it was a consumer products company… Read More

Expedia shareholders approve TripAdvisor spin-off

Expedia shareholders have approved the spin-off of TripAdvisor, the online travel review site. The deal — expected to occur on… Read More

Fisher Interactive unveils daily deal site SeattleNow.com

Fisher Interactive Network has launched a new daily deal Web site under the name SeattleNow.com, an offering that the company said… Read More

Adapx wins $1.65M DARPA contract to bring speech and sketch to battlefield plans

Seattle startup Adapx has won a $1.65 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to incorporate speech… Read More

Newsmakers 2011: F5’s John McAdam quietly creates a billion dollar business

F5 Networks CEO John McAdam helped guide the company to more than $1 billion in revenue in 2011 Over the… Read More

Tech IPOs start with a strong pop, and then promptly tank

Shares of Groupon soared to $26.11 on its first day of trading as a public company, a very healthy (and somewhat surprising)… Read More

Microsoft to open new gaming studio in Victoria, B.C.

Maybe we’ll see more geeks on the Victoria Clipper and Kenmore Air next year. Microsoft is planning to open a… Read More

Sprint throws Clearwire a $1.6 billion lifeline in funding deal

Clearwire and Sprint this morning announced a new agreement that could provide Clearwire with as much as $1.6 billion over… Read More

Rhapsody marks decade in business as it absorbs Napster

Ten years ago this weekend, on Dec. 3, 2001, the Rhapsody music service was launched by Listen.com, pioneering the concept… Read More

Newsmakers 2011: Melinda Gates, ‘impatient optimist’

Sure, Bill Gates may get more attention, but Melinda Gates is the one who deserves the newsmaker title this year… Read More

Newsmakers 2011: Nathan Myhrvold, gourmet geek and patent lightning rod

Nathan Myhrvold was in the spotlight in 2011 perhaps more than at any other point since he was Microsoft’s chief… Read More

Social Santa: Nordstrom tries ‘gift hints’ on Facebook, Twitter

With the holiday shopping season kicking off today, Nordstrom is trying a new social media campaign that lets Facebook and… Read More

Newsmakers 2011: Daniil Kulchenko sells startup at age 15

Of all the stories we covered on GeekWire in 2011, one of the most remarkable was the tale of Daniil… Read More

Expedia boosts ownership in eLong by gobbling up stake from Renren

Expedia is investing more in China, a key market for the Bellevue online travel company’s international expansion efforts. The company… Read More

Indian IT consulting firm picks Seattle for first U.S. office

Happiest Minds, a Bangalore, India-based IT consulting firm, has chosen Seattle for its first U.S. office. The company was started… Read More