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Cray cites supplier challenges, but expects profits in 2011

Citing key supplier parts challenges, supercomputer maker Cray Inc. said that revenues fells during the third quarter to $36.7 million.… Read More

RealNetworks names former Adobe exec as its new CEO

[Updated with comments from Rob Glaser] RealNetworks just named Thomas Nielsen as its new chief executive officer, filling the spot… Read More

Tech Moves: Symform taps Dawson; changes at InfoSpace; etc.

Symform, the Seattle cloud storage startup which scored $1 million in financing in September, has named Margaret Dawson to the… Read More

Gmail cleans itself up in race to catch Yahoo and Microsoft

Google’s Gmail is the No. 3 webmail service in the world, behind Yahoo Mail and Microsoft’s Windows Live Hotmail, but… Read More

As losses continue to mount, MicroVision faces cash crunch

MicroVision, the money-losing maker of visual display technologies and Pico projectors, said today that it has just two months of… Read More

Evening Radar: Steve Jobs’ last words, Gates video, and an error message on Halloween

A collection of noteworthy headlines and links on this Halloween evening … In case you missed it this weekend, be… Read More

F5 Networks hires Cisco veteran to lead charge in security

F5 Networks, fresh off its blockbuster financial announcement last week, continues to strengthen its executive bench. The Seattle company today… Read More

MicroVision gets Nasdaq notice, faces possible delisting

MicroVision, the maker of the miniature PicoP laser projection device, said that it has received notice from the Nasdaq stock market… Read More

Former Clearwire CEO Ben Wolff resigns from company’s board

The turnover in the board room at Kirkland-based Clearwire continues. In a SEC filing this afternoon, the company announced that… Read More

Intellectual Ventures sues Nikon for patent infringement

Intellectual Ventures, the Bellevue-based company led by former Microsoft technology chief Nathan Myhrvold, has filed suit against camera giant Nikon… Read More

Redbox raises DVD rental prices by 20 cents

Redbox is raising prices on DVD rentals from $1 to $1.20 due to higher operating costs associated with debit card… Read More

Shares of Expedia slip after weakness in airfare bookings

Shares of Expedia fell more than five percent in after hours trading Thursday after the Bellevue-based online travel company posted… Read More

InfoSpace posts ‘great quarter,’ eyes acquisitions

Calling it a “great quarter,” InfoSpace CEO Bill Ruckelshaus today announced that the Bellevue Internet search company posted net income of… Read More

Meet Seattle’s new $1 billion revenue company: Here’s how F5 did it (Infographic)

F5 Networks doesn’t get a lot of press. But the Seattle company, which makes software and hardware products to speed… Read More

From CD-ROM to dot-com, Expedia celebrates 15 years

Fifteen years ago, Expedia took flight under the wings of Microsoft as a maker of CD-ROM travel guides. Today, it… Read More

Intelius CEO Naveen Jain: IPO could be in the cards in 2012

Bellevue-based Intelius, an online identity company that specializes in background checks of individuals, may consider going public next year if… Read More

F5 tops $1 billion in revenue for year, posts strong profits

F5 Networks today reported revenue of $314.6 million for its fiscal fourth quarter, a 24 percent jump over the same… Read More

Tesla Motors sets grand opening for Bellevue store, plans to close Seattle showroom

A few weeks ago, we told you about Tesla Motors’ plans to open a new store on the second floor… Read More

WA governor hopefuls Inslee and McKenna on tech issues

It wasn’t an official debate, but two of Washington state’s candidates for governor in 2012 got a chance to show… Read More

Isilon adding 200 jobs as it settles into Pioneer Square HQ

Isilon Systems, getting comfortable in its new digs in Seattle’s Pioneer Square neighborhood, said today that it plans to add… Read More

Pittsburgh looks to attract entrepreneurial dreamers (over the age of 45)

Last week, I moderated a panel discussion at the TechNW event in which panelists Andy Sack of TechStars, Glenn Kelman of… Read More

American Express in patent deal with Intellectual Ventures

Patents: Don’t leave home without them? American Express is the latest big company to sign an intellectual-property licensing agreement with… Read More

Seattle is the 25th most innovative city in the world

We’ve been doing a lot of navel-gazing at GeekWire over the past few weeks about the Seattle region’s standing as… Read More

Biotech veteran Henney inducted into Hall of Fame

Biotech pioneer Christopher Henney has been inducted into the industry’s Hall of Fame, with the announcement made at the annual… Read More

Microsoft completes Skype deal, reassures Apple and Android users

Microsoft completed the largest acquisition in its history overnight, paying $8.5 billion for online communications company Skype a week after receiving… Read More

Clearwire boosts wholesale subscriber count as headwinds mount

Investors have been treating Clearwire as if it is pretty much dead. But the Kirkland broadband wireless company today preannounced… Read More

Pantech reaches Intellectual Ventures deal, escapes suit

Intellectual Ventures this morning announced a patent licensing deal with Pantech, a large mobile handset maker in Korea, and said… Read More

Heads up: We’re @geekwire now

One of the minor challenges we encountered when we started GeekWire was that the Twitter handle @geekwire wasn’t available. (It… Read More

Inrix CEO: Seattle tech scene gets solid A (with one exception)

Inrix CEO Bryan Mistele knows just how hard it is to raise venture capital. Before the company grew to more… Read More

Zaarly founder wins over TechNW panel with free beer

Here’s one of the more unique promotional gimmicks we’ve seen in some time. Prior to the start of the e-commerce… Read More