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Amazon announced that it will be acquiring popular Internet clothing and footwear store Zappos.com for approximately $807 million. The closing price of Zappo's stock...

TeachStreet, the Seattle-based online community dedicated to matching teachers and students as well as providing teachers with the online tools to manage a private...

According to the market analysts-slash-publicists of TechCrunch, Google is “dropping the mother of bombs on its chief rival” in Redmond. The Internet giant is...

While fireworks were cancelled this year in downtown Seattle for the Fourth of July, the Seattle Space Needle towered above a minor inferno late...

Microsoft has launched a free online home energy monitoring tool that allows consumers to gauge their usage and reduce consumption. Microsoft Hohm, available as a...

Brand-new software company Xiant today released a public beta version of its first product, Xiant Filer, to help computer users stay on top of...

Microsoft Corp is making early gains on Internet search leaders Google Inc and Yahoo Inc with its Bing search engine that launched a little...

Previewed at the AllThingsD conference just a few short days ago and being christened at the start of this week's Search Marketing Expo (SMX...

Previewed at the AllThingsD conference just a few short days ago and being christened at the start of this week's Search Marketing Expo (SMX...

Ford CEO (and former Boeing president) Alan Mulally personally delivered a Ford Fusion hybrid with Microsoft SYNC technology Tuesday to the Microsoft campus in...

At last week’s technology summit in Seattle hosted by OVP Venture Partners, Amazon chief technology officer Werner Vogels explained how Amazon Web services has...

HelpHive, Inc., a new Seattle-based home services company, has announced the beta launch of HelpHive.com, a new online marketplace connecting homeowners and home services...

This week, Seattle recognizes its tech startup and small business communities in two distinctive ways: Seattle 2.0 Awards On May 7th, the sold-out Seattle 2.0...

After 100 days in office, negotiatons with adversaries can finally begin! We're not talking about Barack Obama squaring off with regimes in Iran or...

No news is certainly bad news, so we can all be grateful the Seattle online news stream has spawned not one, but two newly...

Billing itself as the world's first market for original print design, the Pioneer Square startup known as Inkd (formerly PressPlane) has launched with over...

by Stacy Karacostas It’s been years since the Gartner Group told us 50% of Web sales are lost because visitors can’t find what...

Medical students and interns/residents from the American Medical Student Association (AMSA), the nation's oldest and largest independent association for more than 67,000 physicians-in-training, are...

While much is made about twittering members of Congress, Bill Schrier, Seattle's chief technology officer, notes so-called Government 2.0 initiatives could help state and...

The final build of Internet Explorer 8 has been released in 25 languages. You can also grab the download directly from these links: Windows...

The rumors about the end of days for the Seattle P-I were confirmed today, at least in print. An online edition will be life...

Alaska Airlines has launched a trial version of its new satellite-based in-flight wireless Internet service. Alaska passengers will now be able to engage in a...

The latest round of alleged antitrust violations against Redmond come from a lawsuit filed not by the European Union but by a Seattle woman...

The numbers are in from the second Seattle Startup Weekend, held February 6-8, 2009. 54 hours, 175 attendees, 40 ideas from the community and...

Forbes magazine has chosen Seattle as the nation's "Most-Wired City" in the annual list of top tech towns for broadband access. The Emerald City...

Forbes magazine has chosen Seattle as the nation's "Most-Wired City" in the annual list of top tech towns for broadband access. The Emerald City...

Time is running out for Seattle's Post-Intelligencer, the metro region's second-place daily newspaper, set to fold this month without a buyer. Issues like fixed...

What's Brewing Week of 1.11.09 Recessionary Year has been Inflationary for Picnik Picnik, the Seattle-based online photo-editing application, annnounced last week that its site visits from 2007...

Television may be officially changing the channel from analog to digial on Feburary 17, but it's the first weeks of January that dazzle the...

Seattle E-tail giant Amazon.com has reported record holiday sales for the period just ended, summiting a stellar historical trend which has seen the company...

Planning a festive holiday table in the days ahead? Foodista.com, an innovative Seatttle-based Foodie website, is the first to organize and cross-link the basic...

Qi Lu, a former Yahoo executive, is about to take over as president of Microsoft's Online Services Group this January. As a group president...

In a Wall Street Journal interview on Friday, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and new online services chief Qi Lu, talk about the possibility of...

Today is Cyber Monday! How will major Web E-tailers like Amazon.com weather the nation's economic stormclouds? If the customers are all Seattlites, the goose...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) performs an annual search and contest for the next hot start-up that is leveraging Amazon resources to build its infrastructure...

Sezmi, a start-up seeking to be at the heart of the convergence of the internet and broadcast television, has announced the completion of the...

n America's first YouTube, 24/7, video "view-all" election, the transparency reveals that it was the voters who were in charge -- not the campaigns...

Seventy percent of technology companies who responded to a recent survey conducted by the Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA) believe the nation’s economic...

Turning to the Web to exercise your fiscal fitness during these challenging economic times is a smart idea. The deals are getting even sweeter...

In the fallout of America's financial implostion, the most vulnerable Seattle-area Internet firms are taking preventative measures to avert potential operational setbacks, largely by...