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Type of site | Technology news and analysis |
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| Owner | GeekWire, LLC |
| Created by | Todd Bishop, John Cook |
| URL | www |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | None |
| Launched | March 7, 2011 |
| Current status | Online |
GeekWire is an American technology news website that covers startups and established technology companies. The site launched in March 2011[1] and is based in Seattle. It was founded by journalists Todd Bishop and John Cook with investment from Jonathan Sposato.[2][3]
GeekWire founders John Cook and Todd Bishop were former technology reporters at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and the Puget Sound Business Journal.[4] Bishop and Cook joined the Puget Sound Business Journal to create TechFlash in September 2008, leaving to start GeekWire on March 7, 2011.[5]
GeekWire is regularly featured on the Techmeme leaderboard as one of the sources most frequently posted to that site.[6]
- ^ "Seattle tech news mainstays launch GeekWire website". SeattlePI. Retrieved March 28, 2015.
- ^ "Sposato Invests in GeekWire". Xconomy. March 29, 2011. Archived from the original on March 30, 2011. Retrieved March 29, 2015.
- ^ "GeekWire profitable after only two years". Journalism that matters. Retrieved March 29, 2015.
- ^ "Gone in a Flash: Seattle Tech Bloggers Abruptly Leave Business Journal for All-New GeekWire". AllThingsD. Retrieved March 28, 2015.
- ^ "TechFlash Duo, Todd Bishop and John Cook, Quit PSBJ to Start New Site, GeekWire". Xconomy. March 7, 2011. Retrieved March 29, 2015.
- ^ "Techmeme Leaderboard". Techmeme. Retrieved March 28, 2015.