GeekWire

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GeekWire
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Type of site
Technology news and analysis
OwnerGeekWire, LLC
Created byTodd Bishop, John Cook
URL www.geekwire.com
CommercialYes
RegistrationNone
LaunchedMarch 7, 2011;12 years ago (2011-03-07)
Current statusOnline

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]

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References

  1. "Seattle tech news mainstays launch GeekWire website". SeattlePI. Retrieved March 28, 2015.
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  3. "GeekWire profitable after only two years". Journalism that matters. Retrieved March 29, 2015.
  4. "Gone in a Flash: Seattle Tech Bloggers Abruptly Leave Business Journal for All-New GeekWire". AllThingsD. Retrieved March 28, 2015.
  5. "TechFlash Duo, Todd Bishop and John Cook, Quit PSBJ to Start New Site, GeekWire". Xconomy. March 7, 2011. Retrieved March 29, 2015.
  6. "Techmeme Leaderboard". Techmeme. Retrieved March 28, 2015.