GeekWire explained

Commercial:Yes
Type:Technology news and analysis
Registration:None
Author:Todd Bishop, John Cook
Owner:GeekWire, LLC
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]

Notes and References

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