GeekWire

{{short description|Technology news website}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=November 2023}} {{Use American English|date=November 2023}}

{{Infobox website

| logo = File:GeekWire-logo.png

| url = {{URL|http://www.geekwire.com}}

| commercial = Yes

| type = Technology news and analysis

| registration = None

| author = Todd Bishop, John Cook

| owner = GeekWire, LLC

| launch_date = {{nowrap|{{start date and age|2011|3|07}}}}

| current_status = Online

}}

GeekWire is an American technology news website that covers startups and established technology companies. The site launched in March 2011{{cite web|title=Seattle tech news mainstays launch GeekWire website|url=http://blog.seattlepi.com/thebigblog/2011/03/07/seattle-tech-news-mainstays-launch-geekwire-website/|website=SeattlePI|access-date=28 March 2015}} and is based in Seattle. It was founded by journalists Todd Bishop and John Cook with investment from Jonathan Sposato.{{cite web |date=29 March 2011 |title=Sposato Invests in GeekWire |url=http://www.xconomy.com/seattle/2011/03/29/sposato-invests-in-geekwire/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110330091433/http://www.xconomy.com/seattle/2011/03/29/sposato-invests-in-geekwire/ |archive-date=2011-03-30 |access-date=29 March 2015 |website=Xconomy}}{{cite web|title=GeekWire profitable after only two years|url=http://www.journalismthatmatters.net/geekwire_profitable_after_only_two_years|website=Journalism that matters|access-date=29 March 2015}}

GeekWire founders John Cook and Todd Bishop were former technology reporters at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and the Puget Sound Business Journal.{{cite web|title=Gone in a Flash: Seattle Tech Bloggers Abruptly Leave Business Journal for All-New GeekWire|url=http://allthingsd.com/20110307/gone-in-a-flash-seattle-tech-bloggers-abruptly-leave-business-journal-for-all-new-geekwire/|website=AllThingsD|access-date=28 March 2015}} Bishop and Cook joined the Puget Sound Business Journal to create TechFlash in September 2008, leaving to start GeekWire on March 7, 2011.{{cite web|title=TechFlash Duo, Todd Bishop and John Cook, Quit PSBJ to Start New Site, GeekWire|url=http://www.xconomy.com/seattle/2011/03/07/techflash-duo-todd-bishop-and-john-cook-quit-psbj-to-start-new-site-geekwire/|website=Xconomy|date=7 March 2011|access-date=29 March 2015}}

GeekWire is regularly featured on the Techmeme leaderboard as one of the sources most frequently posted to that site.{{cite web|title=Techmeme Leaderboard|url=http://www.techmeme.com/lb|website=Techmeme|access-date=28 March 2015}}