GeekWire chronicles the Pacific Northwest startup scene. Sign up for our weekly startup newsletter, and check out the GeekWire funding tracker and VC directory. by John Cook on Feb 22, 2016 at 10:03 ...

Huh made the decision after a first-quarter review call with his board while on vacation with his family: “It was very clear that the path we were taking was too risky and we weren’t going to meet our ...

Cheezburger has revealed the parent company that purchased it in February, and the acquisition means it will be working with fellow online humor site eBaum’s World. The new owner of the Seattle humor ...

GeekWire chronicles the Pacific Northwest startup scene. Sign up for our weekly startup newsletter, and check out the GeekWire funding tracker and VC directory. by John Cook on Oct 25, 2011 at 9:44 pm ...

The wave of acquisitions in digital media is almost always driven by the need for scale. Access to millennial audiences often plays a role as well. Both of these challenges played a role in the ...

*I Can Has Cheezburger? co-founders Eric Nakagawa, left, and Kari Unebasami, center, pose with company CEO Ben Huh outside a pub called The Asgard in Cambridge, Massachusetts, during Laughing Squid's ...

If the Internet has taught us anything, it’s that people are really into anthropomorphized cats. They’re good for a chuckle, sure, but their popularity gets at the more interesting question of why and ...

SEATTLE--How does one build an empire on pictures of cats with silly, misspelled captions? As most fans of the Internet now know, I Can Has Cheezburger has become one of the most popular sites online.

The ‘I can has cheezburger’ is an iconic meme that came into being in 2007. You must have seen cute cats eyeing or, better yet, eating their humans’ burgers, hamburgers, or hotdogs — and that is ...

The first time I saw a lolcat — those funny images of felines with grammatically questionable captions — it took me a minute to understand the joke. “What’s with the misspellings?” I wrote the friend ...