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Amazon’s Elastic Block Store—A Glimpse of Cloud Computing’s Future

Fri, 08/22/2008 - 15:43
Earlier this week, Amazon announced an important new feature in its cloud computing Web service offerings that should further cause those of us who work in technology to consider the way in which w...

Medio in Reported Deal with Google and Verizon, Putting Seattle on the Mobile-Search Map

Fri, 08/22/2008 - 15:32
And the wireless hits keep coming… Seattle mobile-search startup Medio Systems is moving towards a deal with Google and Verizon Communications to manage an all-in-one search service provided ...

Buzzwire to Cover Dems in Denver

Fri, 08/22/2008 - 11:31
Boston- and Denver-based Buzzwire, which provides streaming video and audio content viewable on many Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint, and AT&T mobile phones, says it’s launching a “DNC 2...

Daily TIPs: Mercury Wipe-Up, Faster Files, Sneaky Licenses, & More

Fri, 08/22/2008 - 11:31
Compact fluorescent bulbs are being touted as environmentally friendly, since they’re much more energy efficient than standard incandescents. Their only problem: Break them, and you spread poiso...

Joseph Finn on the ABCs of Biotech Liquidation: Beware of Collusion!

Fri, 08/22/2008 - 10:05
Companies in innovation sectors often have multiple lives. I followed, for example, the rebirth of Franklin, MA, biotech firm Sontra Medical, which laid off its entire staff to cut expenses in late...

Battery Powers Social Advertising Network

Fri, 08/22/2008 - 09:58
According to regulatory filings cited today by PE Week Wire, Waltham, MA-based Battery Ventures is the lead investor in a $1 million Series A funding round for Adisn, a Long Beach, CA-based Web adv...

Greylock Funds Refocus Imaging

Fri, 08/22/2008 - 09:44
Waltham, MA- and San Mateo, CA-based Greylock Partners is the leader in a $250,000 Series A financing round for Refocus Imaging, according to regulatory filings cited today by PE Week Wire. The Mou...

Pogue on the iPhone 3G: A Product Manual You Won’t Be Able to Put Down

Fri, 08/22/2008 - 07:00
The Apple iPhone is easily the most powerful, multitalented phone ever marketed. As I and many others have pointed out, it’s really a handheld multimedia computer, with camera and (in the iPh...

Putting Electrons Behind Getting Things Built: Seattle Science Foundation Aims to Connect Scientists, Start Companies

Fri, 08/22/2008 - 04:00
Bob Franza has a way with words. I stopped by to visit the visionary biologist in his office at the Seattle Science Foundation yesterday, hoping to get a better sense of what the new nonprofit orga...

In Nuance’s Snapping Up of SnapIn Software, Investors Get a Better Deal—Some Further Analysis

Thu, 08/21/2008 - 23:11
The big-time acquisition train keeps on rolling through town. The latest Seattle-area company to get bought for big bucks is SnapIn Software, based in Bellevue, WA, which announced earlier this we...
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