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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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...