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Cellular service provider Solavei files for bankruptcy

Solavei emerged on the scene two years ago with a high-profile list of investors, celebrity endorsers and an ambitious business… Read More

Running low on cash, Marina Biotech cuts 90% of staff

Marina Biotech, a Bothell biotechnology company, said today that it has cut about 90 percent of its staff and ceased… Read More

Yahoo job cuts: Back to startup mode for an aging web icon

Yahoo this morning confirmed that it’s cutting 2,000 jobs, or about 15 percent of its workforce —  part of an… Read More

Verizon Wireless to close Bellevue call center, tells 850 workers they can relocate elsewhere

Verizon Wireless today announced plans to close its call center operations in Bellevue, a move that will lead to the… Read More

Struggling Motricity gets more bad news, loses key Indonesian deal

Motricity already had the dubious honor of being the worst performing technology stock in Washington state in 2011. And it… Read More

Hotmail, MSN suffer outage

My wife just tried to log on to her Hotmail account, but no dice. A few minutes later a GeekWire… Read More

Microsoft cloud service Office 365 hit with outage

We’ve been hearing reports today that Microsoft’s Office 365 service — which includes new online versions of Exchange, SharePoint and… Read More

Amazon Web Services suffers another outage: Company says issue now resolved

Amazon.com’s EC2 service suffered another outage this evening, taking out several high-trafficked Web sites and adding another black eye to… Read More

Heat stress, bomb threats and more plague Amazon warehouse in eastern Pennsylvania town

Bomb threats. Heat stress. Assaults. Just your typical summer at an Amazon.com warehouse in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley. The Morning Call… Read More

Seattle non-profit Reel Grrls fights back against Comcast … and wins

Call it a classic David vs. Goliath story. Comcast found itself in the middle of a PR quagmire this week… Read More

Struggling MOD Systems places employees on leave

MOD’s kiosk technology MOD Systems has placed a number of its employees on leave as the Seattle maker of digital… Read More

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