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Paul Allen

WWII destroyer located by Paul Allen’s research vessel is deepest shipwreck ever discovered

The late Paul Allen’s ship-hunting team aboard the Research Vessel Petrel has reached record new depths with its latest discovery.… Read More

University of Washington once again named world’s most innovative public university

For the third year in a row, the University of Washington has won the title of the world’s most innovative… Read More

Second Japanese aircraft carrier lost at Battle of Midway located by Paul Allen’s research vessel

The Research Vessel (R/V) Petrel, owned and operated by the late Paul Allen’s Vulcan Inc., continues to locate historic shipwrecks… Read More

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Stratolaunch air-launch venture says it’s been transferred to new owners by Paul Allen’s Vulcan

Stratolaunch, the company that was founded by the late Seattle billionaire Paul Allen in 2011 to build a flying launch… Read More

A year after Paul Allen’s death, sources say Vulcan holding company is cutting jobs

Vulcan Inc., the holding company created by the late Seattle billionaire philanthropist and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, is in the… Read More

‘He’s why we have football here’: Seattle Seahawks salute Paul Allen, add late owner to ‘Ring of Honor’

Patti Hammond — better known around these parts as “Mama Blue” — knows how much Paul Allen meant to the… Read More

Paul Allen

Paul Allen to become 12th member of Seattle Seahawks’ ‘Ring of Honor’ in tribute to late owner

Paul Allen has been credited with keeping the Seattle Seahawks from leaving the city, and now the late owner and… Read More

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Stratolaunch rebuilds team for the world’s biggest plane after Paul Allen’s death

Stratolaunch is hiring — nearly a year after the death of its billionaire backer, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, and five… Read More

Block by block, ambitious new ‘Minecraft: The Exhibition’ will celebrate game at Seattle’s MoPOP

Are these the building blocks for museum exhibition success? The Museum of Pop Culture announced Thursday that “Minecraft: The Exhibition”… Read More

Paul Allen’s superyacht Octopus — which he once called ‘too big’ — listed for a whopping $325M

“They’re too big, and there are too many of them,” the late Paul Allen once said about his fleet of… Read More

Vulcan Capital opens first international office in Singapore to invest $100M in Southeast Asia startups

Vulcan Capital, the invest arm of the late Paul Allen, opened its first international office in Singapore to invest in… Read More

Paul Allen’s Petrel project wins spotlight in TV show about Pacific War shipwrecks

The voyages of the R/V Petrel, funded by the late Seattle billionaire Paul Allen, are the focus of a National… Read More

Go swim with the sharks in this 10-hour YouTube video from Paul Allen’s Global FinPrint survey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqErSOEjHe4&feature=youtu.be So this is what it would look like if you crammed Shark Week into one extended YouTube video. If… Read More

Seattle Art Museum to feature series of paintings from Paul Allen’s private family collection

The public will get a chance to view some of the significant pieces in the private art collection of Paul… Read More

In touching tribute, Bill Gates remembers his friend — the ‘thoughtful, brilliant and curious’ Paul Allen

Much has been said and written about the partnership between Bill Gates and Paul Allen that gave rise to Microsoft… Read More

Stratolaunch plane

$400 million? Paul Allen’s Stratolaunch space venture is up for sale, sources say

Sources say Vulcan Inc. is looking to sell Stratolaunch, the space venture founded by the late Seattle billionaire Paul Allen,… Read More

Paul Allen’s Holodome, a shared immersive reality experience, ends year-long run at Seattle’s MoPOP

Holodome has left the building. Paul Allen’s vision for shared immersive, 360-degree reality without the use of a VR headset… Read More

Allen Coral Atlas adds spectacular satellite views of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef

When you think of the crown jewels of the coral reefs, it’s hard not to think of Australia’s Great Barrier… Read More

‘Jody’s in charge now’: Paul Allen’s sister credited for role in Russell Wilson’s huge Seahawks deal

Russell Wilson took time away from counting his newfound riches on Wednesday to thank the Seattle Seahawks for making him… Read More

The talk of TED? Paul Allen’s Holodome brings immersive reality to conference in Vancouver

Holodome, the immersive virtual reality experience from the late Paul Allen, is all about transporting visitors to other worlds. And… Read More

Stratolaunch Roc plane in the air

Paul Allen’s Stratolaunch flies world’s biggest plane for the first time: ‘Paul would have been proud’

Stratolaunch, the aerospace venture founded by the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, sent the world’s biggest airplane into the air… Read More

Paul Allen’s immersive Holodome gets interactive with new zombie-hunting game that founder tested

In the months since Vulcan, Inc., placed its Holodome inside Seattle’s Museum of Pop Culture, 38,000 people have stepped into… Read More

Jody and Paul Allen

Sources: Paul Allen’s family foundation plans to add advisers, with Steve Ballmer among prospects

Five months after the death of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, the billionaire’s sister is taking steps to put her own… Read More

Paul Allen’s foundation opens challenge to combat Ebola outbreak in Congo

The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation is looking for smart ideas to fight Ebola and has opened a call for… Read More

USS Wasp gun

Paul Allen’s Petrel research ship finds out where USS Wasp’s WWII odyssey ended

The USS Wasp, an aircraft carrier that saw service during World War II from Iceland to Guadalcanal, has been located… Read More

Bill Gates opens new UW computer science building with tribute to Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen

Bill Gates wanted to clear something up. Speaking at a celebration event for a new University of Washington computer science… Read More

Univ. of Washington opens new computer science building, doubling capacity to train future tech workers

When Ed Lazowska arrived at the University of Washington four decades ago, there were just 12 computer science faculty members.… Read More

Lost in 1943, the USS Strong is found again by Paul Allen’s Petrel research vessel

The USS Strong put in less than a year of service at sea, but the destroyer and its crew nevertheless… Read More

Hornet gun

Paul Allen’s Petrel research vessel finds the USS Hornet, 77 years after sinking

Chalk up another historic shipwreck discovery for the Petrel, the research vessel funded by the late Seattle billionaire Paul Allen:… Read More

Bill Gates patched things up with Paul Allen, hoped to travel the world with Microsoft co-founder

Paul Allen was brutally candid about Bill Gates in his 2011 memoir, “Idea Man,” and the Microsoft co-founders didn’t speak for… Read More

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