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HTC has a ‘Charm’ of its own, dangling from new phone

HTC’s new Rhyme phone, announced this morning for Verizon Wireless, is an attempt to make an Android phone that appeals… Read More

Starbucks Digital Network gets first look at music from Feist

Starting today, visitors to the Starbucks Digital Network will get a special musical treat along with their shot of espresso.… Read More

Glimmer of hope for T-Mobile? Report cites more renewals

T-Mobile USA has been taking a beating lately — finding itself on the receiving end of disparaging comments even from AT&T,… Read More

Washington AG joins opposition to AT&T’s T-Mobile acquisition

(Updated below with T-Mobile statement) Washington state Attorney General Rob McKenna today joined the opposition to AT&T’s $39 billion acquisition… Read More

Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and others get sidewalk stars at Entrepreneur Walk of Fame

You’ve probably seen the Hollywood Walk of Fame where celebs such as Adam West, Jennifer Aniston, Kate Winslet and hundreds of… Read More

Dispute: Would AT&T’s T-Mobile acquisition create or kill jobs?

In a letter to President Obama today, U.S. Rep. Heath Shuler and 14 of his Democratic colleagues urged the administration… Read More

Tech Moves: Jeff Lanctot returns to Razorfish; Bob Wise joins Opanga

Here’s our occasional look at new hires, appointments and other people on the move at Pacific Northwest technology companies. Jeff… Read More

Rhapsody gets more social, tunes into Facebook friends

Rhapsody is rolling out a new slate of social features today, including the ability for users to create profile pages,… Read More

Clearwire, China Mobile to partner on smartphones, tablets and other LTE devices

China Mobile and Clearwire have entered into a partnership to work together on new TD-LTE devices, including tablet computers and… Read More

Savvis expands data center in Seattle: Benaroya lands Marvell

After getting gobbled up by CenturyLink, data center giant Savvis is expanding its operations in the Seattle area. The company… Read More

State jobless rate stuck in neutral at 9.3 percent despite gains in tech hiring

Washington state continues to add jobs, including more than 1,800 in the information category where a number of technology jobs… Read More

Psychologist: Playing Bejeweled will make you mentally sharper

PopCap Games appears to be on a mission to prove that casual games can help cure big societal and health… Read More

Internet ‘bubbles’ compared: This time, there’s revenue

There’s been a lot of chatter in recent months about whether the valuations of Internet companies are out of whack.… Read More

Hank Skorny out at RealNetworks

The executive management upheaval continues at RealNetworks, with the Seattle company announcing today that Hank Skorny plans to resign as… Read More

Dendreon cuts 500 jobs, sheds a quarter of its workforce

Slower-than-expected uptake of its Provenge prostate cancer drug forced Seattle biotech company Dendreon to announce 500 job cuts this afternoon,… Read More

WPP’s Kantar unit buys Global Market Insite

Kantar, a unit of advertising giant WPP, has purchased Bellevue-based Global Market Insite for an undisclosed price and merged it… Read More

Microsoft and Twitter decide to stick together, see where things go

Twitter and Microsoft Bing have extended the partnership that gives the Redmond company’s search engine the ability to include a… Read More

Lawmaker hopes for ‘teachable moment’ after state data center outage costs $500,000

This is not what the state needed. After much criticism about the construction of the state’s new data center in… Read More

Sprint piles on with its own suit opposing AT&T’s T-Mobile deal

Sprint, which has opposed rival AT&T’s proposed $39 billion purchase of Bellevue-based T-Mobile USA since the beginning, this morning announced… Read More

Expedia CFO Adler to step down

Expedia Chief Financial Officer Michael Adler is packing his bags, and stepping down after leading the Bellevue company’s financial operations… Read More

How Carly screwed up AT&T’s $39B T-Mobile acquisition

OK, so Carly herself isn’t specifically to blame. But the U.S. Department of Justice today cited last year’s T-Mobile USA… Read More

Blindsided by DOJ suit, AT&T says it will fight for T-Mobile

Updated below with statements from DOJ and Sprint. AT&T just issued a statement saying it’s “surprised and disappointed” by the… Read More

AT&T vows to return 5,000 call-center jobs to U.S. in T-Mobile deal

AT&T, seeking U.S. regulatory approval for its $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile USA, tonight said it would bring 5,000 “good-paying”… Read More

Cell imaging company Amnis acquired by EMD Millipore

Amnis, a 12-year-old Seattle company which provides high-speed cell imaging instruments, has been sold to EMD Millipore for an undisclosed… Read More

PAX Video: A pledge of allegiance for Borderlands 2

One last scene before closing the book on this year’s Penny Arcade Expo in Seattle: Toward the end of the… Read More

New Apple CEO Tim Cook promises company won’t change

Ars Technica this morning published an email sent to Apple employees by Tim Cook, the company’s new chief executive, following… Read More

InfoSpace looks to put its cash hoard to work, names M&A wizard to board

InfoSpace has hinted at plans to go on a buying spree. And with $263 million in cash and cash equivalents… Read More

T-Mobile: Only big U.S. carrier without the iPhone this year?

Sprint will become the third U.S. wireless carrier to offer the iPhone, starting with the release of the iPhone 5… Read More

Vertafore to buy unit of Kaplan, plans to add its 100 employees

Vertafore might be one of the biggest software companies in the Seattle area that you’ve never heard of. And the… Read More

Exec turmoil continues at Motricity as CEO Ryan Wuerch steps down

Ryan Wuerch has stepped down as CEO of Motricity, the publicly-traded Bellevue mobile software company that he’s run for a… Read More