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Microsoft, Boeing giving $25M each to new scholarship fund

Washington state’s two largest private-sector employers, Microsoft and Boeing, will each be giving $25 million over the next five years… Read More

Comcast wants to serve Pioneer Square startups, bids on city broadband project

A few weeks ago, Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn stood on First Avenue and asked Internet service providers to step up… Read More

Hacker group hits Nintendo, no consumer data stolen

Nintendo of America confirmed today that its computer servers in the U.S. were infiltrated by the hacker group Lulzsec a few… Read More

Bono’s shout out to Bill Gates: Thanks for your passion, your brain power (and your cash)

More than 70,000 people turned out Saturday night for the U2 concert at Seattle’s Qwest Field, listening as Bono belted… Read More

Don’t tell the IT guy: Rogue cloud services on the rise

Avanade, the Seattle-based technology consulting company, this week released the results of its third global survey on cloud computing — finding… Read More

Saturn and Nine Inch Nails in a beautiful space mashup

For your Friday viewing pleasure, this video is the handiwork of filmmaker Chris Abbas of Digital Kitchen in Seattle, featuring… Read More

Drugstore.com CEO Dawn Lepore to depart following Walgreens buy

Walgreen Co. has completed its $409 million purchase of drugstore.com, the Bellevue online seller of medicine, vitamins and beauty products.… Read More

IPO filing reveals Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz’s stake in Groupon

Groupon’s growth rate over the past two years has been absolutely insane. Consider this: The daily deal site had just… Read More

Inside look at The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s new Seattle HQ

It spans 12 acres in the heart of the city, just a stone’s throw from The Seattle Center where the… Read More

Expedia, Groupon plan to partner on travel deals

One of the veterans of online commerce, Bellevue-based travel giant Expedia, is announcing a partnership with daily deals site Groupon… Read More

UW researchers develop trick to help devices use less energy

University of Washington researchers have come up with a way to reduce energy consumption in computers and mobile devices by… Read More

Micron, Intellectual Ventures enter licensing agreement

Intellectual Ventures continues to ink deals with big technology companies, gobbling up patents and helping some of the industry stalwarts… Read More

Google your name, and you might just find an Intelius advertisement

Forbes columnist Kashmir Hill recently Googled her name, and to her surprise found an advertisement in the search results from… Read More

Goodbye paper flight manuals: Alaska Airlines to outfit pilots with iPads

Last fall, I reported that Alaska Airlines planned to provide pilots with iPads, speculating that the touchscreen devices could be… Read More

Welcome to Olympia: Where the water is crystal clear and the broadband flows

Olympia’s water is legendary, giving rise to one of the region’s best beer slogans ever. But Washington’s capitol may soon… Read More

Boeing, Alaska Air, WSU and others set ‘flight plan’ for renewable aviation fuels in the NW

A group of more than 40 regional companies, government entities and educational institutions have come together to explore the possibilities… Read More

T-Mobile doubles peak data speeds, preps new ‘Rocket’

T-Mobile USA says it has doubled the theoretical peak download speeds on its wireless network in Seattle and 50 other… Read More

Mayor McGinn promises high-speed Internet for parts of Pioneer Square

Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn today laid out a proposal to encourage broadband Internet in a four-block area in Pioneer Square,… Read More

Comcast Xfinity app expands video on-demand to iPhone, iPod … but only over WiFi for now

Comcast has updated its Xfinity TV app to bring streaming on-demand programs to the iPhone and iPod touch, adding a… Read More

Ford touts electric vehicles at Seattle Green Festival

The Seattle Green Festival is taking place this weekend at the Qwest Event Center, featuring everyone from Rep. Dennis Kucinich… Read More

LinkedIn’s spectacular IPO: The pros and cons

LinkedIn’s stock more than doubled in its stock market debut Thursday, rising from the $45 offering price to a high of… Read More

LinkedIn’s red hot IPO sparks talk of a bubble: Would you buy at $85 per share?

Netscape’s 1995 IPO was the start of what many considered the beginning of the Internet boom. Did LinkedIn just create… Read More

State university computer science faculty fear deeper cuts as pressure builds on WWU

Western Washington University’s computer science department isn’t the only one encountering the harsh realities of the state budget crisis. Eastern… Read More

Expedia boosts stake in Chinese travel site eLong

Expedia is investing $41 million in eLong, the second biggest online travel company in China, as part of an effort… Read More

What’s that sound? It might be the IPO pipeline filling up

We’ve finally seen a bit of activity on the IPO front in Seattle, with both Impinj and Zillow.com filing for… Read More

Myhrvold’s Intellectual Ventures distances itself from iOS in-app patent dustup

Bellevue-based Intellectual Ventures, the patent holding company and invention house run by former Microsoft technology chief Nathan Myhrvold, confirmed today… Read More

Sony to PlayStation users: We’re back, we’re sorry, now please change your password

Well, at least they got it back online before E3. After more than three weeks of downtime following an online… Read More

Why did Wizard Parent (aka Attachmate) just raise $377M?

Attachmate is one of Seattle’s oldest software companies, with a history stretching back to the early 1980s. But did you… Read More

Microsoft apologizes for Online Services glitches, massive email delays

Microsoft tonight detailed and apologized for a series of glitches that caused a huge email backlog in its cloud-based Microsoft… Read More

Pressure mounts on Western Washington University to preserve computer science department

The Washington Technology Industry Association and the Technology Alliance — two of the largest technology member organizations in the state… Read More