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Use Microsoft Search, Get Free Products
How does Microsoft challenge Google's hegemony in Web search in its unaccustomed role as a challenger brand? The answer is a caculated one. One...
Clearwire’s High Wire Act
Clearwire opened up aggressively in its stock market IPO debut with a price of $27.25, but ended the first day of trading day below...
Seattle Kitchen for Sale on eBay
The best way to a man's heart is through his stomach. The best way to his stomach? An amazing kitchen -- the remodeling of...
Microsoft’s MP3 Woes and Nintendo’s WII
A federal jury's ruling that Microsoft infringed on two MP3 patents and must pay $1.52 billion in damages could turn into a major...
Seattle U, Crosscut and the Vanishing Point
Four days unplugged? LOL ... RU crazy? not for a dozen communications students at Seattle University who recently attempted a 96-hour "media deprivation" experiment.
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Starbucks Extra Shot: Free Wi-Fi
Starbucks has decided to change Wi-Fi flavors, switching from the pay-as-you-go T-Mobile HotSpot relationship coffee drinkers are using now to a new alliance with...
Jobster Turns About Face with Facebook
Following a 41 percent reduction in its work force last month, Jobster has turned about face by inking a deal to become the exclusive...
Venture Status of the Union
Venture capital investments topped $1 billion in Washington last year, marking the biggest surge of private investment money in the state since the dot-com...
Ya-Who? Microsoft Bids $44.6 Billion
In the 2008 Internet advertising chess match, a 3-D chess game according to Microsoft CEO Steve Balmer, the Redmond juggernaut has made a bold,...
Nintendo News Feed, Microsoft Search Charity
Rabid video gamers got some help keeping in touch with the outside world this weekend as Nintendo Co. launched an online news service through...
