Bill, We Already Miss Ya’!
Microsoft's legendary chairman and boy wonder, Bill Gates, is retiring from his daily rounds on the Redmond campus at age 52 to spend more...
Microhoo Aftermath and WhitePages
Doing the calculus in the aftermath of the aborted Yahoo-Microsoft deal, the numbers just don't seem to add up. Like how could a company...
New Crop of Startups Follows Marketing Curve
A bumper crop of new PS startups is following the contour of the social media, analytics and online market movement.
iMedExchange is a private online...
Seattle Search and Security Summits
Two illustrious Internet audiences, the Web's leading authorities on online security and the leading practitioners of advanced search engine marketing, descended on Seattle last...
Nordstrom’s New Click & Mortar, MS advance08
Nordstrom will offer a new purchase option that will allow Internet shoppers to shop online and then then pick up their selections in the...
Wetpaint Injects the Social Web
Wetpaint, a Seattle leader in social publishing with nearly one million hosted user-powered sites, has announced its award-winning platform can now be seamlessly embedded...
Cerfing the Web, Real to Spin-off Casual
Ever wanted to go face-to-face with the world's leading search engines? This Tuesday night could be the next best thing to doing just that...
Microhoo Fizzles, Mixpo Sizzles
Microsoft decided to muck its high stakes poker hand and the wager that it could induce Yahoo's board to accept a $33 a share...
SMX Advanced Return Engagement
The Kelsey Group has been the first name in ‘Local Search’ since 1986. This week Kelsey arrives in Seattle with a conference agenda that...
TeachStreet Finds Teachers, TagCow Images
For the lifelong learners among us, it's not always easy to find the right teacher. Whether hoping to brush up on their Spanish, learn...
Microsoft Goes for TKO, Yahoo Punches Back!
"No thanks, Rupert!" Microsoft Corp says it wants to stick with its original takeover offer for Yahoo Inc, but is not ruling out News...
Marchex Answers the Call for Cobalt
Marchex, the Seattle-based local search advertising company, announced that its VoiceStar subsidiary has signed a new comprehensive agreement with The Cobalt Group, North...
Seattle’s Food Sites for Thought
P-I Food writer Rebekah Denn explores why there are so many food and restaurant related Internet startups in the Seattle area, noting Menuism, RecipeZaar,...
Widemile Coming in for a Landing (Page)
At last week's Search Engine Strategies conference in New York City, Seattle-based Widemile Inc. announced the launch of a new Optimization platform that can...
MySpace Seattle Space and Audible
Social networking web portal MySpace is planning to double the size of its development office in downtown Seattle.
MySpace opened its Seattle office at 1008...
Vintage Amazon and TechFest
Seattle's online retailing giant is expected to expand its presence in the world of Internet wine sales, after posting a job advert for a...
Supersonic Flash-Based Swan Song
While Seattle decides how it will contend with the ball-napping of its NBA sports franchise, sold out from undeneath its fandom by opportunist Howard...
T-Mobile Land-lining, Twine’s NW Lifeline
On Thursday, Bellevue-based T-Mobile will start offering wired phone service for $10 a month, plus taxes and fees, to its wireless subscribers in the...
WSA Morphs Into WTIA
The Washington Technology Industry Association -- the largest statewide association of technology companies, IT departments and individual technology professionals in North America -- unveiled...
MS Earnings, Nominate Best Blog
Microsoft announced its earnings for the quarter ended Dec. 31, reporting revenue was nearly $16.4 billion, up a whopping 30 percent, and earnings per...
Danny Sullivan Brings SMX Advanced, the Search Industy’s First Advanced Search Marketing Expo, to...
You can't help but admire Danny Sullivan. His affable good nature, pleasing yet persuasive presentation skills, and uncanny understanding of the dynamics of search...
Getty Up for Sale, 2007 Up for VC Funders
Getty Images, the world’s highest volume supplier of pictures and video to media and advertising companies, and owners of iStockPhoto.com, has put itself on...
Amazon’s New South Lake Union Digs
Amazon will relocate all of its administrative employees, now scattered in offices around Seattle, to a new central location at South Lake Union. The...
CES Slash and Swan Song
What happens in Las Vegas stays in Las Vegas! That includes Guns 'N Roses' guitarist Slash sharing the stage with one Bill Gates.
In an...
New Year’s Predictions
Google's stock will top $900 next year. Online voting won't happen in this election year. And Microsoft Corp. will make a big push --...
Start the Insanity and Startup Weekend
Stop the Insanity -- and the presses. 2008 will mark the return of fitness and weight-loss guru Susan Powter -- only this time Powter...
Apple’s Starbuck’s Brew
Starbucks and Apple launched their iTunes partnership on Tuesday in both Seattle and New York.
Seattle's Glenn Fleishman reports that the Apple-Starbucks iTunes offering will...
Classmates Dropping Out and ListentoYourWife.calm
Is Classmates.com a casualty of the Facebook revolution? In what seems to be a death knell to the first pure-play social networking IPO in...
Instant Journalists, AdReady, Twenty20
Seattle's Instivate has announced the official launch of a new online service that allows anyone to create their own news Website to gather and...
Cyber Monday & Rekindling Reading
Retail sales were stronger than expected over the Thanksgiving holiday as shoppers crammed early-morning sales and hit their computers to shop online.
Retailers hope that...
Predictions, Predictions
Google's stock will top $900 next year. Online voting won't happen in our lifetime. And Microsoft Corp. will make a big push into virtualization,...
Checking into Hotel 1000 and Faces.com
In the trend to keep up with a wired clientelle, Seattle's Hotel 1000 is leading the pack, at least on the West coast, according...
FCC’s Last Outpost, Microsoft/SEMPO Alliance
The FCC is coming to Seattle for its final public hearing on Media Consolidation. The hearing, the last of just six across the nation,...
Microsoft Wins Facebook Bid for 1% Stake, JudysBook Shutters
Microsoft has won a high-profile technology industry battle with Google and Yahoo to invest in the social networking upstart Facebook. The two companies said...
CleverSet “Best of Show” & Jott the Vote
A featured attraction of the annual Web 2.0 Summit is a Launch Pad competition pitting six start-ups against one another before an American Idol-like...
MSNBC Buys Newsvine, Costco Hits $1B!
Making the first acquisition in its 11-year history, MSNBC.com, a joint venture between Microsoft and the NBC Universal division of GE, is diving into...
HistoryLink Springs Eternal
One of the the early Link columns penned in Seattle magazine by yours truly was a subject I'll never forget. It was an appointment...
Microsoft Searchification
Which was the bigger event for Microsoft this week? The launch of Halo 3 for Xbox 360 and the chance to have bagged an...
Starbucks Gives Away Music, SEOmoz Equity
Starbucks Corp. plans to give away 50 million free digital songs to customers in all of its domestic coffee houses to promote a new...
Microsoft’s Westward Ho Into Seattle Digs
East will soon meet west where Microsoft is concerned, and we're not talking about the company's inroads into mainland China. The Microserfs are venturing...
