The Niche Meister behind Workz.com
Wall Street has fallen hard and fast for this pitch: a single website that caters to virtually all small-business needs. Witness the meteoric...
The Hazards of Online Advertising
Seattle's Internet startups are pretty skeptical about the benefits of online advertising. That's one of the main things we learned at the ...
Demo Club Rocks On
The Demo Club investment forum (Feb. 7 at the Speakeasy Café) was well orchestrated, despite the informal, clubby atmosphere. The earnest entrepreneurs...
Loudeye = Loudmouth?
The press likes Martin Tobias, the founder and top executive of Loudeye Technologies (formerly encoding.com), probably because he's quirky and full of...
Those IPO Filings Reveal the Darnedest Things
It's always a hoot when privately held companies register to sell shares to the public. For one, they're required to file papers (S-1...
Martha Stewart Take Note
Not another e-commerce venture! There are so many, and so very few are actually making money. Still, we thought you ought to know...
Signing on the Net’s Bottom Line
On the Internet, "process" is product. Consider DocuSign. The Seattle-based company is well on its way to digitally replacing the time...
Two Emerald Cities, and Two Green Cycles
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
For Microsoft, exceptionally strong sales of Windows 7 helped the company drive yet...
From Redmond to Red Square
Reading like a delinquent April Fool's joke, an amateur spy novel, or a mock headline in The Onion humor magazine, this week's Brewing column...
Yahoo & Zillow Create Real Estate Ad Network
In a partnership that brings together the second-and third-most trafficked websites in their market category online, two of the most popular real estate websites...