Ford CEO Alan Mulally’s personal delivery of a new car to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer yesterday was a pretty unique event, albeit carefully orchestrated. As a bonus, here’s an extended version of our video of Ballmer and Mulally speaking to the media afterward.

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and In search of young tech titans  

One of the Puget Sound Business Journal’s most interesting features and events each year is 40 Under 40, in which the paper identifies some of the most accomplished and promising young business leaders in the Seattle region. The roster always includes a good representation from the tech industry, and now is the time for this year’s nominations and applications.

If you consider someone worthy of the 40 Under 40 designation, submit a nomination here by the June 3 deadline. Nominees will receive a notification to submit an application by June 12. If the worthy person you’re thinking about is yourself, it’s also OK to submit an application without being nominated by someone else.

Applicants will be notified by July 27 if chosen as one of this year’s honorees.

The program is in its 11th year. Past 40 Under 40 honorees from the tech industry include Ben Elowitz of Wetpaint; Matt Hulett (now of WidgetBucks); Todd Humphrey (now of Amazon); David Hsiao (then of Junxion); Peter Han of Microsoft; Jason Goldberg (then of Jobster); entrepreneur Andy Sack; Andy Liu (now BuddyTV); David Niu (also now BuddyTV); Sujal Patel of Isilon Systems; and many others.

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