Gee, what were Bill Gates and Nathan Myhrvold doing when they dreamed this one up?
Microsoft’s chairman and its former chief technology officer are among the inventors listed on a series of patent applications for "temperature-stabilized storage containers" — super-high-tech devices intended for use in the storage and transport of "water or flavored water, dairy product [...]

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For months now, Amazon.com has been quietly cultivating the U.S. government as a customer for its cloud-computing business. The online retailer established an office in the Washington, D.C. area, hired an ex-FBI official to help lead its operations there, and recently held a training session for government IT contractors. Now comes word that Amazon has [...]

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For the second time today, a Seattle online travel startup has scored new capital. This time it’s Escapia, which has pulled in a $1.6 million round from existing investors Steven Murch, Buerk Dale Victor and Atlas Accelerator.
That followed a deal announced earlier today in which Seattle upstart Yapta raised $2 million. Yapta and Escapia, however, [...]

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Reductive Labs — an open source startup that helps IT professionals automate network administration — has landed $2 million venture round led by True Ventures, reports VentureBeat. Customers using the company’s Puppet technology include Google, Twitter, Digg, Oracle and The New York Stock Exchange.
Xconomy notes that the company –  led by former Reed College roommates Luke [...]

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Everyone got a chuckle yesterday when Microsoft said it had hired yet another Yahoo executive, Kevin Timmons, to lead its data center group. He joined a growing number of engineers and executives who have gone to Microsoft from Yahoo since the Redmond company failed in its bid to buy Yahoo outright, and shifted into an [...]

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BuddyTV, the Seattle online TV gossip site and community, was among the fastest growing Internet sites in the U.S. during the month of May.
According to a report from comScore Media Metrix, BuddyTV more than doubled its visitor count in May to 6.5 million uniques. That meant the company — which benefited from discussions around popular [...]

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LOS ANGELES — Social-networking site MySpace said today that it will cut 300 international positions and close at least four offices outside the U., more  and New Q&A Web site personalizes answers  Users are encouraged to treat Hunch like a combination of an online game and social-networking site. The power of computers comes in when Hunch [...]

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