KEVIN LISOTA: I have always been a bit of a gadget freak. My house and office are loaded with technology, including multiple PCs and home servers, camera equipment, home audio, home theater and mobile devices.
Perhaps there was no better demonstration of my “gadget-nature” than when I was a product manager for Windows Mobile at Microsoft. I was [...]

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Delve Networks has sealed a strategic partnership with Akamai Technologies, a deal that allows the Seattle online video startup to offer enhanced video management, delivery and publishing technologies to customers.
Not one to mince words, Delve CEO Alex Castro offers a more direct explanation of the deal in the title of his blog post: "Akamai and Delve team [...]

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GENE STOUT: At Seattle’s first "Battle of the Tech Bands," a hip-hop group with links to Boeing beat out bands representing Microsoft, Adobe, Hewlett-Packard and other high-tech companies for "most innovative band" — at least in the judges’ view.
As for the audience favorite, it was a Microsoft-Adobe alliance that won the day with its bluesy, classic [...]

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Prospects brightened for the handset maker last quarter, but much improvement came from cost-cutting. New smartphones will face strong competition from Apple, Palm, and others, more  and Microsoft-Yahoo: Antitrust Hurdles Loom  The weak Web search-ad companies want to team up against No. 1 Google, but regulatory tradition and practice have long blocked such deals, more 

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Surrendering search responsibilities to Microsoft will likely take a toll on Yahoo’s engineering and innovation prowess, more  and MetroPCS Drops in Satisfaction Rankings  One year after ranking first in customer satisfaction with U.S. prepaid wireless carriers, MetroPCS sinks to the bottom of the J.D. Power survey, more 
and Parkour: From YouTube Phenom to a Company  The World Freerunning [...]

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Isilon Systems trimmed its losses and reported a three percent gain in revenues during the second quarter, a move that Chief Executive Sujal Patel said indicates "steady progress toward profitability."
The Seattle maker of digital storage technologies reported revenue of $29 million, up from $28.2 million for the same period last year. Its net loss was [...]

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This could be the ultimate excuse for missing a homework assignment. A Michigan high school student named Justin Gawronski is suing Amazon.com — claiming that when the online retailer recently deleted the George Orwell novel "1984" from his Kindle reader, it also caused his "copious notes" to be "rendered useless." The lawsuit, filed Thursday in [...]

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Andy Sack: I’ve been surprised by how much negative commentary has been flowing in the local startup community about the role of venture capitalists. If you believe the recent comments on blogs and the chatter at startup events, Seattle venture capitalists are out of touch, slow, arrogant, and generally unsupportive of entrepreneurs.
As a managing partner at [...]

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Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh is still riding high from his big acquisition deal with Amazon.com. Hsieh just tweeted about giving Zappos staffers a "big bonus" and said he and Zappos CFO Alfred Lin are "personally buying a Kindle for every employee."
According to recent Twitter updates, Hsieh and Lin were visiting a Zappos fulfillment center in [...]

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Want to save a little cash on your tax bill? A new Seattle Internet startup by the name of ValueAppeal believes it has devised a mathematical formula to determine whether homeowners are paying too much in property taxes.
Better yet — especially for you penny pinchers in the audience — ValueAppeal creates a customized report that [...]

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