While Amazon.com got a big head start on the electronic book market, Barnes & Noble has been aggressively nipping at its heels. Today the giant bookstore chain took another major step with its e-book strategy, opening its own online eBookstore along the lines of Amazon’s Kindle store. Barnes & Noble said its e-books can be read [...]

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The second quarter venture capital numbers from the MoneyTree report don’t paint quite as rosy of a picture for Washington state as last week’s report from Dow Jones VentureSource. But they still show an uptick in the number of deals and dollars when compared to the first quarter — an especially tough time for the [...]

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My colleague Todd Bishop may have dropped his Comcast cable TV service, but I am still tuned in (partly because I need my winter fix of English Premier League soccer matches).
That’s why I was interested to peruse the latest list of channels that are getting the HD upgrade through Comcast. The state’s largest cable TV operator today [...]

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CEO Ballmer hopes that extensive price cuts on everything from Office software to Web services will expand the company’s market share, more 

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The bankrupt telecom player plans to sell its office phone business to Avaya for $475 million. Private equity firm MatlinPatterson aims to bid for Nortel’s wireless unit Tuesday, more  and Barnes & Noble: Who Needs Amazon’s Kindle?  The bookstore giant’s new eBook store enables downloads to a variety of mobile devices, including the iPhone and BlackBerry, more 
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Despite the economic turmoil, Caterpillar introduces a diesel-electric tractor, which it hopes will help drive the company’s recovery, more  and Motel 6 Has Designs on Your Business  The budget lodging chain hired a designer of cruise ships and airline cabins to spruce up its look and lure in newly cash-conscious travelers, more 

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