Impressions of Seattle: Thoughts on Microsoft, Amazon and Adobe

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Although I’m a tech geek, I haven’t actually worked for a tech company yet. My background is in finance, so I figured MIT Sloan’s recent Technology Trek to Seattle might be a good way for me to see how – and where – I might fit into the tech world. Our trek started out on… Read More…

Amazon invests in Foxit, aims to improve Kindle PDF reading

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Amazon.com has made an investment in Foxit Corp., a PDF technology company based in Fremont, Calif. — saying it plans to work with the company to improve the experience of reading PDFs on Amazon Kindle devices and Kindle apps. The deal was announced this morning, with financial terms undisclosed. “Kindle has long supported PDF as… Read More…

Flash, Silverlight and the end of the line for browser plug-ins

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Adobe’s news this week that it will no longer develop Flash for mobile browsers is being celebrated as a victory for HTML5 and the notion that interactive web experiences should rely on common standards, not specialized plug-ins that may or may not work on whatever device you happen to be using at any given moment…. Read More…

Another CEO change at DocuSign as Silicon Valley vet Krach takes helm

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Seattle electronic signature company DocuSign has tapped Keith Krach — a Silicon Valley veteran best known for co-founding Ariba — as the company’s new CEO. It marks the third CEO for the electronic signature company in the past 20 months. Krach was appointed chairman of the company in January 2010, incidentally at the same time… Read More…

DocuSign faces new threat as Adobe inks deal to buy EchoSign

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DocuSign is facing a new competitive challenge today as one of the company’s biggest rivals, EchoSign, was just gobbled up by Adobe. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed, but this new alliance could alter the electronic signature market. Seattle-based DocuSign, which raised a whopping $27 million in venture capital financing last December, is no stranger… Read More…

Nerd Notes: QuickBar dies, Sagan sings again, and Floodzilla

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The reviews are in on Amazon’s Cloud Player. Adobe dreams up an iPad Photoshop App. If A Glorious Dawn didn’t spark a geek crush on Carl Sagan, this new video by Symphony of Science featuring Sagan, Bill Nye, Oliver Sacks and Jill Bolte Taylor surely will. Twitter shelves the QuickBar. Creepy app uses photo data to determine your location…. Read More…