Running low on cash, Marina Biotech cuts 90% of staff

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Marina Biotech, a Bothell biotechnology company, said today that it has cut about 90 percent of its staff and ceased most day-to-day operations because it does not have funding to pursue its business model. “To conserve available cash, management has implemented a furlough of approximately 90% of its employees and ceased most day-to-day operations, including… Read More…

Yahoo job cuts: Back to startup mode for an aging web icon

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Yahoo this morning confirmed that it’s cutting 2,000 jobs, or about 15 percent of its workforce —  part of an effort by new CEO Scott Thompson to make the company ”smaller, nimbler, more profitable and better equipped to innovate as fast as our customers and our industry require,” as Yahoo put it in a news release…. Read More…

Verizon Wireless to close Bellevue call center, tells 850 workers they can relocate elsewhere

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Verizon Wireless today announced plans to close its call center operations in Bellevue, a move that will lead to the elimination of about 850 jobs  in the Seattle area. “This was a very difficult but necessary business decision,” the company said in a statement. “Our employees are very highly skilled and we want to help… Read More…

Struggling Motricity gets more bad news, loses key Indonesian deal

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Motricity already had the dubious honor of being the worst performing technology stock in Washington state in 2011. And it looks like things aren’t starting out much better in 2012 for the mobile software company. In a SEC filing today, Motricity indicated that it had terminated a business relationship with PT XL Axiata, a large… Read More…

Microsoft cloud service Office 365 hit with outage

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We’ve been hearing reports today that Microsoft’s Office 365 service — which includes new online versions of Exchange, SharePoint and other Office products – has been down for about two hours. Several readers have told us that they are unable to send email because of the outage. A Twitter message posted about an hour ago by… Read More…

Amazon Web Services suffers another outage: Company says issue now resolved

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Amazon.com’s EC2 service suffered another outage this evening, taking out several high-trafficked Web sites and adding another black eye to the reliability of online services. The outage, which Amazon first reported on its service health dashboard at 7:39 p.m., was resolved as of 8:03 p.m., according to the company. That’s a relatively short outage. But,… Read More…

Heat stress, bomb threats and more plague Amazon warehouse in eastern Pennsylvania town

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Bomb threats. Heat stress. Assaults. Just your typical summer at an Amazon.com warehouse in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley. The Morning Call of Allentown, Pennsylvania reports that the Amazon facility in Upper Macungie has been a “constant headache for township supervisors” since it opened last year. Things culminated last week after a former employee allegedly called in… Read More…

Seattle non-profit Reel Grrls fights back against Comcast … and wins

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Call it a classic David vs. Goliath story. Comcast found itself in the middle of a PR quagmire this week after Seattle non-profit Reel Grrls disclosed that the cable giant had cut funding for its summer film camp program over a Tweet. And what did the tiny non-profit — whose mission is to empower young… Read More…

Struggling MOD Systems places employees on leave

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MOD’s kiosk technology MOD Systems has placed a number of its employees on leave as the Seattle maker of digital media kiosk technology continues to look for cash. Anthony Bay, the former Microsoft manager who leads MOD, confirmed the decision with GeekWire. “I can confirm that a number of employees were furloughed while the current… Read More…