Paul Allen is one step closer to his childhood dreams of space. The FlightGlobal blog reports that Stratolaunch Systems has finished preliminary design review of its space-launch system. “The carrier aircraft conducted their preliminary design review on [August 27-28] in Mojave, California,” says the company, which notes that it’s now reviewing the data package and… Read More…
For years, professional football players have been forced to lug around hefty playbooks. But the three-ring binders — stuffed with dozens of offensive plays and defensive schemes — are going the way of leather football helmets. The Seattle Seahawks are now converting plays to PDFs and uploading to tablets, with the players using the devices not… Read More…
Amazon.com is expanding its footprint again in Seattle with an agreement to occupy a new 380,000-square-foot project on the edge of its existing headquarters campus in the South Lake Union neighborhood. Paul Allen’s Vulcan Inc. announced the plan this afternoon, saying that it is working with Amazon on the project. The development will consist of… Read More…
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has spent years revamping Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood, first with the failed Commons project in the 1990s and most recently with a massive redevelopment of the area that now houses Amazon.com’s multi-building campus. Now, Allen is looking to sell a portion of the jigsaw puzzle of buildings he’s helped assemble… Read More…
When he’s not partying with has-been celebs, Paul Allen is hosting a salvage crew aboard his Octopus yacht — and reporting back to the world about what’s happening. In a series of tweets started earlier today, the Microsoft co-founder is documenting the recovery process of the bell from the HMS Hood battleship in the North Atlantic…. Read More…
Who said billionaire Paul Allen’s megayacht, The Octopus, was just for all night ragers and Antonio Banderas dance offs? Following Allen’s much ballyhooed docking at the London Olympics, the Microsoft co-founder will use his 414-foot yacht for the good of the British people. Partnering with the British Royal Navy, Allen’s crew will assist in the… Read More…
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s Vulcan Capital is co-leading a $30 million investment in Siluria Technologies, a San Francisco company that’s developing methods to convert natural gas into plastics, chemicals and transportation fuels. Siluria uses methane, which is the key component of natural gas and the world’s most abundant hydrocarbon, in a conversion process that includes advanced nanotechnology,… Read More…
The publication of Paul Allen’s book last year reportedly caused a “rift” with his Microsoft co-founder, Bill Gates, over Allen’s unvarnished and at times very unflattering portrayal of Gates. But it looks they may have patched things up, in the spirit of the Olympics. At the very least, they’re hanging out again. A report this… Read More…
Oh, celebs. They should know by now that what happens on Paul Allen’s yacht, doesn’t stay on Paul Allen’s yacht. The Microsoft co-founder has landed in the news yet again for his guests’ behaviors on his superyacht. Seriously, that boat has probably seen more Bain de Soleil-oiled up action than every season of ‘Jersey Shore’… Read More…
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has been tied up in all sorts of lawsuits during his technology career. That just goes with the territory when you become a multi-billionaire in the software industry. Lawsuits happen. But, we’ve got to say, this is among the most bizarre legal actions we’ve ever seen. (OK, perhaps just behind FunnyJunk’s lawyer… Read More…
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