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Articles from 2013

FAA: You can now use your personal electronic device during takeoff and landing

Alec Baldwin can now play as much Words with Friends on the plane as he’d like. Baldwin, and the millions… Read More

Amazon, Zulily and Google help drive down vacancy rates in hot Seattle office market

The Seattle metro area’s office market continues to heat up, with rents increasing and vacancies dropping, according to a new… Read More

Amazon debuts time-sensitive e-book sales with Kindle Countdown Deals

Amazon today introduced a new way for customers to find dirt cheap e-books with Kindle Countdown Deals. The new program… Read More

Sales sparkle at jewelry retailer Blue Nile, up 10.1 percent

Blue Nile, the Seattle online retailer of diamonds and jewelry, said that third quarter revenues increased 10.1 percent to $98.9… Read More

PlayStation 3 rules global console market in build-up to new generation

Sony sold 2 million PlayStation 3 consoles worldwide in the latest quarter, continuing the 7-year-old console’s late surge as Sony… Read More

Centri raises cash to help mobile carriers boost networks

Editor’s note: This post has been updated to reflect the accurate amount of money raised, and the investors involved in… Read More

BuddyTV launches ‘Vibes’ TV playlist app — a smarter way to find the perfect show

After a long day at work, it can be nice to plop down on the couch and fire up the… Read More

Almost half of Facebook’s daily users are mobile-only, Zuck says

Here’s a neat party trick: if you meet someone new, and you know they’re a Facebook user, guess that they… Read More

Intuit buys online appointment startup Full Slate

Full Slate, a Seattle-based company that provided appointment scheduling tools to small businesses, announced today that it has been acquired… Read More

World’s first Bitcoin ATM sees 81 exchanges, $10,000 in transactions during first day

History was made in Bitcoin world on Tuesday when the world’s first Bitcoin ATM opened in Vancouver, B.C. At the… Read More

Why Washington state’s Obamacare site doesn’t suck

My husband and I were browsing wahealthplanfinder.org this week, to see if any of these new options were better than… Read More

Microsoft ad boss: We want the Yahoo deal to last even longer than 10 years

Much has been made about Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer’s apparent discontent with the company’s search advertising partnership with Microsoft, and… Read More

RealNetworks posts $31.4M 3Q loss, Glaser ‘pleased with progress’

RealNetworks keeps on losing money, but interim CEO Rob Glaser remains confident that the company is on the right track.… Read More

Shares of Expedia soar as travel giant posts 17% revenue gain

Shares of Expedia jumped nearly 20 percent in after hours trading after the Bellevue online travel agency beat expectations, showing… Read More

Ignition scores big return as cloud startup ServiceMesh sells to CSC for $158M

Bellevue venture capital firm Ignition is celebrating today after enterprise cloud management startup ServiceMesh of Santa Monica, Calif. was sold to… Read More

DoubleDown responds to petition, apologizes and offers credits but says glitches ‘not widespread’

Seattle-based DoubleDown Interactive today issued an apology and offered a special promotional code in response to a petition signed by… Read More

Facebook’s 3Q earnings exceed expectations with revenue over $2B

The biggest name in social media just keeps on trucking. Facebook’s quarterly report exceeded analyst expectations, reporting $2.02 billion in… Read More

Driving with Google Glass? The police might give you a ticket

If you’re one of the anointed few who has been given the opportunity to try Google Glass, you might want… Read More

Microsoft Bing tests ‘Hero’ ads in Windows 8.1 search results, jousting with Google

Microsoft Bing is piloting a new form of search advertising in Windows 8.1 — allowing advertisers to promote themselves with… Read More

Startup Day Video: Venture capitalists say don’t worry about dilution, think about building something big

Dilution vs. Control. It’s an age-old debate in the startup ranks. After all, how much money you take certainly impacts… Read More

Washington completes installation of 1,600-mile, $140M broadband network for rural areas

Fast Internet speeds are coming to those living in the not-so-populated areas of Washington. A three-year, $140 million project to… Read More

Path clear for Amazon’s CIA contract as IBM drops legal challenge

Putting an end to its battle with Amazon, IBM has waved the white flag. FCW reported this week that the New… Read More

Amazon debuts weekly literary journal and it has Jeff Bezos’ influence written all over it

Amazon is making another move into the publishing space today with the announcement of its own weekly literary journal that will feature one… Read More

Apple’s iPod business shrinks by more than 20% for second straight year

Hoping for a new iPod anytime soon? You may be waiting for a while. If Apple’s revenue numbers are any… Read More

Mad Money’s Jim Cramer: Amazon as ‘unstoppable as the zombie apocalypse’ and F5 is a ‘vampire stock’

As noted in the past, you’ve got to take Mad Money host Jim Cramer with a grain of salt. Now,… Read More

Nintendo posts quarterly loss of $81M as Wii U barely outsells original Wii

Nintendo today posted its quarterly earnings report and it’s still not looking good for the Japanese game giant. The company… Read More

Former Amazon employee who survived Bezos tirade: New book captures ‘fierce competition’ and ‘demanding environment’

It is January 2003. I am sitting in the Seattle headquarters of Amazon.com, surrounded by the “S-Team,” a group of the… Read More

Cancer research startup Immune Design pulls in $32.5 million, plans to raise more

Immune Design has reeled in $32.5 million in venture capital financing, with plans to raise up to $16.5 million more… Read More

New ‘Amazon Smile’ site will donate slice of sales to customer’s favorite cause

Whenever Amazon is criticized about its dearth of charitable giving, the company responds by saying that it will make its… Read More

From tennis coach to startup CEO: The wild entrepreneurial journey of Lively’s Dean Graziano

Dean Graziano has been a tennis coach; a software CEO and even — in one of the more unusual startup… Read More

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