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By John Cook on Tuesday, April 6, 2010, 1:59pm PDT
And continuing with the online real estate theme, OpenHouseAdvertising today unveiled a new real estate Web site service for individual homes which includes virtual tours and direct syndication of listings to services such as Trulia, Zillow and GoogleBase. A single listing costs $79.95, while a package of five listings costs $69.95 each and 10 listings costs $59.95 each. More here. Dendreon's stock is "red hot" as the Seattle biotech nears a FDA deadline on the acceptance of its Provenge prostate cancer drug, reports FierceBiotech. The stock topped $40 per share briefly today, before settling in right around $39.40. So far this year, the stock is up 49 percent and over the past 12 months it is up 498 percent. More analysis of whether Dendreon is worth its big $5.32 billion valuation from The Motley Fool. | | SPONSORED POST | Don't leave money on the table
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By John Cook on Tuesday, April 6, 2010, 1:19pm PDT
Clean Power Research today unveiled a new online service called SolarAnywhere, a Web-based tool which allows scientists, researchers, corporations and others to determine if and when the sun will be shining in certain areas of the country. The solar irradiance forecasting tool builds off the historical data maintained by Clean Power and Dr. Richard Perez at the State University of New York Atmospheric Sciences Research Center. "Historical irradiance data has been an integral part of site selection, system validation and plant engineering" said Perez in a release. "Forecasts open up the possibility to proactively manage systems and make real-time decisions." | | SPONSORED POST | Seattle University Software Engineering
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By Eric Engleman on Tuesday, April 6, 2010, 10:18am PDT
It's the beginning of a new era for Amazon.com. The first Amazon employees began moving into the company's new headquarters campus in Seattle's South Lake Union neighborhood this week. The move will take place over stages until 2013, with the online retail giant eventually occupying a dozen buildings totaling nearly 2 million square feet of office space. | Aldrich out as CEO of QL2
By John Cook on Tuesday, April 6, 2010, 10:01am PDT
QL2 continues to lose members of its executive team as the Seattle software company attempts to navigate what is turning out to be a very messy bankruptcy proceeding. The latest departure is Chief Executive Russ Aldrich, the former venture capitalist who took over the reins of the company in August 2008. That follows the departures of general counsel and chief operating officer Scott Milburn, as well as former vice president of marketing Rosie Hausler. Aldrich and current executives at QL2 could not be reached for comment, but two sources said that he is no longer serving as CEO. A receptionist at the company this morning said that Aldrich left the company yesterday. It was unclear whether Aldrich departed voluntarily and who has filled the CEO role, though the person answering the phones at QL2 said that consultant Brian Vincent has taken over. We'll update the post as we learn more. Aldrich remained upbeat about QL2's prospects despite the bankruptcy proceedings, telling TechFlash in February that "my outlook is very positive." In fact, Aldrich was just quoted in a QL2 press release on Monday about Office Depot choosing the company's software. His bio remains on the QL2 Web site. | VC fundraising rises in Q1, but industry is still 'depressing'
By John Cook on Tuesday, April 6, 2010, 9:16am PDT
Venture capitalists had more luck raising money during the first quarter as 34 funds raised $4.1 billion, according to a report from Dow Jones. That was up from 25 funds that raised $2.9 billion for the same period last year. But more money, doesn't always translate into more success. PeHub.com's Dan Primack -- one of the leading voices covering the private equity industry -- writes today that "The Future of Venture Capital is Gross." In the column, Primack digs into the performance data of venture funds and finds that it is "predictably depressing." | Newly independent Rhapsody drops price, expands to Android
By Todd Bishop on Tuesday, April 6, 2010, 6:01am PDT
Seattle's newest digital music company is also one of its oldest. It's rolling out a series of changes -- and hoping to get more people tuning in -- as it makes its latest debut. Rhapsody International Inc., officially spun off from RealNetworks and settling into its new downtown Seattle headquarters, is relaunching this morning with a lower standard price -- a $9.99 monthly subscription for unlimited music on computers and home media players, and playback on one portable media device. In addition, the company today is releasing its Rhapsody application in the Android marketplace. The app for Google devices supplements Rhapsody's existing iPhone app, which executives credit with increasing user engagement with the Rhapsody service. It's part of a strategy to expand the reach of the Rhapsody service. Leaders of the new company say they hope to make it profitable later this year. | Cheezburger Network's new book and other tales from Ben Huh
By John Cook on Tuesday, April 6, 2010, 12:01am PDT
Cheezburger Network is known for its oddball network of 45 comedy Web sites, a growing and profitable online empire which is now attracting more than 340 million page views a month. And while more than 70 percent of the Seattle company's revenue still comes through online advertising dollars, Cheezburger also has a growing print publishing business. Two of the company's previous books -- "A LOLCAT Colleckshun" and "How to Take Over Teh Wurld" -- reached The New York Times bestseller lists. Following that success, the company today is announcing another foray into book publishing with "I Has a Hotdog: What Your Dog is Really Thinking." The $12 paperback -- which goes on sale April 20 -- features more than 175 funny images of dogs. We chatted with Cheezburger Network founder Ben Huh about the new book, the future of media, penis jokes and how they come up with ideas for the crazy new sites. Huh also addressed some of the recent criticism he's taken for paying workers low wages. | Microsoft Memo: Zune, i4i, Datel, and other stuff from the notebook
By Todd Bishop on Monday, April 5, 2010, 4:10pm PDT
After reporting on Microsoft's patent-infringement cases against Datel Design & Development's Xbox 360 controllers, I connected via phone with a lawyer for Datel, Marty Glick, who said he found it curious that no one from Microsoft or its legal team mentioned the problem in the course of hearings and conversations in the separate antitrust case that Datel filed against Microsoft last year over the Redmond company's crackdown on unauthorized Xbox 360 memory units. "It does appear that these new suits are retaliatory," Glick said. Microsoft declined to comment beyond its original statement. In other legal news, Microsoft is weighing whether to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court after another setback last week in its long-running patent dispute with i4i Inc. over custom XML technology in Microsoft Word. As far as next steps, we continue to believe there are important matters of patent law that still need to be properly addressed, and we are considering our options for going forward," said Kevin Kutz, a Microsoft spokesman, after an appeals court denied its petition for an en banc review. As of this morning, Microsoft wasn't saying what it planned to do. Microsoft is phasing out support for Intel's Itanium infrastructure in its Windows Server products, according to a post Friday from the Windows Server team. Ars Technica has more. Microsoft today released its Zune HD Version 4.5 firmware, adding new features including Smart DJ on the Zune device (previously available in the PC software), and the ability to browse and stream music from the Zune Marketplace on a TV, among other things. Zune should open the Zune PC software and connect their device to their PC to get the update. | HP's slate: Watch out, iPad?
By Todd Bishop on Monday, April 5, 2010, 3:04pm PDT
This might not be enough to give those 300,000 new iPad owners any post-buyer's remorse, but Hewlett-Packard's latest teaser video for its upcoming "slate device" is clearly designed to highlight some of the biggest complaints about Apple's new device. Among other things, the HP video shows the ability to take a picture with the HP slate, and access media and devices via built-in SD and USB ports. That's in addition to the ability to run Adobe Flash. | |
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