WTIA Executive Women in Tech Community Event Board Engagement for Women Executives Where: E|M Fine Art Gallery When: 1/10/2012, 6:00pm to 8:00pm What: Please join us as we launch our newest executive community! EWIT (Executive Women in Tech) is aimed at women in senior operating roles in tech companies. On January 10th Debbie Bevier, Chairman of the Board [...]
Who: Seattle Central Community College Position: Communications Consultant 2 (Web Content Writer) Where: Seattle What: Seattle Central Community College is seeking a permanent, full time, Communications Consultant 2. Applications for this position close on December 19. The person in this position will report to the VP for Admin Services and will work closely with the webmaster and [...]
New Trends in Internet Marketing When: November 17th, 2011 5:30 PM through 7:30 PM Where: 200 NE Moe Street, Council Chambers, Poulsbo City Hall, Poulsbo, WA 98370 What: Larry Sivitz, joined by WSTPA President Charles Keating, will present on new strategies in Internet Marketing. So your organization has a domain, a customer facing / transactional website, and perhaps you’re even [...]
Which company will be next year’s blockbuster acquisition? Will the IPO market pick up? Where are the big opportunities for the startup community, and what prices will the tech titans’ stocks be trading at this time next year? Join us as, once again, the WTIA brings together a panel of technology business leaders who will [...]
This event kicks off the new season of the Innovation Showcase. Register now and join our engaged community of innovators, investors, entrepreneurs and commercialization experts dedicated to helping grow the best young companies in our region. Featured innovations are AquaGen Fishways, Guide Analytics, Halo Biopharmaceuticals, Phytelligence and PotaVida. You can find out more and register [...]
The Stagecraft of Raising Money Join us for a open conversation with experts from the VC & private equity community on how to raise those critically important funds for startups and small to midsized tech companies. The experts include: Erik Benson, Managing Partner at Voyager Capital Aaron Richmond, Managing Director at Endeavour Capital Gregg Bennett, Founder [...]
The Office of Economic Development and the City of Seattle are excited to connect directly with the local business community via our City Business Casual series. These monthly, informal gatherings provide the Seattle business community with regular, direct access to business-focused city officials, including influential city leaders and key department heads and representatives. No pre-registration [...]
The Office of Economic Development and the City of Seattle are excited to connect directly with the local business community via our City Business Casual series. These monthly, informal gatherings provide the Seattle business community with regular, direct access to business-focused city officials, including influential city leaders and key department heads and representatives. No pre-registration [...]
The Office of Economic Development and the City of Seattle are excited to connect directly with the local business community via our City Business Casual series. These monthly, informal gatherings provide the Seattle business community with regular, direct access to business-focused city officials, including influential city leaders and key department heads and representatives. No pre-registration [...]
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Jan 29 2012
Techspresso: Washington state AG and Facebook Target “Clickjackers,” Real Scores $120M for Patents, Mozy Rolls Out Stash
If you use Facebook, the world’s top social networking site, you may have “liked” an Internet scheme without even knowing it – and unwittingly helped spread the scam to your Facebook friends. Washington State Attorney General Rob McKenna and Facebook have announced the latest step in an ongoing fight against spammers and scammers: a lawsuit against the co-owners of Adscend Media, LLC, an ad network that is alleged to develop and encourage others to spread spam through misleading and deceptive tactics, including the one known as “clickjacking.”
“We don’t ‘like’ schemes that illegally trick Facebook users into giving up personal information or paying for unwanted subscription services through spam,” McKenna said during a news conference at Facebook’s Seattle Office. “We applaud Facebook for devoting significant technical and legal resources to finding and stopping scams as soon as possible – and often before they even start. We’re proud to join forces in order to protect Washington consumers.” [24x7]
RealNetworks Sells Patents to Intel in $120M Deal; Stock Soars
Seattle’s RealNetworks has traded its intellectual property to help shore up its balance sheet. The Seattle company has entered a $120 million deal with Intel to sell off a number of patents and patent applications, including its video codec software.
In the exchange RealNetworks will give up about 190 patents and 170 patent applications as well as its video codec software. RealNetworks’ stock was up 32 percent Thursday morning, trading around $9.74 per share.
The sale gives RealNetworks a significant amount of new capital to invest in new products and businesses. The company said it does not expect the deal to have any material impact on its businesses. RealNetworks said it is keeping certain rights to continue to use the patents in current and future products.
“Selling these patents to Intel unlocks some of the substantial and unrealized value of RealNetworks assets,” said Thomas Nielsen, RealNetworks president and CEO. “It represents an extraordinary opportunity for us to generate additional capital to boost investments in new businesses and markets while still protecting our existing business.”
The move signals a further transition for RealNetworks, one of the pioneers of digital information such as music and movies on the internet. But the company has struggled as it has made the transition from creating content to focusing on technologies for distributing and managing media among different types of devices. The deal gives Intel a cache of patents during a time when tech companies are increasingly bolstering their patent holdings to guard against patent-infringement lawsuits or to seek legal action against tech rivals. [24x7]
Mozy Offers a Cozy Pantry for Family File Storage
Where can your family put away their files after they “clear the table?” iCloud? Box.net? Seattle-based Mozy, a unit of storage giant EMC, is recommending a different file-storage alternative — its own — code-named Stash.
Stash is a file synchronization feature that provides Mozy users a simple way to keep their most active data up to date across each of the computers they regularly use and complements the Mozy online backup feature. As soon as users place a file in their local Stash folder it quickly becomes available online. No need to wait for a backup or hit an upload button.
Stash works together with Mozy online backup to make all your files available to you from anywhere—even those you don’t keep in your Stash. So when you forget to put a file in your Stash, Mozy online backup ensures that you can still access it through the Mozy web site or the Mozy app for Android, iPhone, and iPad devices.
“Mozy has always protected our customers’ data against catastrophic loss,” said Russ Stockdale, general manager of Mozy. “With Stash, Mozy customers will see a huge increase in the value they get from protecting their data with Mozy. Stash makes it easy to move from your computer at the office to your computer at home to your smartphone or tablet without having to email files to yourself, or mess around with USB drives.”
The new Stash service is available to Mozy Home customers using the 2 GB free, 50 GB or 125 GB plan. [24x7]