Creating the right buzz in the marketplace around your new venture is essential to attract additional investment, customers, partners, and talent, but it doesn’t have to break the bank. Come meet Seattle’s tech media and learn the tricks of the news trade during an insightful moderated panel discussion featuring John Cook of GeekWire, Brier Dudley [...]
So your start-up has been in stealth mode for a while, and you’re ready for prime time. Now what? Creating the right buzz in the marketplace around your new venture is essential to attract additional investment, customers, partners, and talent. And it doesn’t have to break the bank either. Come meet Seattle’s tech media, and [...]
Creating a brand for your business is an important differentiators for cutting through, and establishing yourself in a crowd of like-minded companies and/or other startups. Does it mean slapping a logo on everything you touch from your attire to your laptop cover? Not exactly. Knowing some of the key elements of good branding and then [...]
Creating a brand for your business is an important differentiators for cutting through, and establishing yourself in a crowd of like-minded companies and/or other startups. Does it mean slapping a logo on everything you touch from your attire to your laptop cover? Not exactly. Knowing some of the key elements of good branding and then [...]
WordPress Hands-on: Learn How to Manage Your Blog or Website When: May 5, 2011, 12:30 pm – 3:30 pm Where: Studio C, 13256 NE 20th St., Suite #7, Bellevue, Washington 98004 It’s time to pull out your laptop and get intimate with WordPress. In this 3-hour workshop, Bob, in his laid-back, humor-infused style, takes the intimidation out of [...]
Who: Projectline Inc. Position: Content Development Strategist Where: Seattle/Bellevue What: This person will work closely with the content strategy lead to manage the creation and development of a wide range of marketing communication deliverables. The content development project manager will have the opportunity to work with creative contributors to guide the direction of content development [...]
Who: BuddyTV Position: Online Advertising Operations Superstar Where:Seattle, Lower Queen Anne What: BuddyTV is the world’s largest independent TV website with over 5,000,000 visitors per month and growing aggressively. We cover all your favorite TV shows from America’s Next Top Model and Glee to The Vampire Diaries and Grey’s Anatomy. We have a great time [...]
Who: BuddyTV Position: Marketing and PR Coordinator Where:Seattle, Lower Queen Anne What: BuddyTV is the world’s largest independent TV website with over 5,000,000 visitors per month and growing aggressively. We cover all your favorite TV shows from America’s Next Top Model and Glee to The Vampire Diaries and Grey’s Anatomy. We have a great time [...]
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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]