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A Conversation with Google’s Webmaster Central

Google's Vanessa Fox and Amanda Camp are blazing a cyber-trail here in the Emerald Forest that connects Website owners from around the...

Crunching the Numbers: From USAFacts to OED’s Business Decision Engine

In an era of government where words seem to have become estranged from their literal meaning, where “alternative facts” and "fake news" hang like...

Gov. Jay Inslee Promises State Action to Protect Net Neutrality

Should the Federal Communications Commission complete its ill-guided mission to undo the country's net-neutrality rules, Washington Governor Jay Inslee has announced that he and...

A Browser with Wheels?

If there isn't yet a "killer application" for the wireless Internet, there is definitely a "killer statistic." And here it is: In the...

The PR #for Which WE Stands

Sally Ride had just become the first American woman in space. Motorola introduced the first mobile phones to the United States. Microsoft launched Word,...

Licensing Microsoft’s IP Microsoft is looking for a few good homes...

The Seattle area’s largest "A round" last year went to the first licensee of a new effort to more ambitiously license ...

Prime, Choice or Select? Amazon Raises the Steaks in Grocery...

Inside the Amazon-Whole Foods Acquisition If Alexa can order it, AmazonFresh can deliver it, or you can pick it up at “Will-Call” or zip through the automated, express...

The Hazards of Online Advertising

Seattle's Internet startups are pretty skeptical about the benefits of online advertising. That's one of the main things we learned at the ...

Seattle’s Three Kings

"Giving back" to the community is among the noblest of virtues. When the community in question is a territorial space of 64 squares...

Incentivizing E-Savings: Amazon Kindle Countown Rewards Quick Clicks

What you buy and how you buy have always been astute Amazon insights into the mind of the online consumer. Now the world's largest...