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Doctors + Lawyers = The New Avvo

Avvo, the originators of the Web's first online consumer research, rating and referral service for Lawyers, has launched a new service area that applies...

Voyager’s Odyssey

Voyager Capital didn't invest in the Internet's sexiest sectors. And in retrospect, that turned out to be a good thing. Instead, this ...

Online Merchants’ Little Helper

When people go to a store, they usually buy something. Not so on the Internet. Only 2% of online shoppers actually become customers....

Amazon Studios. Calling All Auteurs. Test Movies Wanted.

With a concept of cinematic grandeur combined with a bookseller's pragmatism, Amazon.com has thrown open the gates of Amazon Studios, part film laboratory, part...

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 ...