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Dendreon's stock woes may have been unpredictable, but biotech firms often face steep odds.
The emerging ability to spot disease networks in humans - and reprogram them - will upturn the medical establishment and create new business opportunities
The market for radio frequency identification tags may finally be coming into its own
A start-up attempts a nano-level revolution to transform military and civilian life
Microsoft, Nintendo and a specialty college make Washington a capital for video games
Microsoft, Nintendo and a specialty college make Washington a capital for video games
A "clustering of talent" is driving Puget Sound to the top of the U.S. video-game development industry, generating nearly $5 billion in revenues and more than 15,000 jobs, and elevating the average salary of a local game...
While China is hot, Microsoft makes a lot more money in Japan. Over half of Microsoft's Asian revenues come from Japan. Maybe that's why the company is putting a renewed focus on the country, plowing money into developing markets...
In a bid to challenge Google for a bigger share of online advertising, Microsoft has agreed to pay $6 billion for a global ad agency that almost collapsed during the dot-com bust
Medical device makers turn to popular TV shows for publicity
Icos? arc from rising to fallen star is sadly typical for local biotech firms
How a consulting firm has set about unleashing a biotech company?s human potential
The software giant has taken the lead in online video gaming. Is this the big payoff?
Clearwire?s Craig McCaw is offering a new kind of broadband wireless service.
SEATTLE – The Allen Institute for Brain Science has announced the completion of a genetic map of a mouse brain. The “Brain Atlas” identifies where and at what level each of approximately 21,000 genes are turned...
VANCOUVER – Electric Lightwave LLC, a communications network services provider, was sold to Portland-based Integra Telecom Inc. for $247 million and is moving most of its jobs to Portland. The combined company will employ...
EVERETT – Boeing appears well positioned to maintain its lead over Airbus in total orders. As of Sept. 13, Boeing has received 377 firm orders for its 787 Dreamliner, with another 43 commitments from 32 customers. There are...
Judging by its long-stagnant stock price, Microsoft appears to be a lumbering monopoly, mired in the doldrums. The company is worth less than half its 1999 peak. It lags behind flashy companies such as Google and Apple in hip,...
Six years after the tech crash and the collapse of high flying ventures like HomeGrocer.com, a new generation of Web-based companies is taking off.ZILLOW.COMLocation: SeattleKey Innovation: Using publicly available information to...
Sony is investigating an overheating incident involving a Lenovo laptop computer that may have been related to one of its faulty batteries.
Microsoft releases details today of iPod competitor Zune, including wireless song-sharing
Industry leaders say military applications are the trend in robotics
YAKIMA - When the Federal Aviation Administration recently created the new Light Sport Airplane category, CubCrafters Inc. was ready to fly at the opportunity. Its light sport airplane, the CubCrafters Sport Cub, received a huge...
With gaming growing more popular in everyday life, recent questions have been raised about its potential health risks. Europe's first detox clinic for game addicts will open in Amsterdam this year, through Smith & Jones Addiction...
University of Washington professor embarks on daunting language translation challenge
Northwest companies flex biotech, gaming and mobile communication muscle.
WASHINGTON 2ND LARGEST CYBERSTATE. The American Electronics Association (AEA), a trade association representing all segments of the high-tech industry, says Washington is second only to California in its number of software...
REDMOND - The Business Software Alliance, in an annual study, says global software piracy cost the industry $34 billion in 2005, up $1.6 billion in a year. It adds that more than a third of all packaged software installed on PCs...
BELLEVUE - High fuel costs getting you down? Thinking about trading in that '80s beater for a more up-to-date vehicle?
How about one that gets 250 miles per gallon? That, at least, is the concept behind the Extreme Hybrid, a car...
BELLEVUE - Bluetooth continues to grow. With the expansion of products offering wireless wireless technology beyond headsets and mobile phones, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (Bluetooth SIG) released its third annual study...
SEATTLE - Getty Images Inc. and actor Richard Gere have launched a campaign to use images to fight some of the world's deadliest diseases.
Called the "Change Me" campaign and created by the two, plus a group called the Friends...
OLYMPIA - Relax. For now, at least, western Washington residents won't have to dial 10 digits for every local call.
The Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission (UTC) has ruled that western Washington telephone...
