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Bellevue game startup Smith & Tinker is laying off about 30 percent of its employees barely a month after stores began selling a handheld player for "Nanovor," its sci-fi trading card game aimed at preteen boys.
The company now employs about 40 people after laying off 10 to 15, according to ...
Software
The Amazon.com veterans who started online culinary encyclopedia Foodista are getting into the book business -- the cookbook business, of course.
Today they announced a recipe contest for food bloggers, the winners of which will contribute to a cookbook the company's publishing next year.
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Online
Amazon
Akamai has fascinating dashboard showing how crazy the cyber Monday traffic has become: It's approaching 8 million visitors per minute -- 39 percent higher than normal -- at the company's sample of 270 global e-commerce sites:
Other
Google's sharing more details of its planned Chrome operating system - and the early code as well, through the Chromium open source project it announced this morning.
The company said its OS will be ready for consumers a year from now and invited developers to help finish the project.
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Hardware
Chrome
PC
Linux
Airtight Games debut title, "Dark Void," doesn't go on sale until January but it just hit one out of the park.
Publisher Capcom just announced that movie star Brad Pitt's production company bought Dark Void's film rights and are developing it "as a sci-fi action franchise and potential ...
Gaming
Capcom
Microsoft
Seattle 2.0's monthly list of Web startups has one significant change this month - 17 new companies appeared in October, compiler Marcelo Calbucci reports .
The list gets an average of six new companies a month but startup activity has picked up in the last four months, he said.
New ...
Other
The Microsoft Alumni Foundation awarded its first "Integral Fellows" awards to three nonprofits started by company alumni.
Each receives a $25,000 grant "as well as access to the talents and skills of alumni to help support their ongoing efforts."
Winners include Patrick Awuah , founder of ...
Software
Microsoft
The WTIA held its annual predictions dinner tonight at the Grand Hyatt in Seattle, with a group of tech entrepreneurs and investors sharing a few thoughts on what may happen in 2010.
Speakers include Greg Gottesman, managing director of Madrona Venture Group; Bill Bryant, venture partner at ...
Online
Apparently $30 was a magic number for some Microsoft stock holders, including a few longtime executives who cashed in stock options that are finally in the money.
Senior Vice President Bob Muglia flipped 922,422 shares that have been exercisable since February 2006.
Muglia bought them for ...
Software
Microsoft
Bill Gates
When a team of sound engineers at Microsoft Game Studios needed sounds of a squealing, skidding and revving Tesla Roadster, they didn't have to look far.
Deputy General Counsel Tom Burt just happens to commute in Roadster No. 203 and volunteered his ride for a day.
Burt filed the details in ...
Gaming
Microsoft
Microsoft Game Studios
This is a little spooky: The National Security Agency worked with Microsoft to "enhance" the security of Windows 7.
From Computerworld's report :
"Working in partnership with Microsoft and elements of the Department of Defense, NSA leveraged our unique expertise and operational knowledge of ...
Software
Windows 7
Microsoft
Internet Explorer
Not because Amazon.com is getting into the grocery business, but because both are tied in a poll running through Thursday for MarketWatch's CEO of the Year .
It's a dead heat between Webmeister Bezos and Whole Foods Chief Executive John Mackey, who also knows his way around an online forum ...
Online
Amazon
Jeff Bezos
Google is apparently trying to steal some thunder from Microsoft's Professional Developer Conference this week by releasing more details of its Chrome operating system.
So far the Chrome OS has been mostly FUD since it was announced in July but that may change at a Thursday press event where ...
Online
Chrome
Microsoft
Relief is coming to iPhone users and others using AT&T;'s heavily used 3G wireless network in Seattle, but not immediately.
The company today announced a "substantial upgrade" of its network in the Puget Sound region from Everett to Tacoma, using additional wireless spectrum in the 850 MHz ...
Mobile
AT&T
Verizon
You can't say "some people have all the luck" when you see Paul Allen's mansion on the shore of Mercer Island, his airplanes, superyachts and vast land holdings in Seattle.
The son of a Seattle librarian became one of the richest people in the world when he and childhood pal Bill Gates struck ...
Software
Microsoft
I wish I'd had this study in hand for today's column on the decline of free content and other Web freebies coming in 2010:
More than half of consumers are willing to pay for news online, according to a new report from the Boston Consulting Group that's likely to be referred to a lot as media ...
Online
Kevin Rose
While PC users were upgrading to Windows 7 and quad-core processors this fall, Cray and the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge, Tenn., lab upgraded an XT5 supercomputer nicknamed "Jaguar" to more than 224,000 processing cores.
That boosted the Jag to more than two petaflops of computer power ...
Hardware
PC
Windows 7
A few more details have emerged about Google's plan to offer free Wi-Fi at SeaTac and 46 other airports through the holidays.
First, SeaTac's service is delayed for a week while a contract issue is sorted out with AT&T;, the current Wi-Fi provider.
Google spokesman Andrew Pederson said ...
Online
A British game magazine has details of Microsoft's highly anticipated Project Natal accessory for the Xbox, leaked apparently by British game developers and studios who were briefed by the company.
They passed on that Microsoft plans to release the motion-sensing input device and Xbox ...
Gaming
Microsoft
Here's a video of the conversation I had last night with Ken Auletta at the downtown Seattle library - talking about Auletta's new book, "Googled: The End of the World as we Know It " in the Microsoft Auditorium.
Auletta shared tidbits from his extensive interviews with Google founders and ...
