Technology
EnterpriseSeattle awarded $1.2 million to promote interactive media sector
EnterpriseSeattle announced it has received a federal grant that should help Seattle and King County maintain its leadership in the vibrant interactive media industry. Here’s the announcement: September27, 2011, Seattle, WA — enterpriseSeattle, formerly known as the EconomicDevelopment Council for Seattle and King County, today announced that it wasawarded $1.2 million in federal funding through…
Intel Science and Technology Center to be hosted at UW
In the latest twist on our favorite hot topic, gamification,Intel has announced that the University of Washington will host Intel’s fifth Science and TechnologyCenter (ISTC). Thecenter, which will be co-led by associate professor of computer science andengineering Dieter Fox and Intel senior scientist Anthony LaMarca, will focus on pervasive computing. The new ISTC spans sixresearch…
Death Goes Digital
Washingtons gravestone manufacturers are leading the nation in taking their craft digital. Earlier this year, Seattles Quiring Monuments unveiled a new Living Headstone memorial with a quick-responseor QRtag affixed to it. This feature allows visitors to use smartphones to scan a headstone and learn more about the deceased, as well as to leave comments on…
Bright Idea
Finding better batteries for electric cars has been the holy grail in the alternative energy industry for a while, yet they remain impractical given their limited range and forbidding price tags. Seattle-based Clarian Labs is going about the quest in a different way: Instead of trying to improve on storage technology, it is making what…
Seattle businesses jump into the cloud
Cloud computingthe hosting of applications in highlyefficient remote data centers rather than in-house server roomsis inarguablycoming into vogue, and with good reason: It can save money, allow geographicflexibility and even cut down on companies energy use. The Seattle startup scene has not only been apioneer in cloud computing, but is now responsibly leading the charge…
Market shows sensitivity to high priced drugs
With huge pressure on the federal government to control medical costs, drug companies have to be more sensitive about how they price their products. Uncertainty about reimbursements for Dendreon‘s $93,000 prostate cancer drug, Provenge, has led to substantially lower than expected sales of the product as Xconomy points out in an excellent article posted today….
Cybersecurity: An emerging industry
We trust so much important information to the global network that connects us all, information about ourselves, our companies and the security of our country. And every minute, someone, somewhere, is trying to steal it. If were lucky, all theyre after is a password or a credit card number or two. If were unlucky, they…
Wizards of Transparency
Tucked away in a Pioneer Square building, some of the human machinery of the U.S. governments transparency program hums along, sharing a treasure trove of data with consumers. Providing this service is Socrata Inc., a 4-year-old Seattle startup with just 20 employees. They sit at computers, surrounded by bare walls in a fourth-floor office, acting…
Entrepreneurs of the Year: Communications
Award Recipient: Dudley R. Slater, Vice Chairman, Founder & Retired CEO, Integra Telecom [Portland] With a Harvard M.B.A. in his pocket and a career as a geophysicist searching for oil for Texaco on his resume, Dudley Slater went to work for Pacific Telecom in Portland and quickly cracked the telecommunications code. He cofounded Integra in…
Entrepreneurs of the Year: Technology
Award Recipient: Gurpreet Sunny Singh, CEO, Edifecs Inc. [Bellevue] Before he turned 30, software and industrial engineering expert Sunny Singh had worked at three different companies, realizing very quickly at each that none of the jobs fulfilled him. He wanted to use his expertise solving supply chain and enterprise integration problems for a profitable organization…
Entrepreneurs of the Year: Emerging Sciences
Award Recipient: Mitchell H. Gold, President & CEO, Dendreon Corp., [Seattle] Mitchell Gold traces his lifelong commitment to treating and curing cancer to his mother, who lost her battle with metastatic breast cancer when she was 26 and her son was only 5. She would be proud: As CEO of Seattle-based Dendreon, Gold has spearheaded…
Amazon’s Wild Ride
Despite a disastrous malfunction of its cloud computing network in April and a disappointing quarterly earnings report that same month, Amazon.com Inc. continued to amaze market analysts as its stock price reached all-time highs in excess of $200 a share. Serious trouble arose on April 21 when an outage at an East Coast Amazon data…
Microsoft Sees Fruits of Civic Engagement in Tuition Reform
Just a few years ago it was tough for any local publication to get the attention of Microsoft. Narrowly focused on its corporate mission, the software giant stood aloof from most civic concerns. The company was a little like another great software giant today that distances itself from local issues Amazon.com. Yet, when the Washington…