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In a move to further expand its digital services, the Boeing Company has entered into an alliance with Ramco Systems Ltd. to complete a new software offering called Enterprise One, a comprehensive maintenance management system for airlines. Under terms of the agreement, Chennai, India-based Ramco will supply key software modules to Boeing. Several of the […]

Calgary-based Launchworks, which also has offices in Vancouver-B.C. and Toronto, recently received an equity investment from Hewlett-Packard. HP apparently is interested in working closely with the VC company to help build globally competitive software technology companies throughout Canada. As part of the agreement, HP will become a strategic technology provider to Launchworks and its investment […]

Lasoo Inc. (www.lasoo.com) has launched its geographic filter technology. The technology makes it quick and easy for users to look for businesses, services and websites where it’s relevant to them, be it their neighborhood, city center or travel destination. Apparently, the Toronto-based company has amassed more than 25 million geographically linked data records so far […]

NetMotion Wireless Inc., a spin out from WRQ’s Mobile Access Business Unit, is the latest Seattle area company to secure a substantial amount of VC funding. The company secured $8 million in a first round of institutional financing led by SeaPoint Ventures and Northwest Venture Associates. The round also includes significant investments from Digital Partners, […]

The word today from New York is that Seattle and Portland were the most wired cities in the U.S.A. during March 2001. That according to New York-based Nielsen/NetRatings, the Internet audience measurement service from Nielsen Media Research and NetRatings, Inc. Both cities topped the list with nearly 70 percent of households having access to the […]

Portland-based MeasureCast, Inc., which provides Internet radio broadcasters with next-day audience size and demographics reports, has inked a deal with Zenith Media Services, Inc., a global media buying and planning service. According to MeasureCast VP of Marketing Bill Piwonka, other deals with key media players are expected to be announced shortly. New York-based Zenith will […]

Microsoft launched today an extensive trial program of it Office XP. Over 1 million individuals from Seattle to Sydney will be given the opportunity to test drive the product before it officially hits the stands in late May. The Redmond-based company is specifically offering users an opportunity to order a 30-day trial kit of Office […]

Global Software Solutions, Inc. (GSSI) has named Stephen D’Andrea as its latest Business Development Manager. The appointment of D’Andrea comes in conjunction with the company’s launch of an office in Mountain View, California. The Portland-based company provides globalization services for Web commerce companies.anies that are expanding into international markets. D’Andrea will be responsible for expanding […]

Apparently traditional retailers have much to gain from turning to Internet companies to find ways to move ahead of their competition and keep up-to-speed with the needs of their customers. A perfect example is the recent deal between Seattle’s PhotoAccess and Pine Bluff’s USA Drug. The Arkansas-based drug store with 113 chains receive from PhotoAccess […]

Seattle.internet.com has learned that Vancouver, B.C.-based Internet solutions provider Columbus Group was purchased two days ago by TELUS — Canada’s second largest Telecommunications company. Although Columbus Group will be shutting off the lights at its recently opened Seattle office and has already laid off two business development employees, its future back in Canada seems very […]

Washington Mutual Finance Corporation has teamed up with SF-based IT consulting firm Cotelligent to build an online counterpart to its brick-and-mortar operations by creating a ‘virtual branch’. The ‘virtual branch’ (online at WamuFinance.com) features loan calculators, a debt consolidation tool, the ability to apply for loans, the capability for online account inquiries and an online […]

In early February, Tenzing received $10 million from Taikoo Aviation Technologies and joined forces with Hughes Global Services, Inc. to offer global inflight broadband communication services. In addition to gaining access to money and broadband infrastructure, The Seattle-based company is also attracting additional airline partners. Its latest airline partner is Virgin Atlantic. So far Tenzing […]