Barry Elad

Looks like Seattle is on the hiring trend again. Case and point: Seattle’s hi-tech public relations firm Imagio/JWT has just hired eight new employees. The new staff members will be reporting to Imagio/JWT Enterprise Division VP Ray Vincenveo. Seattle.internet.com has learned that the hiring is the result of a surge in the number of new […]

Are you looking for some Internet action? Have you considered heading for Satsop, Washington? While many Satsopians are involved in the logging industry, 250 of them log-on everyday to their computers at the corporate headquarters of SafeHarbor.com. The online customer support company, which recently secured $27 million, has inked deals in the past month with […]

Seattle-based Vendaria Inc., a provider of streaming video solutions for sales, marketing and merchandising, unveiled today its latest product: Enliven Video Mail. The patent-pending application allows streaming videos to be embedded into an HTML e-mail. “Consumers are bombarded daily with e-mails, many of which lack a comprehensive and compelling message,” says Scott Ferris, CEO and […]

Seattle-based Vendaria Inc., a provider of streaming video solutions for sales, marketing and merchandising, unveiled today its latest product: Enliven Video Mail. The patent-pending application — which has nothing to do with rich media banner ad firm Enliven — allows streaming videos to be embedded into an HTML e-mail. “Consumers are bombarded daily with e-mails, […]

Bibliofind.com, an online marketplace with a database of some 9 million hard-to-find books, is the latest Internet company to suffer a serious hacking. Bibliofind.com, which became an Amazon.com subsidiary back in April 1999 after an acquisiton by Amazon of Biblio’s parent company exchange.com, has revealed that the hacking apparently compromised the security of customer credit […]

Companies’ privacy policies and reputations are the two biggest influences on consumer trust when providing personal information online. That is the major conclusion of a recent study just released by Vancouver-based Internet solutions provider Columbus Group and Canadian market research firm Ipsos-Reid. Although the study took a look at Canadian Internet users, it is fair […]

The latest Seattle talent to be picked up by the Internet big leagues is Huskies Softball Coach Teresa Wilson. Wilson has signed an exclusive deal with California-based TheSportsCoach.com to become an expert content provider to its amateur-sports Web site. TheSportsCoach.com offers a unique program providing exclusive sports training and educational content from professional athletes and […]

Just one day after going through a 6.8 magnitude earthquake, Expedia was hit by a decision that could ultimately cause it to charge consumers service fees. A decision by Northwest Airlines and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines to eliminate commissions on online travel bookings took effect today. Up until today, Northwest paid Internet sites a commission […]

Seattle’s InfoSpace has become the first company in the search space to integrate New York-based ASP Robocast’s search technology into its search platforms. The technology, called RoboSearch, allows a user to automatically browse through any number of relevant search or auction results with one click. Currently, RoboSearch is only found on InfoSpace’s metasearch engine MetaCrawler. […]

WorldCatch, an online destination for the seafood industry will soon be practicing what it preaches. This comes as the Seattle-based company has signed a letter of intent to acquire American Gem Seafoods, Inc., a seafood marketing company with annual sales of approximately $100 million. “The seafood industry is optimistic about the future role of technology […]

Seattle’s Tenzing continues to move forward with its In-flight Internet tests. The latest service provider player it has brought on board is Echopass. The Burlingame-based company provides integrated Internet and telephone communications services for enterprise-class contact centers. Tenzing wants to make sure that even when you are at 33,000 feet in the air, you will […]

So you want to be the president of an Internet company? It’s not exactly a piece of cake. Just ask AwsomeCakes.com President Dennis Fleck. According to Fleck, it is all about juggling a lot of balls and addressing 15 top priorities all at the same time. Fleck like many other Internet presidents these days also […]