Barry Elad

The word out of Redmond today is that Microsoft Corp. achieved record revenue of $6.59 billion for the quarter ended Dec. 31, 2000. This represents an 8 percent increase over the $6.11 billion for the same quarter last year. Net income and diluted earnings per share were $2.62 billion and $0.47. According to Microsoft CFO […]

RealNetworks’ RealNetworks Broadcast Network (RBN) has completed construction of its all-digital Internet Broadcast Operations Center at its downtown Seattle headquarters. The new facility was designed by RBN with integration services provided by Digital System Technology, Inc. The new facility utilizes full bandwidth serial digital video for signal acquisition and distribution, which allows for the digital […]

In November 1998, Alan Meckler’s company Mecklermedia was acquired by Penton Media Inc. for $274 million in cash. This represented nearly a 1000% return from its IPO of February 1994. After the deal was completed, Meckler purchased an 80.1% interest in the Mecklermedia Web site internet.com which became what is today internet.com corporation, a NASDAQ […]

Silicon Valley-based iAsiaWorks, a provider of hosting and Internet data center services in the Asia-Pacific region, has opened a sales office in downtown Bellevue to serve Pacific Northwest companies doing business in the Pacific Rim. The office, which opened in mid-December, is located at 6011 108th Avenue NE in Bellevue, Washington. iAsiaWorks (iAsiaWorks.com) currently offers […]

Although Bill Freeman currently resides in Visalia, California, he is definitely a Pacific Northwest man. He was born and raised in Baker, Oregon and he is the President of Boise, Idaho-based Internet-based livestock marketer CattleSale.com. Freeman has been in the cattle industry for 25 years. The idea to launch the Internet company was that of […]

The Seattle area’s latest networking event took off to a great start yesterday evening at the top floor of the Rock Bottom Brewery in Bellevue. The Bellevue Tech Connect (www.bellevuetechconnect.com), which attracted some 80 hi-tech business professionals, definitely was the scene to plenty of business card exchanges. Speakers in the house included James Hathaway COO […]

The Northwest High Tech Career Fair , produced by 1-Jobs.com, is in its second day today at the Meydenbauer Center in downtown Belleve. Seattle.internet.com was on-the-scene yesterday to walk the floor and get an up close view of the current job market. One of the more popular employers present at the fair was the Boeing […]

Bellevue-based InfoSpace today announced an agreement to license its private-label broadband platform and services to Newport Beach, California-based Winfire, Inc. Winfire (www.winfire.com) is a broadband content and access network, and provider of high-speed Internet access. It currently operates in more than 40 markets across the U.S. Under the agreement, Winfire will extend to its subscribers […]

The Northwest High Tech Career Fair will be taking place today and tomorrow in Bellevue at the Meydenbauer Center. There will be two sessions. The first is from 11:00am – 2:00pm. The second one is from 4:00pm to 7:00pm. The seattle.internet.com team will be on-the-scene to bring you an up close look at the current […]

Robert Friday, Chief Scientist and Director of Advanced Technology for San Jose-based Metricom, Inc. will be the featured speaker at the Seattle Wireless Interest Group’s monthly meeting this evening in Bellevue. Friday will be providing a technical overview of Metricom’s high-speed Ricochet network, now available in 14 major metropolitan areas and 15 airports across the […]

Seattle.internet.com has learned that the worldwide networking group First Tuesday has chosen the Pacific Northwest as the pilot region for launching its European matchmaking events in North America. First Tuesday (www.firsttuesday.com) announced that their inaugural North American matchmaking event will be held at the Terminal City Club in Vancouver, BC on January 29th. Entrepreneurs are […]

If Vicki Livingston has her way, the City of *Bellevue will be quite popular worldwide. That’s because in her new position as Director of Marketing for the Universal Wireless Communications Consortium (UWCC), Livingston will be responsible for the global marketing plans of the Bellevue-based consortium. UWCC (www.tdma-edge.org)is leading the development of TDMA-EDGE & WIN technology […]