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A few years ago, Ramesh Parameswaran, now president of AskMe.com, saw a story about eBay that intrigued him. He came up with the idea of building a similar infrastructure, but for ideas. The result was a site called XpertSite.com, a place where people could link up with others that have the answers to their questions. […]

When Chase Norlin came to Seattle from the Bay Area for a position with Corbis, he noticed a lack of networking opportunities. Missing all the schmoozing events he had attended back in the Bay Area, Norlin decided to act. Last year, Norlin, along with the Columbia Tower Club, started Tech Views, an event that has […]

NetZero Inc. will dole out a load of cash to put e-commerce firm RocketCash Corp. in its pocket. The nation’s leading free Internet service provider Thursday signed an agreement to acquire the privately-held transaction-facilitating firm. In order to seal the deal, NetZero intends to issue approximately 5.6 million shares of its common stock. Based on […]

MP3.com Inc. Thursday announced the launch of a new digital subscription channel program designed to create possible recurring revenue streams for content owners by allowing them to leverage the company’s engineering, technology and content-management resources. The program gives audio content owners the ability to create and manage on-demand subscription channels. Additionally, the digital subscription platform […]

RealNetworks Inc. and BackWeb Technologies Thursday announced the launch of a service that offers artists, music publishers and music retailers a new means to introduce and distribute their music to registered users of RealJukebox. By integrating BackWeb’s Polite push technology into RealJukebox, Real.com Music Delivery provides a way for consumers to grow their music collections […]

RealNetworks Inc. Thursday announced two new ways for audio and video content providers to reach online consumers. The first is an expanded version of the Real.com Message Service that will enable RealNetworks content providers to notify RealPlayer users on a daily basis about upcoming audio and video programming directly via the desktop. The second service, […]

Have you been waiting around for a late parcel and thought to yourself “They owe me?” A new Northwest company may have some help to offer. OnTimeAudit, a Redmond startup specializing in online customer service and auditing solutions, has announced a partnership with FreightStats, the largest online provider of e-commerce services for Air-Cargo, Ocean Cargo, […]

Hidden in smaller academic journals, university research can be difficult to locate. Two professors at the University of Washington Business School are stepping up to share their work with both the academic and business communities. While the Internet has made it increasingly easy to access university research, such studies remain difficult to find due to […]

Burst Wireless, founded by telecommunications veterans from McCaw Cellular and NEXTLINK Communications, announced it will introduce its completely portable, broadband Internet access solution to computer users by mid-year 2001. Field trials will take place on the Olympic Peninsula as early as this Summer. Burst Wireless will provide facilities-based service, offering portable broadband access to residential […]

Dell Computer Corp. Tuesday tapped MSN Internet Services and AT&T Corp. to provide Internet access to different segments of its consumer-based and small business initiatives. Dell aligned with Microsoft Corp.’s MSN Internet network to offer co-branded Dellnet by MSN Internet services to home-based users. The AT&T strategic relationship is designed to provide Internet access for […]

Audible, Inc. Tuesday introduced three audio file formats for listening to the extensive collection of spoken word audio from its Web site. The new formats, or codecs, are designed to provide customers with significantly improved sound quality options while continuing to be easy to use for audio downloads and streaming. Each of the three codecs […]

Bellevue-based Content Technologies released its MAILsweeper Archivist for SMTP, developed to help organizations easily store and retrieve email. MAILsweeper Archivist for SMTP integrates with the company’s MAILsweeper for SMTP to provide policy-based storage and recovery of email. Exactly how much email? This product has 32 online archive indexes available with each one capable of collecting […]