ValleyWag reports that Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos has sunk money into Bellevue's Finsphere and New York's Aviary...

NCsoft Corp., the Korean developer of massively muliplayer online games, is establishing a new subsidiary for the U.S. and European markets that will be headquartered in Seattle. The new unit -- tentatively dubbed NC West -- will be led by Chris Chun...

At a product demonstration event hosted by the MIT Venture Lab three months ago, Swype won over judges (I was among them) with a new technology that allowed mobile phone users to input text using a finger by drawing lines between letters on a keypad....

California's venture capital market is about 10 times bigger than Washington's, both in terms of deals and dollars....

Silicon Valley Bank has established a new life science practice in the Pacific Northwest under the direction of Rob Derry, a board member of the Washington Biotechnology and Biomedical Association who before joining SVB worked in sales at Onyx Softwa...

The newspaper business is under siege, with jobs axed nearly every day (The New York Times today announced 550 cuts) and ad revenue shrinking by a whopping $3 billion during the first half of the year....

Gist, a new Seattle Internet startup backed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, is emerging from stealth mode this week with a new e-mail service that is designed to help people better manage information overload. ...

New Enterprise Associates must really like Tableau Software's prospects as the Silicon Valley venture capital powerhouse is pumping an additional $10 million into the Seattle startup....

It appears as if the highly-touted Microsoft advertising campaign has begun featuring Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld....

Just three months after losing a key contract and cutting staff, Bellevue online real estate startup SecondSpace has announced that founder and chief executive Anil Pereira has left the company to engage in new technology endeavors. ...