High Technology News and Information for the Pacific Northwest Region
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High Technology News and Information for the Pacific Northwest Region |
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 Monday, June 23, 2008 Immune Design Scores $18M Seattle-based vaccine company Immune Design said Monday that the firm has raised $18M in a Series A financing. The round was co-led by Alta Partners, The Column Group, and Versant Ventures. Immune Design is developing novel technologies focused on creating new vaccines for infectious diseases. The new firm is headed by Steven Reed, Ph.D. Immune Design says that it expects to have vaccines in clinics within 12 months using its technology. posted on Monday, June 23, 2008 (More)(Full story) Redfin Hit By Data Center Fire Over Weekend Seattle-based real estate web site Redfin lost its service Saturday morning, due to a fire in the data center which the firm uses to host its web servers, the company said over the weekend. The fire, which according to a Redfin spokesperson did not damage any of its servers, caused the shut down of the company's web servers between 5 am and 10am on Saturday, when the fire department shut down power to the data center. A Redfin spokesperson did not identify the shared data facility where the fire (More info...) posted on Monday, June 23, 2008(Full story) Amazon.com Expands Into Office Supplies Seattle-based online retailer Amazon.com said today that it has launched a new online store focused on office supplies. According to Amazon, it is offering more than 500,000 products for the segment. The new office products store is a new department on the firm's web site, and offers products from such brands as Avery, Hammermill, Papermate, and others. Featured categories include staplers, pens and pencils, and paper. posted on Monday, June 23, 2008(Full story) Digimarc Gets $300M Cash Offer for Secure ID Unit Beaverton, Ore.-based Digimarc Corp., a provider of software and services used to produce identification documents, announced Sunday evening that it has received an unsolicited offer to sell its secure ID business for $300 million in cash to French company Safran S.A. Earlier this year, Digimarc agreed to sell its ID Systems business for some $263 million in stock and cash to L-1 Identity Solutions Inc. That agreement, Digimarc said, is still in effect and has already passed one regulatory hurdl (More info...) posted on Monday, June 23, 2008(Full story) HipCricket Signs Spanish Radio Firm Mobile marketing firm HipCricket revealed Monday that the Spanish Broadcast System's radio stations have joined HipCricket’' Hispanic Mobile Marketing Network, which was established to provide advertisers with a way to reach Hispanic audiences with a single buy. HipCricket explained that the addition of the Spanish Broadcasting System means HipCricket's marketing program will now reach more than 7 million Hispanic radio listeners in large markets across the country, including Los Angeles, Miami, (More info...) posted on Monday, June 23, 2008(Full story) |
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