Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Zillow, Bob Vila Launch Sweepstakes
Seattle-based Zillow is ramping up its collaboration with home improvement guru Bob Vila, telling its users Wednesday that it is launching a $10,000 sweepstakes centered around Bob Vila. The real esta (More info...)
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Amazon Instant Video Hits The iPad
Seattle-based Amazon.com said Wednesday that it has rolled out its Instant Video service to the iPad, via a new application for the Apple tablet. The app lets subscribers to Amazon Prime stream movies (More info...)
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FEI Buys Visualization Sciences Group
Hillsboro, Oregon-based FEI, which develops scientific instruments, including electron beam microscopes, said Wednesday that it has acquired Visualization Sciences Group (VSG), based in Bordeaux, Fran (More info...)
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FlightStats Bolsters Board
Portland-based FlightStats, which provides flight and airport information to application developers, said Tuesday that it has named Clent Richardson to its board of directors. Richardson is Managing D (More info...)
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Decide.com Adds Recommendations, Categories
Seattle-based Decide.com, the product pricing prediction service headed by Mike Fridgen and co-founded by Oren Etzioni, is expanding its service beyond pricing to recommendations, and has also added a (More info...)
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Microsoft: Out with Hotmail, In With Outlook.com
Microsoft has a message for users of its venerable Hotmail email service: it's time for a change. To that note, Microsoft said Tuesday that it has launched Outlook.com, a new email service--currently (More info...)
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Amazon's Answer To iTunes Match: Scan and Match
Seattle-based Amazon is challenging Apple's cloud-based music services, saying yesterday that it has launched new "scan and match" technology which will scan a user's iTunes and Windows Media Player l (More info...)
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