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Stocks decline as AIG reveals need for cash, oil surges
Todd Bishop on Microsoft
Extending and enhancing our regular coverage.
· Next up: A Microsoft-Google antitrust fight?
· News Corp. says no MySpace-Microsoft talks
John Cook's Venture Blog
Startups, VC and life in the emerging tech community.
· Attachmate CEO charged with killing 32 bison
· Tech startup of the year is a coffee company?
James Wallace on Aerospace
All about companies aiming for the sky.
· UPDATE: Air Canada 787s - 30 months late
· Assembly begins on 5th Dreamliner
The Life Sciences Blog
Joe Tartakoff on the region's biotechnology and life sciences industry
· Yet another biotech faces Nasdaq delisting
· CTI hopes to reverse split its stock (again)
Seattle Real Estate News
Aubrey Cohen with the latest on the housing market in Seattle
· More in one place, but which place?
· Like a hurricane
Consumer Smarts
By P-I Consumer Affairs Reporter Phuong Cat Le
· Con artists posing as City Light bill collectors
· Download Nine Inch Nails latest album for free
Reader Blog: Career Chic
Advice for women in the workplace by Lisa Quast
· Preparing for Retirement - Do's and Don'ts
· Avoid These Office Mistakes If You Want To Get Promoted
Reader Blog: Media Money Monkey
Tips on personal finance from Tom Layson
· Raging against the mortgage machine
· Here they come!
Reader Blog: Everything MBA
Author, education Sandeep Krishnamurthy on MBA degrees, studies
· The Coffee Wars.
· Death by Powerpoint and how to avoid it.
Reader Blog: The Biz Bite
Advice to boost your business
· Events: Microsoft's Vision to Venture conference
· Hallmark halts 100% free e-cards
Reader Blog: Entrepreneur's Journey
By software start-up co-founders Raed Malhas and Deniz Erkan
· Techies' Fight Club!
· Is a frown worse than an awkward face?
Reader Blog: In Good Company
Author Jennifer Heigle offers help for Small Business
· Calling All Women Entrepreneurs!
· Don't Be A 'Greenwashed' Consumer
Reader Blog: Career Diverted Survivors
Craig Campana on surviving layoffs and downsizing
· Indispensable one minute, Dispensable the next
· War Stories
Reader Blog: The Bull's Corridor
Jose Astorga offers guidance for the working soul
· Ghost on the Corner
· The Lazy Employee's Guide to Less Than Mediocrity
Reader Blog: Start Her Up
Advice and resources for the woman entrepreneur
· Motherly Wisdom in the Workplace
· Atlas Isn't Shrugging
Bill Virgin
· The chant 'We're OK' is wearing a bit thin
· Big Bad Wolf can only huff and puff
Inside Entrepreneurship
· Noncash pay should reward patience
· Many angles to consider when compensation is equity
Workplace Coach
· Managing in uncertain times takes sensitivity
· What to do -- and not -- at a new job
- FedEx cuts 4Q profit forecast, blames fuel costs
- Stocks decline as AIG reveals need for cash, oil surges
- Treasurys mainly advance as AIG reports quarterly loss
- Circuit City allows Blockbuster, Icahn to review books
- Commodities Review: Wheat drops on higher output forecast
- Grain futures close mixed on CBOT; livestock prices rise
More headlines
- EBay's PayPal rule in Australia draws fire
- Apple agrees to settle iPod lawsuit
- 70 people sickened during San Francisco conference
- Data from Columbia disk drives survived the shuttle accident
- Advocacy groups take aim at Google-Yahoo partnership
- Microsoft appeals $1.4B EU antitrust fine
More headlines
VC Notebook
Venture capital news, local vc firms, upcoming IPOs, funding & layoffs.
Keep tabs on which local companies are cutting staff
· Tech layoffs
· Non-tech layoffs
Another airline to link Seattle, Beijing
Northwest Airlines said Thursday that it would offer daily nonstop service between Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and Beijing starting in March.
Inside Entrepreneurship: Noncash pay should reward patience
Consultants who are generous enough to forgo cash for stock-based compensation should be rewarded for their patience and the inherent risk of nonpayment.
Southcenter prepares to unveil new face, new space this summer
On July 25, Westfield Southcenter will open the doors to its $240 million addition -- complete with a 90-foot glass façade that lets shoppers and diners see Mount Rainier from inside the building.
Some buyers will get 787s 2½ years late
Although The Boeing Co.'s 787 Dreamliner may be only 15 months or so behind schedule, delivery delays will be as much as twice that long for some customers that bought the fuel-efficient composite jet.
Starbucks' ousted CEO agreed to zip his lips
Don't expect a tell-all book by the ousted chief executive and president of Starbucks. Jim Donald agreed in January not to say a disparaging word about the Seattle coffee chain. He also agreed not to work for McDonald's or Dunkin' Donuts.
Venture Capital: Political relevance rated on new site
It is often said that a democracy only works if the citizens are well informed. Ameritocracy.com is hoping that it can do its part to keep the wheels of democracy moving.
MySpace to let users share data with Yahoo, other sites
LOS ANGELES -- Social networking site MySpace said Thursday it will soon enable users to quickly share profile data with Web sites operated by Yahoo Inc., eBay Inc. and others.
Google eager to cut ad deal with Yahoo
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Google Inc.'s top executives on Thursday expressed hope that the Internet search leader will be able to form a potentially lucrative advertising partnership with Yahoo Inc. -- a deal that would lower the odds of Microsoft Corp. renewing its attempts to buy Yahoo.
RealNetworks spins off games
RealNetworks Inc. said Thursday it will split its casual-games division into a separate, publicly traded company likely based in Seattle, with its own management and board of directors.
Earnings: Nastech Pharmaceutical losses up over last year
Bothell's Nastech Pharmaceutical posted a net loss of $16.5 million, or 63 cents a share, for the first three months of 2008, compared with a net loss of $11.5 million, or 47 cents a share, during the first quarter of 2007. The company's revenue fell to $1.3 million from $5 million. Nastech, which has refocused its business around its RNA interference technology, also said it had hired an investment bank to help it out-license or sell its nasal spray business.
Even the rich go 'smart shopping'
Retail sales last month: Costco did great, Nordstrom did not. Caught in the maelstrom of higher gas and food prices, Americans -- even more affluent ones -- are seeking shelter in wholesale clubs and discount apparel chains.
Unions are likely to use Boeing 787 delay in bargaining
The Boeing Co.'s delayed 787 Dreamliner may give its two main unions extra leverage in contract talks with the world's second-biggest commercial aircraft maker.
Art walks to sidewalks receive city grant money
The city of Seattle Thursday gave grants totaling about $157,500 to 18 neighborhood business-district associations in a bid to help build those communities.
New nonstop between Sea-Tac and Beijing
Northwest Airlines will begin daily nonstop service from Sea-Tac Airport to Beijing on March 1, 2009.
Business Briefing
GM to pay millions to help end strike at parts supplier ... American, United, Delta raise ticket prices again ... Jobless claims fell more than expected ...
Technology Briefing
Microsoft frees nominees for alternate Yahoo board ... Alcatel-Lucent/Microsoft patent case reinstated ... Intel a winner in Sweden's wireless broadband bid ...
THURSDAY, MAY 8, 2008
- 'Huge effort' clinched Clearwire deal
- Fish-egg auctions are a multimillion-dollar catch
- FDA raps Zymogenetics over drug claim
- Latin American firm lands iPhone deal
- Was that last offer for Yahoo for real?
- Comcast weighs cap on downloading, and fees for those who exceed limit
- Analysis: Google finding itself again
- Sprint's new WiMax system could drive wave of gadgets
- Amazon chief sells $168 million in stock
- FDA raps Seattle firm over drug claim
- The chant 'We're OK' is wearing a bit thin
- Paulson: Worst of credit crisis may be over
- Business Briefing
WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 2008
- Aerospace Notebook: Boeing offers a new look at 787
- Shareholders may mutiny against Yahoo
- University Village has major expansion plans
- Sprint's WiMax venture to merge with Clearwire
- A $40 million face-lift for Bellevue Square
- Yahoo deal's collapse bad news for advertisers
- Earnings: ZymoGenetics sales near $1 million
- Faris to resign as head of state biotechnology group
- Fannie Mae gloomy on house prices
- U.K. official warns against a 'buy American' attitude
- Irvine Robbins, 1917-2008: He created a flavor a day for ice cream lovers
- Business Briefing
- Technology Briefing
TUESDAY, MAY 6, 2008
- Big Bad Wolf can only huff and puff
- T-Mobile offers faster wireless
- Boeing sticks to global plan
- Yahoo feels wrath of Wall Street
- Zune to start offering TV shows -- 2 years after iTunes
- Microsoft strikes deal with Hyundai-Kia
- Net service aimed at seniors
- REI posts 14% gain in sales in 2007
- New low-fare carrier unlikely to spring up
- Business Briefing
- Technology Briefing
MONDAY, MAY 5, 2008
- For Microsoft, it's on to Plan B to catch Google
- Competitive zeal of Ballmer key element in Yahoo chase
- How the Microsoft-Yahoo deal came apart
- Pressure's on for Yahoo CEO after Microsoft walks away
- Do women buy more lipstick when economy gets sour?
- Software Notebook: Apple blossoms with growing cash balance
- The Insider: SeaTac slogan fails to get off ground
- Workplace Coach: Managing in uncertain times takes sensitivity
- Fuel costs limit prospect of new, cheap air carriers
- Corporate boards' pay keeps on growing
- Being your own boss takes extra work
- Lenders deserve to suffer, Buffett says
- Business Calendar
- What to watch
- People on the Move
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