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eBay Is the Most Recent Bay Area Transplant to Seek Access to Seattle’s Talent Pool

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 12 at 6:00 am PT

The e-commerce giant has joined a growing list of companies willing to brave the rain in order to gain access to a deep pool of technology engineers in Seattle.

Sony Online Chops Workforce and Cancels Upcoming Game Launch

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on April 1, 2011 at 4:00 pm PT

Sony Online Entertainment is laying off 205 employees and closing down game studios in Denver, Seattle and Tucson to focus on free-to-play games, which can be faster and cheaper to produce.

Most Top Banks Have an App for That

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 26, 2011 at 9:50 am PT

The era of being afraid to bank on mobile phones seems over–at least from the banks’ point of view.

Four Arrested in Tech-Heavy Insider Trading Case

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on December 16, 2010 at 10:29 am PT

The defendants include employees at several tech firms, including Dell, Advanced Micro Devices, Taiwan Semiconductor, and Flextronics. All worked as consultants for a research firm.

U.S. Tech Job Growth Was Strongest in…Oklahoma City?

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on December 9, 2010 at 7:00 am PT

The TechAmerica Foundation’s annual Cybercities report covering the state of America’s local technology job markets for 2009 (the most recent data available) paints–as you might expect–a depressing picture in all but a few of the markets surveyed.

Intern Becomes Real Live Blog Dude–ATD Hires Drake Martinet

Kara Swisher in News on November 9, 2010 at 10:29 am PT

It is always nice when an intern makes good, and that is entirely the case with Drake Martinet, who joins All Things Digital–as of yesterday, in fact. We could not be happier. Plus, we knew he was our kind of geek after he agreed to spend the night in a tent next to Robert Scoble, to cover last year’s Apple iPad release. Drake will be working on a range of things for ATD, from social and multimedia efforts to site analytics to discovering and writing about promising but nascent tech start-ups.

A “Hole-Filler” Gets Funded: TweetPhoto Raises $2.6 Million

Peter Kafka in Media on April 13, 2010 at 4:01 am PT

The new conventional wisdom is that photo-sharing systems built around Twitter are toast. But don’t tell that to the TweetPhoto team. The San Diego-based photo service just raised its first big funding round.

Veoh Finally Calls It Quits: Layoffs Yesterday, Bankruptcy Filing Soon

Peter Kafka in Media on February 11, 2010 at 12:52 pm PT

Veoh, one of several well-funded start-ups that have tried and failed to cash in on the Web video boom, is finally calling it quits. The company let go of the remainder of its workforce yesterday, and sources say it plans on filing for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection in the near future.

Comeback of the Decade: Reading

Peter Kafka in Media on December 30, 2009 at 7:08 am PT

Studies say you are watching more TV than ever, even as you slurp up increasing amounts of Web video. Which means you must be spending less time on something else. Like reading, perhaps? Nope. You’re doing more of that as well, according to a new study.

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