Friday, April 25, 2014

TechFlash: Ready to play catch-up: Microsoft completes purchase of Nokia phone unit

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Ready to play catch-up: Microsoft completes purchase of Nokia phone unit

With the acquisition of the Finnish company's handset division, Microsoft becomes the world's second-largest maker of mobile phones behind Samsung.

Software developers remain 'life itself' to Microsoft, Nadella says

Microsoft has expanded the "ability of anyone who puts an application up on the Windows Store to be discovered, across even the billion-plus PC install base," Nadella said — creating "a fantastic opportunity for developers..."

Amazon to shippers: Maybe we'll just do it ourselves

Stung by shipping delays during the Christmas shopping season last year, Amazon has begun testing its own package delivery network.

Microsoft CEO Nadella: This is 'gold-rush time'

In a conference call with investors, the new CEO said Microsoft's goal is to deliver "a cloud for everyone, on every device."

Puget Sound region's top corporate counsel lauded at 2014 awards (slide show)

More than 250 turned out to honor in-house counsel at Puget Sound Business Journal's Corporate Counsel Awards.

Amazon off to 'kinetic' 2014 start, now has more than 124,000 employees

​Amazon.com Inc. CEO Jeff Bezos said his company is off to a "kinetic" start in 2014, but Wall Street isn't so sure.

iHologram? Apple's latest patent covers gesture-controlled 3-D displays

The idea behind the patent is that users could interact with projected images using gestures to manipulate them.

PayScale gets $100M cash infusion from Warburg Pincus

​Seattle-based PayScale provides employee compensation data for companies.

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