TechFlash: BMW chooses Seattle; Business and Comicon; Amazon's new CEOs

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Why BMW made Seattle its U.S. car-sharing headquarters – and launch city When BMW rolled out its North American car-sharing service in Seattle Friday, it was reaping the rewards from two years' worth of discussions with city, civic and business groups. Why Seattle businesses should care about Emerald City Comicon Emerald City Comicon founder Jim Demonakos and Mike Armstrong, event director for parent company ReedPop, discuss the convention's impact on Seattle's business community. Amazon gives CEO titles to cloud, consumer chiefs Amazon dubbed two of its top executives, one with its cloud computing division and the other with its consumer business, with CEO titles. Bandhani flags and other ways Seattle retailers get shoppers to look up from their phones In the new era of mobile, Seattle retailers are having to find creative ways to capture the attention of people who walk into a store with their heads down, looking at their phones. BMW launches car-sharing program in Seattle BMW is kicking off its car-sharing program in Seattle to compete with Daimler's Car2Go. Seattle will the the headquarters for the new BMW service. Suppliers in demand: Inside the end of local ownership for Washington aerospace suppliers Most Washington aerospace suppliers were for decades family-run. Now fewer than half have local owners. National Tech News These are the venture firms VCs would invest in (besides their own) An Apple laptop keyboard with no keys? Uber seeks to freeze pay lawsuit

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