Category: Local Business Scoop

AT&T announced today it has won a $9.5 million, three-year managed hosting contract from Microsoft Game Studios (MGS) to support various online experiences and the infrastructure for massively multiplayer online…

Redmond-based Concur Technologies recently announced the appointment of Jeff Seely to its Board of Directors. (story)

I wasn’t able to get to this morning’s grand opening ceremonies for the Westin Bellevue and Lincoln Square, but took my wife and daughter to look around this afternoon. On…

On the Scobleizer blog today, Robert Scoble from Microsoft wrote about MS showing off their new http://www.live.com in San Francisco. Apparently some 50+ of the thousands of people who read…

Former Microsoft COO Bob Herbold and his wife Pat, who has recently been named American Ambassador to Singapore, just announced a $1.5 million dollar gift to the Fred Hutchinson Cancer…

First Mutual Bank has hired Victor Mizumori as the Community Business Banking Manager. Mizumori, a 30-year Northwest banking industry veteran, oversees a group of four community business development officers in…

After a very disappointing, almost non-existent 2004-2005 season, Washington Ski areas may be looking at a great and early ski season this year. Stevens Pass today received its first snow…

Bartell Drugs announced today (10/31/05) that they are teaming with Minneapolis-based MinuteClinic to provide in-store health care centers. They will be starting with Bellevue, Renton, Sammamish and Seattle in December.…

Robert Scoble, Technical Evangelist and Blogger from Microsoft, mentions the Eastside Business blog at: http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/2005/10/30/how-to-get-on-memeorandum We have since moved our blog to our own site at www.EastsideBusiness.com/blog.htm

After yesterday’s Blog Business Summit, http://blogbusinesssummit.com , we are putting the redevelopment of our websites into high gear and the new site should be complete by December 1st (if not…