In this electronic age, traditional mail isn’t as important as it used to be. But that doesn’t mean it is going away anytime soon.

Kirkland-based DocumentCommand realizes that many vital documents—from mortgage papers to utility bills to health insurance forms—are still sent via the postal service. That’s why the three-year-old startup, which just received commitments for [...]

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LinkedIn to be profitable
blog Subscription fees push business networking site into black. No further investment funding needed, company says.
March 7, 2006
MySpace growth continues amid criticism
Popular site is signing up new members at record pace, but remains target of concerns regarding safety of younger users.
March 31, 2006
Facebook goes corporate
Social-networking site expands membership to select group of [...]

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Anyone with an Internet connection will soon be able to get three-dimensional maps of the moon, or real-time tracking of the space shuttle, after NASA agreed Monday to give more of its imagery and information to Google Inc.The collaboration marks another step in a partnership announced 15 months ago when Google unveiled plans to build [...]

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Ballmer: IBM in the crosshairs
Selling to CEOs with a different “point of view” will translate to revenue growth, the Microsoft head says.
March 17, 2006
Sun’s chiefs on the hot seat
Scott McNealy sees glory days ahead for new CEO Jonathan Schwartz, who’s made a steady ascent.
April 25, 2006
‘No alternative’ to Microsoft fine
Wielding a $357 million charge, EU [...]

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Digg continues to crack down on users who plant phony stories on behalf of marketers, recently deleting a user who posted a story about a company that offered to compensate him.

The news aggregate site, which allows users to play editor and decide the value of a news story, deleted the user account belonging to Karim [...]

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MySpace.com wants Apple Computer to update its QuickTime media player software so it can’t be used in attacks on the social-networking site.

The request comes after a worm in the form of a rigged QuickTime movie crawled on MySpace.com over the weekend, changing people’s MySpace profiles. The worm spread because of QuickTime’s support for JavaScript [...]

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According to a study released this week, Americans aged 13 to 18 spend more than 72 hours a week using electronic media—defined as the Internet, cell phones, television, music and video games. Because teens are known for multitasking, their usage of devices can overlap.

So much technology makes teens feel they are playing a starring role [...]

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Companies in search of capital are able to negotiate more favorable terms today, according to a new report.

Venture capitalists are offering start-ups better deal terms than they were four years ago, according to a new report by Dow Jones VentureOne, a venture capital research firm.

“A saner investment climate has led to healthier companies, better able [...]

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NEWS Corporation’s MySpace will offer in the next 30 days a technology to identify and block convicted sex offenders from the popular online social network.

The top online social network, which has a large following of teens attracted to its music and entertainment offerings, has also been used by adults seeking sex with underaged internet [...]

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New research shows that nearly half of late-1990s Internet start-ups survived—similar to success rates in other emerging industries.

With Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) recent $1.65 billion purchase of YouTube and all the other hype surrounding Web 2.0, many are concerned that the online world may be on track for another bust. However, a new study suggests that the late-1990s [...]

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