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...school students. McGraw-Hill has a relationship with Amazon.com, selling books through the Seattle-based e-commerce giant (including some higher education titles in digital form for Amazon's Kindle electronic reader). But Reina said the...

In this article: McGraw-Hill, Seattle, Apex Learning, Paul Allen, and Microsoft

...Google guys and Schmidt and Omidyar were non-valley techies. Michael Dell of Dell Computer, Steve Ballmer and Paul Allen of Microsoft, and Jeff Bezos of Amazon all made the top 30. And ranking 326th, at $1.2 billion, was former eBay CEO Meg...

In this article: Forbes, Larry Ellison, Oracle, Google, Eric Schmidt, Pierre Omidyar, EBay, Bill Gates, Amazon, and Sergey Brin

...working in a Kentucky fulfillment center. But it also highlights a "mogul miscue," when Amazon remotely deleted copies of George Orwell novels from people's Kindles (later prompting a Bezos apology). Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates isn't in...

In this article: Jeff Bezos, Paul Allen, Bill Gates, Amazon, Zappos, Microsoft, George Orwell, and Seattle

...firm Curious Office Partners. His brother, Nick, is a Seattle venture capitalist who was one of the earliest investors in Amazon.com and aQuantive, the online advertising company that Microsoft purchased last year. Microsoft co-founder Paul...

In this article: Seattle Sounders FC, Microsoft, Seattle, Microsoft Xbox, Curious Office Partners, Chicago Fire, Major League Soccer, and Fulham

...would retain voting control of the 16,500 employee company. Amazon.com's online grocery service Amazon Fresh has added a new delivery zone in Seattle: the Laurelhurst neighborhood. The Laurelhurst zip code won an online vote to be the next...

In this article: Jott, Expedia, Paul Allen, Seattle, Microsoft, and Earth Class Mail

...is one of the best materials to block highly-charged radiation. The space industry has drawn in other wealthy entrepreneurs, including Amazon's Jeff Bezos; John Carmack, who created the video games Doom and Quake; Microsoft's co-founder...

In this article: Bigelow Aerospace, Conrad Burns, Montana, International Space Station, Robert Bigelow, NASA, Logical next step, Cost of living, Genesis I, and Space Shuttle

...spacecraft. Elon Musk, a founder of PayPal, has developed rockets through his company, Space Exploration Technologies, and Jeffrey Bezos, the founder of Amazon.com, is developing rockets at a facility he owns in West Texas. Robert...

In this article: Google, X Prize Foundation, Peter Diamandis, NASA, Elon Musk, Larry Page, International Space Station, Ansari X Prize, Burt Rutan, and Sergey Brin

...worth of $16 billion in 2008. Vulcan's real estate holdings in Seattle's South Lake Union neighborhood, where it is building a new headquarters for Amazon.com, are unaffected by the cutbacks, Postman says. Likewise, Vulcan's affiliated...

In this article: Vulcan Inc, Paul Allen, Allen Institute for Brain Science, Forbes, Seattle Seahawks, and Microsoft

...Lake Union The Seattle City Council cleared the way for Vulcan, Paul Allen's development firm, to build three 160-foot-high office buildings in South Lake Union for Amazon.com, which would bring 4,000 employees to the area. A majority of...

In this article: Greg Nickels, Seattle, South Lake Union, Paul Allen, Seattle City Council, and Nick Licata