Washington State Business

"Open source, in terms of trends out there right now in the tech world, is one of the biggest."

StashSpace helps users move videos onto their computers, choose and edit specific scenes and upload them to the company’s servers.

The company remains secretive about its business plan, and declined to comment about the financing or its target market.

"Metronatural" is the result of a 16-month, $200,000 effort by Seattle’s Convention and Visitors Bureau, which included 60 people from the bureau, the mayor’s office and businesses.

The coffee retailer, based in Seattle, takes an unconventional approach to marketing, choosing parties and other in-person encounters over big national advertising campaigns. Starbucks spends far less on advertising than other large retailers and consumer-products companies.

Twisted Pair has developed software that enables devices, whether a walkie-talkie, a landline phone, a cellphone or a computer, to interact.

In an interview, Jacob said that Wallop is introducing a new way for 18- to 25-year-olds to "express themselves online."

If the Puget Sound area is to be the premier region for life science research and biotechnological innovation, the state has to increase incentives to at least match what other states are offering, according to recommendations presented Monday at the governor’s second annual Life Science Summit.

"We need to focus not only on quantity but on quality so that we have the kind of world-class education and research system that will keep this area competitive throughout the 21st century," Smith told the Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce.

"The university has had a historic problem dealing with business and being collaborative,"