Posted in General News, Uncategorized on Oct 29th, 2008
What does this mean? It’s pretty clear it effect everyone shipping products to Washington State and online businesses doing so. There no longer is an incentive, no sales tax, to purchasing from you over a local business. Slowly each state is essentially repealing the “no internet sales tax” that we have had standing for so long. The cost of doing business online just increased and got closer to being on par with offline business, at least where taxes are concerned.
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Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 22nd, 2008
From the SeattleTimes:
“James Voelker, the CEO of Bellevue technology company InfoSpace, received stock awards worth nearly $3.9 million and a salary topping $400,000 in 2007, a year in which he ranked as the Northwest’s best-paid chief executive.”
Hold up here, Infospace is still around?
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Posted in General News on Oct 16th, 2008
“High Technology,” said Jason Crawforth, founder and chief strategy officer of MobileDataforce, a Boise company with a software system for compiling and transmitting information from handsets in the field to databases in the home office. In fact, the bulk of this article, written by the New York Times business journalist James Flanigan, talks about [...]
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Posted in General News on Oct 15th, 2008
Just surf the Idaho Statesman’s website for a few minutes and you will realize very quickly that Boise companies Micron and Hewlett-Packard are in some trouble. Heck, Idaho is in some trouble.
Micron, one of Idaho’s largest employers, stated that they will be laying off 15% of their employees nation-wide, translating into 1500 [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 14th, 2008
alk about a lucky break. I know MS would have loved to complete this deal, but like the article says, I’m pretty sure he is happy he didn’t close it when they did. It seems this economy is effecting everything. But if your business has the cash, this would be a great time to acquire the assets you nee
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Posted in General News, Uncategorized on Oct 13th, 2008
Are you a web/tech professional in the Northwest? Do you want to write about the issues that effect our industry and our little section of the country? Well now is your chance! NWWebReport.com is currently looking for contributors in Spokane, Seattle, Tacoma and Portland areas, as well as outlining cities.
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