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Two Additions Join Board of Directors: Steve Hall of Vulcan Capital and Dawn Lepore, Ex-CEO of Drugstore.com Seattle, WA (PRWEB) March 22, 2013 Seattle-based ‘big data’ shopping startup Decide.com today announced that it closed on an $8 million Series C funding round, led by Vulcan Capital. Also participating in the third round are current investors Maveron and Madrona Venture Group. This brings Decide.com’s total amount raised to $17 million and makes Decide.com the highest funded...

April Flowers for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online In what is probably going to be the largest U.S. office transaction of the year, Amazon.com Inc., the world's largest online retailer, has agreed to buy the 11-building complex where their headquarters is housed in Seattle for $1.16 billion. Located in the South Lake Union neighborhood, the campus has 1.8 million square feet of space, breaking the price down to about $644 per square foot. In a filing with the U.S. Securities and...

In the news release, Faye Allen, mother of Paul G. Allen, dies at 90, issued 03-Jun-2012 by Vulcan Inc. over PR Newswire, we are advised by the company that the fifteenth paragraph, second sentence, should read "She grew up with four older brothers and a younger sister, in a close family that nurtured her outgoing personality." rather than "She grew up with four older brothers, in a close family that nurtured her outgoing personality." as originally issued inadvertently. The complete,...

SEATTLE, June 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Faye Allen cherished reading and believed in the power of books. From her childhood job at a small town Oklahoma library to her book-filled home near Seattle, she surrounded herself with literature of every genre and from throughout the world. As she used to ask, "What's better than a good book?" (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120603/SF17845-a )(Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120603/SF17845-b ) It was a simple motto...

SEATTLE, April 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Scientists at the Allen Institute for Brain Science have identified similarities and differences among regions of the human brain, among the brains of human individuals, and between humans and mice by analyzing the expression of approximately 1,000 genes in the brain. The study, published online today in the journal Cell, sheds light on the human brain in general and also serves as an introduction to what the associated publicly available...

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has donated $300 million in order to create a center that will study the brain and learn more about exactly how the human mind works, the Allen Institute for Brain Science announced Wednesday. The latest donation brings the amount of money that the 59-year-old businessman, investor and philanthropist has invested in the institute which was named in his honor to $500 million, Forbes staff writer Matthew Herper said. According to Herper and the Wall Street...

SEATTLE, March 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Allen Institute for Brain Science announced today that, given its achievements to date, Paul G. Allen has committed an additional $300 million to the Institute to significantly expand its scientific programs. Bringing his total commitment to date to $500 million, Allen has charged the Institute with tackling some of the most fundamental and complex questions in brain science today. The answers to these questions are essential for achieving...

Paul Allen, the unofficial guru of all things Google, says that the web giant’s social forum Google+ now boasts 62 million users and is currently racking up an average of over 600,000 new users every day. Originally making his presence known in the Internet with his site Ancestry.com, Mr. Allen has become a sort of unofficial analyst for Google’s growth trends. “It may be the holidays, the TV commercials, the Android 4 signups, celebrity and brand appeal, or positive word of mouth...

Billionaire Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and renowned aerospace engineer Burt Rutan unveiled a plan on Tuesday to build the world’s largest plane to launch cargo and astronauts into space. Allen said on Tuesday that the new venture, dubbed Stratolaunch, would utilize a seldom-used concept:  an aircraft that can take off the traditional way, and then, once it reaches an altitude of 30,000 feet, launch a rocket into orbit. The spaceship would carry satellites, supplies, and,...

SEATTLE, Sept. 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Allen Institute for Brain Science announced today the discovery of a new class of cells in the spinal cord that act like neural stem cells, offering a fresh avenue in the search for therapies to treat spinal cord injury and disease. The published collaborative study, authored by scientists from the University of British Columbia, the Allen Institute for Brain Science and The Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital at McGill University and...