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Sneak peek: Drawings show plans for new U.S.-China tech graduate campus in Seattle area
Design proposals for UW's new Global Innovation Exchange, or GIX. The Global Innovation Exchange has submitted designs for its new facility in Bellevue, Wash., where students from around the world will learn about technology and entrepreneurship in a groundbreaking partnership between Seattle’s University of Washington and China’s Tsinghua University. The collaboration, which represents the first time...
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Amazon plans to ship 500 orders per second today
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Amazon’s biggest shopping day of the year, Cyber Monday, has the company predicting that it will be shipping out at least “500 orders every second” today, according to this report by King 5. Online shopping experienced huge bumps this weekend — as Bloomberg reports, at least 25 percent on Thanksgiving and 21.5 percent on Black Friday. Adobe predicts...
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Lighter Capital raises $100M fund, plans to make 500 investments in startups
Lighter Capital CEO BJ Lackland.
Seattle’s Lighter Capital, which offers an alternative to venture capital and traditional bank loans, today announced a new $ 100 million fund that will be used to make 500 investments in tech startups. Lighter Capital has helped companies such as Cloudbilt, Refer.com, Fusion Labs, Redspin and other with financing, providing an alternative to venture capital...
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