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Amazon venturing onto Powell’s home turf, picks Portland for third brick-and-mortar bookstore

Posted on June 18, 2016 by verx in Science & patent news

For 45 years, Powell’s Books has defined what success means in the bookstore business.

Now, the highly-regarded Portland bookstore is getting some serious competition in its hometown from a company that...

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Paul Allen’s Portland Trail Blazers use Microsoft’s Cortana technology to sell tickets and engage fans

Posted on May 9, 2016 by verx in Science & patent news

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Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen probably didn’t think that the company he co-founded would one day help his NBA team sell more tickets and engage with fans more effectively. But that’s exactly what the Portland Trail Blazers are doing with Microsoft’s Cortana Intelligence Suite.

The team,...

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Airbnb opens engineering center in Portland, its first outside of San Francisco HQ

Posted on January 15, 2016 by verx in Science & patent news

Inside Airbnb's Portland office. Photo via Airbnb.

Airbnb is opening its first engineering center outside of San Francisco. The Bay Area hospitality company announced today that it is expanding its existing office in Portland to include product and engineering teams. This marks the first time Airbnb will...

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Microsoft donates $500k to Portland college where Steve Jobs was a dropout

Posted on January 14, 2016 by verx in Science & patent news

Reed College, founded in 1908 in southeast Portland, Ore. (Reed.edu)

Microsoft has made a significant contribution aimed at jumpstarting a computer science program at Reed College in Portland, Ore. Students proficient in irony would be quick to note that Apple co-founder Steve Jobs...

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New mega arcade and pinball museum is coming to Portland

Posted on December 24, 2015 by verx in Science & patent news

Photo via Google Maps/Portland's Alhambra Theatre

Portland will soon have one more thing Seattle doesn’t — a mega video game and pinball arcade set to open next spring. According to Willamette Week, the new “steampunk video game palace” called Quarterworld is expected to open in the...

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Portland passes permanent laws to legalize Uber, Lyft

Posted on December 2, 2015 by verx in Science & patent news

Uber and Lyft will now operate under permanent transportation laws in Portland. The Portland City Council today voted 3-2 to approve new regulations for transportation network companies (TNCs) like Uber and Lyft, which have been operating in the Rose City under temporary laws for the past six months. You can view the regulations here, which require TNCs to provide trip data to...

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