Following up on an earlier post on the traffic growth at Redfin, Zillow and Trulia, Estately Chief Executive Galen Ward notes that traffic on a month-to-month basis increased 40 percent at the Seattle online real estate startup in January.

President Barack Obama is a PC user, according to MediaMemo's Peter Kafka. Remember, the president also was once spotted using a Zune.

Moody's has cut its rating on Paul Allen-backed Charter Communications in anticipation of a bankruptcy filing by the cable company.

PivotLink, a San Francisco business intelligence software company, has raised $10 million from StarVest Partners, Trident Capital and Emergence Capital Partners. Formerly known as SeaTab Software, about 70 percent of the company's work force is based in Bellevue.

Bellevue's Apptio, which helps corporations better manage the costs of their IT assets, has named Stan Shull to the position of vice president of business development. He previously worked at Intelligent Results and IBM's Rational Software unit.

Kirkland's 1Cast, a Craig McCaw-backed startupwhich is developing a personalized online video news service, has developed an online news application for Android mobile devices.

Cascadia Capital's Michael Butler was on KUOW this morning talking about venture investmens in the clean tech arena, noting that the venture market is "quite paralyzed by fear" and people are wondering "where clean tech goes from here." The piece (still looking for a link) also featured Optimum Energy of Seattle.

The tech layoff numbers really aren't that bad, says IDG.

John Barbour, the newly-appointed president of RealNetworks' gaming business, keynotes the Casual Connect gaming conference in Germany and tells the crowd that the casual games businss is maturing but doing well. “If we’re this gloomy [now], what would we be like if the business were declining 10 or 20 percent?” Barbour asked, according to a VentureBeat report.