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WiMax in Portland; OVP's solar bet; Tim Draper; and more
Clearwire has begun offering a new pricing plan for its WiMax service in Portland and Atlanta, including an unlimited home and mobile bundled offering for $55 per month, reports MuniWireless.
Venture capitalist Tim Draper and others are creating a new stock exchange called Xchange where investors can buy and sell stakes in private, startup companies.
President Barack Obama is set to announce a new cybersecurity czar later this week with the The Washington Post reporting that the yet-to-be-named government official will have "broad authority to develop strategy to protect the nation's government-run and private computer networks."
The PSBJ's Kirsten Grind takes a tour of Sharebuilder's new Pioneer Square headquarters in the old Seattle Hardware Company Building, which it moved into over the weekend.
Amazon.com is giving Kindle users a way to read the notes and highlights they make on the device online, TechCrunch reports. For now, it's a read-only function, and people can't share or edit their Kindle notes on the web.
OVP Venture Partners is among the investors in the $10 million round for Tigo Energy, a Los Gatos, Calif.-based company that is developing monitoring software for solar power installations.
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