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AdReady; Microvision; Yahoo Autos; R.W. Beck; and more
AdReady, the Seattle online display advertising company, has named Paul Uhlir as director of client services. He is the founder of the Northwest Internet advertising group and the interactive agency Don't Blink. Meanwhile, Henry Blodget of Alley Insider discusses why online display ads don't suck.
The Cobalt Group's Dealix division has won a contract to supply the car quote and dealer selector tools on Yahoo Autos, with the partnership beginning Aug. 15.
Seattle's Earth Class Mail and Kansas-based Perfect Output plan to begin selling a new offering that brings together document-processing and mail-management services, with The Portland Business Journal reporting that the two companies have worked together on the system for the past 18 months at Sprint's Overland Park, Kansas campus.
Redmond-based Microvision has won a $1 million contract from Lockheed Martin Corp. to develop new wearable eyeware displays that soldiers can use to receive visual commands, geographic information and other images.
Seattle engineering firm R.W. Beck has been acquired by Science Applications International Corp. And while the companies didn't disclose the price, a source tells TechFlash that R.W. Beck -- founded in 1942 and employing more than 550 consultants -- sold for about $155 million.
TechCrunch reports that hosting provider RackSpace suffered yet another outage today, knocking some sites offline and mirroring the problems we've been reporting on after last Thursday night's Fisher Plaza data center fire. It marks the second major outage at Rackspace in the past week, with TechCrunch asking: "Why do power outages keep taking down a service that so many rely on?" We asked the same question about Fisher Plaza, and here's what experts said.
Clearwire plans an official launch of its WiMax service in Las Vegas on July 21, adding to Atlanta and Portland.
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