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Blocking telemarketers, Onvia's profits, Mpire's board, and more
Seattle's Kedlin Company was one of the winners in Verizon's Apply Your Ideas contest. Kedlin won in the "Save Time" category for its Call Control application, which blocks telemarketers' calls to BlackBerry devices.
Seattle-based Onvia has inked deals with Msnbc.com and American City Business Journals (publisher of TechFlash) to provide details on federal stimulus funding and projects in specific regions. The deals follow news yesterday that Onvia posted net income of $167,000, the first profit since the third quarter of 2007. Onvia also said revenue increased 28 percent during the quarter to $6.6 million.
Evri, the Paul Allen-backed online content discovery startup, is placing its technology on the Yahoo Sports NFL team pages in order to show connections between teams and players. You can see how it works in the right column of this Seattle Seahawks page on Yahoo.
InstantAction, an online gaming site owned by IAC, is moving its headquarters from Eugene, Oregon to Portland with plans to increase its workforce by 25 percent.
Hodgman
Will Hodgman, executive vice president at comScore and founder of M:Metrics and AdRelevance, has joined the board of Seattle startup Mpire. The company also named former United Online and Hearst employee Sandy Streim to vice president of east coast sales and former RealNetworks general manager Andy Terentjev to vice president of business development.
Seattle digital events and marketing agency Worktank has promoted Carrie Byrne to the position of creative director and Corey Pilkington to director of clients services.
Dendreon nearly doubled its net loss to $45.6 million during the third quarter as the Seattle biotech reported $25,000 in revenue.
PeHub.com takes a look at the recent negative spiral of the Omeros initial public offering, as well as the lawsuit facing the Seattle biotech brought by former executive Richard Klein.
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