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Clearwire's outage; Verari's struggles; AdReady; and more
Verari Systems, a San Diego maker of blade storage technologies for data centers, appears to be hitting a rough patch in which many of the company's employees have been laid off, according to reports from Channel Register, Data Center Knowledge and PeHUb.com. Verari -- backed by Voyager Capital and others with about $80 million -- maintained an office in Seattle.
Clearwire suffered an outage of its broadband service last Tuesday night, with customers in Texas, Oregon, Las Vegas, Boise and parts of Chicago and Seattle losing service. Multichannel News reports that the outage in Texas, Oregon, Boise and Las Vegas was connected to a software upgrade with Motorola. The Chicago and Seattle outages were connected to individual cell sites. Clearwire -- which launched its WiMax network in Seattle on Dec. 1 -- said the network problems were resolved that day.
Zapproved, a Portland online collaboration and project management service, has named John Christiansen as vice president of sales. He previously served as vice president of business development at JD Supra and worked at CT Summation. More on Zapproved from this TechFlash story last winter.
Bellevue-based DataSphere and KOMO-TV owner Fisher Communications have syndicated their hyperlocal community blogging and advertising platform to another television station, ABC6 in Providence, R.I., operated by Global Broadcasting LLC. The companies recently announced their first syndication deals with two Cowles California Media stations.
Seattle startup Tango Card, which helps consumers manage gift cards online and through an iPhone application, is profiled in a story today in The Seattle Times. More from the company's Web site.
ComScore reports that online holiday shopping has topped $19.9 billion so far -- a three percent increase over the same period last year. And today -- now known as "Green Monday" --could be the biggest online shopping day of the year with sales possibly topping $900 million. More from comScore.
Shares of Dendreon are up three percent in trading this morning after the company said on Friday that it planned to receive $409.5 million from a stock offering. The Seattle biotech is looking to bring its prostate cancer drug to market next year.
AdReady, the Seattle startup that just appointed former aQuantive executive Karl Siebrecht as CEO, said that its self-service display advertising technology was named the "Best Ad Delivery Platform Innovation" at the Digital Publishing Advertising Conference.
Headline of the day comes via Fierce Wireless: "Lou Reed's iPhone app walks on the mild side."
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