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“It’s a window … not a flag.”

Microsoft Corp. co-founder Paul Allen said he thinks "it’s exciting to think about the NBA coming back to Seattle and renewing the rivalry with the Portland Trail Blazers," the NBA team that he owns.

If Amazon.com Inc. developed its own smartphone, customers would react with indifference, but with slightly more enthusiasm than if Facebook Inc. introduced its own phone. (AMZN)

Clearwire Corp. says it may need a lot more capital because it doesn't know how much money it's going to make from a new mobile broadband network it's building. (CLWR)

Apple Inc. may have the lead in the tablet market right now, but Amazon.com Inc.'s Kindle Fire is eating into that lead. (AMZN)

Seattle landowner Al Clise, who is in the midst of a huge land sale to Amazon.com Inc., said his family’s 13-acre swath of the city's Denny Triangle area was not on the market last fall when Seattle real estate consulting firm Seneca Group approached him on behalf of Amazon. (AMZN)

Former Microsoft heavyweight Nathan Myhrvold’s company Intellectual Ventures has filed a patent lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Delaware against cellphone carriers AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint.

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It appears that Tim Cook, CEO of Apple Inc., isn't too worried about competition from Microsoft Corp., telling the Wall Street Journal that "I don't really think anything Microsoft does puts pressure on Apple." (MSFT)

Amazon.com Inc. reportedly plans to buy three blocks from Clise Properties in Seattle's Denny Triangle area and build a 1-million-square-foot office tower on each of them. (AMZN)

Reports that Amazon.com Inc. is negotiating to purchase a portion of the Clise family’s 12-plus-acre swath of property in the Denny Triangle have Seattle real estate executives abuzz.

RealNetworks CEO Thomas Nielsen announced Wednesday (Feb. 15) that the company would again be restructuring after posting a disappointing 8 percent drop in revenue, down to $335.7 million for 2011.

Clearwire Corp., which has had so many ups and downs lately that its future has been in doubt at times, announced record revenue Wednesday (Feb. 15), but a widening operating loss for both the fourth quarter and for 2011 as a whole.

Seattle-based real estate website Zillow.com announced Wednesday (Feb. 15) that its revenue more than doubled in 2011, to $66.1 million from $30.5 million the year before.

Cisco Systems Inc. is reportedly looking for a European Union court to overturn antitrust approval of Microsoft Corp. 's acquisition of international calling service Skype Technologies SA for $8.5 billion, according to a Bloomberg article on Wednesday. (CSCO) (MSFT)...