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PHOTODISC: ONE SHOT AT A GOOD IMPRESSION SEATTLE - By 2000 Mark Torrance pictures half of PhotoDisc Inc.'s revenues coming from its Internet site. That's significant when you take into [...]

Formerly a manufacturer of security software, the firm now takes a broader approach Over the past 18 months, Aventail Corp. has successfully made the transition from a security software maker [...]

Interactive Objects Inc. of Redmond, WA, has reduced its workforce by nearly 50% to 14 by laying off 11 positions as it consolidated operations into its much-larger office in Seattle, WA. The software firm increased its staff earlier in 1998 after projecting rapid growth, but failed to secure adequate cash infusion. Interactive Objects cited adverse market conditions in shelving plans to raise an additional $6 million in debt financing, despite landing $6 million from foreign investors earlier in 1998. Interactive CEO Steve Wollach said the firm is expected to post sales of around $3 million in 1998, rather than previously anticipated $7 million.

Everett AquaSox owners Bob and Margaret Bavasi have entered a deal to sell the minor league baseball team to Mark Sperandio for a rumored price of about $3 million. AquaSox recently concluded a renovation valued at $5.5 million of Everett Memorial Stadium, plus ended a short season with record ticket sales and attendance. The new facility enabled the team to sell a record season tickets of over 700, with hopes of increasing attendance by half to a record 120,000 overall. AquaSox is also seeking a boost in concession, merchandising and sponsorship sales by 50%.

Equator Technologies Inc. is preparing to launch a revolutionary multimedia chip that could speed the convergence of computer and video technologies. The start-up firm with backings of over $39.5 million from investment funds and consumer electronics firms in Japan, has been quietly developing the chip for the past four years. Equator designed the chip for use by manufacturers of televisions and other consumer electronics devices, with a potential to bring television and computer technologies together quicker and less expensive.

Encoding.com makes it possible to put sound, video and film in front of Web audiences After eight years at Microsoft Corp. and fresh from starting in the documentary movie 'Biker [...]

Carver Corp. shareholders have heard this tune before: The stereo component company is poised for a turnaround. But can Bob Fulton, Carver's fourth president in as many years, finally put [...]

Bauer Kinnear, facing creditors' pressure, may sell Black Diamond project Financially strapped concert promoter Bauer Kinnear Enterprises Inc., hounded by creditors and by the state over huge debts, may abandon [...]

Paul Brainerd, the soft-spoken and reserved CEO of Aldus Corp., used a stark, powerful image to ignite his troops in January 1992: a Cairo street fighter, clad in an orange [...]

Wall Data, Attachmate, WRQ thrive on connections In a high-tech dance where mainframes and minicomputers rumba with personal computers, three of the top dancers call the Puget Sound area their [...]

Valve Inc. is running wide open to keep up with demand for its hot new software game Simply by listening to its customers, a Kirkland start-up has vaulted to near [...]

The proliferation of publicly traded companies in the past few years has prompted the formation of two new Seattle companies offering help with investor relations. Both are the outgrowth of [...]

Interactive Objects Inc. has raised $6 million in a private placement of stock, a transaction the small publicly traded software company hopes to use to pump up its assets and [...]

Kent book distributor Pacific Pipeline Inc. next week will begin supplying multimedia computer software to 13 independent bookstores in five Western states. The launch, guided by two former Egghead Discount [...]

Craig McCaw has a hard time describing his three-year negotiations leading to the $12.6 billion blockbuster deal between McCaw Cellular Communications Inc. and AT&T Corp. 'It was almost like a [...]

Unknown Saros Corp. quietly crept into the list of top 10 local software companies in the past three years, with revenue growing 300 percent last year. With a new product [...]

Steve McCaffray has his fingers crossed. The president of National Frozen Foods Corp. hopes the rain will let up soon and that the summer sun won't sizzle farmers' crops. 'We're [...]

The morning that Frank Pritt resigned from his sales and marketing position at Harris Corp. to start Attachmate Corp. in December 1982, another company launched the same product he wanted [...]

Focuses on the major deals in Washington State for 1994. Includes initial public offerings by companies; Peggy White's management of Royal Oak Mines Inc.; Alex, Brown & Sons' agreement with Starbucks Corp.

Reports on developments concerning the restaurant industry in Washington, for the week ending December 13, 1996. Includes the recreation of El Gaucho; World Wrapps' opening of its fourth location in Seattle; Mondo Burrito's expansion of its menu and addition of a take-out service.