Paul Allen

Paul Allen's investment firm cuts staff

The Portland Business Journal (Free subscription) | 06/25/2009

Billionaire Paul Allen's private investment firm, Vulcan, has laid off more workers.

Paul Allen's investment firm cuts staff

The Puget Sound Business Journal (Free subscription) | 06/24/2009

Billionaire Paul Allen's private investment firm, Vulcan, has laid off more workers. The Seattle company — which operates the Microsoft Corp. co-founder's real estate, financial and personal holdings —cut 17 employees today in its technical department, citing the tough economy.

Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen Launches New Company

Maximum PC all RSS Feed (Free subscription) | 06/24/2009

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen may not be as popularly synonymous with wealth as is his more illustrious peer Bill Gates, but he has been among the richest people of the world for many years on the trot. Now he has decided to use a modicum of his immense wealth for a fresh business venture. He has launched Xiant, a software company, which will be developing “tools that make your time at the...

Microsoft co-founder selling software to organize e-mail

Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 06/23/2009

Microsoft Corp. co-founder Paul Allen is selling his first broad consumer software since he left the company more than two decades ago, a program that lets users keep better track of e-mails in Microsoft’s Outlook.

Paul Allen launches startup Xiant

The Portland Business Journal (Free subscription) | 06/22/2009

Paul Allen must be sick and tired of wading through email.

Paul Allen sells 28M shares of Charter stock for less than $1,000

The Portland Business Journal (Free subscription) | 06/20/2009

Paul Allen this week sold 28.5 million shares of bankrupt Charter Communications.

• Paul Allen sells 28M shares of Charter stock for less than $1,000 - The Puget Sound Business Journal

Caterina Fake's Hunch.com, launching Monday, is already redefining 'decision engine'

TechChuck (Free subscription) | 06/10/2009

Microsoft's megabucks advertising campaign for Bing.com couldn't have come at a better time for Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake's new consumer advice site, Hunch .com. With much pomp and circumstance, Microsoft is trumpeting the notion of a " decision engine " -- an online service that helps users make the right choice on a variety of lifestyle and purchasing questions. That description...

Why I'm Suing Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen

Silicon Alley Insider (Free subscription) | 06/09/2009

Charter Communications shareholder Herb Lair is suing Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen for securities fraud. Here, he explains why. Paul Allen, who started Microsoft with Bill Gates, left Microsoft a few years ago and began making a lot of investments. One of those was Charter Communications. Many thought he paid too much for [local cable] systems that he bought around 1999 and thereafter. However,...

Universities Exist for Themselves, Not for Students

Al Fin (Free subscription) | 06/05/2009

Image Source Surprising Facts About Some of the World's Most Successful Failures 1. The richest man in the world twelve years running, Bill Gates, with a net worth of $52 billion, is a dropout. 2. Four of the ten richest people in the world are dropouts (number 1, Bill Gates; number 6, Sheldon Adelson, worth $26 billion; number 8, Amancio Ortega, worth $24 billion, Li Ka-shing, worth 23 billion). 3....

Microsoft in 1978

Digital Living (Free subscription) | 05/22/2009

Below is the whole company's employee photograph - circa 1978. Microsoft was 11 people at that time, and that's all. Bill Gates & Paul Allen at the helm of Microsoft leadership. The current Mr. Steve Ballm*r is not yet around...

Paul Allen taps new investment manager

Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 05/15/2009

Billionaire Paul Allen has changed investment managers, his holding company, Vulcan, announced today.

Bill Gates and Paul Allen To Enter Xconomy Battle of the Tech Bands (Sort Of)

Xconomy (Free subscription) | 05/14/2009

Are you ready to rock? We’ve already received quite a few submissions from Seattle-area musicians in the tech and life sciences community who want to compete in the Xconomy Battle of the Tech Bands. The big competition is happening at the WTIA Summer Celebration at the Pyramid Ale House on July 30. (Event details and [...]

Charter chairman sells 2 Portland radio stations

The St Louis Business Journal (Free subscription) | 05/13/2009

A veteran radio executive has entered into an agreement to acquire two Portland radio stations from St. Louis-based Charter Communications' chairman, billionaire Paul Allen.

Allen sells two Portland radio stations

The Puget Sound Business Journal (Free subscription) | 05/12/2009

Billionaire Paul Allen is selling two Portland, Ore. radio stations to a veteran radio executive. (MSFT)

DirecTV sued over ads on Charter Communication's bankruptcy case

Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 05/12/2009

Charter Communications, controlled by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, is suing DirecTV Group Inc. over advertisements that try to persuade subscribers to switch TV service by touting Charter's bankruptcy filing.