Seattle ranks third in the nation in forecast retail investment for 2012, according to a new report by the real estate research firm Marcus & Millichap    . Encino, Calif.-based Marcus & Millichap cited strong growth in the Puget Sound area’s tech sector — notably by online retailer Amazon.com    ­— as a factor in […]

Good things come in threes — but do insanely great things? Apple execs took the stage at an event in California Wednesday to unveil the third iteration of the companys wildly popular iPad tablet, which features a stunning new high-resolution display that could rival a home television set. “You all have an HDTV at home, […]

Seattle-based Schnitzer West    LLC posted two of the top five real estate sales in King County in 2011, including the biggest deal of the year, the $350.5 million sale of the 1918 Eighth office building in Seattle. The sale was part of a “two-fer.” Schnitzer West sold both the 1918 Eighth building and the […]

Seattle was outranked by two cities in this year’s Payscale.com list of hotspots for technology startups. San Francisco topped the list produced by Seattle-based PayScale Inc    ., thanks to its median tech startup salary of $84,400 and the most startup job opportunities of the 50 cities that were studied. Austin, Texas, ranked second, narrowly […]