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Univ. of Washington rolls out new licensing process to streamline negotiations with spinouts

GeekWire

This week the UW unveiled Husky FAST Start , a new licensing process meant to speed up startup license discussions. universities more control over technology licensing. 1 in 2018 among public universities for the amount of federal money spent annually on research and development. public university.

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Avalara reports $127.9M in Q3 revenue and acquires assets from Business Licenses for $97M

GeekWire

Avalara beat analyst expectations for its third fiscal quarter and said it acquired the assets of Business Licenses. The company said it paid $97 million in cash and stock to buy the operational assets of Business Licenses , a Monsey, N.Y.-based based company that helps customers with business license compliance.

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New rules streamline procedures for licensing commercial space imaging systems

GeekWire

The Commerce Department has released a new set of rules aimed at making the procedure for licensing Earth-imaging satellite systems more in tune with what’s technically possible and commercially available on the global market. The regulatory streamlining effort was one of the initiatives sparked by Space Policy Directive 2 back in 2018.

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Senrio: Know your environment

CTOvision

From their website: It's 2018 and chances are you still don't actually know what's on your network. The reality for most enterprises is their networks are suffering from major install-gaps and software licensing volume mismatches. They’re also crawling [.].

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Apple head of security accused of offering iPads as bribes for concealed gun permits

The Verge

A California grand jury has indicted Apple’s head of global security on charges that he tried to bribe Santa Clara County officials to procure firearms (CCW) licenses, according to a news release. In the case of four CCW licenses withheld from Apple employees, Undersheriff Sung and Cpt. The charges came after a two-year investigation.

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Amazon settles for $2.5M with Washington AG over pesticide sales by third-party merchants

GeekWire

“Amazon sold these regulated pesticides on its site without a license, and without verifying the licenses of Restricted Use Pesticide purchasers, or collecting other legally required information, like the intended use of the pesticide,” the AG’s office said in a press release announcing the settlement.

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Google: The top search query on Bing is "Google"

TechSpot

In 2018 the European Union hit Google with a €4.34 The infraction concerned how Google required Android device manufacturers to pre-install its search engine and Chrome browser to be granted a license to the Google Play store. billion (around $5 billion) fine for an antitrust violation. EU regulators also claimed.

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