Puget Sound Business Journal Launches TechFlash.com

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Puget Sound Business Journal today announced the beta launch of TechFlash (http://www.techflash.com), Seattle’s technology news source. The website and online community – published by the Business Journal and led by veteran journalists Todd Bishop and John Cook – debuts with the kind of breaking news and analysis readers can expect consistently in the coming months and years.

“We intend to build the region’s pre-eminent technology news source, filled with breaking news and useful data, and enriched by the participation and involvement of people throughout the technology community,” said Emory Thomas Jr., publisher of the Business Journal and TechFlash. “By bringing Bishop and Cook into the Business Journal fold with our own national award-winning staff writer Eric Engleman, we have assembled a dream team of tech reporting expertise.”

Bishop and Cook have more than 15 years of combined experience covering technology and business in the Seattle region, most recently as reporters at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. They both will continue to blog on the new site, with Bishop covering companies such as Microsoft, and Cook covering venture capital, startups and entrepreneurs.

TechFlash will draw not only on the steadily growing subscriber base of the Puget Sound Business Journal, but also on the bizjournals.com network of local business journal sites, which reaches more than 8 million monthly unique visitors.

TechFlash will offer insight, analysis and breaking news on the Pacific Northwest's growing technology industry, from startup companies to tech giants such as Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT), Amazon.com (Nasdaq:AMZN), Google (Nasdaq:GOOG) and others. The site will also include guest columnists and interactive features.

The beta version of TechFlash launches today, with additional features such as an online tech job board to be added over time.

About the Puget Sound Business Journal

The Puget Sound Business Journal is the region's premier source of business information, serving an unparalleled audience of business and community leaders. In addition to the weekly newspaper, the Business Journal provides daily updates via its website and e-mail alerts. Puget Sound Business Journal is a unit of American City Business Journals, which operates 41 local business newspapers throughout the United States. For more information, visit www.pugetsoundbusinessjournal.com.