Seattle-based Kiha Software, which has raised $20 million from Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) co-founder Paul Allen, launched Aro Mobile, a product in beta for Android devices that it supposed to make your phone smarter, and link together email, SMS, calendar and contacts to make your phone into a virtual assistant.

Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) Corp. co-founder Paul Allen is suing Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and nine other companies indirectly through his firm Interval (NSDQ: IILG) Licensing alleging that the technology giants are violating patents developed at a lab in Silicon Valley that he financed more than a decade ago,…

Paul Allen, the billionaire Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) cofounder whose own empire spans tech, science, sports, and entertainment, has started chemotherapy for non-Hodgkin lymphoma. His sister Jody Allen informed the staff of his investment company Vulcan of the diagnosis and treatment in a memo today; she asked for privacy but the…

The Federal Communications Commission released the names of 266 “short-form” applicants for the 700 MHz spectrum auction scheduled to start Jan. 24. (Pdfs of the lists here and here.) Among the names: Vulcan Spectrum LLC with Paul Allen, majority owner of Charter (NSDQ: CHTR) Communications; AT&T (NYSE: T) Mobility Spectrum…