Seattle’s own Little Internet Service Provider That Could, legendarily started out of a cafe in Belltown in 1995, has just been bought out by Best Buy. Spokespeople, natch, promise no changes on the customer-service level; though the hereby-linked press release emphasizes small businesses as the firm’s current target customer, not the home user.

It should be pointed out that, in the post-dot-com-crash hi-tech biz, unloading one’s whole company to a bigger fish is often considered the highest sign of success, rather than any sign of failure.