Report: Facebook and Microsoft eyeing Tumblr as Yahoo sets Monday press event

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Where is Tumblr going to end up? Reports have been circulating that the New York-based microblogging and social networking powerhouse is in the crosshairs of Yahoo, with a potential price tag hanging on Tumblr over $1 billion. Adding some mystique to the reports, Yahoo just announced that it plans to host a product related news… Read More…

Q&A with Tableau CEO Christian Chabot: ‘We’ve been working our whole lives to become an overnight success’

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Seven years ago in small office space in the Fremont neighborhood, Tableau Software CEO Christian Chabot boldly told me that his 25-person enterprise software company would be the next billion dollar company from Seattle. ”We believe it, like we believe anything,” Chabot said at the time. Today, that belief finally became a reality as Tableau skyrocketed in… Read More…

Video: Watch the very happy Tableau team ring the opening bell on the NYSE

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It doesn’t get much better than this for a group of entrepreneurs. Tableau Software made its debut on the New York Stock Exchange this morning, with CEO Christian Chabot ringing the opening bell after their IPO priced at $31 per share. Wall Street obviously liked what they saw in the maker of data visualization products…. Read More…

Shares of Tableau Software surge more than 50% as IPO sparkles on Wall Street

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Tableau Software is starting on the New York Stock Exchange today with a bang. After pricing its initial public offering Thursday night at $31, the stock took off in early-morning trading. Shares jumped more than 50 percent, with the stock now trading at more than $47 per share. Tableau, a Seattle-based maker of data visualization… Read More…

Amazon.com and Google employees bullish on future, but 25% of Microsofties say things will get worse

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Microsoft just hit a five-year stock high, and during the last quarterly financial report posted profits of $6 billion. But still a quarter of employees at the software giant think things are going to get worse, and just 35 percent say the business is going to improve over the next six months, according to a… Read More…

This tech startup just turned a hip Seattle bar into an amazing hang-out space

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You’ve heard the stories of the amazing perks now being offered to employees of tech companies, from massages to paid vacations to free lunches. Not to be outdone by its big-company rivals, Seattle startup HasOffers just opened a new kitchen area and hang-out space a block away from its headquarters in a former Belltown bar. The… Read More…

Here’s what the VCs and founders will make in Tableau’s blockbuster IPO

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Tableau Software is expected to go public tonight on the New York Stock Exchange, a significant milestone for the 10-year-old maker of data visualization products. Demand appears to be very strong, with Tableau on Wednesday boosting the expected pricing range to $28 to $30 per share. Of course, that could mean a windfall for early… Read More…

SquareHub emerges with high-profile backers and a goal to connect families

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Dave Cotter is a divorced father of three girls — a busy guy who struggles to keep up with his family’s hectic schedule. “My ex wife and I were just looking for a better way to stay coordinated,” says Cotter, a well known entrepreneur who previously served as a general manager at Amazon.com. From that personal… Read More…

How Tesla is just like Apple: ‘Everything we do is impossible’

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Former Apple retail executive George Blankenship used to be a self-described “Porsche guy.” Then, a couple years ago, Tesla founder Elon Musk put him behind the wheel of a Roadster. “I was in the car 45 seconds, and I knew I had to be with this company,” recalled Blankenship, who now serves as vice president… Read More…