Geek of the Week: Maria Zhang’s big-data startup shows you what’s ‘Alike’

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Maria Zhang, a software engineer and startup founder who has worked at companies including Microsoft and Zillow, knows a thing or two about gleaning useful information from huge volumes of data. She and her team are using that approach to help people find places to go, and things to buy. Their new app, Alike, debuted… Read More…

Videos: Why Seattle’s tech community is so awesome (in the words of Seattleites)

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Nearly every week there’s a new survey or study out showcasing how Seattle’s technology community ranks among the top in jobs, wages, venture capital or some other metric. Just today, in fact, the Interactive Advertising Bureau ranked Washington state as having the third most number of employees working in businesses associated with Internet advertising. (Behind New… Read More…