Blues Wireless, an IoT startup founded by former Microsoft exec Ray Ozzie, has raised $22 million from investors including Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates. Sequoia Capital and former Stripe exec Lachy… Read More
Collaboration software pioneer and former Microsoft executive Ray Ozzie has raised $11 million for his latest startup, Blues Wireless, an IoT company that aims to make it easy to connect… Read More
Talko, the mobile communications startup co-founded by former Microsoft chief software architect Ray Ozzie, has been acquired by Microsoft’s Skype division, the companies just announced. All of the startup’s employees… Read More
Software pioneer Ray Ozzie knows a thing or two about the inner workings of Microsoft. After all, Ozzie spent five years at the company from 2005 to 2010, serving as… Read More
What has Ray Ozzie been focusing on since leaving his position as Microsoft’s chief software architect? Here’s the answer. A new app and online service called Talko, from a company co-founded by the… Read More
HP today named three new directors to its board, and one of the new faces will be very familiar to the computer maker’s longtime partners in Redmond: Ray Ozzie, the… Read More
The last time we caught up with software pioneer Ray Ozzie, he was talking about the power of one’s connections in making startups a success. Well, Ozzie certainly is one… Read More
Ray Ozzie, the software pioneer best known around these parts as Microsoft’s former chief software architect, was the surprise keynote speaker at the TechStars Seattle Demo Day this afternoon. His… Read More
This week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast: Seattle rock legend Dave Dederer shares the inside secrets of digital music; tech pioneer Ray Ozzie reflects on his tenure at… Read More
[Updated with video above] Our opening conversation at the GeekWire Summit featured Ray Ozzie, the online collaboration pioneer and former Microsoft chief software architect — his first detailed interview since… Read More
You only get to celebrate your first birthday once, and we partied in style on Wednesday as we hosted more than 500 of our friends at the first-ever GeekWire Summit… Read More
[The program will start around 1:30 p.m.] We’ve lined up some great speakers this afternoon for the GeekWire Summit in Seattle — including conversations with online collaboration pioneer Ray Ozzie… Read More
We’re gearing up for our big GeekWire Summit, the inaugural half-day conference March 7 in downtown Seattle. Last week we announced the participation of former Microsoft chief software architect Ray… Read More
As journalists and participants in the Pacific Northwest tech community, we’ve long believed that Seattle deserves a world-class tech conference that involves people not only from our region but also from other tech… Read More
Ray Ozzie, the Lotus Notes creator who replaced Bill Gates as Microsoft’s chief software architect, lifted the lid just a bit today on a new startup that he’s been cooking… Read More