Seattle-area crypto exchange Bittrex responded to a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, claiming that the legal move is part of regulators’ “larger crusade to drive cryptocurrency… Read More
A Bothell, Wash., man whose wife was previously a finance manager at Amazon, has pleaded guilty to securities fraud for his role in an insider trading scheme involving the couple… Read More
A former senior manager in Amazon’s tax department has been charged with insider trading by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Laksha Bohra allegedly acquired confidential information while she prepared and… Read More
Federal regulators are looking into Slack’s stock market debut earlier this year as part of a broader investigation focused on recent tech IPOs, according to a new report. The Wall… Read More
Microsoft will pay more than $25 million to settle a bribery probe by the U.S. Department of Justice and Securities and Exchange Commission into foreign corruption allegations. DOJ and SEC… Read More
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has reached a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission to keep his Twitter habit in check — and feels comfortable enough with the arrangement to… Read More
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is in trouble again with the Securities and Exchange Commission, this time over a 13-word tweet. The SEC filed a motion in federal court on Monday,… Read More
For the first time earlier this year, Amazon announced that its popular Prime membership program had topped 100 million accounts worldwide. However, it did not specify the exact number of memberships,… Read More
Tesla’s billionaire CEO and chairman, Elon Musk, is calling the Securities and Exchange Commission’s fraud claims against him “unjustified” after reportedly passing up a settlement deal that would have temporarily… Read More
The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged Tesla’s billionaire CEO and chairman, Elon Musk, with securities fraud over a series of controversial tweets focusing on the electric-car company’s future financial… Read More
Nasdaq has hit Impinj with a “notice of deficiency” for failing to report its quarterly earnings on time, after the maker of connected chips to track and identify billions of… Read More
Joe Wallin, a longtime startup attorney in the Seattle region, was recently floated as a potential nominee for the Securities and Exchange Commission by the Angel Capital Association in a… Read More
T-Mobile added 8.3 million customers last year, with 2.1 million added in the last quarter alone, stats that the company announced in a formal release this morning. But if you want… Read More
Google’s argument for why it shouldn’t have to break out mobile revenues is because it’s not sure how to differentiate one mobile platform from the next. “It is increasingly challenging to… Read More
While CEO Marissa Mayer has been critical of Yahoo’s deal with Microsoft, it seems like the partnership may be more beneficial to the company than originally revealed. Bloomberg reported today… Read More
Seattle angel investor Dan Rosen has worked hard in recent months to shed light on the potentially damaging effects that proposed regulations in the JOBS Act could have on startups, pointing… Read More
While Apple is still locked in a tussle over whether or not its e-book contracts violate the Sherman Antitrust Act, another government agency’s investigation has found the company to be… Read More
The world changes for startups on September 23. How? On that date, thanks to the JOBS Act, it will become legal for startups to “generally solicit” and “generally advertise” their securities… Read More
Nearly every week I come across a startup company or investment firm that offers this explanation when I ask for more details about their financing efforts: “We can’t talk about… Read More
It is shaping up to be another rough day on Wall Street for Zillow, the Seattle online real estate company. Shares of Zillow dropped more than four percent — and were… Read More