GeekWire Meetup is Feb. 13: A fireside chat with Tableau CEO Christian Chabot

Christian Chabot

Tableau Software CEO Christian Chabot bluntly told me in an interview seven years ago that his young 25-person software startup would be “the next billion-dollar company from Seattle.” Bold words. But fast forward to today, and Chabot is well on his way to fulfilling that promise. Tableau now employs more than 700 people worldwide who… Read More…

Powerit fuels up with new cash infusion, looks to cut energy bills for big industrial clients

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Powerit Solutions, a 10-year-old Seattle company that helps large industrial customers reduce energy costs, has raised $2.5 million in fresh funding that it will use to embed its software in the industrial automation, utility, and smart grid infrastructure. The cash infusion also will help the company expand in Europe, and launch its Spara cloud platform next… Read More…

Newsmakers 2012: Apptio’s Sunny Gupta swings for the fences

Sunny Gupta, CEO and Co-Founder of Apptio

The thing we’ve always liked about Sunny Gupta is that he’s not playing “small ball.” Nope, the entrepreneur is taking a big swing for the fences with Apptio, a Bellevue company that’s developing new ways for corporate IT departments to manage costs. And Gupta, who previously co-founded iConclude, took a big step up to the plate… Read More…

Former F5 and Isilon exec Brett Helsel joins Apptio as VP of engineering

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Apptio continues to gobble up top talent as it heads toward an initial public offering. The Bellevue enterprise software maker has hired Brett Helsel as senior vice president of engineering operations, a notable addition to the team given his experience helping build two of the region’s biggest tech infrastructure companies. Helsel most recently ran the… Read More…

These 11 tech giants are paying software engineers on average $100,000 or more

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The market for software developers remains red hot. And companies looking to attract the best and brightest minds are paying top dollar —  stressing yet again the need for additional educational resources in the fields of science, engineering and math. According to a new study out this week by jobs and career site Glassdoor, 11 tech giants… Read More…

Ask Andru: How do I convert cassette tapes to digital format?

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With the move to cloud and digital content that’s taken the world by storm, older technologies have fallen by the wayside. The problem, though, is that there are still plenty of great pieces of content that are relegated to VHS, film reels, cassette tapes, and records. Today in my Ask Andru column, we have a… Read More…

IT automation software firm UC4 sold for $270 million

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UC4, a Bellevue maker of IT process automation software, has been purchased by private equity firm EQT for $270 million. The company had previously been owned by The Carlyle Group, which purchased the company in 2006. UC4′s software is used by more than 2,000 companies such as Cracker Barrel and DoubleClick, helping them automate tasks… Read More…

Ready to IPO? Tableau Software’s bookings top $58 million for first half of 2012

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Tableau Software is one of Seattle’s rising tech stars, and we’ve speculated in the past that the fast-growing maker of visual analytics software could be a candidate to go public at some time in the near future. But just how is Tableau doing? At an open house Thursday night at Tableau’s headquarters in Fremont, we got… Read More…

Startup Spotlight: Spiral Genetics offers software to help scientists analyze DNA

CEO Adina Mangubat

DNA analysis allows scientists to dig deep into one’s genetic makeup, discovering if an individual is predisposed to a certain disorder or disease.  While advances around DNA analysis have allowed scientists to more quickly analyze one’s DNA, a Seattle startup by the name of Spiral Genetics believes it can do it even faster and cheaper Scientists come… Read More…

Ask Andru: How do I prepare my Mac for Mountain Lion?

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Apple is set to release its next major operating system update, known os OS X Mountain Lion, later this month. In this edition of Ask Andru, Tracy writes in and asks if there is anything she should do to prepare her Mac computers for the Mountain Lion installation. I share some tips on what we… Read More…