Journalists, look out: Tableau Public projects will soon be even more public

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Tableau Software charges for its premium software and technologies to visualize data in interactive charts, with security protections for confidential information. The company’s free Tableau Public service is different. As its name implies, Tableau Public is designed to be used with public data. It’s popular among journalists, bloggers and others. Tableau cautions Tableau Public users that the… Read More…

Here are 5 tech companies from Seattle that could take the IPO plunge in 2012

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The world may be waiting on a Facebook IPO. And while there’s some chatter about whether the $5 billion public offering from the social networking giant will open the floodgates for tech offerings, The Wall Street Journal today notes that it might be a new breed that actually woos Wall Street: enterprise IT companies. That’s… Read More…

A $10 billion Facebook IPO would be bigger than every tech IPO of 2011 (combined)

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Technology companies reeled in more cash via IPOs than any other sector in 2011, buoyed by public offerings from companies such as Zynga, Jive and LinkedIn. Zillow, the Seattle online real estate company which went public last July, also added to the total. According to an analysis by IPO Dashboards, technology companies raised more than… Read More…

Q&A: Tableau growing fast in Seattle region, with pedigree from Pixar, Stanford

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The past couple years have brought big growth for Tableau Software, a Seattle-based company that makes technology for analyzing and visualizing data. With about 6,000 customers across a variety of industries, the company doubled from 100 people in January 2010 to 200 people at the beginning of this year. Tableau has added another 70 people… Read More…