Aug 23, 2011, 10:53 AM Meet the Washington state companies that just landed on the Inc. 500 list Contour CEO Marc Barros is moving just as fast as one of the snowboarders who use his company’s helmet-mounted 3-D… Read More
Aug 23, 2011, 7:38 AM Maker of the ‘baddest earphones on the planet’ acquired by BDA Munitio earphones are made out of 9mm bullet casings, and they are built to provide mind-blowing sound. Now, the high-end… Read More
Aug 23, 2011, 6:00 AM Tech Moves: Datacastle hires Craig Blessing; Opscode co-founder Jesse Robbins honored; and more Datacastle, a Seattle company that helps organizations securely protect data as employees access corporate resources via the Web and mobile… Read More
Aug 22, 2011, 6:27 AM Inrix speeds ahead with buy of rival ITIS, looks to reduce global traffic congestion Inrix, the provider of real-time traffic information, just got a lot bigger. The Kirkland company said that it has completed… Read More
Aug 22, 2011, 3:00 AM Inspired by daughter’s illness, Medify CEO sets out to transform health info discovery Some startup companies are born out of complete necessity. Take, for instance, the situation facing Derek Streat who learned in… Read More
Aug 21, 2011, 3:47 PM Future Microsoft division Skype makes buy of its own, striking a deal for GroupMe Skype, in the process of being acquired by Microsoft for $8.5 billion, this afternoon got more company on the road… Read More
Aug 19, 2011, 12:55 PM Tech Moves: Point Inside taps Coleman to lead sales charge; Meteor names Joe Doran to board When we talked to Point Inside earlier this week about their new financing round, they indicated that some of the… Read More
Aug 19, 2011, 9:48 AM Can ex-Microsoft employees make great entrepreneurs? Guest commentary: I was casually talking with a partner at a local venture firm recently, and he lamented: “We don’t… Read More
Aug 19, 2011, 12:55 AM IPOs roared to life in first half of 2011, but worries arise that the good times may be gone IPO windows tend to come and go. For the past eight months, that window has been wide open, allowing companies… Read More
Aug 18, 2011, 10:27 AM Soak the rich: One entrepreneur’s take on fixing the debt crisis and saving the economy Let’s soak the rich. Apparently that’s what most Americans think should happen to reduce the deficit, including Warren Buffett. A recent… Read More
Aug 18, 2011, 12:03 AM Does working at Microsoft really turn your brain numb? Call it the Silicon Valley invasion. Facebook, Google, HP, Zynga and Salesforce.com — driven by an insatiable need for talented… Read More
Aug 17, 2011, 2:20 PM Microsoft cloud service Office 365 hit with outage We’ve been hearing reports today that Microsoft’s Office 365 service — which includes new online versions of Exchange, SharePoint and… Read More
Aug 17, 2011, 12:52 PM Point Inside pinpoints new cash, helps shoppers navigate malls and grocery stores Point Inside, which has developed mobile technologies that help people find their way through supermarkets, shopping malls, airports and theme… Read More
Aug 17, 2011, 10:30 AM Morning Radar: T-Mobile unveils the 4G BlackBerry Bold; state jobless rate stuck at 9.3%; etc. T-Mobile USA today rolled out its first 4g BlackBerry device, dubbed the BlackBerry Bold 9900. And the super thin smartphone… Read More
Aug 16, 2011, 10:27 PM SEOMoz considers $20M to $30M VC round, but Rand Fishkin says no ‘done deal’ yet SEOMoz CEO Rand Fishkin may raise a massive venture capital round in the range of $20 million to $30 million.… Read More
Aug 16, 2011, 7:13 PM Jason Goldberg reflects on the ups and downs at Jobster and why it missed becoming LinkedIn Jason Goldberg, who co-founded the online recruiting startup Jobster in 2003, was one of the more colorful characters in Seattle’s… Read More
Aug 16, 2011, 4:01 PM Tech Moves: Redfin bets big on analytics; Startup Digest curator lands at PopCap; and more Here’s a quick look at some of the folks taking on new roles at Pacific Northwest technology companies. Redfin is… Read More
Aug 16, 2011, 10:39 AM Cheezburger’s latest pursuit: Captions on polar bear photos and other random stuff Cheezburger Network grew to prominence by allowing its users to attach funny captions to dog and cat photos. But who… Read More
Aug 16, 2011, 9:53 AM Morning Radar: HasOffers to double staff; Mega Startup Weekend; Swype; and more HasOffers, the affiliate marketing company started by twin brothers Lucas and Lee Brown, is looking to hire 30 more staffers… Read More
Aug 16, 2011, 9:40 AM Venture capital is hot again as ‘up rounds’ surge Need more evidence that there’s a bubble forming in the tech industry. Look no further than a new report by… Read More
Aug 15, 2011, 4:37 PM Digital Chocolate finds a sweet deal, gobbles up Sandlot Games There’s been quite a bit of M&A activity in recent weeks in the casual gaming industry, highlighted by Electronic Arts’… Read More
Aug 15, 2011, 1:47 PM This 19-year-old just dropped out of Wharton to sleep on an air mattress and build a new startup When we introduced you to Wesley Zhao back in April, he was just a fresh-faced 18-year-old kid kicking around a new… Read More
Aug 15, 2011, 8:49 AM Intersect raises cash to help people chronicle and share their personal journeys It has been nearly a year since Peter Rinearson’s stealthy Intersect started testing its social networking service, a new way… Read More
Aug 14, 2011, 3:00 PM Y Combinator-backed Contagion merges with Health Month to form Habit Labs, moves from SF to Seattle Jen McCabe, who founded the Y Combinator-backed startup Contagion, thought about keeping her company in the San Francisco Bay Area… Read More
Aug 14, 2011, 8:24 AM The Startup’s Guide to Bootstrapping Marketing Twelve years ago, marketing was a primary recipient of the mountains of cash thrown at start-ups in an effort to… Read More
Aug 13, 2011, 4:50 PM Tech Moves: Robert Pease says goodbye to Gist; lawyer defections Sure, it’s technically summer time. But that doesn’t mean everyone is on vacation. Some folks are shifting jobs. Here’s a… Read More
Aug 12, 2011, 12:14 PM TinkerHouse Games injects a little fun into mobile gaming Mark Jessup and Lane Daughtry worked as “cogs” in the Seattle gaming industry for years. Now, the two developers are… Read More
Aug 12, 2011, 9:34 AM Despite bubble talk, VCs lost money over the past decade We’ve been talking a lot lately about the wild valuations being attached to fast-growing Internet companies, something that would make… Read More
Aug 12, 2011, 8:40 AM Confessions of an Uber driver: An inside look at Seattle’s new private driver service At 6:45 p.m. last night, I logged into the Uber iPhone app and requested a private driver. Within 10 minutes,… Read More
Aug 11, 2011, 4:29 PM IPOs, startups and market volatility: How do you make sense of what’s going on? The wild ups and downs of the stock market this week would be enough to send most sane investors to… Read More
