Buddy, a Seattle-based company that manages building energy, today announced its intention to acquire LIFX, a smart light maker based in Silicon Valley. Buddy will pay $51 million in cash… Read More
LAS VEGAS — It’s hard enough to navigate the showroom floor at CES without knocking into people or bumping products perched on booth tables. Roll a cute robot into the… Read More
Seattle-based startup Buddy is going public, but not in the way you might expect. In one of the more unique acquisition deals we’ve come across, the Internet-of-Things (IoT) data platform is… Read More
Buddy, the Seattle-based provider of backend services for connected devices, launched a new platform today for hosting and managing data generated by internet-connected devices. Developers can set up their devices… Read More
—WhitePages has hired Rob Eleveld as vice president of sales for the company’s PRO division. Eleveld is the former CEO of Optify, a Seattle marketing software startup that shut its… Read More
It’s a big day for Buddy. The Kirkland-based company, which provides back-end mobile app support, today introduced a new “Sound-as-a-Service” product that allows developers to choose from more than 20,000… Read More
Charlie Kindel, a Seattle angel investor and former general manager of Microsoft’s Windows Phone unit, has joined the advisory board of Seattle mobile app management startup Buddy Platform. Kindel stepped… Read More
About three years ago, Jeffrey MacDuff and Dave McLauchlan designed an iPhone application called Buddy which allowed users to locate running, study or drinking buddies who were nearby. The free app never… Read More