The five finalists for CEO of the Year in the 2023 GeekWire Awards are taking on a broad and important range of challenges: workplace equity; machine learning and AI creation;… Read More
— Marianne Budnik joined the board of directors of Seattle-based application security and delivery giant F5. Budnik is currently chief marketing officer for Talon Cyber Security, and held the same… Read More
Back in 2017, when François Locoh-Donou became CEO of Seattle-based F5 Networks, many people in tech assumed that most applications would ultimately run in the public cloud, shifting away from… Read More
F5 Networks plans to acquire Boston-based cloud monitoring company Threat Stack for $68 million. The acquisition agreement, announced Monday morning, is the latest in a string of deals for the… Read More
F5 Networks earnings: The Seattle-based company reported $652 million in revenue, up 12% year-over-year, for its fiscal third quarter ended June 30. Non-GAAP earnings per share came in at $2.76, up from… Read More
— Adriane Brown, managing partner at Seattle VC firm Flying Fish, joined the board of global investment firm KKR. This is Brown’s second notable board appointment this year after she… Read More
F5 Networks earnings: The Seattle-based company reported $645 million in revenue, up 11% year-over-year, for its fiscal second quarter. Non-GAAP earnings per share came in at $2.50, up from $2.23. Analysts… Read More
— Startup Haven, a community for entrepreneurs founded by Seattle startup vet Bob Crimmins, launched an investment fund called Startup Haven Ventures. With the new fund, Startup Haven has also… Read More
— Maren Costa, one of two former leaders of the Amazon Employees for Climate Justice group who was fired by Amazon last April, is now a principal lead designer at… Read More
— Health benefits platform Accolade named Cindy Kent to its board of directors. Kent is currently EVP and president of senior living at Brookdale Senior Living. She previously served on… Read More
F5 Networks announced an agreement to acquire cloud computing startup Volterra Inc. for $440 million in cash up front and $60 million in future consideration, taking the Seattle-based application security… Read More
— Starbucks announced the retirement of its chief financial officer and named a successor. Rachel Ruggeri, a 16-year veteran of the company, will take over for the retiring Patrick Grismer,… Read More
Deep into the third hour of F5 Networks‘ analyst and investor meeting this week, CEO François Locoh-Donou spoke carefully as he addressed a question about the prospects for future acquisitions… Read More
— Expedia Group appointed Equifax President of Global Consumer Solutions Beverly Anderson as its newest board member. Prior to Equifax, Anderson was executive vice president of cards and retails services… Read More
F5 Networks continued to benefit from its expansion into software and services, boosting revenue by 4% overall to $586 million, including 43% growth in software revenue, beating Wall Street’s expectations… Read More
— Seattle-based Vera Whole Health appointed Karen Cooke as chief operating officer. Cooke was most recently vice president of strategic execution and transformation at Sound Physicians. She previously held health-focused… Read More
F5 Networks is assuring its employees that it won’t make layoffs during its current fiscal year, ending in September, saying it wants to give them confidence in the future of… Read More
A former F5 Networks employee has filed a lawsuit against the company, claiming that F5 executives and her peers discriminated against her when she was pregnant, and alleging that she… Read More
F5 Networks closed its downtown Seattle office building on Monday for cleaning after an employee came in contact with someone who had tested positive for coronavirus. The network infrastructure and… Read More
F5 Networks is “ahead of plan” in its efforts to expand beyond hardware and into software and services, its CEO said in an interview with GeekWire after the Seattle-based networking… Read More
Microsoft and Amazon are the centerpieces of Seattle’s booming tech scene, and 2019 was a big year for both of them. Microsoft eclipsed a market capitalization of $1 trillion and… Read More
From Amazon to Zillow, big successes to surprising failures, it was an extraordinary year for technology and innovation emerging from and impacting Seattle and the Pacific Northwest. That’s our consensus… Read More
F5 Networks will pay approximately $1 billion to acquire Shape Security, a Santa Clara, Calif.-based company that sells a fraud prevention platform to banks, airlines, retailers, government agencies, and more.… Read More
F5 Networks says it has taken steps to ensure the security of the master software builds for NGINX, the popular web server technology acquired earlier this year by the Seattle-based… Read More
In a bid to wow and win over customers, F5 Networks put a splashy Customer Engagement Center on the top floor of its gleaming new 48-story office tower in downtown… Read More
F5 Networks and Amazon Web Services inked a multi-year cloud deal that will bring together the sales teams from the two Seattle tech giants and open the door for future… Read More
In the first quarter with popular web server company NGINX under its umbrella, F5 Networks reported stronger revenue growth but came up short of Wall Street expectations on profits. Revenue:… Read More
— It’s a big day for Seattle-based F5 Networks, which just named two senior executives. Mika Yamamoto joined the firm as executive vice president and chief marketing & customer experience… Read More
The $670 million March acquisition of NGINX was the largest purchase in the history of Seattle’s F5 Networks, and financial analysts had several questions Wednesday about integration plans for CEO… Read More
As 2019 began at F5 Networks, the company was working on two separate projects that would change the course of its product strategy: negotiations around its eventual acquisition of NGINX… Read More