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Mobile health app maker Mindbloom acquired

  Mindbloom, a Seattle maker of mobile apps designed to help people live healthier lives, has been acquired in a… Read More

Sprint chairman wants to fight rivals, promises ‘price war’ if allowed to buy T-Mobile

Sprint Chairman Masayoshi Son wants to buy Bellevue-based T-Mobile, in part so he can launch a “massive price war” against… Read More

Spotify acquires music discovery service The Echo Nest to the dismay of Rhapsody, Xbox Music

This morning the volume got turned up in the streaming music business when Spoitfy announced the acquisition of The Echo… Read More

Teledesic 2.0? Facebook looking to buy solar-powered drone maker Titan to deliver Internet access from the skies

Craig McCaw’s Teledesic raised hundreds of millions of dollars in the 1990s to build low-orbiting satellites that could deliver high-speed… Read More

Chart: Two-thirds of tech companies did not raise any VC money before exit

Venture capital has fueled some pretty important tech companies in recent years — from WhatsApp (backed by Sequoia) to Zulily… Read More

These charts show why Facebook may not have overpaid for WhatsApp

Some scoffed when Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg claimed this week that the $19 billion purchase price for WhatsApp was a… Read More

Oracle agrees to buy big data marketing platform BlueKai

BlueKai, which operates a large repository of customer data that allows advertisers to better target messages to specific audiences, has… Read More

Online banking startup Simple acquired for $117 million

Simple, an online banking startup based in Portland, has agreed to be acquired by banking giant BBVA, based in Madrid,… Read More

Why Seattle needs a WhatsApp

I woke up this morning thinking about WhatsApp. Not so much about the mouth-dropping $19 billion price tag that Facebook… Read More

WhatTheApp? Why Facebook would spend $16 billion on an app with no advertising

Facebook announced this afternoon that it will pay $16 billion for WhatsApp, a free messaging application that lets users tap… Read More

Watch out Amazon, eBay just bought technology to make buying clothes online easier

eBay has acquired PhiSix, a 3-D virtual fitting room technology company in the Bay Area, to help consumers make more… Read More

Meet your new cable giant: Comcast calls $45B Time Warner buy ‘pro-competitive’

Television is much more than traditional cable or broadcast these days. That is one of Comcast’s biggest challenges, and it’s… Read More

Boosting support of startups, Washington Technology Industry Association acquires NWEN

The Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA) today announced that it has acquired the Northwest Entrepreneur Network (NWEN), combining efforts of the two non-profit… Read More

Seattle online ad startup A6 acquires ReachLogic Media

A6 Corp., a Seattle online advertising startup led by veteran entrepreneur William Urschel, has acquired New York-based ReachLogic Media in… Read More

Social media marketing startup LoopFuse acquired by Salesfusion

LoopFuse, which uses machine learning to identify demand signals on social media channels, has been acquired in a deal of undisclosed… Read More

ServiceSource buys Scout Analytics in $32 million deal

ServiceSource, a San Francisco-based publicly-traded company that specializes in cloud-based recurring revenue management technologies, has acquired Issaquah-based Scout Analytics. All 42… Read More

Yahoo continues acquisition spree, buys Seattle mobile marketing startup Sparq

Seattle mobile marketing startup Sparq is the latest company to land in the corporate grasp of Yahoo. “We’ve come a… Read More

Young upstarts from Startup Weekend Spokane merge to help keep your wardrobe organized

Two companies that were spun out of Startup Weekend in Spokane have decided to ally, creating a one-stop shop for… Read More

This Seattle-area tech company just got acquired for $650M and no one really noticed (including us)

EagleView Technology Corp., despite its name, has flown under the radar for years. And that’s no different with the company’s… Read More

What happened to Lockerz? Heavily-funded startup purchased by Chinese e-commerce company

Remember Lockerz? A little over two years ago, Lockerz founder Kathy Savitt declared that the heavily-funded social commerce startup was… Read More

Chart: Google’s top 10 acquisitions, and where Nest ranks

Google has made some big buys over the years, expanding its presence in mobile phones (Motorola) and online advertising (DoubleClick).… Read More

Google acquires digital thermostat and smoke detector maker Nest for $3.2B

Google is making a big bet on the future of the connected home, announcing today that it has acquired Nest… Read More

Appature parent IMS Health files for $100 million IPO

IMS Health, the healthcare data company which last year acquired Seattle-based Appature, has filed to raise up to $100 million… Read More

Communications startup Twisted Pair acquired by Motorola Solutions

Seattle startup Twisted Pair Solutions has been acquired by Motorola Solutions in a deal of undisclosed size. Twisted Pair’s technology… Read More

Educational software firm Headsprout acquired

Headsprout, the 14-year-old Seattle educational software company known for the MimioReading titles, has been acquired by Cambium Learning Group’s Learning… Read More

CRM ‘side project’ Stride acquired by KISSMetrics founders

Stride, an easy-to-use customer relationship management tool, has been acquired by KISSMetrics founders Neil Patel and Hiten Shah. Terms of… Read More

Wind energy forecasting company 3TIER acquired by Vaisala in $14.7 million deal

3TIER, a Seattle company that develops technologies to better understand where to locate wind, solar and hydro projects, has been sold… Read More

Amazon reportedly buys payment startup GoPago

Amazon has purchased GoPago, a San Francisco-based tablet point-of-sale and mobile payment startup, according to a report in La Repubblica, GoPago’s… Read More

Social TV startup Wetpaint acquired by Viggle for $30M

Wetpaint, an 8-year-old Seattle startup led by entrepreneur Ben Elowitz, has been sold to New York-based Viggle for a purchase… Read More

European Commission gives go-ahead for Microsoft’s Nokia acquisition

Following Monday’s announcement that the U.S. Justice Department has cleared Microsoft’s acquisition of Nokia’s Devices and Services business for $7.2… Read More

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