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Seattle ties run deep as Uber looks to gobble up rival meal delivery service Grubhub

Uber is headquartered in San Francisco. Grubhub calls Chicago home. But there’s an interesting Seattle connection behind news this week… Read More

Avast acquires Seattle startup Tenta, leading to release of new secure browser for Android

Avast’s new secure, private mobile web browser for Android traces its roots to the company’s previously unreported acquisition of Seattle… Read More

Fundraising startup Snap! Raise sells university and nonprofit donation platform to Israeli company

Seattle-based fundraising startup Snap! Raise sold off a part of its business to Graduway, an Israel-based company that provides a… Read More

India tech heavyweight Wipro acquires Seattle digital marketing company for $52M

Rational Interaction, a Seattle-area digital marketing firm, sold to India technology company Wipro in a $52 million deal. The acquisition… Read More

Online education company K12 Inc. acquires coding school Galvanize for $165M

Galvanize, a Denver-based company that offers startup office space and coding boot camp programs, has been acquired by online education… Read More

Seattle healthcare tech company SCI Solutions acquired for $190M

SCI Solutions, a Seattle company that operates an online marketplace for patients and healthcare providers, just got acquired for $190… Read More

Coupa Software acquiring Seattle startup Yapta to help businesses cut travel costs

Coupa Software, a publicly traded company that helps businesses track their spending, has acquired Seattle corporate travel pricing startup Yapta.… Read More

Cloudflare establishes Seattle-area office with purchase of browser security startup S2 Systems

Cloud security giant Cloudflare is entering the Seattle market by acquiring S2 Systems, a Kirkland, Wash., startup that aims to… Read More

ZoomInfo acquires Komiko, a Seattle-area CRM startup founded by Microsoft veterans

Vancouver, Wash.-based marketing software firm ZoomInfo bought Komiko, a 4-year-old Seattle-area startup that improves the customer relationship management (CRM) process… Read More

Logic20/20 acquires Primitive Logic to expand tech consulting business in California

Logic20/20, a Seattle based tech consulting firm, has acquired fellow consultancy Primitive Logic to expand its California footprint. Terms of… Read More

Google to acquire Fitbit for $2.1B, doubling down on digital health and wearables

Google is buying Fitbit, bolstering the tech giant’s quiet push into digital health and setting up wearables as its next… Read More

Revel Consulting digital firm acquired by product engineering company Infogain

Revel Consulting, a Seattle firm that helps companies with their digital presence, has been acquired by platform and product engineering… Read More

Microsoft’s 2019 acquisition spree: 20 deals totaling $9.1B, led by blockbuster GitHub buy

Microsoft’s 2019 fiscal year was one of its busiest ever for acquisitions, led by its $7.5 billion GitHub deal. The… Read More

Salesforce and Tableau in regulatory purgatory: UK review stymies integration of $15.7B acquisition

Hold on, didn’t Salesforce complete its $15.7 billion acquisition of Tableau Software? Not just announce it, but complete it? It’s… Read More

Church technology startup Subsplash acquires top competitor Custom Church Apps

Subsplash, a Seattle startup that builds software and apps for churches, acquired one of its top competitors: Austin-based Custom Church… Read More

Amazon acquires INLT to help sellers import goods to the U.S.

Amazon has acquired INLT, a startup that helps merchants deal with cross-border shipping. As first reported by Reuters, the deal… Read More

Microsoft-owned GitHub acquires code analysis startup Semmle to bolster security

GitHub has acquired Semmle, the San Francisco-based maker of a code analysis platform, to bump up security for the coding… Read More

How a stealthy insurance tech startup bootstrapped its way to a $2.35B acquisition in less than 4 years

It started as conversations between two friends about how to improve the insurance and financial services industries for consumers. That… Read More

Mobile marketing startup Airship acquires Apptimize to bolster customer experience testing

Mobile marketing startup Airship scooped up Apptimize, a San Francisco-based user experience testing company, in its second acquisition so far… Read More

Microsoft acquires e-commerce marketing company PromoteIQ to bolster advertising business

Microsoft scooped up New York-based PromoteIQ, a startup that helps retailers build digital advertising and e-commerce offerings, for an undisclosed… Read More

Salesforce completes $15.7B acquisition of Tableau Software, creating new enterprise tech force

Salesforce has wrapped up its $15.7 billion acquisition of Seattle’s Tableau Software, creating a powerful force in the lucrative enterprise… Read More

Scoop: T-Mobile acquires mobile marketing startup PushSpring to bolster advertising tech

T-Mobile’s pending megamerger with former rival Sprint garnered worldwide attention. But another T-Mobile acquisition flew under the radar as the… Read More

Commercial IoT startup Rigado sells Bluetooth tech to Swiss wireless company u-blox

Rigado, a nine-year-old Portland, Ore. startup that builds commercial IoT products and services, sold a portion of its business to… Read More

Downticket merges with Politiscope to let voters follow candidates, donate to campaigns in one app

In the wake of the 2016 presidential election, dozens of apps have cropped up seeking to arm voters with better… Read More

Home improvement marketplace Porch acquires HireAHelper, doubling down on moving services

Seattle startup Porch has acquired San Diego-based moving marketplace HireAHelper. It’s the second moving services company that fast-growing home improvement… Read More

New filing on Salesforce’s Tableau deal reveals tough six-month negotiations, $552M break-up fee

Salesforce’s $15.7 billion acquisition of Tableau Software came together after nearly six months of back-and-forth negotiations, and the companies didn’t… Read More

Tableau CEO Adam Selipsky on $15.7B acquisition by Salesforce: ‘The growth potential is enormous’

Since taking over as Tableau Software CEO nearly three years ago, former Amazon Web Services executive Adam Selipsky has shifted… Read More

Salesforce to buy Tableau for $15.7B, betting on business data in deal for Seattle tech mainstay

Salesforce will buy Tableau Software for $15.7 billion in an all-stock deal announced Monday morning, doubling down on data visualization… Read More

Foursquare — yes, that Foursquare — just raised $150M and bought a Seattle startup owned by Snap

It’s probably been a few years since you’ve “checked in” on Foursquare at your favorite restaurant, pub or hotel. But… Read More

Regulators want T-Mobile and Sprint to spin off new wireless carrier to ease competition concerns

One of the chief concerns of the mega-merger between T-Mobile and Sprint is that it would reduce the number of… Read More

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