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— Seattle online retailer Zulily is teaming up with women’s professional soccer team Seattle Reign FC for an event designed… Read More

Why Nestlé just bought a personalized vitamin startup in Washington state

A small startup from the Pacific Northwest is now part of a global food and beverage behemoth. Nestlé Health Science… 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

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

Bristol-Myers deal to acquire Juno parent Celgene delayed amid FTC concerns

The $74 billion merger of Bristol-Myers Squibb and Celgene has been delayed as FTC pushback spurred Celgene to divest a… Read More

Uber reportedly wants to acquire Seattle computer vision startup Mighty AI to bolster self-driving tech

Uber is reportedly eyeing Seattle startup Mighty AI as an acquisition target. Three anonymous sources tell The Information that Uber… 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

Former Wave Broadband execs scoop up Northwest operations of ex-rival Frontier for $1.35B

WaveDivision Capital, an investment company operated by the founder of Wave Broadband and several former executives, has teamed up with… Read More

LinkedIn acquires Drawbridge to bolster its marketing and advertising offerings

LinkedIn has acquired Drawbridge, a well-funded San Francisco-area startup that uses artificial intelligence to learn more about customers and target… Read More

Streem acquires U.K. computer vision startup Selerio to bring ‘smart AR’ to phone cameras

Streem, a Portland-based company that aims to use augmented reality to help people and companies communicate better, has acquired a… Read More

Smartsheet scoops up Seattle resource management startup 10,000ft, its 3rd acquisition

Work collaboration software company Smartsheet acquired 10,000ft, a Seattle startup that helps companies plan and manage how they use their… Read More

Ahead of Zoom’s IPO, new report says Microsoft repeatedly tried to acquire video conferencing company

Video conferencing company Zoom is set to go public this week, but its future could have been a lot different,… Read More

Amazon acquires Canvas Technology to bolster warehouse robotics capabilities

Amazon has acquired Canvas Technology, a Boulder, Colo., robotics company that powers autonomous vehicles in industrial settings. Amazon for years… Read More

Home improvement marketplace Porch makes another acquisition as headcount hits 500

Porch is making another acquisition, its second after the home improvement startup came out of a self-imposed quiet period almost… Read More

F5 Networks paying $670M to acquire NGINX, a web server that runs a big chunk of the internet

F5 Networks says it is acquiring NGINX, one of the most popular web servers on the internet today, for $670… Read More

Pop culture toy maker Funko expands into board games with acquisition of Seattle studio

Funko, the maker of the popular Pop! figurines and other pop culture items, has acquired Seattle board game studio Forrest-Pruzan… Read More

Amazon HQ

Will Amazon buy Etsy, Kohl’s, or the Seahawks? GeekWire predicts the tech giant’s next big deals

Amazon’s M&A team has gotten off to a busy start in 2019. This week’s announcement that the tech giant plans… Read More

Amazon acquiring mesh WiFi startup eero, doubling down on smart home

Amazon says it will acquire eero, the San Francisco-based maker of mesh home WiFi routers. The deal strengthens Amazon in… Read More

Microsoft acquires DataSense data analytics platform for schools from edtech company BrightBytes

Microsoft is acquiring the DataSense data analytics platform from San Francisco-based education tech company BrightBytes, aiming to bring data analytics… Read More

New filing: Amazon spent $1.65B on acquisitions in 2018, headlined by Ring and PillPack deals

Amazon spent $1.65 billion on acquisitions in 2018, according to a new regulatory filing from the company. That makes it… Read More

Dropbox acquires HelloSign for $230M, putting it in e-signature competition with DocuSign and Adobe

Dropbox is jumping into the e-signature market with a major acquisition. Dropbox said Monday it is acquiring HelloSign, a document… Read More

Avalara expands to alcoholic beverage compliance with the acquisition of Compli

Avalara has acquired the “operational assets” of Compli, a California-based company that helps makers of alcoholic beverages comply with government… Read More

Microsoft acquires FSLogix to bolster virtual desktop capabilities in Office 365

Microsoft has acquired FSLogix, an Atlanta-based company that cuts down on the effort of setting up virtual desktops for large… Read More

Microsoft acquires bot studio XOXCO to boost conversational AI offerings

Microsoft has acquired XOXCO, an Austin-based company that builds bots and conversational artificial intelligence tools, the latest in a series… Read More

T-Mobile gets shareholder sign off on pending merger with Sprint

T-Mobile has cleared another hurdle in its pursuit of merging with Sprint to create the “New T-Mobile.” The self-proclaimed Un-carrier… Read More

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