Amazon is one of several big tech companies that have decided not to attend or exhibit at the International CES trade show and conference in Las Vegas from January 5-8.… Read More
Microsoft’s pending $19.7 billion deal to buy Nuance Communications is the latest in what’s become a shopping spree for the Redmond, Wash. company. The strategy seems to have gained the… Read More
The Financial Times reported Wednesday that Microsoft has held talks in recent months to acquire Pinterest. The talks, which are “currently not active,” could have led to Microsoft’s largest acquisition… Read More
What do Pinterest, Lyft, Uber and Slack have in common? Yes, they’re all newly public companies, or preparing to make their initial public offerings. But they also share something in… Read More
Back in 2017, as Pinterest’s spending with Amazon Web Services skyrocketed thanks to user growth, the company cut a deal with AWS that traded pricing concessions with a commitment to… Read More
AUSTIN – Pinterest was one of the first clear cloud-computing success stories: now valued at over $12 billion, the massive site launched on Amazon Web Services and has never looked… Read More
Smartsheet has some serious momentum. Fresh off a $52 million funding round, the Bellevue-based collaborative work management technology company brought in Gene Farrell to be its senior vice president of… Read More
In space, no one can hear you scream. But on Earth, they can hear you laugh, or say, “Whoa.” Which is what you should be doing if you take time… Read More
Long gone are the days when Pinterest was considered a niche tool for people planning their weddings and debating a hairstyle change. The online bookmarking company announced today that there… Read More
Pinterest’s model — a photo-centric online bookmarking tool — doesn’t feel particularly groundbreaking, which is why some people find its monumental success a little hard to believe. But in 2015, Pinterest received an $11… Read More
Ruben Ortega, a Seattle tech veteran who has led engineering teams at Amazon, the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Google and Nordstrom, has been tapped to lead the Seattle engineering office… Read More
Mukund Narasimhan is a well-traveled tech industry veteran, having worked as an engineer at places like Intel, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, and Google. Now he’s taking on a leadership role at Pinterest,… Read More
Tech companies like Facebook, Google, Apple, Twitter, Uber, Lyft, Salesforce, and many more all have engineering offices in the Seattle region. Now Pinterest is joining the party. The Bay Area-based content-sharing… Read More
If you’re a Pinterest prodigy, Twitch talent, or just someone who’d like to chat about your favorite apps, then we want to hear from you. We’re looking for tech-savvy teens and… Read More
U.S. Chief Technology Officer Megan Smith took to the stage last week at CES 2016 to highlight and encourage participation in a variety of technology initiatives being pursued by the White… Read More
View image | gettyimages.com Once upon a time, there was an exclusive club that only allowed technology companies worth $1 billion to join. While that sounds like an opening line to a… Read More
Normally, it’s not easy to own stock in privately held companies, like Uber or at Airbnb, unless you happen to work there. But that’s beginning to change, with mutual funds increasingly making investments… Read More
EBay is rolling out of a mobile update and is refreshing one of its online experiences today in hopes of creating a customer experience it describes as hunting for treasure and being part of a… Read More
Nearly four years after it launched in private beta in March 2010, Pinterest is a powerhouse. Twenty-one percent of online adults use the tiled bookmarking service, according to a 2013… Read More
Kids may be leaving Facebook, but that isn’t enough to take the network down from atop the social media pedestal. A new Pew Research Center Internet Project study shows 73 percent… Read More
Sites like Pinterest have made it easy for shoppers to search for clothes and find inspiration for a new outfit. But after coming across something you like, actually finding where… Read More
For the second time this year, Bing has added a Pinterest feature to its image search. Now when you search for certain topics on Bing images, Pinterest boards will show… Read More
There are so many options these days for retailers to use social media to drive sales. Nordstrom is looking to place bets on Pinterest with a new experiment that showcases the… Read More
Bing is making “Pinning” to Pinterest easy. Today the Microsoft search engine introduced a “Pin to Pinterest” feature that allows users to pin images straight from Bing to their Pinterest boards.… Read More
Pinterest, the fast-growing social networking startup that raised a $200 million funding round last month at a reported $2.5 billion valuation, just gobbled up tiny Seattle startup Livestar for an… Read More
If you’re tired of taking those messy screenshots and arduously cropping them to the perfect size, the solution may be here. Clipboard is a Bellevue-based company that allows users to cleanly grab images… Read More
Social media has revolutionized the way we communicate. With the revolution has come insane amounts of data, analytics and information about customers, followers and users. How can companies leverage this… Read More
With all the social networking and such online it was only a matter of time until shopping got more into the act, too. Zappos has announced a new page called… Read More
Instagram, the image-sharing social network that’s in the process of being acquired by Facebook for $1 billion, is getting active participation from 40 percent of the world’s top 100 brands,… Read More
After eight months in private testing, Clipboard is opening up its Web clipping service for public use with a number of new features that could position it as a Pinterest… Read More
