Tableau is inching closer to becoming a publicly-traded company, with the Seattle maker of data visualization software expected to begin trading on Friday. But investors who want a piece of… Read More
VoloMetrix has raised $3.3 million in series A financing, money that the Seattle startup will use to continue developing an online service which helps make organizations more efficient by pinpointing… Read More
It’s a good thing we got out of the newspaper business. According to a survey out today from CareerCast.com, newspaper reporter ranks as the worst job in America. “Ever-shrinking newsrooms,… Read More
Tableau Software’s revenue grew at a rapid clip during the first quarter, but the Seattle maker of data visualization products also swung to a net loss, according to an updated… Read More
Tableau Software, the Seattle maker of data visualization products, has filed to raise up to $150 million in an initial public offering. Founded ten years ago as a research project… Read More
When you look at productive output from a software development team, there’s one factor that almost always predicts problems. You can have top talent; an outstanding idea; great agile process.… Read More
One of the interesting things about Tableau Software is that the company’s mission — to help people see and understand data — really hasn’t changed much since it was founded… Read More
Three years ago I was at a dinner and an entrepreneur was telling me and the VP of Marketing of a successful startup how there weren’t enough marketing folks in… Read More
Is there a smarter way to ship packages? Enroute Systems thinks so, and the Seattle startup just reeled in $1.25 million in fresh capital to continue developing technologies that help… Read More
Tableau Software CEO Christian Chabot bluntly told me in an interview seven years ago that his young 25-person software startup would be “the next billion-dollar company from Seattle.” Bold words.… Read More
Powerit Solutions, a 10-year-old Seattle company that helps large industrial customers reduce energy costs, has raised $2.5 million in fresh funding that it will use to embed its software in… Read More
The thing we’ve always liked about Sunny Gupta is that he’s not playing “small ball.” Nope, the entrepreneur is taking a big swing for the fences with Apptio, a Bellevue company… Read More
Apptio continues to gobble up top talent as it heads toward an initial public offering. The Bellevue enterprise software maker has hired Brett Helsel as senior vice president of engineering… Read More
The market for software developers remains red hot. And companies looking to attract the best and brightest minds are paying top dollar — stressing yet again the need for additional educational… Read More
With the move to cloud and digital content that’s taken the world by storm, older technologies have fallen by the wayside. The problem, though, is that there are still plenty… Read More
UC4, a Bellevue maker of IT process automation software, has been purchased by private equity firm EQT for $270 million. The company had previously been owned by The Carlyle Group,… Read More
Tableau Software is one of Seattle’s rising tech stars, and we’ve speculated in the past that the fast-growing maker of visual analytics software could be a candidate to go public at… Read More
DNA analysis allows scientists to dig deep into one’s genetic makeup, discovering if an individual is predisposed to a certain disorder or disease. While advances around DNA analysis have allowed… Read More
Apple is set to release its next major operating system update, known os OS X Mountain Lion, later this month. In this edition of Ask Andru, Tracy writes in and… Read More
Could a high-tech solution help solve Seattle’s rising gun violence problem? On Thursday, The City of Seattle’s Public Safety Committee plans to discuss the possibilities of installing ShotSpotter, a gunshot detection system… Read More
It’s a good time to have a degree in computer science. And it’s not just because Amazon.com, Google and Microsoft are paying big bucks to hire the best-and-brightest software developers and… Read More
Amazon Web Services is hoping to make it easier for customers to find Web-based software with today’s launch of AWS Marketplace, a new online store where customers can purchase software and… Read More
In today’s Ask Andru column, we get a question about an issue with the iPad that we’ve actually experienced ourselves for years. Ever since the release of the original iPad, it’s… Read More
The lumber industry and the software industry each play a critical role in the Pacific Northwest, anchored by giant corporations such as Weyerhaeuser and Microsoft. But when it comes to… Read More
To help inform small businesses of the risk of being lured by counterfeit software offerings, Microsoft has launched a worldwide online video awareness campaign that calls attention to software acquistion… Read More
We love hearing old stories about how Bill Gates operated at Microsoft, in part because the software titan has reshaped his image so much in the past few years. Today,… Read More
UC4 Software, a Bellevue company that specializes in IT process automation software, has acquired Ventum Solutions for an undisclosed price. The company said that the deal will bolster its capabilities… Read More
Concur Technologies today exceeded financial expectations for its fiscal first quarter as the Redmond maker of travel and entertainment expense management software posted $100 million in revenue. That was a… Read More
Audience, an audio software company backed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, has filed to raise $75 million in an initial public offering. The Mountain View, California company claims to have… Read More
It’s a good thing (at least for Seattle) that Tableau Software decided to build its company in the Pacific Northwest. The spin-out from Stanford University established operations in Seattle shortly… Read More