EnergySavvy is marching into the Bay Area, inking a deal with the City of San Francisco to help homeowners reduce energy costs through specialized online home audits. The program will… Read More
Seattle has top-notch engineers, well-respected technology giants and a culture of entrepreneurialism and risk taking. So, what’s the region really lacking when it comes to becoming a world-class technology hub?… Read More
Concur CEO Steve Singh appears to be taking a page out of the Amazon.com playbook, investing heavily in the growth prospects of the Redmond maker of travel and entertainment expense… Read More
Bellevue-based Apptio is growing fast, so fast in fact that it can’t find enough software engineers in the Seattle area. So, the company — which helps CIOs better manage and… Read More
Having studied the work of W. Edwards Deming and other pioneers in just-in-time auto production back in college, I was intrigued when I found out that a leading expert in… Read More
HasOffers today is rolling out a new product today called Mobile App Tracking, which like the name suggests allows developers of iPhone and Android apps to keep track of installations… Read More
Avalara, the fast-growing Bainbridge Island company that helps online merchants manage sales tax collection, has raised an additional $7 million in venture capital financing. Sageview Capital provided the funding, which… Read More
Vertafore might be one of the biggest software companies in the Seattle area that you’ve never heard of. And the Bothell maker of insurance-related products is getting a little bigger.… Read More
Guest Commentary: Lately I have had a recurring theme running through my head – “didn’t I see that startup idea before, only with a different name? Aren’t there more than a… Read More
Marchex, the Seattle call advertising company, reported net income of $80,000 and revenues of $38.8 million for the second quarter. That compared to a net loss of $3.2 million and… Read More
RealNetworks today announced a series of moves to “reinvigorate” the business and make the 16-year-old Seattle company more attractive to investors. It plans to return $136 million to investors in… Read More
Shares of F5 Networks fell more than seven percent in after hours trading today following a disappointing fiscal third quarter earnings report. The Seattle company, which makes hardware and software… Read More
Earlier today, we told you about Microsoft’s leak of the Web site Socl.com, which caused all sorts of chatter about the company’s upcoming efforts in social search. But now another… Read More
As the executive director of TiE Seattle, Rohit Mathur encounters plenty of cutting-edge startup ideas. Now, Mathur — who previously served as regional director for technology consulting company MindTree —… Read More
Likewise Software, a Bellevue-based open source software company backed by Ignition, Intel and Trinity Ventures, has sold off its Likewise Enterprise and Likewise Open products to BeyondTrust in a deal… Read More
Optimum Energy, whose software is used to reduce energy consumption in buildings, has raised $5 million in new financing. Total funding in the Seattle company now stands at $19 million.… Read More
Venture capitalists expressed hope that Microsoft would pick up the M&A pace following its planned $8.5 billion buy of Skype. And here’s another sign that activity might be heating up… Read More
With revenue expected to grow by 300 percent this year, Act-On Software has raised $10 million in financing from Trinity Ventures, Voyager Capital and others. Total funding now stands at… Read More
University of Washington researchers have come up with a way to reduce energy consumption in computers and mobile devices by 50 percent or more by segmenting software code into areas… Read More
Microsoft is certainly playing a tough game of catch-up against Apple’s iPad. But the software giant can make a comeback in the market for tablet computers. At least that’s the… Read More
Investor David Einhorn stirred up a hornet’s nest earlier this week when the hedge fund manager reportedly said that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was the biggest drag on the company’s stock.… Read More
Adapx, whose software powers digital pen technologies so workers can easily collect data in the field, has scored a $5 million venture capital investment that it will use to expand… Read More
Attachmate is one of Seattle’s oldest software companies, with a history stretching back to the early 1980s. But did you know that it operates under the name of Wizard Parent… Read More
Geospiza, a Seattle maker of gene analysis software, has been acquired by PerkinElmer in a deal of undisclosed size. The company was founded in 1997 and led by Rob Arnold,… Read More
Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu version of Linux, is making a new push for a larger slice of the PC market with a series of changes in the next… Read More
Screaming matches. Dumpster diving. And a deep bond between two super geeks from Seattle. Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen provided a glimpse into the personal computer revolution — and his life… Read More
A crash in Seattle typically wouldn’t generate interest beyond the region, but car geeks around the country are buzzing about a wreck Saturday afternoon on Aurora Avenue, because of the… Read More
Former Microsoft general manager David McCann has been named the new CEO of Varolii, a 224-person Seattle company that provides automated text-message, phone call and email alerts to customers on… Read More