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Tech Moves

F5 names two new board members

F5 Networks has named Sandra Bergeron — a former executive at McAfee — and Steve Smith — the CEO of Equinix… Read More

Shares of Coinstar fall after CEO announces retirement

Shares of Coinstar, the Bellevue operator of the coin-counting kiosks and Redbox movie rental service, fell more than four percent… Read More

Tech Moves: Zillow hires VP; Zac Cohn joins Liffft; Black Pixel rehires Square vet; etc.

Zillow has hired Chris Crocker as vice president of strategic partnerships, bringing 16 years of experience to the online real… Read More

Report: Microsoft buys Slingbox founder’s home entertainment startup

The tech press loves a good mystery. And one that we’ve been wondering about since news broke last week is… Read More

Update: Slingbox co-founder abruptly exits Amazon board as his new startup is sold

Updated at 2:56 p.m. with Amazon comment. Technology entrepreneur Blake Krikorian, best known for co-founding Slingbox maker Sling Media, has left the… Read More

Amazon is growing so fast it just hired a former member of the Presidents of the United States of America

Nope, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton aren’t joining Amazon.com. But the fast-growing Seattle tech juggernaut recently hired another former President.… Read More

Deutsche Telekom boss to step down at end of next year

Deutsche Telekom, the parent company of Bellevue-based T-Mobile, announced today that CEO Rene Obermann plans to step down by the end… Read More

Best Buy’s top geek Stephen Gillett resigns after 9 months

It was a big deal earlier this year when Best Buy lured Stephen Gillett away from Starbucks to lead digital… Read More

A familiar face at AdReady: Aaron Finn returns as CEO

AdReady co-founder Aaron Finn stepped down from the online advertising rat race a few years ago to return to his… Read More

INRIX hires new CFO as it heads down the IPO path, picks startup vet to lead mobile efforts

INRIX is driving toward an initial public offering, and today the Kirkland-based provider of traffic information analysis hired a new… Read More

Tech Moves: Avanade bolsters exec team; HBO promotes Xbox pioneer; Yahoo board changes

Avanade, a 12-year-old joint venture formed by Microsoft and Accenture, has named Florin Rotar as the company’s first chief technology innovation… Read More

F5’s McAdam joins board of Tableau: IPO chatter continues

F5 Networks CEO John McAdam has joined the board of Tableau Software, the fast-growing Seattle data visualization company. The appointment… Read More

EnergySavvy hires VP of engineering, inks deal with Tennessee Valley Authority

Seattle startup EnergySavvy has hired Kalpana Narayanaswamy as vice president of engineering, managing software development alongside CTO Leo Shklovskii. Narayanaswamy previously served… Read More

Former Microsoft exec Blake Irving named Go Daddy CEO

Web hosting and domain name registration giant Go Daddy has named former Microsoft and Yahoo executive Blake Irving as CEO… Read More

Tech Moves: aQuantive co-founder Galgon joins Real’s board; Madrona hires PR vet; Expedia changes; etc.

Rob Glaser continues to overhaul the board of directors at RealNetworks, today announcing that aQuantive co-founder Mike Galgon has joined… Read More

Tech Moves: Ratio Interactive hires Kevin Dillon; Apple fires exec in charge of maps mess; etc.

Ratio Interactive has hired Kevin Dillon as president, a new position for the Seattle digital agency. Ratio, whose customers include Condé Nast,… Read More

Microsoft vet to lead new HBO engineering office in Seattle

HBO has hired a longtime Microsoft manager, Drew Angeloff, as the vice president in charge of a new software development office… Read More

Microsoft Research hires Carnegie Mellon leader as head of international labs

Microsoft Research today named noted computer scientist Jeannette Wing, the two-time head of Carnegie Mellon’s computer science department, to the… Read More

Tech Moves: Motricity CEO leaves; Intel’s Otellini to retire; and more

Struggling mobile software company Motricity has replaced interim CEO Jim Smith, handing the reins over to Richard Stalzer. Stalzer previously… Read More

T-Mobile taps ex-Microsoft exec as marketing chief to build ‘America’s un-carrier’

Michael Sievert, a former marketing executive at AT&T, Clearwire and Microsoft, has been named chief marketing officer at T-Mobile USA.… Read More

Steven Sinofsky’s swan song: What should the former Microsoft exec do next?

He’s been called abrasive, hard-charging and — by GeekWire’s very own Todd Bishop — a misfit. Sounds like Steven Sinofsky, who… Read More

More management changes at Microsoft: Andy Lees to head corporate development

This certainly isn’t as shocking as the Steven Sinofsky announcement on Monday. But here’s more evidence that Microsoft is shaking… Read More

Cheezburger’s tech whiz Scott Porad to depart the company

Cheezburger Chief Technology Officer Scott Porad is stepping down from the online comedy network after five years on the job,… Read More

Isilon co-founder Sujal Patel joins the board of Elemental Technologies

Isilon co-founder Sujal Patel isn’t wasting much time taking on new roles. Patel, who announced late last month that he… Read More

Sinofsky Shocker: Windows President is Leaving Microsoft

So much for all that talk about Steven Sinofsky being the next CEO of Microsoft. In a surprise move this… Read More

Microsoft vet Doug Hebenthal sets sail after 21 years, lands at Amazon

Doug Hebenthal, who helped create the Xbox game console and the original Zune media player, has left the company after… Read More

Tech Moves: McAndrews joins AppNexus board; Goffman checks in at LinkedIn; etc.

Brian McAndrews has joined the board of AppNexus, a New York online advertising company backed by Microsoft, Venrock, First Round… Read More

Isilon co-founder Sujal Patel leaving EMC: Next gigs to include angel investing and diaper duty

When Isilon Systems sold to EMC for $2.25 billion in December 2010, Isilon co-founder Sujal Patel made a pledge to… Read More

Former F5 and Isilon exec Brett Helsel joins Apptio as VP of engineering

Apptio continues to gobble up top talent as it heads toward an initial public offering. The Bellevue enterprise software maker… Read More

Tech Moves: Big Fish hooks gaming vet; Dawn Lepore joins AOL board; VoloMetrix; and more

Big Fish Games has hired gaming executive Chris Williams to lead the charge on the company’s free-to-play games strategy. “I… Read More

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