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Tech Moves

RealNetworks’ top lawyer is leaving the company

[Follow-up: Departing RealNetworks legal chief gets to keep $200k bonus for Intel patent work] Tracy Daw, a 12-year veteran of… Read More

Tech Moves: Cray taps Microsoft GM as CTO; Weber names creative director; etc.

William Blake, the former general manager of parallel computing platforms at Microsoft Corp., has been named senior vice president and chief… Read More

Seattle’s ‘chief geek’ Bill Schrier to step down May 2

Chief Technology Officer Bill Schrier announced his retirement today after more than 30 years of service to the city. “Bill… Read More

Social media firm ReadyPulse names CEO, scores first financing

ReadyPulse — a social media firm founded by former Microsoft and Amazon employees Srinivas Penumaka, T Vinod Gupta and Mihir Vaidya… Read More

As battle with Amazon rages, Walmart nominates Google vet Marissa Mayer to board

Walmart’s intensifying rivalry with Amazon.com has been well documented. And Walmart’s desires to become an even bigger presence in the… Read More

Social media vet Shauna Causey leaves Nordstrom for Decide.com

Decide.com wants to transform the way people shop for consumer electronics, appliances and other products online by telling people the… Read More

Tech Moves: Microsoft tech evangelist named Aditi CTO; Microsoft’s China CEO quits; etc.

Wade Wegner, the former director of technical evangelism at Microsoft, has been named chief technology officer at Bellevue-based Aditi Technologies.… Read More

Tech Moves: Robert Wise joins MTN; RealNetworks taps CFO; REI’s promotions; and more

Robert Wise has been named chief innovation officer at MTN Satellite Communications, charged with building up the company’s product and… Read More

Roseman leaves VP post at Zynga

Whoa, this is pretty huge news. Neil Roseman, the former Amazon.com vice president who joined Zynga last year, has left… Read More

Tech Moves: Medio taps Microsoft vet as chief architect; Zooppa, PATH, etc.

Medio Systems is making a big move into the predictive analytics arena, helping gaming, financial services, entertainment and other companies better… Read More

Social media agency Banyan Branch launches media buying group, hires advertising vets

We wondered why the social media agency Banyan Branch raised a $1.7 million round of venture capital financing last fall.… Read More

Microsoft hires former Yahoo chief scientist and database guru

Microsoft confirmed today that it has hired Raghu Ramakrishnan, a former Yahoo chief scientist, as a technical fellow in its… Read More

Can you hear them now? Windows Phone hires Verizon campaign vet

Microsoft’s newest Windows Phone marketing executive, Thom Gruhler, is no stranger to advertising in the mobile industry. In fact, you’ve… Read More

Blue Nile taps retail vet as CEO

Harvey Kanter has been hired as the new president and CEO of Seattle online jewelry retailer Blue Nile. In the… Read More

Tech Moves: SEOMoz hires CTO; Milk’s Kevin Rose joins Google; and more

SEOmoz continues to grow, with CEO Rand Fishkin telling a crowd of entrepreneurs that the Seattle upstart is on pace to… Read More

Tech Moves: Mark Klebanoff named CFO of Appature; Salad Labs tosses in a new leader; and more

Appature is adding some horsepower in the executive offices as it looks to expand its marketing services for healthcare companies.… Read More

Starbucks chief geek leaves for new role at Best Buy

Stephen Gillett has stepped down as executive vice president of digital ventures and chief information officer of Starbucks to take… Read More

Tech Moves: Vernon out at Zulily; Microsoft hires FTC attorney who slammed Google; and more

Less than a year after arriving at fast-growing Seattle daily deal startup Zulily, chief financial officer Michael Vernon has left… Read More

Tech Moves: Tableau taps new board member; Flux Drive names CEO; and more

Tableau Software, a Seattle business intelligence company whose visualization tools are used by more than 7,000 customers, has named software… Read More

Redfin hires former REI marketing vet Tom Vogl: A ‘piranha with a heart’

Redfin spent more than a year trying to find the right person to lead the company’s marketing department. And the… Read More

SpaceCurve raises $2.7M for ‘big data’ service, names CEO

SpaceCurve, a Seattle startup that’s developing new ways to analyze location-based services, social media chatter and other information, has raised… Read More

Zillow names VP of partner relations to mend fences with real estate community

Zillow has been taking it on the chin in recent days from a few real estate agents and Multiple Listing… Read More

InfoSpace CTO to resign next month

InfoSpace has been going through a number of transformations lately, namely the company’s $287 million acquisition of TaxACT. Now, here’s… Read More

ClassifiedAds.com hires a VP of engineering as it pulls in profits

Fast-growing ClassifiedAds.com has named Jim Nutt — the former director of software engineering at Intellectual Ventures — to the position of… Read More

GameHouse president Matt Hulett joins board of Yapta

Yapta has named GameHouse president Matt Hulett to the board, part of an ongoing transformation of the Seattle startup from… Read More

Tech Moves: Jambool founder leaves Google; Apptio’s new hire; and more

Apptio continues to expand its executive bench, adding Dione Hedgpeth as vice president of customer success. In the role, Hedgpeth will… Read More

Tech Moves: Zumobi taps marketing VP; Motricity adds mobile marketing vet; and more

Zumobi, a maker of mobile applications for companies such as MSNBC, Motor Trend and others, has named Marla Schimke as vice… Read More

Big Fish hooks an Angry Bird: Wibe Wagemans to head game company’s mobile unit

Wibe Wagemans — who flew the coop at Angry Birds maker Rovio three months ago —  just landed at Big Fish… Read More

RIM’s new CEO states the obvious in YouTube video: ‘We have to get better at execution’

RIM, which has struggled to keep its BlackBerry line of smartphones relevant amid increasing competition from the iPhone and Android,… Read More

Tech Moves: Ex-Microsoft GM Kindel to advise FreePriceAlerts; Amazon gets a Yahoo; etc.

Charlie Kindel, who left his general manager job on the Windows Phone team last August, is finding plenty of stuff… Read More

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