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Absolute Software to buy Seattle-based NetMotion for $340M

GeekWire

The news: Absolute Software , a publicly-traded security software company, agreed to acquire Seattle-based security startup NetMotion for $340 million. Founded in 2001, NetMotion helps employees at more than 3,000 organizations access resources from devices both on premises or remotely in the cloud. million, down 1%.

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IT services company Atos plans IBM-style split

CIO Business Intelligence

Like IBM, Atos has a supercomputing business, operates its own data centers, and offers software, consulting, and IT services — albeit on a smaller scale. IBM was still broadly profitable when it split, having made a net profit of $5.7 Legacy losses. It has been led since the February reorganization by Atos veteran Nourdine Bihmane.

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Tech Moves: Expedia board director Skip Battle resigns; Madrona promotions; Vacasa’s new CFO

GeekWire

Its net loss for the first nine months of this year was $2.2 Both provide software for the healthcare industry. San Francisco biotech startup Earli added Juno Therapeutics founding scientist Phil Greenberg and former Fred Hutch President Lee Hartwell , who received a Nobel Prize in 2001, to its scientific advisory board.

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Q&A with former Zillow CEO Spencer Rascoff on his new SPAC that just raised $350M

GeekWire

It could be in a number of different sectors in tech — direct-to-consumer, e-commerce, ad tech, B2B software, e-commerce marketplaces, real estate, travel. We intentionally kept this pretty broad in order to cast our net wide. We saw this in 2008 with the financial crisis and we saw this in 2001 following 9/11.

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FTX’s implosion and SBF’s arrest, explained

Vox

FTX’s new CEO — who helped manage Enron after its 2001 collapse — said that he has never in his career “seen such a complete failure of corporate controls and such complete absence of trustworthy financial information.” The situation, again, coming from the guy who dealt with the Enron fallout, is “unprecedented.”. It didn’t get one.

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Sujal Patel-led Nautilus Biotechnology goes public as it tackles ambitious plan to analyze proteins

GeekWire

The deal will close on the 25th anniversary of Patel’s arrival in Seattle, where he started a job managing data storage infrastructure at RealNetworks that would lead to the idea of Isilon, a data storage company he helped start in 2001. It needed all of these three of those pieces — hardware, software and wetware — to come together.”.

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How Australia became the test bed for tech regulation

The Verge

They’re the makers, the developers, those people that are working with software and beyond. We started off really building one product in Sydney called Jira — which is still our largest product — that started off as a bug tracker for software developers. And so we took that approach to enterprise software. You’re not alone.