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Construction software company Procore acquires Seattle mapping startup Unearth

GeekWire

(Unearth Photos) Unearth Technologies , a Seattle startup that develops mapping software for the construction industry, announced Friday it was acquired by Procore Technologies , a publicly traded company based in Southern California. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Miller left Unearth in 2021 and is now at Cisco.

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Basis Technology: Providing software solutions for extracting meaningful intelligence from unstructured text

CTOvision

Basis Technology provides software solutions for extracting meaningful intelligence from unstructured text. As a trusted partner with Federal Government since 2002, their work ensures that terrorists are stopped, waste is reduced, technology works better, criminals are revealed, and information becomes accessible and more useful.

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Looking back at what Living Networks got right 20 years ago

Trends in the Living Networks

For many years my reputation and credibility as a futurist has been significantly supported by my 2002 book Living Networks , which anticipated many developments of the last two decades, including pointing to the rise of social networks and micro-messaging before any of today’s social platforms existed.

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Qualtrics cuts 780 jobs, about 14% of workforce, citing ‘complexity’ from rapid hiring

GeekWire

Qualtrics’ downtown Seattle tower was renamed Qualtrics Tower in 2019 when the company leased 275,000 square feet across 13 stories in the building, which was then under development. Hundreds of tech companies have laid off staff over the past few years amid a broader industry downturn, which came after a pandemic-driven software boom.

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Valve sued by Immersion in patent infringement lawsuit related to haptic technology

GeekWire

Valve Image) A new lawsuit accuses Valve Software of infringing upon patents on touch-feedback technology with its gaming products such as the Steam Deck. Its previous suits include accusations against Apple (2016), Sony (2002), Microsoft (2002), and Meta (2022).

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AWS, Microsoft, Uber engineering vets raise $20M from top VCs for Seattle startup Temporal

GeekWire

A Seattle startup led by cloud computing veterans has quietly attracted big-name users and top venture capital firms as it aims to help improve developer productivity. The software works behind-the-scenes to ensure that the code powering a company’s business processes across various microservices remains safe and preserved.

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Computer scientist Frances Allen, known for her work on compiling, dies at 88

The Verge

Allen was determined to make the tedious compiling process — converting software programs into ones and zeroes— more efficient. In a 2002 New York Times profile , Allen said there was much initial skepticism of Fortran and how effective it could be in making computer programming easier and more efficient, which was a main focus of her career.

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