GeekWire

JANUARY 22, 2022

David Beck, a professor of chemical engineering at the University of Washington, will lead the Scientific Software Engineering Center at UW’s eScience Institute. (UW “Development of robust, well-engineered software is a critical public service when the software supports projects to make the world better.”

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GeekWire

APRIL 17, 2024

LinkedIn Photo) Sarah Bird , the Seattle tech veteran who led SEO software startup Moz for seven years, is the new CEO of Canvas , a software company that builds technology for remodeling, architecture and interior design. Sarah Bird. The process turns the scans into detailed, editable, as-built files in industry-standard formats.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 20, 2023

based software platform that helps corporate lawyers sort through and analyze data. Roughly all of Zapproved’s 130 executives and employees will carry over to Exterro, including CEO Monica Enand , who founded Zapproved in 2008, LawSites reported. Zapproved founder Monica Enand. Beaverton, Ore.-based

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The Accidental Successful CIO

AUGUST 20, 2014

Avon made a big mistake when they designed their new software Image Credit. However, there is one task that takes priority over all of these other takes: implementing large software projects. Their order management software system was old and out-of-date. There were three goals for the new order management software solution.

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Forrester IT

MAY 17, 2018

I’ve been watching this trend with great curiosity (and first wrote about it in 2008). On the one hand, software product vendors are slowly but surely migrating from just selling products to selling solutions — and solutions always require professional services. IBM led the trend when it acquired PwC Consulting in 2002.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 29, 2020

But some security researchers have noted some puzzling aspects of the deal, including mentions of the defunct, 23-year old Netscape Communicator email software and recommendations of outdated encryption standards. x and inter-operates among all major e-mail software packages. Just in case you forget what Netscape Communicator 4.0

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GeekWire

JUNE 2, 2020

The Seattle-based company specializes in software automation, helping companies quickly develop, deploy, configure, manage and secure a growing number of technologies across their operations. Recent earnings reports have also revealed a boom in cloud revenues and major growth in collaboration software.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

By Bob Gourley 2014 Guidance Software Federal Summit: Cybersecurity | E-Discovery | Enterprise Forensics. The Guidance Software Federal Summit is a thought leadership forum designed exclusively for federal managers and leaders to learn how Government and industry leaders are achieving endpoint visibility across their entire IT ecosystems.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 19, 2024

We overhauled our software portfolio, our go-to-market approach and the overall organizational structure. We’ve changed how and through whom we will sell our software. Many major brands and Fortune 500 companies run their mission-critical workloads on VMware software. Please stay tuned. There’s much more to come.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

(Euclidean and LinkedIn Photos) Seattle startup Finpilot raised a $4 million investment round led by Madrona to help fuel its “ChatGPT for financial questions” software. Chauhan co-founded Finpilot with John Alberg , who co-founded Euclidean in 2008. and spits out answers immediately. .

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GeekWire

MARCH 18, 2021

Act-On Software CEO Kate Johnson. Act-On Software Photo). New funding: Growth marketing automation platform Act-On Software raised $20 million in equity and debt. Leadership : Kate Johnson has been CEO since 2008; she was previously Act-On’s chief financial officer for more than three years. Investors: U.S.

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Mick's IT Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Recently, we had a software deployment that required.Net Framework 4.5.2. I deployed the.Net update via SCCM 2012 Software Updates. Low and behold, a bunch of updates appeared in Software Center after running a Software Updates Scan Cycle and a Software Updates Deployment Evaluation Cycle. was missing.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The largest acquisition the company didn’t complete was its unsolicited $50 billion hostile takeover bid for Yahoo in 2008. antitrust regulators previously approved the deal. The largest acquisition in Microsoft’s history remains its $26.2 billion deal for LinkedIn.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

JANUARY 5, 2009

Agile in 2008 to Twitter, Cloud Computing and Publishing in 2009. Looking back to 2008, I shifted this blog from covering startups and issues for CTOs (re: Startup CTO ) and covered a lot about the agile software development life cycle. Labels: agile software development , content agility , media and publishing.

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GeekWire

MAY 26, 2023

Michael Smyers was a talented software engineer and serial startup founder. Michael Smyers , a software engineer and startup entrepreneur who played a formative role in Seattle tech companies Zipwhip and Coinme, died April 30 , seven months after learning he had colon cancer. He was 39 years old.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

based expense management software company Expensify went public on Wednesday, with shares rising more than 50% on its first day of trading, sending its valuation to nearly $4 billion. Founded by David Barrett in 2008, Expensify targets businesses that need help automating the expense reporting process. Portland, Ore.-based million.

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GeekWire

MARCH 9, 2023

Other leaders at the company include Thoms, founder of a credit risks and analytics startup called The Devenir Project who also worked as director of credit risk management at T-Mobile, and Prasad Putta , founder of an RFID software provider called OAT systems that was acquired by Checkpoint Systems in 2008.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 23, 2023

In a post last week on the Seattle Transit Blog, OBA co-creator Kari Watkins wrote that the non-profit Open Software Transit Foundation, created to maintain the project, needs “an influx of cash.” OneBusAway was started by then-University of Washington PhD students Watkins and Brian Ferris in 2008. San Diego, Spokane, Wash.,

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Shein.com screenshot) Pronounced “she-in,” the company was founded in China in 2008 as ZZKKO by Chris Xu, a U.S.-born The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday on the move by Shein and TikTok into Amazon’s territory, calling the bargain retailers one of Amazon’s “greatest retail threats.”

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Gizmodo

MARCH 3, 2021

Even if you’ve been using Google Chrome since it first rolled out back in 2008, the browser is capable of some tricks you may have not discovered yet. Google adds new features on a regular basis, while older features get lost and forgotten about if you’re not using them every day. Here are 12 things you might not… Read more.

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GeekWire

JUNE 3, 2021

Founded in 2008, Unify Square helps companies manage collaboration and communication software such as Microsoft Teams, Microsoft 365, and Zoom. Publicly traded IT services company Unisys announced that it will acquire Bellevue, Wash.-based based startup Unify Square for $152.5 million in cash.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

JUNE 22, 2022

VW’s CIO struggles with software issues as they try to catch Tesla Image Credit: Lucas Dumrauf. However, despite their years of experience in making cars, it turns out that it’s been software that they have been struggling with as they try to enter this new market. The Problem With Software. Tens of thousands of ID.3

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GeekWire

MARCH 16, 2021

The company on Tuesday announced the acquisition of cannabis-related software providers Greenbits and Leaflogix , and appointed former Toast CFO Tim Barash as executive chairman. Ross started one of the first online food ordering operations in Canada in 2008, called GrubCanada.com, which was acquired by Just Eat in 2012.

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GeekWire

MAY 25, 2023

Founded in 2008, the Seattle firm manages private hedge funds on behalf of accredited or high net worth investors, using machine learning technology to find undervalued U.S. Alberg and his co-founder Michael Seckler previously started an HR software company called Employease that ADP acquired in 2006.

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GeekWire

APRIL 27, 2021

The business: Founded in 2008 and based in the Vancouver, B.C., area, Clio serves thousands of law firms that use its software to run their business and manage relationships with clients. (Clio Photo). New funding: Online legal giant Clio raised $110 million, boosting its valuation to $1.6

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The Verge

JANUARY 22, 2022

Your device(s) may also be compromised with malicious software, which could negatively impact future use.” The advisory was reportedly sent out twice last year to warn athletes about the possibility of digital surveillance while in China. Every device, communication, transaction and online activity may be monitored,” the bulletin states.

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Gizmodo

MARCH 29, 2021

The odds are good that you’re reading this right now in Google’s web browser, Chrome, which has become hugely popular since it made its debut in 2008. But Chrome has some issues, and now that Microsoft is back with a rebooted version of its Edge browser—based on the same Chromium code as Chrome—it might just convince… Read more.

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Gizmodo

JULY 27, 2021

Dropbox debuted in 2008, and the cloud storage and syncing service has added a slew of features since then. But because the app is usually running in the background of your device, you might not have noticed some of the new tools you can use. Here are a few of our favorites. Read more.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The software works behind-the-scenes to ensure that the code powering a company’s business processes across various microservices remains safe and preserved. “Temporal is one of the most promising software companies,” Muglia said in a statement.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 24, 2024

VMware began this transition since at least 2018, and was one of the last software companies to adopt this model. The subscription model ends “upsell” practices that were common in the software industry before the subscription transition, such as branding incremental features as new higher editions of the same product or new add-on products.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Shwetak Patel landed in Seattle in 2008. When Patel arrived in Seattle in 2008, his entrepreneurial ambitions were met with raised eyebrows within the academic community. Patel predicts that AI will help software become more personalized and more equitable. advisor at Georgia Tech. He wanted to get innovations out in the world.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 9, 2023

XetHub resembles GitHub, a commercial service based on the Git open-source project founded in 2008 and acquired by Microsoft in 2018. GitHub gives users a web-based way to collaborate on software development. Arya was Turi’s director of technical sales and became a system software engineer at Apple.

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GeekWire

MARCH 1, 2021

It’s the firm’s fifth and largest fund to date since launching in 2008, and is double the size of the fourth fund raised in 2018. Founders’ Co-op has several B2B startups and cloud computing-related companies in its portfolio given Seattle’s strength in enterprise software. and elsewhere.

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The Verge

MAY 3, 2021

Bill had previously stepped away from his positions at Microsoft as CEO (in 2000), a full-time employee (in 2008), and a member of the company’s board in order, he claims, to better focus on philanthropy. Melinda had previously worked as a product marketing manager at Microsoft and oversaw a number of software launches before leaving in 1996.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 3, 2023

based enterprise software company EnterpriseDB (EDB). Founded in 2004, the company makes software to help enterprises use Postgres, an open-source database. Dallas replaces founder Ed Boyajian , who led the company since 2008. Kevin Dallas. billion acquisition by Aptiv in 2022.

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GeekWire

JULY 7, 2021

Bartot also co-founded startups such as Medify (which was acquired by Alliance) and Farecast, the airfare price predictor startup that was incubated inside of Madrona and was eventually acquired by Microsoft in 2008. Why Zeitworks? Bartot worked closely with Zeitworks as it morphed from an idea into an actual company inside MVL.

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Gizmodo

MARCH 16, 2021

Spotify has been streaming music since 2008, and it’s changed a lot in that time. New features are constantly added to its apps and the platform as a whole. Just in case there are still some tricks and tools that you haven’t yet spotted, these are some of our favorites—some recently added, and some that have been… Read more.

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