The Verge

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Microsoft surpassed Apple’s market cap on Friday to become the world’s most valuable public company. The change follows Apple’s Thursday earnings, where the company posted strong results but revealed that it lost $6 billion to supply chain constraints. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

(Leafly Image) Seattle cannabis marketplace company Leafly this week completed a 1-for-20 reverse stock split, consolidating its shares in an effort to remain compliant with Nasdaq listing requirements. They are opposite from stock splitting, which is when public companies with high stock prices split up shares.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Swiss energy services company IWB has a vision of a world with a fully renewable, climate-friendly energy supply. The new installations shifted the consumption trend, resulting in a higher network load, impacting electric utility company distribution grids. Not long ago, though, that goal seemed difficult to conceptualize.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Security software company McAfee is going private via a buyout from an investor group in a deal valued at more than $14 billion, the company announced Monday. McAfee, the founder, left McAfee, the company, in 1994, and the company was acquired by Intel in 2010 for $7.68

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GeekWire

JULY 19, 2023

The company launched last year and is offering intellectual property and licensing of technology to other ventures that are trying to commercialize fusion power. The goal: Companies around the globe are racing to build commercially viable systems for generating power from fusion, which is the ultra hot reaction that fuels the sun.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Narrative Science , the Chicago-based company behind the Lexio data storytelling software, will join Seattle-based data visualization company Tableau Software under an agreement to be acquired by Tableau parent company Salesforce. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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TechSpot

APRIL 18, 2024

DeepMind is a British-American research laboratory that has been working on AI since 2010. Google acquired the company in 2014. According to Demis Hassabis, the child prodigy who founded DeepMind, Google is likely to invest more than $100 billion in AI technology and applications in the near future. Read Entire Article

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JANUARY 25, 2022

An aircraft created by Wisk Aero, an electric aviation company backed by Boeing and Kitty Hawk. Boeing is investing $450 million in Wisk Aero, a company that’s building all-electric, autonomous, passenger-carrying aircraft. Wisk is an independent company backed by Boeing and Kitty Hawk. Wisk Aero LLC Photo).

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Trends in the Living Networks

DECEMBER 21, 2009

To anticipate what will shape 2010, we need to understand the TENsions that will define the opening year of the TENsions decade. These are the 10 TENsions for 2010, the opening year of the TENsions. These are the 10 TENsions for 2010, the opening year of the TENsions. Optimism - Fear. Death of Media – Birth of Media.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

. “Carbon is the fastest growing company I’ve seen in 23 years of VC,” Erik Benson , managing director of Voyager Capital in Seattle, told GeekWire. “This is a future $50 billion company.” billion in 2010 and spent time at Uber and Facebook before heading for the farm. .”

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GeekWire

JANUARY 12, 2023

Lawsuits filed by two Washington state school districts allege that major social media companies including Meta, TikTok, YouTube and others are driving a youth mental health crisis. They’re also calling on the companies to stop the actions that are allegedly fueling the crisis. “The research can’t even keep up.”

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

When I run the company, I’m really focused on giving users what they want,” Pichai told Cicilline. “We David Cicilline (D-RI) put it at the hearing , “Our documents show that Google evolved from a turnstile to the rest of the web to a walled garden that increasingly keeps users within its sites.”.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Google parent company Alphabet hit a new record for annual revenue in 2021, showing no ill effects from the lingering coronavirus pandemic or ongoing issues with the global supply chain. For full-year 2021, the company saw a 41 percent year-over-year jump in revenue to $257 billion. The company reported revenue of $75.3

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Aaron Fairchild, left, and Bec Chapin will be co-CEOs of the newly merged company Green Canopy NODE. With the merger, Bunnell has left day-to-day operations and is serving on the company’s board of directors. Merging with Green Canopy, which started in 2010, helps flesh out that ecosystem. GreenCanopy NODE photo).

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GeekWire

JANUARY 6, 2021

Amazon disclosed the new Seattle-area headcount Wednesday when it announced a $2 billion initiative to increase affordable housing in the Seattle, Arlington, and Nashville regions, where the company plans to continue adding thousands of jobs. Amazon has battled with the Seattle City Council over new business taxes targeting the company.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Washington state is riding a biotech IPO wave , with five biotech companies entering the public markets in 2021. Sana Biotechnology raised $587 million in its IPO, Absci pulled in $200 million, and vaccine company Icosavax raised more than $180 million. That’s compared with 22 drug approvals on average per year from 2016 through 2010.

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TechSpot

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Microsoft released the KB5021751 update in January, explaining that it was to "help" the company identify how many users were still running unsupported or soon-to-be-unsupported versions of the Office productivity suite. Microsoft was seemingly searching for info over users of Office 2013, Office 2010, and Office 2007, with an update.

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The Verge

JUNE 9, 2021

It’s not clear exactly why Greco, Vlietstra, and Lundmark are leaving the company. Greco and Vlietstra have both been at the company since 2013; Greco was the company’s VP of hardware before being named CTO in 2020 , and Vlietstra was named COO in 2018. A Magic Leap spokesperson declined to comment on Insider’s story.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

Techstars Seattle helped launch more than 160 startups over the past decade, partnered with the likes of Microsoft and Amazon to spark even more startups, and led to the creation of three companies currently valued at more than $1 billion — making it one of the most successful programs in the Techstars network. And then, this week, it ended.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Carbon Robotics CEO Paul Mikesell with the company’s weed-zapping robot. The company declined to share details on what new product it’s developing, but said it’s not related to its flagship LaserWeeder machine, which uses thermal energy to eliminate weeds without damaging crops or disturbing soil.

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GeekWire

MARCH 1, 2024

(LinkedIn Photo) Harshit Shah , a former head of engineering at Amazon Web Services, is now chief technology officer at Boston, Mass-based healthcare software company Kyruus Health. Shah, based in the Seattle region, most recently held the same position at Spring Health, a mental health company. It has offices in the Portland, Ore.,

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Erdirik Dogan spent more than 16 years at the Seattle company, holding leadership positions across retail and logistics. Jenny Freshwater , a longtime marketing leader at Amazon who joined the company in 2010, will replace Erdirik Dogan. She became president of Amazon Fashion & Fitness in February 2021.

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GeekWire

MARCH 8, 2022

Tola Capital , a Seattle-area investment firm that backs enterprise software companies, is raising $400 million for its third fund, according to a new SEC filing. Founded in 2010, Tola is led by former Microsoft managers Sheila Gulati and Stacey Giard. Gulati declined to comment on the filing.

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GeekWire

MARCH 16, 2024

Zulily was launched 2010 by two former Blue Nile executives with a focus on serving moms and kids through its online flash sales platform, allowing customers to purchase limited-time deals. Zulily was acquired in 2015 by QVC’s parent company for $2.4 It faced increasing competition from Amazon and others. million.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The company relocated to a smaller HQ earlier this year. It’s the latest chapter in a stunning downfall for a company that was once a crown jewel of Seattle’s tech scene. In October, former CEO Terry Boyle announced internally his decision to leave the company, effective Oct. Qurate paid $2.4

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Trends in the Living Networks

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Continuing a series of review posts of 2010, here are notes from some of my keynotes this year. Here are a selection of blog content from my keynotes in 2010 in chronological order. Keynote at Cisco Insight 2010: Innovation beyond boundaries and the role of knowledge-based relationships.

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Computerworld Vertical IT

DECEMBER 19, 2023

While the company will keep fighting government pressure to open up its devices to third parties, these mechanisms will likely be used for mandates from other governments around the world.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 13, 2021

New stats from Amazon reveal the company’s total spending on jobs and infrastructure in each U.S. state from 2010 to 2020 — showing where the tech giant has made its biggest bets over the past decade, and where it has big gaps left to fill. The company spent more than $530 billion in the U.S. Amazon employs more than 1.3

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GeekWire

MARCH 30, 2023

Since Washingtonian’s rejected a state income tax by 64% to 36% in 2010, the state has prospered economically and substantially grown tax revenues. Tech leaders shared both praise and concern for the law, which imposes a 7% tax on capital gains of more than $250,000 from the sale of stocks and bonds. and lower the threshold to $15,000.

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The Investing Edge

JULY 16, 2018

But over the last decade, there is an important distinction that has developed into a serious trend regarding who might want to buy your growing software company one day. Ascent works with B2B Tech/SaaS software companies in the U.S., Outcomes for Information Tech Companies. The post Who Will Buy your Emerging Software Company?

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The Seattle-based e-commerce company laid off more employees on Tuesday. We’ve reached out to the company for more details. The company has gone through multiple rounds of layoffs over the past year-and-a-half, including two rounds under its new owner Regent , a Los Angeles-based private equity firm. Qurate paid $2.4

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 2, 2023

(Leafly Image) Seattle cannabis marketplace company Leafly announced Monday that it received formal notice from Nasdaq that it regained compliance with the stock exchange, averting a potential delisting due to a violation of a minimum bid price rule. The company reported second quarter revenue of $10.7 million in the year-ago period.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Frazier Healthcare Partners — which has invested in biotechnology companies since 1991 — filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission to raise $100 million for a special purpose acquisition corporation, also known as a SPAC. Over the years, Frazier has bankrolled more than 100 companies, taking more than 60 to IPO or merger.

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GeekWire

MARCH 1, 2023

Novo Nordisk Photo) Danish multinational biopharma company Novo Nordisk is laying off 86 employees in Seattle, according to a new filing with the Washington state Employment Security Department. The company will continue to have operations in Seattle focused on digital therapy, data science and artificial intelligence, said the spokesperson.

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Network World

MARCH 8, 2017

Juniper is reshaping some of its top executive roles as Jonathan Davidson, executive VP and general manager of the firm’s Development and Innovation group resigned from the company.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The news came as a shock to the Seattle tech community, where Techstars planted its flag in 2010. More than 200 companies have gone through Techstars-related accelerators in Seattle, including the core program and others operated with corporate partners including Amazon, Microsoft, and Filecoin. The post does not mention Seattle.

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The Investing Edge

JULY 16, 2018

But over the last decade, there is an important distinction that has developed into a serious trend regarding who might want to buy your growing software company one day. Ascent works with B2B Tech/SaaS software companies in the U.S., Outcomes for Information Tech Companies. First, let’s share some basic data.

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