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Madrona backs WaFd Bank spinout developing consumer software for regional banks

GeekWire

(Archway Photo) Key Takeaways Archway , spun out of Washington Federal (WaFd), provides digital banking infrastructure to regional banks. The Seattle-area startup raised $15 million in a round co-led by WaFd Bank and Madrona Venture Group. The goal is to help community banks stay competitive with giants like J.P

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Tech Moves: SheerID names new CEO; Pinecone adds COO; legal vet joins Docusign; and more

GeekWire

Weatherly, who started SheerID in 2011 with co-founder David Shear , called Copeland Weber his “handpicked successor.” Pinecone , the cloud-based vector database for AI applications, named Lauren Nemeth as chief operating officer and Bob Muglia as a board member. Nemeth was most recently chief revenue officer at Twilio.

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The HP-Autonomy lawsuit: Timeline of an M&A disaster

CIO Business Intelligence

It went on an acquisition spree in the early 2000s, driving up its revenue, before being swallowed itself by Hewlett-Packard in 2011, in a deal that valued it at over $10 billion. Its Agentware internet search tools are used by enterprises including Barclays Bank and Unilever and sold as shrink-wrapped software through retail outlets.

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Embracing sustainable IT unlocks environmental, business, and financial benefits

CIO Business Intelligence

Cegal’s results include achieving a sustainable IT lifecycle model, a 58% improvement in data delivery speed, an 80-90% reduction in data center footprint, and near-100% uptime for business-critical applications. As Cegal’s outcomes demonstrate, Dell Technology Rotation allows organizations to prioritize both performance and sustainability.

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Why Companies Accepting Bitcoin as a Payment Method

Galido

As of April 2011, Nakamoto said he has ‘moved on to other things’ and has vanished from the Internet. The currency is not regulated by banks and can be used to purchase goods from anywhere in the world. They are transferred from person to person via the web without going through a bank. Using Bitcoins.

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Tech Moves: Expedia and F5 Networks add board members; Madrona principal departs; and more

GeekWire

Buse previously served as co-CEO and CEO of Monitise, a global mobile banking and payments company, from 2014 to 2015. based drugstore.com, which was acquired by Walgreens in 2011 for $429 million. The company announced the promotions last week along with a $85 million Series C round. —

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Discount Code for Strata and Hadoop World NYC is 28-30 Oct 2013

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Learn how to take big data from science project to real business application. Web Applications Developer / Web Developer. Bank of America. He’s founded a variety of startups, and technology accelerators, including Year One Labs, CloudOps, Rednod, Coradiant (acquired by BMC in 2011) and Networkshop. The Strata Experience.

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