Vox

MARCH 20, 2024

The nearly 20-year-old company is seeking to raise up to $748 million in its IPO on March 21, putting its valuation at about $6.4 It’s the first time that a major social media company has gone public since Snap (i.e., The company is reserving about 1.76 Snapchat ) in 2017. million in 2023. If it can’t, it risks another mutiny.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Vouched Photo) Vouched , a Seattle startup that helps companies verify identity, raised $6.3 The 30-employee company was spun out of Madrona Venture Labs, the accelerator based at Madrona Venture Group in Seattle, and now serves more than 300 banks, fintech companies and healthcare providers. billion in 2015.

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GeekWire

APRIL 18, 2023

98point6 Image) Healthcare company 98point6 landed additional investment to support its transition to a licensor of virtual care solutions, following a move to offload parts of its business. Axios , which first reported the news, said the company raised $32 million. 98point6 raised an additional $30.7 98point6 CEO Jay Burrell.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Revenue for the company’s S/4HANA cloud-based ERP offering, in particular, nearly doubled, rising 98% to €546 million. That’s good news for SAP, since the company has been pushing customers to migrate from its legacy Business Suite 7, which is usually run on-premises, ever since S/4HANA was launched in 2015.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 6, 2024

When we were taken private in 2015, we were a traditional software vendor, but the market was starting to embrace the cloud. The investment thesis was we could dramatically change the value of the company by becoming a true cloud and subscription-driven company. What has IT’s role been in the transformation to a SaaS model?

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The Verge

DECEMBER 31, 2021

And, yes, I realize that this is not the first time we’ve announced the death of the company or its devices (and, for reasons I’ll explain below, it likely won’t be the last) but this is a very definite ending for legacy BlackBerry hardware. Its parent company, BlackBerry Limited, has pivoted to selling cybersecurity software.). (Its

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

A close up of 2015’s Blackberry Priv. OnwardMobility, the startup hoping to revive Blackberry phones with a 5G keyboard-equipped Android device, is ending its work on the phone and shutting down as a company. “It Now, however, we know it’s the end of the line for the company as a whole as well as the product itself.

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GeekWire

MARCH 6, 2023

(98point6 Image) Healthcare company 98point6 is selling a portion of its business to San Francisco-based startup Transcarent for $100 million in cash and equity. 98point6 will relaunch as 98point6 Technologies, a software-only company focused on licensing its tech to third-party healthcare providers. 98point6 CEO Jay Burrell.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 1, 2023

A jury determined that Zillow did not make deceptive changes to the way it displays non-MLS listings, a significant victory for the company. At the time the lawsuit was filed, REX was a licensed broker active in 19 states. At the time the lawsuit was filed, REX was a licensed broker active in 19 states.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 22, 2021

A new SEC filing reveals that a Seattle-area company called Aardvark Labs has raised $3.5 Vreal launched in 2015 and aimed to build a VR live streaming and broadcast platform. However, the company’s website is still up, with a message noting that its IP portfolio and tech are available for license. It raised a $11.7

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GeekWire

JUNE 19, 2020

Alpine Immune Sciences stock rose more than 10% Friday after the Seattle-based biotech company inked a $60 million licensing deal with pharmaceutical giant AbbVie for its lupus drug. Alpine launched in 2015 and went public in 2017 after a reverse merger with Nivalis in 2017. million Americans.

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GeekWire

MARCH 3, 2022

The company aims to help senior leaders working at technology companies connect with one another. Round has members from more than 45 companies across six countries, including Amazon, Google, LinkedIn, and others. Investors in the company include FUSE, which led the round, Primary Ventures, and a group of angels.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 16, 2023

Kirkland, a founding member of SustainabilityIT.org, an organization to drive global sustainability through technology leadership, says Choice was the first hospitality company to make a strategic commitment to developing a cloud-native and sustainable platform on AWS. I am in the business of hospitality.

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The Verge

JANUARY 15, 2022

AT&T, Dish, and T-Mobile dropped billions of dollars in a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) auction to acquire more 5G spectrum licenses in the midrange 3.45GHz to 3.55GHz band, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal ( WSJ ). Photo by George Frey/AFP via Getty Images. billion, and T-Mobile followed behind at $2.9

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The company has already used some of the funds to purchase Silvaseed , a 130-year-old Western Washington forestry company that collects cones for seeds and grows seedlings. The company can deploy its seed-dropping fleet within 30 days of a fire — a quicker time frame, the startup says, compared to traditional strategies.

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GeekWire

JUNE 4, 2020

Slack will shift to Amazon Web Services’ Chime infrastructure for voice and video calls on its platform under an expanded partnership announced by the companies Thursday afternoon. In addition, Amazon has licensed Slack for use across all of its businesses, Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield said as he announced record quarterly results.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 24, 2021

Vouched , a Seattle startup that helps companies verify identity, has landed $4.5 It’s a vote of confidence in the 3-year-old company, which spun out of Madrona Venture Labs, the accelerator based at Madrona Venture Group in Seattle. billion in 2015. Total funding in the 20-person company is $12 million.

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The Verge

JUNE 11, 2021

Kitty Hawk, the air taxi company backed by Google co-founder Larry Page, is buying what’s left of one-time DJI competitor 3D Robotics. 3D Robotics was, for a short while, the lone American company trying to carve out space in the budding consumer drone market against early entrants like France’s Parrot and China’s DJI.

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GeekWire

APRIL 9, 2021

Collins, who was chief marketing officer, is now in an advisory role and remains close with the company, participating in onboarding and calls with senior leadership. Collins launched the company in 2015 with co-founder and CEO Mike Radenbaugh when they raised $320,365 in an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign. Read the story.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Amazon Clinic is separate from One Medical , the publicly traded primary care company that Amazon plans to acquire for $3.9 Amazon says those providers have gone through “rigorous clinical quality and customer experience evaluations” by the company’s clinical leadership team.

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Virtualization Healthcare Insurance Licensing 80

The Verge

JANUARY 26, 2021

Tilt Brush was acquired by Google in 2015 after launching for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, and it was soon folded into the company’s larger VR plans, like its Google Cardboard and Daydream headsets. Additionally, Tilt Brush will still be available to download on all of the major VR app stores.

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The Verge

JUNE 23, 2020

Manufacturing at the company’s Bedford, New Hampshire, factory will end on July 15th, and 21 employees will be laid off. The news was first reported by Fast Company. percent of the company’s revenue. percent of the company’s revenue. But the company always struggled to find customers.

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The Verge

JANUARY 8, 2022

Google has been publicly building tiny radar chips since 2015. But the company’s Soli radar hasn’t necessarily had commercial success, most prominently featuring in an ill-fated Pixel phone. They can tell you how well you sleep , control a smartwatch , count sheets of paper , and let you play the world’s tiniest violin.

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The Verge

JUNE 23, 2020

Amazon is “actively pursuing” licensing deals for live and linear programming, according to Protocol. Amazon has offered NFL Thursday Night Football games on Prime Video and Twitch for a few years, and the two companies will continue their partnership thanks to an extension signed in April.

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GeekWire

MAY 6, 2021

Total venture capital funding is now north of $70 million for the 6-year-old company. Double strands of innovation: TwinStrand, which spun out of the University of Washington, has developed technology in both gene sequencing and analyzing sequencing results to help it find what the company calls “genetic needles in the haystack.”

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Workhorse filed the protest in the US Court of Federal Claims in mid-June, nearly four months after the USPS announced that it had awarded the contract to build the next-generation mail truck to defense contractor Oshkosh, ending a contest that started in 2015. “We

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Currie recently spoke to CIO.com about the mining company’s bumpy cloud journey, what motivated them to move and, ultimately, what drove them to change back. . Hilton Currie: Up until 2015, we were 100% on-premises and we had no major issues. We had third-party independent consultants come in to analyze certain systems and licensing.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Real estate technology and services company Place just raised the first outside capital in its history: a $100 million Series A round led by Goldman Sachs Asset Management, at a valuation of more than $1 billion. million in profit, and the company expects $150 million in revenue this year with a proportional amount of profit, Kinney said.

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CTOvision

JULY 21, 2015

Governments such as that of India are pushing for the adoption and use of open source software capable of cutting licensing costs from giant companies such as Oracle, IBM and Cisco. percent to almost $7 billion in 2015 ; software alone takes $860 million of that. Giant tech companies going open source. Related articles.

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GeekWire

MAY 27, 2020

Developed at the company’s engineering offices in Seattle, New York and Atlanta, the new service offers access to 10,000 hours of content including original HBO shows, popular movies and classic television series via major cable providers and tech platforms including Android, Apple, Windows, Macs, PlayStation and Xbox.

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Galido

MAY 29, 2019

Through July 2015 and August 2016, you could get Windows 10 for free if upgrading from Windows 7 or 8.1. To upgrade to Windows 10 for free (until Microsoft removes this loophole), you can use a PC with a genuinely licensed and activated copy of Windows 7, 8 or 8.1 Negotiate Volume Licensing. Windows 10. to download Windows 10.

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The Verge

JUNE 10, 2021

Waymo’s autonomous trucking unit got a boost with the announcement that it would be teaming up with JB Hunt Transport Services, a 56-year-old company based in Arkansas. The two companies will work collaboratively on a pilot project to evaluate the use of Waymo’s autonomous technology to move freight. Waymo is no stranger to Texas.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 26, 2023

.” Venture capitalists including Porsche AG and Microsoft’s Climate Innovation Fund likewise see potential in the 7-year-old company. The startup says it’s valued at more than $3 billion, making it one of the most valuable privately held companies in the Pacific Northwest. based battery tech company Nexeon.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Moonbug announced that as of October 13th, Cocomelon was one of the three most-watched shows on the streaming service in the United States, according to the company. And especially while production is shut down and harder to make, partnering with YouTubers or licensing their shows helps build these services’ catalogs.

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The Verge

MAY 12, 2020

The company hired several large consulting firms, including Accenture, Cognizant, Genpact, and ProUnlimited to bring on thousands of contractors in the United States to do the job. The preliminary settlement covers moderators working in California, Arizona, Texas, and Florida from 2015 until now.

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The Verge

AUGUST 20, 2020

Joseph Sullivan, who was Uber’s chief security officer from April 2015 to November 2017, allegedly concealed the hack that occurred in October 2016 , which exposed confidential data of 57 million drivers and customers, including drivers’ license information.

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GeekWire

JUNE 9, 2023

Microsoft says the lawsuit mischaracterizes its contract with Hold Security, and the company will seek to dismiss it. The Redmond-based company says it will seek to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Hold Security this week in King County Superior Court in Seattle. Microsoft says the allegations mischaracterize its agreement with the firm.

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