Roundup: HasOffers Raises $9.4M, UW Bothell Chancellor, & More

This week’s Seattle tech news roundup features a hefty venture round for mobile ad tracking startup HasOffers, the new STEM-focused chancellor of University of Washington Bothell, an Avanade study of social... Read more »

Tableau on the Run: IPO Underscores Seattle Big Data Leadership

Tableau Software continued producing visually stunning stock charts during its second day of trading, shining a favorable light on both the Seattle tech industry, and on big data companies.

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In Pursuit of Big Opportunity, Software Maker Apptio Raises $45M More

Apptio, which makes software to help corporate CIO’s manage IT operations, has filled up its coffers for a push into what it sees as a major untapped market.

The Bellevue, WA,... Read more »

With IPO Pending, Tableau Ups Targeted Share Price Again to Max of $30

Tableau Software has again increased the price range of shares in its impending initial public offering, putting the top range at $30 in a sign of strong interest among investors in... Read more »

Real Estate Move: DocuSign Buys Cartavi, Strengthens Ties with zipLogix

Electronic signatures company DocuSign is beefing up its real estate line with the acquisition of Cartavi and a tighter partnership with zipLogix, meant to enable transactions using any device.

DocuSign—founded... Read more »

Madrona, NEA Bet $6.75M on Seattle Big Data Analysis Startup GraphLab

When Seattle’s tech community pulled together last year to help recruit Carlos Guestrin, a standout machine-learning expert and data scientist, to the University of Washington, some people were hoping a hot... Read more »

Salesforce Collects Flake and His Seattle Startup Clipboard

Clipboard, the Gary Flake-led startup that aimed to give people a way to privately organize their online lives, is being acquired by Salesforce.com and will shutter its service at the end... Read more »

Seattle Seeks to Stir Up More Startups With New McGinn Initiative

Seattle is the latest big city government to throw its weight behind the technology startup community, as mayors and economic development officials across the country grasp at an elusive formula for... Read more »

Zillow Takes Questions via Twitter in Real-Time During Earnings Call

Seattle online real estate company Zillow took a new, more open approach to its first quarter earnings conference call Tuesday, accepting and answering questions via social media side-by-side with those of... Read more »

Trulia Buying Market Leader for $355M, Upping Zillow Competition

Home shopping website Trulia is bolstering its offerings for real estate professionals with a $355 million cash and stock purchase of Kirkland, WA-based Market Leader.

San Francisco-based Trulia’s acquisition of a... Read more »

Roundup: Dell Cloud Buy, Obama in Austin, Houston Hackathon, TechRanch Partner

Notable Texas technology news in recent days includes Dell’s acquisition of Enstratius, a tech-centric visit to Austin by President Obama, a Houston government initiative to spur “civic hackers,” and an international... Read more »

Targeted Tableau Software IPO Price Would Value Company at up to $1.5B

Tableau Software, the Seattle data visualization company, is aiming to offer 7.2 million shares of stock for sale to the public at between $23 and $26 a share, valuing the company... Read more »

Solar Needs Market Changes To Bring Benefits To ‘Untapped’ Texas

Solar power advocates hope this will be the summer that drought-stricken Texas sees the potential of this abundant natural energy source, and changes electricity market structures to take advantage of it.... Read more »

Roundup: Tango Card, VoloMetrix, Glider, Chirpify Score Funds, & More

Call this the “torrid springtime heatwave” edition of the Seattle tech news roundup, because that’s what’s in the forecast from now through the weekend. Meanwhile, a handful of tech... Read more »

Jobaline Brings Technology to Overlooked Hourly Job-Seekers, Employers

Seattle-area startup Jobaline is out to solve some big problems for workers and employers in the huge, underserved world of hourly labor.

The company’s technology platform is meant to match job... Read more »

New UW, PNNL Institute Attracts Supercomputing Expert Dunning

The Northwest Institute for Advanced Computing (NIAC) has landed supercomputing luminary Thom Dunning Jr., who will help lead the effort to tie together two of the region’s top centers of computing... Read more »

Startup MovingWorlds Helps Professionals Volunteer In Developing World

Mark Horoszowski wants to make it easier for people with business expertise to help organizations in emerging economies, which he describes with the neologism “experteering.”

He came upon the idea while... Read more »

Report: Google Buying Seattle Startup Wavii to Augment Knowledge Graph

Wavii, a Seattle startup that makes a Facebook-style feed for whatever you’re interested in, has been scooped up by Google for “more than $30 million,” according to TechCrunch, citing “a... Read more »

Roundup: VC Investment, Tableau Q1, Greenest Building, Asteroids, & More

On Earth Day, the world’s “greenest office building” is opening in Seattle, providing a model for commercial developers weighing the costs and benefits of sustainability. Meanwhile, Northwest venture investment was down... Read more »

Flowboard App Is Platform For ‘Touch Publishing’ on iPad

The debate rages on: are tablets good for creating content, or just consuming it?

The iPad and other touch-enabled tablets are undeniably awesome for browsing the Web, viewing photos and videos,... Read more »