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• Yieldex Wins $100K Amazon Startup Challenge

  Last night, Amazon Web Services announced the winner of its second annual AWS Startup Challenge: Yieldex, based in Colorado, California, and New York, helps advertisers and publishers manage their inventory by... Read more »

• Where Innovators Meet Up: The Greater Seattle Coffee Cluster, Part Two

  A week ago, Xconomy Seattle published a list and an interactive map of the coffee hotspots around town where entrepreneurs, investors, and innovators like to gather. It generated a fair bit... Read more »

• Bsquare CEO Brian Crowley: TestQuest Acquisition “Really Important”

  Today’s news that Bellevue, WA-based software firm Bsquare (NASDAQ: BSQR) is buying Minneapolis, MN-based TestQuest for $2.2 million has sparked some lively discussion. Bsquare founder and former CEO Bill Baxter,... Read more »

• Bsquare Founder Bill Baxter Comments on TestQuest Acquisition—Sees Marginal Benefit

  This morning, there was news about Bellevue, WA-based Bsquare buying the assets of TestQuest, a Minneapolis, MN-based mobile software firm, for $2.2 million. It made me think about the strategy... Read more »

• Bsquare Buys TestQuest for $2.2M

  Bellevue, WA-based Bsquare (NASDAQ: BSQR) announced today it has acquired the assets of TestQuest, a mobile test automation and management company based in Minneapolis, MN. The purchase price is about... Read more »

• Mayonnaise Wrestling, Flavor Fanaticism, and Social Media on Steroids: The Bacon Salt Story

  Sometimes the best stories are the hardest to tell. This isn’t one of them. I’m not quite sure where to begin, but here goes. There is a startup in South Seattle... Read more »

• Datacastle Closes $5.3M Series A Financing, Gets New Leadership

  It’s been a busy week for data-protection companies around here. Two days after Decho was formed out of Seattle-based Pi and Utah-based Mozy, information security firm Datacastle of Seattle has... Read more »

• Avion, Kinetic Vehicles, and Western Washington University Compete for $10M Automotive X Prize

  The Automotive X Prize in Los Angeles announced today it has chosen its first 22 teams to compete for $10 million in prizes that will be awarded for developing super fuel-efficient... Read more »

• Ambric Closes Down, Goes on Sale

  Ambric, a Beaverton, OR-based semiconductor company, has announced it is shutting down and looking for a corporate buyer. The firm has suspended all operations not having to do with its sale... Read more »

• TeachStreet Expands to Bay Area

  Seattle-based TeachStreet announced today it has moved into the San Francisco Bay Area in a major expansion of its service, which helps local teachers and students connect with one another online.... Read more »

• Going Global: Ken Myer of WTIA Talks China Trip, Mobile Market, and Achievement Awards

  Last month, Xconomy reported on a visit to China by five Seattle-area tech companies as part of a mobile-telecom mission organized by the Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA). The goal of... Read more »

• Mobui, VH1 Do Mobile Chat on AT&T

  Redmond, WA-based Mobui, a mobile applications firm, announced today it has partnered with VH1 (a division of Viacom’s MTV Networks) to deliver a live-chat service that is available from the AT&T... Read more »

• Electricity Economy Expert Jesse Berst Weighs In on EnerG2 Startup

  I pinged energy expert Jesse Berst, the managing director of Redmond, WA-based GlobalSmartEnergy, to get his take on EnerG2, the venture-backed energy-storage startup we profiled earlier today. EnerG2 has... Read more »

• Accelerator Accepts $4.5M, EMC Merges Mozy and Pi, EnerG2 Tells All, & More Seattle-Area Deals News

  It was another slow week in the Northwest for deals. Still, there was a trickle of activity in energy, biotech, and software.

  —Seattle-based EnerG2 and its lead investor, Kirkland, WA-based OVP... Read more »

• EnerG2, Backed by OVP and Firelake, Wants to Own Energy Storage in the Electricity Economy

  Two weeks ago, Xconomy broke the news of the Seattle startup EnerG2’s $8.5 million first-round venture deal with Kirkland, WA-based OVP Venture Partners and Palo Alto, CA-based Firelake Capital Management.... Read more »

• How to Start a Company: Advice from Seattle Entrepreneur T.A. McCann

  On Friday, there was a really good talk by the noted tech entrepreneur and investor T.A. McCann at a Northwest Entrepreneur Network breakfast in Bellevue, WA. The topic was how to... Read more »

• Talisma Bought by Campus Management

  Bellevue, WA-based Talisma announced today its customer relationship management business has been acquired by Boca Raton, FL-based Campus Management, which makes a software platform for e-learning. The financial terms of the... Read more »

• EMC Forms New Company, Decho, to Help Customers Take Control of Personal Data Online

  EMC, the software and data-storage giant based in Hopkinton, MA, is announcing today it has formed a new company called Decho. The new organization is composed of two formerly separate... Read more »

• Where Innovators Meet Up: The Greater Seattle Coffee Cluster

  Map and list updated Nov. 26: Want to know where your favorite VC gets his or her morning latte? How about where tech and life sciences entrepreneurs gather to network and... Read more »

• Ontela Goes Live on Verizon

  Seattle-based Ontela announced today that it has partnered with Denver, CO-based Photobucket to provide automatic photo uploading to the Web on Verizon Wireless phones. Verizon is the largest wireless carrier to... Read more »