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Mayor Mike McGinn touts innovation, says Seattle won’t win ‘race to the bottom’

Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn believes that the key to the city’s future is a “high road” in which the region… Read More

Meet the lucky two percent: A peek at the startups that just entered TechStars Seattle

TechStars Seattle just accepted their second batch of entrepreneurs — 10 new hatchlings who are furiously writing code (probably right… Read More

Morning Radar: Web site wants your Amazon rants; Connors on Cook; and more

Amazon.com is starting to get a bit of a PR black eye when it comes to the sales tax issue,… Read More

Jive Software files for $100M IPO, discloses terms of OffiSync purchase

Jive Software, the one-time darling of the Portland technology scene, has filed for a $100 million initial public offering. Now… Read More

Seattle entrepreneurs put their best pitch forward at Startup Riot

Seattle startup Chewsy and two dozen other startup companies are getting the chance to present their companies today at Startup… Read More

Fast-growing startup BankSimple flees NYC for Portland: Here’s why

Portland’s startup technology community often gets treated as second fiddle to Seattle. But the city got a nice boost today… Read More

Nerd Notes: Aviation High School launches with a rocket; Paul Allen’s private island for sale; and more

Cheezburger has added to its line-up of weird and wacky sites. Introducing “Bronies.” Men and boys who love the animated… Read More

Meet the Washington state companies that just landed on the Inc. 500 list

Contour CEO Marc Barros is moving just as fast as one of the snowboarders who use his company’s helmet-mounted 3-D… Read More

Maker of the ‘baddest earphones on the planet’ acquired by BDA

Munitio earphones are made out of 9mm bullet casings, and they are built to provide mind-blowing sound. Now, the high-end… Read More

Tech Moves: Datacastle hires Craig Blessing; Opscode co-founder Jesse Robbins honored; and more

Datacastle, a Seattle company that helps organizations securely protect data as employees access corporate resources via the Web and mobile… Read More

Inrix speeds ahead with buy of rival ITIS, looks to reduce global traffic congestion

Inrix, the provider of real-time traffic information, just got a lot bigger. The Kirkland company said that it has completed… Read More

Inspired by daughter’s illness, Medify CEO sets out to transform health info discovery

Some startup companies are born out of complete necessity. Take, for instance, the situation facing Derek Streat who learned in… Read More

Future Microsoft division Skype makes buy of its own, striking a deal for GroupMe

Skype, in the process of being acquired by Microsoft for $8.5 billion, this afternoon got more company on the road… Read More

Tech Moves: Point Inside taps Coleman to lead sales charge; Meteor names Joe Doran to board

When we talked to Point Inside earlier this week about their new financing round, they indicated that some of the… Read More

Can ex-Microsoft employees make great entrepreneurs?

Guest commentary: I was casually talking with a partner at a local venture firm recently, and he lamented: “We don’t… Read More

IPOs roared to life in first half of 2011, but worries arise that the good times may be gone

IPO windows tend to come and go. For the past eight months, that window has been wide open, allowing companies… Read More

Soak the rich: One entrepreneur’s take on fixing the debt crisis and saving the economy

Let’s soak the rich. Apparently that’s what most Americans think should happen to reduce the deficit, including Warren Buffett.  A recent… Read More

Does working at Microsoft really turn your brain numb?

Call it the Silicon Valley invasion. Facebook, Google, HP, Zynga and Salesforce.com — driven by an insatiable need for talented… Read More

Microsoft cloud service Office 365 hit with outage

We’ve been hearing reports today that Microsoft’s Office 365 service — which includes new online versions of Exchange, SharePoint and… Read More

Point Inside pinpoints new cash, helps shoppers navigate malls and grocery stores

Point Inside, which has developed mobile technologies that help people find their way through supermarkets, shopping malls, airports and theme… Read More

Morning Radar: T-Mobile unveils the 4G BlackBerry Bold; state jobless rate stuck at 9.3%; etc.

T-Mobile USA today rolled out its first 4g BlackBerry device, dubbed the BlackBerry Bold 9900. And the super thin smartphone… Read More

SEOMoz considers $20M to $30M VC round, but Rand Fishkin says no ‘done deal’ yet

SEOMoz CEO Rand Fishkin may raise a massive venture capital round in the range of $20 million to $30 million.… Read More

Jason Goldberg reflects on the ups and downs at Jobster and why it missed becoming LinkedIn

Jason Goldberg, who co-founded the online recruiting startup Jobster in 2003, was one of the more colorful characters in Seattle’s… Read More

Tech Moves: Redfin bets big on analytics; Startup Digest curator lands at PopCap; and more

Here’s a quick look at some of the folks taking on new roles at Pacific Northwest technology companies. Redfin is… Read More

Cheezburger’s latest pursuit: Captions on polar bear photos and other random stuff

Cheezburger Network grew to prominence by allowing its users to attach funny captions to dog and cat photos. But who… Read More

Morning Radar: HasOffers to double staff; Mega Startup Weekend; Swype; and more

HasOffers, the affiliate marketing company started by twin brothers Lucas and Lee Brown, is looking to hire 30 more staffers… Read More

Venture capital is hot again as ‘up rounds’ surge

Need more evidence that there’s a bubble forming in the tech industry. Look no further than a new report by… Read More

Digital Chocolate finds a sweet deal, gobbles up Sandlot Games

There’s been quite a bit of M&A activity in recent weeks in the casual gaming industry, highlighted by Electronic Arts’… Read More

This 19-year-old just dropped out of Wharton to sleep on an air mattress and build a new startup

When we introduced you to Wesley Zhao back in April, he was just a fresh-faced 18-year-old kid kicking around a new… Read More

Intersect raises cash to help people chronicle and share their personal journeys

It has been nearly a year since Peter Rinearson’s stealthy Intersect started testing its social networking service, a new way… Read More

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