Could RIM’s sinking stock value put the company in play with Microsoft? At a WTIA predictions dinner that I moderated a few years ago, Madrona Venture Group’s Matt McIlwain suggested that Microsoft should… Read More
Skype fires high-ranking execs as Microsoft deal moves ahead Skype has reportedly dismissed a series of top executives — including four vice presidents, and the heads of human resources… Read More
Should you sell your startup? Four unconventional reasons How do you know when it is the right time to sell your startup company? I’ve been getting that question… Read More
Marchex sells Foodie.com to Glam Media’s Samir Arora Prior to getting into the call advertising business, Marchex was a big acquirer of domain names. But that’s no longer… Read More
CafePress IPO filing offers inside peek at Imagekind buy I love digging into IPO filings, in part because they shed light on the inner workings of private companies that… Read More
InfoSpace sells Mercantila at a loss, e-commerce business no longer ‘fits’ Just 13 months ago, InfoSpace gobbled up the assets of Mercantila for $8 million in cash and the assumption of… Read More
Fortune: Microsoft should buy Netflix and make Reed Hastings co-CEO with Ballmer There’s been plenty of chatter in recent weeks about why Steve Ballmer should be replaced as CEO. He missed mobile.… Read More
Microsoft buys Prodiance to bring more security to spreadsheets Venture capitalists expressed hope that Microsoft would pick up the M&A pace following its planned $8.5 billion buy of Skype.… Read More
Mike Koss sells Faves.com, investors take ‘big loss’ Faves.com is getting a second (actually, maybe even a third or fourth) chance. But the Seattle online social bookmarking service… Read More
Drugstore.com CEO Dawn Lepore to depart following Walgreens buy Walgreen Co. has completed its $409 million purchase of drugstore.com, the Bellevue online seller of medicine, vitamins and beauty products.… Read More
Skype, Sparkbuy, Steve Ballmer at USC and other top stories for May At a Belltown coffee shop yesterday, I spotted a guy at a nearby table reading GeekWire. I got a bit… Read More
Tippr buys DealPop social buying site from WhitePages Tippr, the group buying technology company, has acquired the social buying website DealPop from WhitePages. The deal was was announced… Read More
Microsoft takes heat after Skype outage enrages users Microsoft doesn’t even own Skype yet, but it is already taking blame for an outage that impacted some users of… Read More
Who will Microsoft buy next: LinkedIn, Citrix, BlueKai or the maker of Angry Birds? Microsoft made a big bet earlier this month when it gobbled up Skype for $8.5 billion, a move that got… Read More
Buster Benson sells popular iPhone app, focuses efforts on new social game Seattle developer Buster Benson has sold Locavore — a popular mobile application that assists people in their quest to find… Read More
Google buys Sparkbuy, a search engine for consumer electronics Well, that sure was quick. Sparkbuy, the Seattle upstart led by entrepreneur Dan Shapiro, announced today that it has been… Read More
Microsoft vets (and brothers) sell startup OffiSync to Jive Business collaboration company Jive Software of Palo Alto is buying OffiSync, a Seattle-based startup known for a plug-in that adds… Read More
Yahoo buys Jim Heckman’s online ad startup 5to1.com 5to1.com, an online advertising startup led by Seattle entrepreneur and former Fox Interactive media exec Jim Heckman, has been acquired… Read More
Old relationships pay off: Divergent sees big return on $327M Pliant buy Divergent Ventures, a small Seattle venture capital firm, saw a big payoff today when Milipitas, California data storage drive company… Read More
‘Google creeps me out,’ and other comments of the week Our stories this past week about Western Washington University’s proposal to cut its computer science department sparked one of the… Read More
Why did Wizard Parent (aka Attachmate) just raise $377M? Attachmate is one of Seattle’s oldest software companies, with a history stretching back to the early 1980s. But did you… Read More
Venture capitalists upbeat about Microsoft’s massive $8.5 billion buyout of Skype Microsoft has been fairly quiet on the M&A front over the past 18 months, a fact that has not been… Read More
Confirmed: Qik will become part of Microsoft, too Hey, for $8.5 billion, you’d expect a little extra as part of a deal, and it turns out that Microsoft’s… Read More
Poll: Is Microsoft’s Skype acquisition a smart move? Microsoft’s $8.5 billion buyout of Skype marks the largest acquisition in the company’s history. But is it really a smart… Read More
Microsoft banking on Skype brand, user base to justify gigantic deal Microsoft’s $8.5 billion agreement to acquire Skype, the largest deal in the Redmond company’s history, will create the smallest major… Read More
Microsoft buying Skype? Yep, it would make a lot of sense The Wall Street Journal just added some major fuel to the rumors about Microsoft and Skype, reporting that the Redmond… Read More
Skype + Microsoft? Why a deal could make sense … for Skype Microsoft’s name emerged this weekend as a potential suitor of Skype, following a report last week that Facebook and Google… Read More
All yours, AT&T: T-Mobile profits, customers declining amid ‘ongoing challenges’ It’s a good thing AT&T is so interested in adding network capacity through its proposed acquisition of T-Mobile USA, because… Read More
Software maker Geospiza acquired by PerkinElmer Geospiza, a Seattle maker of gene analysis software, has been acquired by PerkinElmer in a deal of undisclosed size. The… Read More
Profitable digital media agency Smashing Ideas finds a buyer in Bertelsmann Smashing Ideas, a 15-year-old Seattle digital media agency, has been acquired by Bertelsmann AG’s Random House unit for an undisclosed… Read More
