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Expedia pushes back Orbitz termination date amid Justice Department review

Expedia is holding off on its acquisition of Orbitz announced in February. The Bellevue-based travel giant pushed back the termination date on the… Read More

A new era at Classmates: Student directory selling to Intelius for $30M

Before Facebook emerged on the scene, there was Classmates.com. Founded 20 years ago by a former Boeing engineer, Classmates developed… Read More

The end is here for Ouya, but its Android games will live on thanks to acquisition

Despite raising a record-breaking $8.5 million on Kickstarter three years ago and millions more in venture capital, Ouya has failed to gain… Read More

RealNetworks selling portion of games business for $18M, 60 employees moving to Gaming Realms

RealNetworks is shedding some of its gaming assets, announcing an agreement to sell is Slingo and Social Casino games business… Read More

Tune acquires Philadelphia startup to add app engagement tracking

Tune announced on Thursday it has acquired Philadelphia-based Artisan Mobile as the company continues to look outside itself to build… Read More

Zillow takes direct swipe at DocuSign with acquisition of digital signature upstart DotLoop

Five months after acquiring rival Trulia in a blockbuster $2.5 billion deal, Zillow is back in the acquisition game. The… Read More

Microsoft to acquire FieldOne Systems, expanding Dynamics business in mobile customer service

Microsoft has reached a deal to buy FieldOne Systems LLC, a company that makes customer service technology for workers in the… Read More

Bezos-backed Remitly buys moving selfie startup Talio to improve money transfer connections

Remitly, a mobile payments company that helps people send money to the Philippines and India, announced today that it has… Read More

Nintex acquires Drawloop to help manage content across Microsoft Office and Salesforce

Nintex, a workflow automation company based in Bellevue, Wash., is acquiring Drawloop Technologies of Irvine, Calif. to help businesses access content across Microsoft… Read More

The IPO market reignited in Q2 for venture-backed companies, but M&A deals slowed to a 12-year low

There’s a lot of talk of unicorns these days — private companies that are raising piles of venture capital at… Read More

Exclusive: Intelius sold to private equity firm, Naveen Jain leaving to launch health tech startup

Background check provider Intelius and its Bellevue-based parent company, Inome Inc., have been sold to private equity firm H.I.G. in… Read More

Police body-camera maker Vievu acquired by Safariland

Seattle-based Vievu, which supplies body-worn cameras to police departments around the globe, has been acquired by Safariland, a provider of… Read More

Konica Minolta acquires Redmond’s Radiant Vision Systems for $241 million

Redmond-based Radiant Vision Systems is being acquired by Japanese technology company Konica Minolta, the companies announced this week. The companies… Read More

Alibaba gives up on Amazon rival after a year, sells 11 Main to New York’s OpenSky

Alibaba has made it clear how it wants to enter the U.S., and it’s not doing it by going head-to-head… Read More

Aerial rooftop measurement firm EagleView purchased by Vista Equity

Maybe the second time will be the charm. In a deal of undisclosed size, Bothell-based EagleView Technology has agreed to… Read More

Techstars acquires UP Global, operator of Startup Weekend and Startup Next

Techstars and Up Global have long been joined at the hip, both founded with the mission to support and empower… Read More

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Insurance software company Vertafore buys QQ Solutions

Vertafore, the Bothell-based maker of software for the insurance industry, today announced that it is acquiring Deerfield Beach, Florida-based QQ… Read More

From customer to acquisition: Limeade makes splash with buy of 9slides

Limeade didn’t have to look very far to make the first acquisition in its nine-year history. The Bellevue corporate health… Read More

Whitepages reinforces scam-fighting tech with NumberCop acquisition

Seattle-based Whitepages has acquired NumberCop, a service that fights against phone scammers, robo-calls and SMS phishing. The San Francisco-based company’s technology… Read More

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Concur CEO Steve Singh: How a strong culture got us through the dark times

At the end of the day, it’s all about culture. That was the message from Concur CEO Steve Singh, who spoke… Read More

Blue Box founder Jesse Proudman on private clouds, bootstrapping and why he sold to IBM

Before IBM swooped in to buy Blue Box, the Seattle cloud computing startup entertained at least one other offer. Blue… Read More

IBM acquires Seattle’s Blue Box in major deal for private cloud service

Blue Box, meet Big Blue. Blue Box, a 12-year-old Seattle company that offers on-demand private cloud services, has agreed to… Read More

Shares of Juno Therapeutics jump after Seattle biotech buys X-BODY Inc.

Shares of Juno Therapeutics jumped more than six percent on Tuesday after the Seattle biotechnology company announced its acquisition of… Read More

Former AllRecipes president jumps back into food world, buys Serious Eats and Roadfood

Lisa Sharples spent six years as the head honcho at Allrecipes, leading the Seattle company to prominence in the online… Read More

Avalara buys EZtax as part of latest acquisition push

Avalara, the Bainbridge Island-based maker of tax automation software, has acquired EZtax in a deal of undisclosed size. EZtax specializes… Read More

Zomato says goodbye to Urbanspoon, shuts down iconic shake-to-search feature

“So long, Urbanspoon!” That was the message on Zomato’s Facebook page today, announcing it had shut down Urbanspoon after acquiring the Seattle-based… Read More

Nokia Networks agrees to buy Eden Rock Communications

Eden Rock Communications, an 8-year-old Bothell maker of wireless network technologies, has agreed to be acquired by Nokia Networks. Terms… Read More

E-signatures to hit more than 700M in 2017 as consolidation gobbles up the competition

The number of transactions using electronic signatures is growing, even though the number of companies offering the service is shrinking. That’s… Read More

Microsoft acquires technology behind Surface Pen from N-Trig

Microsoft announced today that it has acquired the technology that powers the Surface Pen from N-Trig, an Israeli startup that… Read More

Microsoft and Salesforce? Why an acquisition might just make sense

The report that Salesforce has been approached by a potential acquirer has stirred up a guessing game in the tech… Read More

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