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Four tech terms to forget in ’14

It’s 2014, and time to ring in the new and throw out the old. Old tech terms, that is: those… Read More

Here’s why Mozilla picked Portland to open its first offices outside Silicon Valley

Mozilla, makers of the popular Firefox browser, announced last week that it was expanding its cohort in Portland and moving employees… Read More

A crowd-funded car: Wikispeed raising funds for 100 MPG open-source vehicle

We’ve been tracking lots of creative projects using crowdsourced funding models, but this one puts a new spin on things.… Read More

After Kickstarter success game studios turn to Zipline for help

Kickstarter is revolutionizing the way that game companies raise cash as evidenced by the recent success of Harebrained Schemes (Shadowrun… Read More

Surprise: Microsoft makes list of top 20 Linux kernel contributors — first time ever

Has Microsoft figured out a cure for cancer? The company, whose CEO Steve Ballmer once famously compared Linux to that disease,… Read More

Ignition Partners leads $40 million round for Cloudera

Ignition Partners, Greylock, Accel, In-Q-Tel, Meritech Capital Partners and others are pumping $40 million into Cloudera, a Palo Alto, California-based maker… Read More

Open source developer objects to news hackathon’s 11-page contract

Seattle developer Jeff Reifman was looking forward to participating in this weekend’s Hacking Seattle News contest, a three-day hackathon sponsored… Read More

Microsoft extends SUSE deal, agrees to buy another $100M in Linux support

Linux vendor Novell Inc. is no longer a standalone company, but Microsoft today announced an agreement with its successor, Attachmate’s… Read More

Likewise sells key product lines, switches focus to storage software

Likewise Software, a Bellevue-based open source software company backed by Ignition, Intel and Trinity Ventures, has sold off its Likewise… Read More