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Recruiting software startup Crelate raises cash to boost marketing and development

Crelate, a startup with offices in Bothell, Wash. and Bethesda, Md., has closed a $1.2 million investment round led by… Read More

How this legal software startup used its funding round to support legal aid under Trump budget cuts

Many tech companies wait until they grow into big corporations before thinking about corporate social responsibility. But MetaJure, a Seattle startup that provides… Read More

Inside look: How Slack, Google Hangouts, and Microsoft Teams stack up in enterprise messaging

[Editor’s Note: Samir Diwan is the CEO of Seattle startup Polly, which makes a bot that runs polls and surveys in Slack,… Read More

Startup Spotlight: VendorHawk makes software for the new world of SaaS

Mid-sized to enterprise-level companies rely on an increasingly wide array of software products to keep their businesses efficient. But, ironically,… Read More

Bill Gates on Trump, the definition of success, his favorite sandwich, and other Reddit AMA highlights

Bill Gates is one of the most recognizable symbols of success in the modern world. So how does Bill Gates,… Read More

Seattle entrepreneur who starred on Trump’s reality show raises cash for mobile startup AppZocial

AppZocial, a Seattle startup that builds native apps for “trusted communities,” like alumni groups, churches, and non-profits, just secured $1… Read More

San Francisco’s Sift Science opens new Seattle engineering center, led by Amazon vet

Sift Science, a heavily-funded San Francisco-based company that builds software to fight fraud online, is opening up a Seattle outpost,… Read More

Steve Singh

SAP President Steve Singh says cloud computing is yesterday’s news — ‘microservices’ are the future

Cloud computing is so 2016. Sure, migration from client servers to the cloud is an ongoing megatrend, but tech moves… Read More

Cloud tech vet Jared Wray launches Fons, a software startup for music teachers and private instructors

Sometimes you choose your next career move and sometimes it chooses you. Longtime cloud exec Jared Wray’s next venture falls… Read More

HR software maker Unitive acquires Seattle startup TalentSonar to help companies remove bias from hiring

Unitive, a San Francisco company that makes hiring and HR software, is acquiring TalentSonar, according to CEO Alvin Loh. The… Read More

Review: Parallels Desktop 12 for Mac shows why a virtual machine matters

For many years, Apple’s OS X (now macOS) met Windows in various dual-boot options that usually swapped out the Apple… Read More

Novel Aspect software study

Study: Microsoft Office skills dominate job listings, but top-paying software gigs are all about AWS

The top three software skills featured in job listings across the United States are all still part of Microsoft Office, but… Read More

Working Geek: BoldIQ CEO Roei Ganzarski’s 3 principles for managing everyday work and life

As a father, president and CEO of BoldIQ, and a member of the UW Global Business Advisory and WTIA boards, Roei… Read More

Seattle startup raises cash for cannabis industry software

S2solutions just closed a $1 million investment round for software that supports Washington state’s booming cannabis industry. The cash came from… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Talentful’s software helps recruiters narrow the field

Jia Chen has worked in the software industry for over a decade and during that time he observed a recurring… Read More

Luke Kanies

Puppet founder Luke Kanies is stepping down as CEO of Portland software company

Luke Kanies, the founder of Portland-based Puppet, is stepping aside as the software company announced Monday that president and COO Sanjay Mirchandani… Read More

Haiku Deck launches classroom platform to help teachers and students build presentations

Haiku Deck’s first four years were all about building a customer base for its free presentation software. It became popular… Read More

Intelius vets bring real-time location data to police officers in the field

When it comes to innovation, government agencies have a reputation for lagging behind. At the DMV, slow adoption means little… Read More

Startup Spotlight: TalentSonar promotes diversity in tech with ‘blind resume review’ software

Women and minorities are historically underrepresented in the tech industry and companies often struggle to fix the diversity issue. Now… Read More

Avalara vets launch on-demand inside sales platform Banzai

In his previous job as general manager for sales tax automation firm Avalara, Joe Davy observed a recurring problem. It was… Read More

Tim Cook

Highlights from Apple’s WWDC: Siri comes to the Mac, Watch gets a lot faster, iOS 10, TV updates, and more

Apple CEO Tim Cook kicked off the company’s 27th annual Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday by addressing developers in attendance… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Reflect helps developers add data visualizations to their apps

While noodling on startup ideas last year, Brad Heller and Alex Bilmes made a serendipitous discovery. They realized they were independently… Read More

GeekWork Picks: Sales automation startup Outreach seeks architect for Microsoft integration

Outreach, the Seattle-based sales automation startup, is seeking a .Net Integration Architect to help build out the platform’s integration products,… Read More

Suspected software pirates push Microsoft too far, company files copyright suit in Seattle

Microsoft has filed a lawsuit in federal court in Seattle against an unidentified defendant that the company accuses of creating perhaps thousands… Read More

Marketing collaboration tool Slope wins top prize at GeekWire Startup Day pitch-off

“I definitely would take a second meeting” may be the highest praise a startup could expect from Greg Gottesman, partner at… Read More

Startup Spotlight: BeFunky makes online photo editing and graphic design simple

Today, almost everyone has a smartphone — which means almost everyone is an amateur photographer. But that wasn’t the case… Read More

Fighting ‘ticket bots’: Washington AG says it’s too early to tweak state law to protect altruistic programmers

OLYMPIA, Wash. — The Washington Attorney General’s Office says it is premature to tweak Washington’s 2015 law against using ticket bots… Read More

Video Review: Apple CarPlay brings iOS to the 2016 Chevy Colorado Z71

Apple hopes to fix the issue of distracted driving with CarPlay. Apple CarPlay is a smarter, safer way to use the features of… Read More

Startup Spotlight: CloudMunch helps developers deploy software faster

During his 18-year tenure at Infosys, Pradeep Prabhu pioneered the IT company’s cloud business. Along with colleague Prasanna Raghavendra, the engineers saw a… Read More

UW researchers’ face-modeling software can turn Bush into Obama … or Tom Hanks

Researchers from the University of Washington have developed a face-modeling algorithm that turns photos from the Internet into a digital… Read More

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