Articles about Software – Page 5 of 5

Tableau Software doubles sales and hires 160 workers in 2011: Could this be the year for an IPO?

It’s a good thing (at least for Seattle) that Tableau Software decided to build its company in the Pacific Northwest.… Read More

San Francisco taps EnergySavvy to help homeowners cut through the fog of energy bills

EnergySavvy is marching into the Bay Area, inking a deal with the City of San Francisco to help homeowners reduce… Read More

What Seattle really needs: A world-class private tech university

Seattle has top-notch engineers, well-respected technology giants and a culture of entrepreneurialism and risk taking. So, what’s the region really… Read More

Concur swings to net loss as CEO Steve Singh pledges significant investments

Concur CEO Steve Singh appears to be taking a page out of the Amazon.com playbook, investing heavily in the growth… Read More

Struggling to find engineers in Seattle, Apptio sets up shop in North Carolina

Bellevue-based Apptio is growing fast, so fast in fact that it can’t find enough software engineers in the Seattle area.… Read More

Q&A: How an automotive secret can make for better software

Having studied the work of W. Edwards Deming and other pioneers in just-in-time auto production back in college, I was… Read More

HasOffers to help mobile app developers track installations

HasOffers today is rolling out a new product today called Mobile App Tracking, which like the name suggests allows developers… Read More

Fast-growing Avalara scores $7 million to cash out early investors

Avalara, the fast-growing Bainbridge Island company that helps online merchants manage sales tax collection, has raised an additional $7 million… Read More

Vertafore to buy unit of Kaplan, plans to add its 100 employees

Vertafore might be one of the biggest software companies in the Seattle area that you’ve never heard of. And the… Read More

Tech startups: Ice cream is great, but utilities make the world go around

Guest Commentary: Lately I have had a recurring theme running through my head – “didn’t I see that startup idea before,… Read More

Tech Earnings Roundup: Blue Nile, Bsquare, Market Leader, Marchex

Marchex, the Seattle call advertising company, reported net income of $80,000 and revenues of $38.8 million for the second quarter.… Read More

RealNetworks giving back $136M to shareholders in major overhaul

RealNetworks today announced a series of moves to “reinvigorate” the business and make the 16-year-old Seattle company more attractive to… Read More

Shares of F5 stumble after earnings report disappoints Wall Street

Shares of F5 Networks fell more than seven percent in after hours trading today following a disappointing fiscal third quarter… Read More

Domain purchase fuels speculation of Microsoft-Sony partnership

Earlier today, we told you about Microsoft’s leak of the Web site Socl.com, which caused all sorts of chatter about… Read More

With ties to India and Redmond, stealthy YAssume looks to challenge Salesforce.com, others

As the executive director of TiE Seattle, Rohit Mathur encounters plenty of cutting-edge startup ideas. Now, Mathur — who previously… 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

Fresh off Rockefeller Center win, Optimum Energy lands $5M

Optimum Energy, whose software is used to reduce energy consumption in buildings, has raised $5 million in new financing. Total… 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

Act-On Software scores $10M from Trinity, Voyager and others

With revenue expected to grow by 300 percent this year, Act-On Software has raised $10 million in financing from Trinity… Read More

UW researchers develop trick to help devices use less energy

University of Washington researchers have come up with a way to reduce energy consumption in computers and mobile devices by… Read More

Analyst: Microsoft can still be a player in tablets

Microsoft is certainly playing a tough game of catch-up against Apple’s iPad. But the software giant can make a comeback… Read More

Microsoft board backs Ballmer after hedge fund manager calls for CEO’s resignation

Investor David Einhorn stirred up a hornet’s nest earlier this week when the hedge fund manager reportedly said that Microsoft CEO… Read More

Digital pen software maker Adapx inks $5 million round

Adapx, whose software powers digital pen technologies so workers can easily collect data in the field, has scored a $5… 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

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

Ubuntu 11.04: The desktop Linux you’ve been waiting for?

Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu version of Linux, is making a new push for a larger slice of the… Read More

Videos: Lesley Stahl grills Paul Allen about Bill Gates, and GeekWire about Allen

Screaming matches. Dumpster diving. And a deep bond between two super geeks from Seattle. Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen provided a… Read More

Rare supercar crashes in Seattle: Details from police report; driver still a mystery

A crash in Seattle typically wouldn’t generate interest beyond the region, but car geeks around the country are buzzing about… Read More

Former Microsoft GM David McCann takes CEO reins at Varolii

Former Microsoft general manager David McCann has been named the new CEO of Varolii, a 224-person Seattle company that provides… Read More