Tech Moves: Twitch names CTO; Highspot adds board member; Apptio promotes sales leader — Amazon-owned live streaming platform Twitch named Christine Weber as its new CTO. Weber was most recently chief information officer… Read More
Microsoft and Amazon rise in patent rankings; Ford lands in top 10; Samsung and IBM take top spots Two new rankings show Microsoft rising up the list of companies that won U.S. patents in 2019, based on the… Read More
Samsung, not IBM, tops US patent wins in 2016, says Seattle public records startup Sqoop Samsung and its subsidiaries won the most patents of any company in 2016, according to a new report from Sqoop,… Read More
Bill Gates slows his Microsoft stock sell-off in 2015, still tops list of U.S. insider sales at $1.5B Bill Gates sold more than $1.5 billion worth of Microsoft stock in 2015 — topping the list of U.S. corporate insiders… Read More
New stats: Samsung surges past IBM to lead U.S. patent race for 2015 Update: IBM says it believes it will still top the official U.S. patent list for the year. See a statement… Read More
Sqoop raises cash to help journalists efficiently mine public documents On a visit to a Seattle newsroom last year, public relations executive Bill Hankes was pained as he watched a… Read More
Samsung and IBM dominating U.S. patent activity this year, new study finds Samsung and IBM were each granted more than 3,000 U.S. patents between January and May, putting the companies at the top of a new… Read More
Meet Sqoop: New tool helps reporters dig up stories, delivering alerts about public records Reporters who dig through public documents — such as court records, SEC filings, and patent applications — can often “scoop” their peers and… Read More
