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Tech Moves

Tech Moves: Cheezburger hires a new funny man; Demand Media CEO resigns; Apptio taps sales pro; etc.

—Cheezburger continues to layer on all sorts of new executive toppings as the Seattle online humor network looks to reposition… Read More

Groupon hires Amazon Prime VP, continues Seattle expansion

Groupon continues to mine Amazon.com for talent, and today the daily deal company picked up a big name from its… Read More

Tech Moves: Prevencio lands biotech vets; Lively hires music vets; DomainTools nabs Roberts

—Prevencio, an early-stage biotech company working on cardiac biomarker tests, has named H. Perry Fell as chairman and Rhonda Rhyne… Read More

Apple adds Nike exec to its roster

Working on digital technologies at Nike is starting to seem a bit like working in Apple’s farm system. According to… Read More

Bsquare CEO Brian Crowley announces resignation

Bsquare CEO Brian Crowley is resigning from the board of directors and the top post after more than a decade… Read More

Tech Moves: Flowboard picks Swype vet as CFO; Kuglin joins SocialNewsDesk; etc.

—Loreen Milbrath, a former finance exec at Swype, Melodeo and Tegic, has been named Chief Financial Officer at Flowboard. Milbrath… Read More

Meet new Pandora CEO Brian McAndrews: A Bruno Mars fan with some big-time advertising chops

Newly-named Pandora CEO Brian McAndrews is well known in technology and media circles as an online advertising whiz. But, let’s… Read More

Zillow CEO Spencer Rascoff joins Zulily, TripAdvisor boards

Before he got the real estate bug, Zillow CEO Spencer Rascoff was in the online travel business, co-founding and serving… Read More

Next stop, Amazon: How a Microsoft vet says farewell after 23 years at the company

“It’s become painfully clear that my bid to become the new CEO of Microsoft will not be successful, so today… Read More

Former Slate publisher and MSN vet joins Cheezburger as president and COO

Cheezburger is adding a little more beef to its executive ranks. The six-year-old Seattle online humor company, best known for… Read More

Tech Moves: OpenStreetMap founder leaves Microsoft, Google ad exec joins Twitter, and more

–Steve Coast, one of the founders of OpenStreetMap, has left his position on the Bing Mobile team at Microsoft to… Read More

Tech Moves: Buuteeq hires Meghji as chief product officer; Airbiquity team grows: Spoonemore jumps to Amazon

—Fast-growing Seattle startup Buuteeq has hired Karim Meghji as chief product officer and vice president of engineering. Meghji most recently… Read More

GeekWire hires Daniel Rossi as chief business officer

Can GeekWire really handle two soccer-loving and startup-crazed Buckeyes? Oh, yes, we can. We’re excited to announce today that Daniel… Read More

VMware taps former Microsoft exec Tony Scott as CIO

VMware has hired a former Microsoft exec as it looks to battle both Microsoft, Amazon.com and others in the virtualization… Read More

Fast-growing Opscode names new CEO; Mitch Hill steps down for health reasons

Opscode, a fast-growing Seattle software company that makes the open source automation software Chef, has appointed Barry Crist as CEO.… Read More

Poll: What do you think about Steve Ballmer stepping down?

We already know how Wall Street feels about Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s retirement plans. Shares of the company soared more… Read More

Microsoft’s Ballmer retiring in 12 months, stock surges on news, no successor named

In a massive and surprising shift for Microsoft and its longtime leader, the company announced this morning that embattled CEO Steve… Read More

Full memo: Big Fish CEO announces job cuts, cancellation of cloud games business and closure of Ireland and BC facilities

It’s a bad day for Big Fish. The Seattle casual game maker today announced that it is laying off 49… Read More

Tech Moves: Don Mattrick is cleaning house at Zynga; Spencer Lee joins Julep as CFO; and more

—Social game maker Zynga has reportedly lost its COO, CTO and head of HR as a part of a restructuring… Read More

Tech Moves: Tim Ellis departs Redfin for Porch; Cray names VP of sales; etc.

—Tim Ellis is trading in one online real estate company for another. Ellis, who has worked for Redfin and writes… Read More

INRIX hires former Nokia exec as chief revenue officer

INRIX is continuing to zoom ahead with the addition of a new chief revenue officer. The Kirkland company, which provides… Read More

Domain name registrar Donuts hires former INRIX exec Jeff deCillia as CFO

Donuts continues to gobble up fresh talent as it moves to take a more solid position in the emerging market… Read More

Michael Schutzler named CEO of the Washington Technology Industry Association

The Washington Technology Industry Association has tapped Seattle entrepreneur and angel investor Michael Schutzler to serve as president and CEO.… Read More

Tech Moves: Zones names CEO; Zillow promotes Philips

—Zones has named Murray Wright as its new CEO effective September 1, replacing Firoz Lalji who will remain as chairman.… Read More

Tech Moves: Dan Shapiro on leave from Google to write book; Add3 adds exec; etc.

—Dan Shapiro, the co-founder of Ontela and Sparkbuy, is taking a leave of absence from Google to write a book… Read More

Ignition bolsters Silicon Valley team with Rachel Chalmers hire

Ignition Partners is strengthening its team in Silicon Valley, adding Rachel Chalmers as a principal. Chalmers most recently served as… Read More

Tech Moves: Peter Wilson returns to Google; Brent Turner joins Code Fellows; etc.

Peter Wilson has worked at nearly every tech giant in Seattle, from Facebook to Google to Microsoft. So when we… Read More

Tech Moves: Avalara hires new CIO and engineering VP: Rivet & Sway taps CEO; etc.

—Avalara, the fast-growing maker of sales tax and compliance automation software, is bolstering its executive ranks with two key hires.… Read More

T.A. McCann leaves BlackBerry as transformation continues at struggling smartphone maker

T.A. McCann is moving on from BlackBerry two-and-a-half years after selling his Seattle startup Gist to the smartphone maker. The… Read More

Clearwire CEO Erik Prusch out; Sprint ‘assessing’ needs of others

Now that Sprint has finally gobbled up Clearwire, we’ll have to wait to see what the country’s third largest carrier… Read More

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