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Bill Nye’s LightSail sends home a selfie after rocky deployment

Bill Nye just tweeted out LightSail’s first selfie, a seminal moment in any spacecraft’s life. The Planetary Society craft’s deployment motor… Read More

Seattle officials: Municipal broadband too risky and expensive for city to build alone

A long-awaited study says building a municipal gigabit fiber network in Seattle would cost $480 million to $665 million — less… Read More

Intel Capital launches $125M Diversity Fund, targeting women and minority entrepreneurs

Intel Capital is establishing a new $125 million Diversity Fund designed to bankroll technology startups led by women and underrepresented… Read More

Matt McIlwain

Madrona’s toughest negotiator: 11-year-old son tells venture capitalist father that he wants debt financing

Madrona Venture Group’s Matt McIlwain spends hours each week hammering out deal terms with entrepreneurs. But McIlwain, whose Seattle venture… Read More

Seattle Genetics inks $25M licensing deal with maker of unique ‘cancer cell killer’

Shares of Seattle Genetics stumbled on Tuesday after the Bothell-based company announced a partnership to license the Antibody-Coupled T-cell Receptor… Read More

Unicorns do exist! Meeting my Ada Developers Academy classmates

[Editor’s Note: In this special series, clinical psychologist Sally Moore chronicles her journey from therapist to coder, as she leaves… Read More

Coding bootcamps see huge enrollment increase in 2015; Ruby most popular language

Coding bootcamps are becoming more popular. The second annual study from Course Report, a coding bootcamp reviews site, found that the number… Read More

Concur CEO Steve Singh backs TouchstoneID, a new identity management startup

It’s been a busy year for Concur CEO Steve Singh. His company sold to SAP for $8.3 billion this past… Read More

Online diamond ring seller Blue Nile opens first physical location after successful test

Blue Nile got its start selling custom diamond rings online, working from a supply of 130 wedding bands and 75… Read More

A capital gains tax in Washington state? This VC and tech CEO say heck no

There was a lot of chatter at the Technology Alliance’s luncheon today about the sorry state of education in Washington… Read More

Steve Singh

Concur CEO Steve Singh: How a strong culture got us through the dark times

At the end of the day, it’s all about culture. That was the message from Concur CEO Steve Singh, who spoke… Read More

Here are the top 10 most concentrated ‘Millennial markets’

Millennials have grown up with the tech revolution as a background to their life, and have increasingly contributed to it.… Read More

Lyft driver in Seattle allegedly drags customer behind car after demanding sex

Lyft deactivated a driver in Seattle after police say he demanded sex from a rider before dragging her beside his… Read More

Study: Washington state ranks first in STEM jobs, but 42nd in on-time high school graduation rates

It’s no secret that the Seattle area is a hotbed for engineers, scientists, mathematicians and other highly-skilled technology professionals. Whether… Read More

Looking to spin off more startups, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center names new commercialization chief

The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center helped spark a number of groundbreaking spin-off companies in recent years, from publicly-traded Juno… Read More

Here’s the Chevy Camaro that UW students are re-engineering to improve fuel efficency

How do you make a muscle car more fuel efficient, but not lose any performance? That’s a challenge 16 North American… Read More

Telemedicine startup Carena secures $13.3 million to expand Virtual Clinics

Seattle-based Carena announced today a new $13.3 million round of funding to expand its Virtual Clinic service, which uses webcams and phone calls… Read More

Madrona raises $300M venture fund, continuing quest to bankroll Pacific NW startup superstars

Madrona Venture Group is in the money. Again. The Seattle venture capital firm, a backer of Seattle area companies such… Read More

T-Mobile reportedly in talks to merge with Dish Network

T-Mobile is once again the subject of merger talks, with The Wall Street Journal reporting Wednesday night that the Bellevue-based… Read More

Implantable RFID company Dangerous Things looks outside the body with hacker-friendly Bluetooth switch

Amal Graafstra is used to hacking things to work for him. He has two RFIDs implanted, one in each hand,… Read More

Blue Box founder Jesse Proudman on private clouds, bootstrapping and why he sold to IBM

Before IBM swooped in to buy Blue Box, the Seattle cloud computing startup entertained at least one other offer. Blue… Read More

Opendoor is the latest startup trying to be the Amazon of home buying

Today, nearly all home searches start online, and buyers can find valuable information about a home within a couple of clicks. But some don’t believe the real… Read More

CIA-backed Portland startup Tyfone raises $6.6M for decentralized security platform

Tyfone, a Portland-based cybersecurity startup, has raised $6.6 million of a larger $8.6 million round. The 11-year-old company develops a… Read More

IBM acquires Seattle’s Blue Box in major deal for private cloud service

Blue Box, meet Big Blue. Blue Box, a 12-year-old Seattle company that offers on-demand private cloud services, has agreed to… Read More

Big data meets parking: New INRIX service predicts open spots on city streets

A new service from traffic technology company INRIX provides a block-by-block heat map of available on-street parking spaces in urban areas… Read More

Code.org inks 11 new partnerships to help expand computer science education

Code.org is getting some help with its mission to put computer science in every U.S. school. The Seattle-based non-profit today… Read More

University of Washington licenses Rosetta protein software to Cyrus Biotech

CoMotion at the University of Washington is licensing the Rosetta protein design software to Cyrus Biotechnology, which plans to create a more user-friendly… Read More

Comcast says outage resulted from overloaded DNS servers, offers credit to those affected

Comcast slowed to a crawl Monday night across parts of the West Coast due to unexpected rerouting of DNS traffic after… Read More

Microsoft, Hulu, Julep execs offer career advice to recent college grads

Ask the right questions, know your perspective, don’t obsess over fancy job perks, and have a plan but keep an open mind.… Read More

Shares of Juno Therapeutics jump after Seattle biotech buys X-BODY Inc.

Shares of Juno Therapeutics jumped more than six percent on Tuesday after the Seattle biotechnology company announced its acquisition of… Read More

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