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Whitman College raises $8M from Microsoft, other donors to launch computer science program

Students at Whitman College will soon be able to earn a degree in computer science. The Walla Walla, Wash. liberal arts school… Read More

Vertafore names former Attachmate boss as CEO

Former Attachmate CEO Jeff Hawn has been named Chairman and CEO of Vertafore, the Bothell-based insurance software company. His start… Read More

Traffic analysis challenges Expedia CEO’s claims about employee commute

Updated below with Expedia statement. Expedia CEO Dara Khosrowshahi told reporters today that, according to the company’s calculations, the average… Read More

Frontier boosts broadband speeds in Washington state, offering customers up to 150 Mbps

Frontier Communications is boosting its broadband speeds in Washington state, offering FiOS customers the same speeds for both uploads and downloads,… Read More

This app automates networking, helps you meet one new person each week

Trying to meet likeminded professionals? Weave wants to help. The San Francisco-based startup, which previously created a “Tinder for networking”… Read More

Seattle vs. the Eastside: What’s driving Expedia’s big regional relocation

City officials in Seattle and Bellevue were careful to speak nicely about one another today as online travel giant Expedia… Read More

Check out this view: Inside Expedia’s new Seattle headquarters campus

Expedia this morning confirmed that it will move to Seattle, buying the former Amgen waterfront campus for nearly $229 million… Read More

Expedia confirms Seattle move, will buy Amgen campus for $229M, relocate from Bellevue by 2018

Breaking News: Online travel giant Expedia just confirmed that it will be moving its headquarters from Bellevue to Seattle —… Read More

Lessons for Expedia: What it’s like to move an entire company to Seattle from the Eastside

Expedia employees know a thing or two about travel, but this is something else entirely. The online travel giant is reportedly… Read More

Galvanize to offer data science educational program in Seattle

Galvanize, the co-working space opening in Seattle next month, announced today that it will bring its data science school to Seattle.… Read More

F5 opens new Security Operations Center in Seattle to help companies defeat online attacks

F5 Networks marked the opening of a new Security Operations Center at its Seattle headquarters today — complete with one of… Read More

Expedia reportedly relocating to former Amgen campus in Seattle, announcement set for Thursday

Seattle Mayor Ed Murray will hold a press conference on Thursday to announce a “major publicly-traded firm” with “several thousand… Read More

Here’s what Zillow CEO Spencer Rascoff thinks Seattle really needs

Seattle has brilliant engineers, huge tech titans and a world-class university that pumps out top computer scientists and engineers. And,… Read More

Concur CEO sees future filled with ‘business networks’ following SAP acquisition

SAN FRANCISCO — Concur CEO Steve Singh sees a world in which new “business networks” help connect businesses with a broader… Read More

Uber driver accused of breaking into passenger’s house after dropping her off at airport

Uber helped Denver police track down one of its own drivers who allegedly tried to break into a passenger’s home shortly after dropping… Read More

Sling TV to add HBO, just in time for ‘Game of Thrones’ premiere

Sling TV announced today that it inked a deal to provide its customers will access to HBO – just in… Read More

GoDaddy raises $460M in IPO as stock surges more than 30% in NYSE debut

It’s been a nice first day as a public company for GoDaddy. The web-hosting company raised $460 million on Wednesday after… Read More

Zillow CEO Spencer Rascoff on what it takes to be an effective leader: Repetitive communication

It took 10 years for Spencer Rascoff and crew to build Zillow from a germ of an idea into a… Read More

Concur powers ahead with updates to App Center, TripLink

Concur kicked off its Fusion conference in San Francisco with updates to two of its business travel oriented services. Concur’s… Read More

Angie’s List shares drop following Amazon’s move into home improvement

Should Angie’s List be worried that a retail powerhouse like Amazon has entered the home improvement space? Following Amazon’s announcement yesterday, investors are selling… Read More

Chart: This is how crowded the streaming music industry is

It’s hard out there for a streaming music service in the U.S. A new chart from Statista shows just how… Read More

IPO market slows: Blame the billion-dollar ‘unicorns’

The market for initial public offerings softened in the first quarter, with a new report from Renaissance Capital indicating that… Read More

Intellectual Ventures licenses patents to Shazam music recognition app

Intellectual Ventures today announced that it has licensed its portfolio of 40,000 patents and patent applications to Shazam, makers of… Read More

Netflix board adds Microsoft general counsel Brad Smith and Disney veteran Anne Sweeney

Netflix expanded its board of directors to nine members today with the addition of Brad Smith, the Microsoft general counsel;… Read More

UW Alzheimer’s research group gets $6M boost from Ellison Family Foundation

The University of Washington’s Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center received a $6 million donation from the Ellison Foundation to boost its efforts… Read More

Premera’s family credit monitoring offer plagued by bugs of its own

Premera Blue Cross is offering free credit monitoring from Experian to help protect customers from a sophisticated online attack that potentially gave hackers access… Read More

T-Mobile launches live coverage map to show off its network’s live performance

T-Mobile unveiled a new coverage map today that’s a bit different from what its competitors offer. Instead of generating a… Read More

Northeastern University continues expansion, plans to open new Silicon Valley campus

Northeastern University is opening a new branch campus in Silicon Valley, part of a plan by the Boston university to… Read More

HBO expanding Seattle engineering office in advance of HBO Now launch

HBO has signed a lease that will quadruple its office space in Seattle, expand its engineering capacity in the region following a shakeup last year.… Read More

Twitter launches Periscope, jumping into live mobile streaming market

Twitter has launched its own foray into the mobile live video streaming market with Periscope, an app that allows people… Read More

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