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Shares of Alibaba rise 35% after record-breaking IPO price of $68 per share

Shares of Alibaba are up more than 30 percent after the Chinese e-commerce company raised a record-breaking $21.8 billion in… Read More

Concur must pay $265M break-up fee if blockbuster SAP deal falls apart

SAP’s whopping $8.3 billion acquisition of Concur is moving forward, with approval from the boards of both companies. But the… Read More

GeekWork: Great jobs from Alaska Airlines, Panopto, MangoApps, and more

A few weeks ago we featured Alaska Airlines as our App of the Week. GeekWire’s Blair Hanley Frank praised the app, writing, “to… Read More

SAP CEO gushes over $8.3 billion Concur acquisition: ‘I think we have something big here’

In a 30-minute conference call with analysts and press Thursday afternoon, SAP CEO Bill McDermott and Concur CEO Steve Singh… Read More

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Photo sharing service TwitPic will live on thanks to acquisition

TwitPic has been acquired and will continue providing image hosting, the company announced from its Twitter account today. The terms of… Read More

SAP buying Concur for $8.3 billion

SAP is buying Bellevue-based Concur Technologies in deal valued at $8.3 billion, a 20 percent premium over the Sept. 17th… Read More

Seattle Police Department to test body-worn cameras in ‘very near future’

Police departments in New York City and Los Angeles are already testing out body-worn cameras. Now, officers in Seattle will… Read More

A holodeck at home: Developers take Oculus wireless for a breathtaking virtual reality experience

I was standing on an elevated platform — high enough from the ground that my brain was instinctively telling me to… Read More

Marchex shares sink more than 40% after revenue prospects fall on Allstate deal

Shares of Marchex — the Seattle mobile advertising company — tumbled more than 40 percent in early-morning trading Thursday after… Read More

Big news for biotech: Novo Nordisk considering Seattle for new obesity R&D center

Seattle has been struck with some tough setbacks in the biotech community in the past few months, including the recent… Read More

Big data meets crime fighting: Seattle police launch SeaStat to quickly pinpoint ‘crime hotspots’

People are using data to help analyze elections, stocks and sporting events. Now, the Seattle Police Department — under the… Read More

King County Councilmember wants police to wear body cameras for ‘transparency and accountability’

King County sheriff’s deputies may soon be wearing body cameras if a new measure introduced this week is approved. Councilmember Dave… Read More

Ali Partovi resigns from Hampton Creek after only a week on the job

Ali Partovi has abruptly resigned from Hampton Creek, roughly a week after he joined the San Francisco food alternatives company.… Read More

Lost forever? Archive Team says TwitPic is blocking photo downloads before shutdown

A volunteer group that saves data at risk of disappearing when web sites die says the founder of TwitPic is blocking their… Read More

Airbnb to collect 14% hotel tax from San Francisco renters; no word yet on Seattle

Airbnb announced today that it will begin charging a 14 percent hotel tax to renters in San Francisco beginning next month.… Read More

Blast-off for Bezos: Blue Origin wins deal to develop new U.S. rocket engine for Boeing joint venture

Boeing and SpaceX were the big winners of the nearly $7 billion NASA contract to take U.S. astronauts to the… Read More

Crazy footage: GoPro captures attempted gunpoint robbery, helps identify suspect

When you think of capturing unique GoPro footage, skydiving may come to mind. Or lions. Or sharks. But what about filming… Read More

Denver Police will train officers on Uber law following ‘inappropriate’ incident with Seattle driver

The Denver Police Department has established a new training program for its officers following an incident involving an officer who told a… Read More

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Tableau stock rises after Credit Suisse raises rating

Tableau’s stock rose almost 3 percent in trading on Wall Street today to $73.39 a share, putting the company’s market… Read More

Social media analytics company Visible sold after raising more than $80M in VC

Bellevue-based social media analytics company Visible Technologies has been sold to Vocus and Cision, a newly-merged company that makes software… Read More

Prototype ‘Purple’ locket brings classic jewelry into digital age

We can carry thousands of everyday pictures on the smartphones in our pockets, but what about the traditional notion of a… Read More

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Cray lands $13M contract for Swedish supercomputing

Cray announced today that the company has been awarded a $13 million contract from the PTC Center for High Performance… Read More

Paper drawing app for iPad gets new artistic collaboration service

FiftyThree, the company behind the Paper drawing app for iPad and the Pencil stylus, announced today that it’s launching a… Read More

Veteran Seattle software company Attachmate acquired by Micro Focus for $1.2B

Attachmate, a 30-year-old enterprise software company based in Seattle, announced today that it has been acquired by Micro Focus International.… Read More

Sidecar raises $15M to build ‘world’s largest transportation marketplace’ as Richard Branson hops on as investor

Sidecar may not make quite as many headlines as Uber or Lyft, but the transportation startup is certainly still finding… Read More

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Getty Images sets new pricing for iStock, takes swipe at Shutterstock

iStock, the digital image company owned by Getty Images, today announced a series of changes in pricing that includes subscriptions… Read More

Sprint leveraging former Clearwire spectrum in bid to rebound

Sprint’s stock has been on the rise this week following the unveiling of the iPhone 6, thanks in part to… Read More

Reasons To Be Skeptical of Jibo, the Overly Cute Robo-Servant

There’s been quite a bit of press recently about a new “family robot” called Jibo. The squat, Pixar-esque robo-assistant has… Read More

Paul Allen paid $2.5M for this German tank, says seller refuses to deliver

Paul Allen is finding it very difficult to acquire this tank. The 28-ton Panzerkampfwagen IV, better known as the Panzer… Read More

Comcast admits it sent erroneous ‘bot’ warnings to Xfinity Internet customers

If you received a warning from Comcast last weekend that one or more of your home computers connected to Xfinity… Read More