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Apptio posts 23 percent revenue growth and gets a little closer to profitability

Subscription growth of 26 percent helped Apptio top Wall Street estimates for revenue and net earnings Monday, and it reached… Read More

How T-Mobile went from seller to buyer in Sprint deal and what the world has to say about it

After almost being acquired twice by its wireless rivals, T-Mobile is now the headline name in the blockbuster merger with… Read More

T-Mobile HQ2: Sprint merger to give Seattle-area company a ‘second headquarters’ in Kansas

T-Mobile has found its own HQ2 — no nationwide search required. The wireless company’s deal to merge with Sprint, announced… Read More

T-Mobile and Sprint agree to merge, creating $146B rival to AT&T and Verizon, led by John Legere

After years of on-again, off-again talks, wireless rivals T-Mobile and Sprint plan to merge in a deal that values the… Read More

From stay-at-home dad to DocuSign CEO: How Dan Springer guided digital signature giant to IPO

A little more than a year ago, Dan Springer was a stay-at-home dad. Today he is the CEO of a… Read More

Commentary: Wake up, white men, it’s time to stop talking and start acting on diversity

[Editor’s note: This guest commentary comes from Michael Schutzler, CEO of the Washington Technology Industry Association] In the technology industry,… Read More

Smartsheet CEO Mark Mader just completed a $150M IPO: Here are the things he won’t be doing

Smartsheet CEO Mark Mader stood on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Friday morning and before ringing the… Read More

DocuSign and Smartsheet ring opening bells on Wall Street, launching new era as public companies

DocuSign and Smartsheet rang the opening bells for the Nasdaq Stock Market and New York Stock Exchange, respectively, Friday morning,… Read More

Smartsheet raises $150M in IPO, setting stock price at $15/share, above expected range

UPDATE: Smartsheet stock popped on its public debut, opening at $18.40, a 22 percent rise over its offering price of $15.… Read More

DocuSign prices shares at $29 as digital signature giant raises $465M in IPO

UPDATE: DocuSign shares began trading at $38.36 on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange Friday morning, a 30 percent spike over its offering… Read More

Starbucks meets expectations with $6B in quarterly revenue, shares down slightly

Shares of Starbucks fell slightly in after-hours trading after the company posted its quarterly financial results on Thursday. The Seattle… Read More

Amazon will increase annual Prime membership cost to $119 per year, up from $99

Amazon will increase annual Prime membership costs from $99 to $119, effective May 11. Current Prime members will see the $20… Read More

nLight shares soar 68% on first day of trading; laser-maker valued at nearly $900M

Shares of nLight spiked more than 68 percent from its offering price on the first day of public trading, signaling… Read More

Expedia beats first quarter estimates with $2.5B in revenue, shares up 10%

Expedia Group generated $2.5 billion in revenue in the first quarter across all of its brands, and $27.2 billion in… Read More

Bill Gates returns to Harvard for Q&A on education, philanthropy, his time at the school and more

Bill Gates famously dropped out of Harvard University in 1975 after two years of study and started Microsoft with Paul… Read More

Snap unveils next generation Spectacles, taking another shot at wearable hardware

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qpbyj-hz05s Snapchat parent company Snap is giving the Spectacles experiment another go. Today, the company unveiled the second generation of… Read More

nLight prices IPO at $16 per share as laser-maker raises $96 million in strong debut

nLight priced its initial public offering above the expected range at $16 per share on Thursday night as the Vancouver,… Read More

Zillow scoops up office space from Nordstrom as Seattle HQ grows to more than 1,500 people

Zillow Group gobbled up a pair of floors at Russell Investments Center in Seattle, referred to by some as Zillow… Read More

Well-funded real estate tech company Compass opens Seattle-area offices

Compass, a company that aims to use technology to simplify home buying and selling, is opening offices in the Seattle… Read More

DocuSign ups IPO target, now seeks to raise $450M on stock price of $26 to $28

DocuSign raised its forecasted stock price as it gears up to go public, indicating excitement on Wall Street about the digital… Read More

Twitter stock drops on slow growth projection despite better than expected revenue and profits

Twitter posted another profitable quarter and beat Wall Street expectations for revenue, but warnings of a slowdown in the social… Read More

What it’s like to stand on the Space Needle’s new glass floor, 500 feet above Seattle … in VR

With the sun shining and blue skies above Seattle this week, there’s no better time to venture to the top… Read More

High school seniors from across Washington state commit to STEM by signing letters of intent

Top athletes may get much of the attention when it comes to signing days and committing to a university to… Read More

Sequoia Capital will accept up to $350M from Washington State Investment Board, reports say

Top Silicon Valley investment firm Sequoia Capital has reportedly accepted up to $350 million from the Washington State Investment Board… Read More

Seattle hits 18 months as nation’s hottest housing market with no signs of slowing down

Seattle has held the title of the nation’s hottest housing market for 18 months and counting, as continued population growth… Read More

Smartsheet boosts stock price range to $12 to $14 per share as IPO nears

Smartsheet is gearing up to go public this week, and Wall Street appears to like what it sees. The Bellevue,… Read More

Tableau revamps subscription offerings to woo enterprise customers, unveils data analysis tool

Tableau Software overhauled its subscription pricing structure, offering several different packages of its data visualization products to gain a stronger… Read More

TLDR: We can’t make this stuff up — MIT student orders pizza with his mind

[Editor’s Note: TLDR is GeekWire’s daily news rundown, hosted by Starla Sampaco. Watch today’s update above, subscribe to GeekWire on YouTube for every… Read More

RFID-maker Impinj expects $4.1M charge related to workforce reduction, office closures

Seattle-based Impinj expects to spend $4.1 million on expenses related to a restructuring that includes layoffs and remote office closures. In… Read More

Data leak exposes 48M user profiles, scraped by startup from Facebook, Zillow and others, researcher says

A cybersecurity firm called UpGuard has tied Facebook — as well as other popular consumer sites — to another data leak.… Read More