High Technology News and Information for the Pacific Northwest Region
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High Technology News and Information for the Pacific Northwest Region |
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 Monday, May 5, 2008 TriQuint Gets Military Win Hillsboro, Oregon-based TriQuint Semiconductor, a developer of RF front-end semiconductors, said Monday that the firm's devices have begun shipping into a radar system being produced by Lockheed Martin Radar Systems. According to Triquint, it has begun shipping production gallium arsenide (GaAs) MMICs as part of a system being developed for the U.S. Army. Financial impact of the win were not disclosed. TriQuint's chips are being used as part of a radar array systems for tracking mortars, artille (More info...) posted on Monday, May 5, 2008(Full story) Apptio Adds Execs Hosted IT optimization software publisher Apptio reported today that it has added three people to its executive staff and one more to its board of directors. Specifically, the Bellevue, Wash.-based business said it has hired Eric Berg as vice president of product management and marketing, Dan Adams as vice president of sales for the Central and Western regions, and Michael Sullivan as vice president of sales for the Eastern region. Apptio said Berg hails from Microsoft, Adams from Citrix Systems (More info...) posted on Monday, May 5, 2008(Full story) Digimarc to License Patent Portfolio to MSI Digimarc Corp., a provider of personal identification and media management services, revealed Monday that it has signed a new intellectual property agreement with Media Sciences International, a provider of digital watermarking solutions to the music industry. Digimarc said it will license a portion of its patent portfolio to MSI. The financial impact of the deal was not disclosed. Digimarc noted that MSI's technology is currently incorporated in more than 5 million audio tracks from major recor (More info...) posted on Monday, May 5, 2008(Full story) AdmitOne Wins Bank of Sacramento Account Risk-based authentication software publisher AdmitOne Security revealed Monday that the Bank of Sacramento is using AdmitOne's authentication product suite to validate its employees. The financial impact of the deal was not disclosed. AdmitOne explained that its Authentication Suite protects sensitive data by monitoring the rhythm of users' typing and only permitting access to those with recognized credentials and typing rhythm. AdmitOne Security is a privately held business headquartered in Iss (More info...) posted on Monday, May 5, 2008(Full story) Microsoft Calls Off Yahoo! Acquisition Efforts Redmond-based Microsoft said Saturday that the computing giant has pulled its offer for Internet firm Yahoo!. Microsoft said in a statement that the price being sought by Yahoo does not make sense for the firm, and that it would not pursue a direct offer to shareholders. The firm said that it believed a proxy contest for Yahoo would be protracted, and that it believes that Yahoo would adopt steps to make the firm an undesirable acquisition target. Microsoft had been looking to acquire Yahoo for (More info...) posted on Monday, May 5, 2008(Full story) |
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