Thursday, April 19, 2012
VC Investments In Pacific Northwest Firms Increase In Q1
The latest numbers from the MoneyTree report, from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), based on data from Thomson Reuters, show that investments in Washington (More info...)
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Greenpeace Targets Amazon, Microsoft Power Usage In Protest
Greenpeace does not like the cloud services from Amazon and Microsoft--or at least, Amazon and Microsoft's choice of power sources for their cloud computing services--saying that those cloud services (More info...)
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Ignition Portfolio Firm Splunk Has Stunning IPO Debut
Investors over at Ignition Partners are bound to be celebrating this morning, as one of its portfolio firms, Splunk, had a stunning IPO debut, rising to nearly double its IPO debut price. Splunk debut (More info...)
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Big Fish Games Issues Equity As Part Of Acquisition
Seattle-based Big Fish Games, the developer of casual gaming software, has issued $11.2M in equity, with an additional $3.4M in earn-out, related to an acquisition of Self Aware Games, a regulatory fi (More info...)
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Cray Sets New CTO
Seattle-based supercomputer maker Cray said this morning that it has appointed William C. Blake as its Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer. Blake, who has been on Cray's board of direct (More info...)
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Amazon Web Services Launches Cloud Software Marketplace
Looking to launch a cloud-based version of your favorite database software or development stack on Amazon Web Services? Amazon is looking to make it easier for users to deploy common infrastructure so (More info...)
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FazeWire Acquired By Pacific Software Publishing
Seattle-based FazeWire Web Services, which provides web hosting services, has been acquired by Bellevue-based Pacific Software Publishing, PSPINC said Wednesday. Financial details of the acquisition (More info...)
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Alder BioPharmaceuticals Lands $38M
Bothell-based Alder BioPharmaceuticals, a developer of technology for developing antibodies used in treating cancer, autoimmune diseases, and other diseases, has raised $38M in a Series D funding roun (More info...)
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