Bill Conroy
Amazon Is Helping to Drive Double-Digit Growth in Job Openings in the Seattle Area
Seattle ranked as the leading major market for job openings as of October, Glassdoor study finds
Driven by a thriving tech industry, the Seattle area recorded the fastest growth in job openings year over year as of October of the 10 major cities analyzed by online job site Glassdoor. Job openings in Seattle were up 15.5% over the period, with 122,950 job openings offering a median base pay of $64,639. That…
Daring Women: WEconnect CEO Daniela Luzi Tudor Says Great Leaders Are Driven by Confidence, not Their Egos
Tudor stresses that resiliency is critical to achieving your goals, a lesson she learned from her mother
Daniela Luzi Tudor, the co-founder and chief executive officer of WEconnect Health Management, began her journey into entrepreneurship in the wake of completing a 28-day treatment program for drug and alcohol addiction. After being discharged, Tudor was given a sheet of paper with a list of 10 things she needed to do every day for…
Microsoft and Humana Ink Deal That Will Super Charge the Health Plan’s Data-Driven Care
The partnership allows Humana to leverage Microsofts cloud, collaborative and AI technologies
Humana and Redmond-based Microsoft Corp. have formed a partnership that will apply the tech companys cloud computing, artificial intelligence and collaboration platform technologies to provide Humana care providers with the ability to deliver personalized and predictive health care services to its members. The seven-year deal is a glimpse into the future of data-driven health care…
Canadians Will Soon Get a Taste of Seattles MOD Pizza
The pizza chain has inked a deal that will bring five outlets to Vancouver Island
MOD Super Fast Pizza Holdings LLC, better known in Seattle where it is based as MOD Pizza, will soon be serving its pies to customers across the border after inking a deal to open five MOD locations on Vancouver Island in Canada over the next several years, with the first set to open before the…
Seattle Tech Startup Shujinko Raises $7.5M a Year After Successful $2.8M Seed Round
Funding will be used to expand hiring and accelerate the companys product-development push
Seattle startup Shujinko, a provider of cloud-compliance software, has hauled in $7.5 million as part of a Series A fundraising round that will be used to develop its SaaS platform, which serves customers seeking to move older databases to the cloud or launch new ones while maintaining compliance standards. The company hit the market last…
Mysterious Seattle Robotics Startup Launched by Serial Entrepreneur Paul Mikesell Raises $8.9M
The company indicates only that it will be designing intelligent robots to handle common chores
A former Uber executive who also co-founded two successful tech startups has just raised a bunch of cash for a mysterious robotics startup located on Western Avenue in downtown Seattle, federal filings show. Maka Autonomous Robotic Systems Inc., founded and headed by serial entrepreneur Paul Mikesell, who most recently worked at Uber as director of…
