Technology
Tech Impact Awards 2013: Software as a Service
WINNER: PAYSCALE Location: Seattle | Employees: 125 | payscale.com Its the first question on everyones mind, yet often the last question asked: What does this job pay? The goal of PayScale is to make available to all the kind of market-based answer that until now only few could receive. What employees get for their work…
Tech Impact Awards 2013: Consumer
WINNER: Zillow Location: Seattle | Employees: > 700 | zillow.com The impact of this real estate data company is heavy, yet can be lightly held. Having records of the actual and estimated sale price of every home in America available online was startling less than seven years ago, notes Zillow Chief Marketing Officer Amy Bohutinsky….
Tech Impact Awards 2013: Lifetime Achievement
WINNER: Jeremy Jaech Longtime Seattle tech entrepreneur Jeremy Jaech says he has thought about retirement but keeps starting new companies because thats where I get most of my jollies. Cofounder of the pioneering desktop publishing firm Aldus, he later helped start Visio, Verdiem, Trumba and many others. Until last spring, Jaech served as chair of…
AOL’s Patch.com lays off 40 percent of its staff
AOL CEO Tim Armstrong announced Friday that 40 percent of the staff running the hyperlocal news operation Patch.com would lose their jobs and that 20 percent of the Patch sites would be consolidated with others or be shut down. Another 20 percent will be partnered with other media sites, according to jimromenesko.com. The layoffs affect…
Seattle’s WatchGuard gets kudos from Gartner
Check out Seattle Business magazine’s executive Q&A with WatchBuard CEO Joe Wang here. Here’s the WatchGuard press release: SEATTLE, Aug. 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ —WatchGuard Technologies, a global leader in business security solutions, today announced that it has been named a “Leader” in Gartner’s 2013 Magic Quadrant for Unified Threat Management (UTM).* According to the report,…
Seattle-based biotech company Theraclone Sciences merges with Annapolis-based PharmAthene
Here’s the press release: ANNAPOLIS, MD and SEATTLE, WA August, 1, 2013 PharmAthene, Inc. (NYSE MKT: PIP) and Theraclone Sciences, Inc., a privately-held monoclonal antibody (mAb) discovery and development company, announced today the signing of a definitive agreement for the merger of PharmAthene and Theraclone in an all-stock transaction. The combined company will be a…
Cray stays relevant by reinventing itself
When the federal government wanted to develop a system to root out fraud, it turned to the Urika, a platform skilled at uncovering relationships among disparate data even experts might not see. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, which makes a half-trillion dollars a year in health care payments, wanted to find a way…
Kymeta raises $50 million to expand its satellite communications antenna business
The company is pioneering the use of patened materials that allow the antenna’s to angle towards satellites without moving parts, allowing for light, adaptable antennas for use on trains, planes and other moving vehicles. See our recent story on the company here. Here’s the press release: Kymeta Closes $50 Million Series C Financing To Transform…
Fisher Communications being acquired by Sinclair
Fisher Communications of Seattle is selling to Sinclair Broadcast Group of Baltimore for $373.3 million. Fisher shareholders will get $41 for each share of Fisher common stock they own. Here is the news release distributed Thursday by Fisher, which owns 20 television stations in eight western markets, including KOMO/4 in Seattle and KATU/2 in Portland….