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TweepML Helps Share Twitter Groups
Gregory T. Huang Marcelo Calbucci, the founder of Sampa and Seattle 2.0, announced today his team has launched TweepML, a service and format for Twitter users to share lists of other users quickly and...
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How My Career in Technology Influenced My Fly Fishing Business
Andrew Bennett I spent nine years working for a Customer Relationship Management software provider called Onyx Software. Our CRM systems were (at the time) largely implemented and run on-site at our...
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Xerox Spends $6.4B on ACS
Wade Roush Xerox (NYSE: XRX), the document-management giant headquartered in Norwalk, CT, said today that it will buy Affiliated Computer Services (NYSE: ACS), a Dallas, TX-based business process...
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Clearwire Rolls Out Seattle WiMax
Gregory T. Huang Kirkland, WA-based Clearwire (NASDAQ: CLWR) switched on its WiMax wireless broadband service in the Puget Sound region of Washington today. The coverage area for fast Internet access...
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CloudTP Acquires Global Green
Ryan McBride Cloud Technology Partners, a Boston-based consulting firm, says that it has acquired Global Green Consulting Group. Financial terms of the deal weren’t announced. Global Green Consulting...
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LogMeIn Pays $15M for Pachube
Erin Kutz Woburn, MA-based LogMeIn (NASDAQ: LOGM), a maker of software for remote access on Internet-connected devices, said today it acquired Pachube in a $15 million cash deal. Pachube (pronounced...
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Get Big, Get Small, Get Lucky: Why EVO Media Was Ready When Opportunity Came...
Curt Woodward When the customer that would transform their business came calling, the entrepreneurs behind Seattle’s EVO Media Group weren’t exactly flying high. After a $1.5 million fundraising round...
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Livemocha Scales up Online Language Lessons, Lands New Deal in Brazil
Curt Woodward For most of its four-year history, Seattle-based Livemocha has built its international language-learning business through the online equivalent of hand-to-hand combat: Amassing...
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Intel Invests in Urban Airship, Inks Deal for Portable PC Apps
Curt Woodward Those guys in Portland are pretty busy these days. Urban Airship, the Oregon-based supplier of push notifications and other services for mobile app developers, is being named today as...
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Avalara Rockets Ahead with Sales Tax Software while Amazon, Big Retailers Battle
Curt Woodward After a year of epic battles with politicians and brick-and-mortar competitors, Amazon.com has made sales-tax policy a relatively sexy topic in the business world. But another...
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Decide, Avalara, Brad Feld: Pre-Turkey Gems from the Seattle Tech Scene
Curt Woodward In a remarkable test of will, I’m going to avoid any Thanksgiving-related puns and just dive straight into this wrapup of the past week in Xconomy Seattle’s tech headlines, covering...
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Amazon Web Services Opens New Region in Brazil
Curt Woodward Amazon Web Services has opened an eighth global center to serve cloud-computing customers, expanding to South America for the first time with a new computing region in Brazil. The...
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Livemocha Loves AWS in Brazil: Speeds Go from 1999 to 2011
Curt Woodward One Seattle-area company is more than a little happy about Amazon Web Services opening a new South American computing region: Livemocha, an online language-learning service that counts...
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TaskRabbit Burrows Further Into New York, Buys SkillSlate
Wade Roush Entrepreneurs in the crowdsourced-services niche must be feeling a lot like the knights battling the killer rabbit in Monty Python and the Holy Grail these days. San Francisco...
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Zillow Buys RentJuice for $40M, Reports Record Revenue
Curt Woodward Zillow, one of the country’s leading online real-estate companies, is acquiring San Francisco-based RentJuice to beef up its growing professional services business. Zillow is paying $40...
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StartupCity Connects Seattle Entrepreneurs, Looks to Keep Growing
Curt Woodward In a city the size of Seattle, there’s still some room to spread out. And for startup companies, that can be a problem. As entrepreneurs who move on to bigger cities often lament,...
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Microsoft’s Sneak-Attack on Apple: SkyDrive, Xbox Live Show the Way
Curt Woodward Microsoft won’t compete with Apple by going head-to-head in the hardware business. But the software pioneer could still climb back into the fight by offering connected software services...
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Bootstrapping Products with Services
Sramana Mitra Because it’s often so difficult for entrepreneurs to obtain seed funding for their startups, bootstrapping is one of the best methods to self-fund their projects. And offering a service...
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Home-Assistant Startup Alfred Launches, Paying—Gasp!—Real Wages
What do you do for an encore after your big public debut is widely mocked in the press? For local home-service startup Alfred, the answer is apparently to keep plugging along with your launch plans. A...
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Frictionless or Frictionmore? Sales Tips for Vendors
Many articles are written on sales and marketing: how to generate leads, how to qualify prospects, how to improve sales, how to engage customers, how to turn leads into a gazillion dollars, how to do...
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