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Guest Commentary: During the recent Technology Alliance luncheon, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella shared stories about his rise within the company...
Recreational marijuana is legal in four states and the District of Columbia, but many financial institutions and other big businesses have yet to embrace the new industry.
Microsoft is breaking that trend by teaming up with a Los Angeles company...
Avalara is moving into new digs next year.
The sales tax company announced today that it has leased 100,000 square feet across the top six floors of a yet-to-be-completed tower at 255 King Street near CenturyLink...
Microsoft Ventures is among the investors in a $ 23 million Series B financing round announced this morning by Helpshift, a San Francisco-based company that offers technology for in-app customer support on mobile devices and...
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Rovi, the company that's buying TiVo, isn't very interested in staying in the hardware business.
The combined company will be looking to partner with set-top box makers instead of continuing to sell set-top boxes directly to consumers, Rovi Chief Financial Officer Peter Halt said at an investors conference last week. (See transcript and this Light Reading article.)
Halt noted...
T-Mobile plans to give its customers a chance to own company stock as part of its latest Un-carrier move, set to be announced Monday morning, according to a VentureBeat report,...
Hyperloop Levitation
On Monday, Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT) announced that it had “exclusively licensed” a technology that could help it bring the transit system idea, popularized by SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, to fruition.
The licensed technology, called passive magnetic levitation, departs significantly from the system that Musk theorized back in 2013. Musk’s Hyperloop design involves a low-pressure...
Bothell, Wash.-based Vertafore is set to be acquired by Bain Capital and Vista Equity Partners Management, the buyers announced today.
While terms of the deal weren’t disclosed, sources told Reuters that the company is being sold for $ 2.7 billion. Bain and Vista Equity are buying Vertafore from TPG Capital, which...
