Amperity
, the stealth-mode enterprise software company from startup vets Kabir Shahani and Derek Slager, is now seeking a Site Reliability Engineer following a $ 9 million funding round earlier this year. Shahani and Slager are among the co-founders...
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Microsoft teams up with ‘seed to sale’ marijuana company to build government software
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...
WatchGuard Technologies buys threat-detection software for $3M plus stock
Network-security hardware vendor WatchGuard Technologies, based in Seattle, has acquired the HawkEye G threat-detection and response technology from Hexis Cyber Solutions, of Hanover, Md. WatchGuard, which is privately held, paid $ 3 million in cash and 1.7 million shares, plus other consideration, according to an SEC...
IBM to buy Israeli software firm that aids cloud integration
IBM today announced it will pay an undisclosed sum to buy EZ Legacy Ltd., an Israeli company that helps developers understand and change mainframe code.
The purchase will help IT departments more easily manage mainframe code and adapt it for use in the cloud and with mobile applications, IBM...
Advice from Oculus: Here’s why developers should start building software for virtual reality
Seattle traffic is a nightmare: Here’s the city’s software plan to reduce gridlock using high-tech traffic lights
Seattle’s traffic system is buckling under the weight of so many newcomers.
Many of the traffic signals were built before Seattle’s tech-driven boom attracted...
Software solves the mystery of a 2,500 year-old poem by Sappho
Fragments of Sappho's poetry, though not "Midnight Poem," transcribed in the second century BCE. (credit: Bodleian Library, Oxford)
The poet Sappho was so celebrated in the ancient world that the Roman Empire was still producing statues and paintings of her centuries after her death. Her work was organized into nine books of lyric poetry in the...
Event planning software maker Hubb wins $155K investment in Seattle Angel Conference competition
The Seattle...
Backed by Amazon and Paul Allen, KITT.AI launches first ‘hotword detection’ software toolkit
KITT.AI wants to help developers add voice activation features to almost any device for free.
The Seattle startup today unveiled its first software toolkit called Snowboy, which lets developers add verbal “hotword detection” to devices. It’s the same technology that tech giants like Amazon and Apple use for products like...
Insurance software company Vertafore acquired for $2.7B by Bain Capital and Vista Equity
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...