Wilsonville, Oregon-based electronic design automation software maker Mentor Graphics said Thursday that the firm has donated more than M in EDA software to a university in Romania. According to Mentor, it has donated the software to the Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iasi, in Romania, as part of a new microelectronics development laboratory. The donation [...]
Portland, Oregon-based SplashCast, a provider of social content syndication software, said Thursday that it has inked a deal with surfwear maker Quiksilver, to provide a embeddable video syndication service for Quiksilver. According to SplashCash, the firm has launched The Quicksilver in Memory of Eddie Aikau “micro-channel” which will allow users to share and view surfing [...]
Portland, Oregon-based Iterasi, a developer of web bookmarking software, said Thursday that the firm has cut its staff. Number of employees affected by the cuts was not disclosed by the company, which said it made the moves because it became apparent that “the economy was not going to snap back in any meaningful way in [...]
Seattle-based RealNetworks has cut 130 employees, or approximately 7.5 percent of the firm’s employees, the firm said Thursday in a filing with the SEC. The firm said that the moves were made to reduce operating costs in light of slowing consumer and business spending. RealNetworks said it also eliminated about 30 contract personnel and consultants [...]
Seattle-based Amazon Web Services, Amazon.com’s web services arm, said today that it has launched another new service, this time focused on public data sets. According to Amazon, the new “Public Data Sets on AWS” service provides access to a centralized repository of public data, such as U.S. Census databases, 3-D chemical structures, and humane genome [...]
Wilsonville, Oregon-based electronic design automation software maker Mentor Graphics said Thursday that the firm has donated more than M in EDA software to a university in Romania. According to Mentor, it has donated the software to the Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iasi, in Romania, as part of a new microelectronics development laboratory. The donation [...]
Portland, Oregon-based SplashCast, a provider of social content syndication software, said Thursday that it has inked a deal with surfwear maker Quiksilver, to provide a embeddable video syndication service for Quiksilver. According to SplashCash, the firm has launched The Quicksilver in Memory of Eddie Aikau “micro-channel” which will allow users to share and view surfing [...]
Portland, Oregon-based Iterasi, a developer of web bookmarking software, said Thursday that the firm has cut its staff. Number of employees affected by the cuts was not disclosed by the company, which said it made the moves because it became apparent that “the economy was not going to snap back in any meaningful way in [...]
Seattle-based RealNetworks has cut 130 employees, or approximately 7.5 percent of the firm’s employees, the firm said Thursday in a filing with the SEC. The firm said that the moves were made to reduce operating costs in light of slowing consumer and business spending. RealNetworks said it also eliminated about 30 contract personnel and consultants [...]
Seattle-based Amazon Web Services, Amazon.com’s web services arm, said today that it has launched another new service, this time focused on public data sets. According to Amazon, the new “Public Data Sets on AWS” service provides access to a centralized repository of public data, such as U.S. Census databases, 3-D chemical structures, and humane genome [...]
Seattle-based Verdiem, a developer of software for reducing energy consumption of office PCs, said Wednesday that the firm has hired on Jerey Jaech as CEO. Jaech has served as CEO at Trumba and Visio. Jaech replaces Kevin Kluster, who was Verdiem’s CEO since March of 2006. Veredeim develops a software product which manages the energy [...]
Seattle-based customer relationship software maker Entellium filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Tuesday, saying that it had liabilities of .7M and assets of .7M. The Chapter 11 filing follows the arrest of two of the firm’s executives, who had been charged with defrauding its investors and arrested by the FBI in early October. Entellium was venture [...]
Video game advertising network Massive Inc., a Microsoft Corp. subsidiary, revealed Wednesday that it has been designated the exclusive advertising service provider for Blizzard Entertainment’s Web properties and services. The financial impact of the customer win was not disclosed. Blizzard is a video and computer game developer and publisher of perhaps the most popular computer [...]
Kirkland, Washington-based INRIX, a provider of traffic information, said Tuesday that the firm has signed a deal with location-based services firm Networks In Motion. According to INRIX, Networks In Motion will use the firm’s Total Fusion Traffic data for its AtlasBook Navigator product. Financial impact of the deal was not disclosed. Network In Motion’s product [...]
Seattle-based Amazon.com said today that the firm has rolled out a new application on Apple’s App Store, the online store for iPhone and iPod Touch applications, which also includes a feature to find products based on a photo. According to Amazon, its new Amazon application allows users to search and browse for products offered by [...]
