The Willamette Angel Conference has announced the five finalists for its first annual event on May 14, with CenterSpace Software; Floragenix; Wicked Quick; Zapproved; and ZAPS Technologies each vying for $125,000 in prize money. Nine other companies -- including Seattle's GroupThink -- also will have the opportunity to make it into the final round of the business plan competition.
Blue Heron Biotechnology -- a 10 year-old Bothell biotech company -- has delivered a gene sequencing tool to the National Institutes of Health in order to help the organization conduct research on the outbreak of Swine Flu.
WhitePages.com has changed its name to WhitePages as part of a larger brand repositioning that has been going on at the Seattle company over the past 15 months, one that vice president of marketing John Lusk has been chronicling on the company blog.
With the market slumping for new forms of advertising, Bellingham-based Tatango has altered its business model in order to keep the group text messaging service free, according to a video message from CEO Derek Johnson.
Daptiv, the Seattle online project management company, said it added 40 customers in the first quarter including Epson America, GE healthcare and Intellectual Ventures.
Speaking of online collaboration software, Portland's Jive Software has introduced a new cloud-based service called Jive Express that takes advantage of Amazon.com's Web Services, reports VentureBeat.
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