The Oregonian's Silicon Forest blog, and other news about Oregon tech. Communicate with its author at @rogoway.
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12 Feb 2020
The @techoregon says this year’s Sam Blackman Award winner is Peggy Miller, CEO of Tigard defense contractor Pacific Star Communications.
24 Jan 2020
Portland’s latest TechTown video highlights firms’ efforts to promote diversity.
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23 Jan 2020
“Our ambitions have just never been greater,” CEO Bob Swan told investment analysts Thursday. “We realize it’s an increasingly competitive world and we feel like we’re well positioned to deal with it.”
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23 Jan 2020
A man fired from a McMinnville-based digital marketing company was sentenced Wednesday to a year and a day in federal prison for launching a cyberattack against his former employer.
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16 Jan 2020
Bill Staples is a former Adobe and Microsoft cloud computing executive. He lives in Utah and will split his time between his home there, the Portland office and other New Relic sites.
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15 Jan 2020
Every Democratic member of the House voted in favor, plus 34 Republicans — including Walden and Herrera Beutler.
Speaking on the House floor ahead of the vote, Rep. Bonamici highlighted age discrimination in Oregon’s tech industry.
15 Jan 2020
U.S. House approves new age discrimination protections trib.al/siKUUh7
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14 Jan 2020
Oregon entrepreneurs raised nearly $700 million last year, the most since the dot-com era.
Nearly half of that haul went to just one company, though. The overall number of companies funded fell sharply.
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8 Dec 2019
A federal age-discrimination investigation into Intel’s 2015 & 2016 layoffs has dragged on for years.
Lax enforcement and an unusually high bar to prove age discrimination makes older workers uniquely vulnerable in the workplace.
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5 Dec 2019
Portland AR startup @streem_pro sold Thursday to Memphis-based Frontdoor. bit.ly/2RmCgsj
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21 Nov 2019
HP and Xerox are among the Silicon Forest’s largest technology employers. bit.ly/2riGDJG
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19 Nov 2019
“Any large, successful company need to have a toe in the entrepreneurial space,” said Puppet CEO @ytechdata bit.ly/2QB0T42
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14 Nov 2019
Clark County laser manufacturing @nLIGHTCorp is buying a Colorado company, Nutronics, that makes complementary technology.
nLight says it expects the acquisition will generate $25m-$40m in revenue next year. bit.ly/2CMaihc
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31 Oct 2019
Former TriQuint and Lattice Semi VP Sean Riley is the new CEO of Portland wireless technology startup @RigadoInc.
Riley previously spent 13 years at Intel.
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29 Oct 2019
Former Janrain CEO @jimkaskade has been named CEO of a Foster City company, Conversica, “the leader in intelligent virtual assistants for customer engagement.”
(Janrain sold to Akamai in January.)
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29 Oct 2019
Tuesday’s funding makes Vacasa the state’s best chance to develop a new, homegrown company to help anchor Oregon’s economy and to nurture a new generation of employees and executives to lead future businesses.
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26 Oct 2019
The godfather of Oregon’s tech industry cut 200 jobs last summer as sales slowed.
25 Oct 2019
Tektronix’s troubles continued last quarter, its parent company’s CEO said on yesterday’s earnings call.
"Tektronix registered high single-digit decrease in core revenue."
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25 Oct 2019
Why would Oregon’s small towns hand out hundreds of millions of dollars in tax breaks to big tech companies like Amazon?
The way they see it, there’s no good alternative.
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23 Oct 2019
McAfee said in a written statement that it “must balance the needs of the business with those of our workforce.”
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