TechFlash: Ballmer criticizes Amazon's lack of profits; Limeade raises $25M

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Ballmer: Amazon won't be a 'real business' until it makes money The former Microsoft CEO slammed Amazon's earnings in an interview with Charlie Rose. Eastside health care startup aims to double staff after $25M VC infusion Limeade, a company that helps other companies incentivize employees to be healthy, is planning to expand its workforce throughout 2015. From Tehran to Harvard to Microsoft to education: How Hadi Partovi's path led him to Code.org Code.org co-founder Hadi Partovi is on a mission to teach every kid an essential skill: computer programming. Seattle lab/office project in North Lake Union gets a financial jolt Touchstone and AIG land $56 million construction loan for the NorthEdge project in the Fremont/Wallingford area. Amgen's departure: Where will all those scientists go? Starting in December and throughout 2015, Amgen will lay off workers in Seattle and Bothell as those sites prepare to close. Some of those people will relocate or retire, but many will look for work elsewhere in the Puget Sound. Here are a few companies that could benefit. Cool Spaces: The first thing you see at Porch.com's headquarters? A porch, obviously Porch's Eastlake space is decked out with home decor. How Starbucks won over tea-loving Asia and built a huge, new market Asia is Starbucks fastest expanding market. Ballmer could see $1 billion in tax benefits in Clippers purchase Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's $2 billion purchase of the Los Angeles Clippers of the NBA could net him $1 billion in tax benefits. Bellevue tech startup Limeade raises $25M ​Bellevue tech startup Limeade has raised $25 million in financing. Microsoft is 10th-most profitable company in the world, says new list ​Microsoft Corp. has been named the 10th-most profitable company in the world, and the third-most profitable company based in the United States. Amazon's latest doohickey is its Fire TV Stick ​Amazon.com Inc. Monday introduced a Fire TV Stick that will compete with Google Inc.'s Chromecast media streaming device. Two tech execs named to Alaska Air Group board Kathy Savitt of Yahoo and Dhiren Fonseca, formerly of Expedia, have been named to Alaska Air Group's board. National Tech News

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