TechFlash: Zillow CEO gets book deal; Concur CFO joins Limeade board; HBO Seattle

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Zillow CEO Spencer Rascoff gets book deal with major New York publisher Zillow CEO Spencer Rascoff and Zillow Chief Economist Stan Humphries have written a book about real estate advice that will be released Jan. 27. Concur CFO joins board of 'IPO-caliber' Bellevue health startup Limeade Limeade CEO and Founder Henry Albrecht said he thinks Concur CFO Frank Pelzer will bring a wealth of knowledge to the board of his startup. Pelzer called the Bellevue startup an "IPO-caliber company." The best thing that happened to this Seattle startup after it launched? Getting sued Seattle company Avvo won a major lawsuit in its first year, generating invaluable publicity for the startup. HBO's Seattle office gets a shakeup as company nixes key project and CTO resigns HBO announced it won't be using the new streaming service engineers in Seattle had been developing. Instead, the company is asking a third party to build its new platform. Madrona Venture Group launches in-house incubator, spins out first startup Madrona Venture Group officially announced today an in-house incubator that will develop companies and products then spin out startups. Microsoft looking for productivity cloud startups for the next cohort of its Seattle accelerator Microsoft Ventures announced the second cohort of its Seattle accelerator program will focus on "digital work," or startups trying to change the way people work. Employees' favorite places to work? Not at Amazon or Microsoft The highest-scoring Seattle company on Glassdoor's latest "Best Places to Work" list was F5 Networks. Bing pulls back the curtain on SEO, says more videos and fewer awkward ads will help ranking Microsoft gave away some of the secrets behind the algorithm that ranks search results in Bing, giving new insights for ways to better your search engine optimization. Washington's medical device industry finds synergy with aerospace manufacturers Medical device manufacturers often source parts from outside Washington, not knowing suitable suppliers are right next door. A new initiative seeks to fix that. Study predicts air fares to drop in Seattle in 2015 Air fares to Seattle should drop by 2.1 percent in 2015, according to a new study. Amazon's Twitch unit buys GoodGame ​Amazon.com Inc., which acquired Twitch Interactive Inc. for $970 million in August, is buying GoodGame, the owner of professional e-sports teams Evil Geniuses and Alliance, for an undisclosed price. National Tech News Year in review: The Rideshare Rumble between Uber, Lyft, city ULA to ferry space station supplies after Orbital Sciences rocket explosion Choice Hotels hiring 100 IT positions in Phoenix Concur CFO joins board of 'IPO-caliber' Bellevue health startup Limeade ID Experts teams with Moda to fight fraud Want to succeed like Tim Berners-Lee? Set 20 percent of your time aside to be random City WIFi plan wins key approval GE investment in Pittsburgh startup to top $5M '300 times faster' means $300,000 in funding for Eta Diagnostics Trident Design to launch 6 crowdfunding campaigns in 2015

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