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Seattle's Rover.com raises $25M as revenue jumps 500 percent Rover.com announced on Thursday it has raised $25 million from Technology Crossover Ventures, bringing its total funding up to $50 million. Juno Therapeutics shopping for new headquarters in Seattle Seattle biotech Juno Therapeutics is looking for a bigger headquarters within the city now that the company has grown from 10 employees to 123. ​The world needs more Starbucks, so says Starbucks The company has grown from 125 stores when it went public in 1992 to 22,000 stores today. But for Starbucks, that isn't quite enough. Juno stock soars 17 percent after tumbling Wednesday on first earnings report Seattle biotech Juno Therapeutics' earnings report yesterday announced it will burn up to $150 million in cash in 2015. That doesn't seem to be stopping investors, though, as the company's share price spiked Thursday. Economist: Seattle is in the 'sixth inning of recovery,' not the edge of a bust Managing director and head economist for commercial banking at JPMorgan Chase Jim Glassman shares his economic outlook for the Seattle region. Techstars alum Remitly raises $12.5M, takes on financial industry giants Seattle startup Remitly, which makes a mobile app and website for international money transfers, announced Thursday it raised a big round of funding for the product. Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz defends controversial 'Race Together' campaign ​It is safe to say the Starbucks shareholder's meeting Wednesday had a clear theme: Starbucks believes the country needs to talk about race relations, and the company is not going to cave to critics. Madrona brings on tech all-stars from Isilon, F5, Concur After selling his company for $2.25 billion in 2010, Sujal Patel is ready to return to the board room — but now as an advisor. And the CEOs of Concur and F5 will join him. Now you can get Amazon deliveries in an hour in Baltimore, Miami and Manhattan Amazon has expanded its Prime Now service to two more cities after launching it in New York City in December. New game for Oculus Rift headsets: Immersive real estate tours (Video) Virtual reality platforms like Oculus Rift are known for their video games. But Studio216 is bringing it to a new field: real estate marketing. National Tech News Craft beer industry is picking up speed, and these women are taking full advantage Portland Incubator Experiment alum scooped up by Giphy GoDaddy CEO produces documentary on tech gender gap Ditch the 'Gut Check.' Make data-driven decisions from Day 1 Lenovo's Parker: Here's why we shuffled our management How to increase productivity with decision-driven marketing Seattle's Rover.com raises $25M as revenue jumps 500 percent A look at Thursday's Power Breakfast with business force Sallie Krawcheck Bootstrapped txtmeQuick takes another crack at VCs, looking for $4M in New study points to cracks in recent IPO boom

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