TechFlash: Tableau, Wave get new digs; How Oculus Rift will help Seattle startups

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Tableau and Wave drive construction of largest-ever downtown Kirkland project The Parkplace project, now called Kirkland Urban, will be the largest ever real estate development in downtown Kirkland. Why Oculus Rift's huge launch is great news for Puget Sound-area startups The popularity of the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset in its first week of pre-orders is good news for Puget Sound area companies that have had trouble in the past convincing investors to back the emerging technology. Starbucks' board of directors just became one-quarter female Starbucks has appointed Ulta Beauty CEO Mary Dillon to the company's board to replace retiring director Olden Lee. Redmond wearables startup partners with Microsoft to make smart soccer shoes Seattle-based wearable company Sensoria will embed sensors in soccer boots to relay biometric data and, using Microsoft's Azure cloud-platform, teams will be able to access a dashboard with charts and graphs to visualize information collected on the field. Following T-Mobile, Sprint goes through with pledge to drop two-year contracts Following in T-Mobile's footsteps, Spring will go through with a pledge made late last year to end two-year contracts beginning Friday. Vulcan's 2015 in a nutshell: $1.2 billion in sales and completion of a brainy building Health care and tech helped drive Paul Allen's real estate division. FAA: 181,000 drones registered with regulators in two weeks The Federal Aviation Administration says 181,000 drones were registered in its new system in the two weeks since it launched. National Tech News Apple buys AI startup that knows when you are happy or sad An opera diva, the former CEO of McDonald's, and a member of Smashing Pumpkins walk on stage... New York's chief digital officer departs to lead D.C.'s 1776 accelerator CES 2016: Drones hover, dart, zoom and everything else over Las Vegas Once hot flash sale site One Kings Lane looks to sell itself at deep discount

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