TechFlash: Inside Intellectual Ventures; Amazon vs. Oracle; Tech and nonprofits

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EXCLUSIVE: Intellectual Ventures keeps a particle accelerator in its lobby, and wait until you see the Archimedes room Intellectual Ventures' Bellevue laboratory, opened in 2015, is designed to support constant brainstorming between researchers from different fields. Ellison teases Oracle plan to compete with Amazon in the cloud An updated "Infrastructure-as-a-Service" product to be rolled out at Oracle OpenWorld will be more powerful and cheaper than Amazon Web Service, Ellison boasted to analysts on Thursday. 89 people entered. Only 5 got hired. Here's why the WTIA still says this jobs program was successful Less than 6 percent of the original participants have jobs because of this Washington Technology Industry Association program, but the organization still counts it as a success. Here's why. Tech skills needed: Nonprofits need help mining data to tap their full potential Experts say nonprofits can improve efficiency by examining the data they collect to better target donors, demonstrate the impact of their programs and even predict outcomes for potential new projects. But even in the land of Amazon, Microsoft and Tableau — the cloud computing and data analytics heavyweights — Washington nonprofits say the quality and quantity of data available to them as middling at best. A bubble in aircraft orders? Here's what the data says about that Fears of an economic downturn and potential impact it could have on the aerospace industry's historically high aircraft order backlog have triggered lots of discussions. Here's some data to fuel your next one. New aerospace trend: Tout big innovations, don't hide them What was once an industrial secret now gets tweeted. Developer: WeLive is coming to downtown Seattle high-rise Construction of the 36-story Belltown tower will begin in about two months. New Pacific Science Center CEO on what region needs to do to prep kids for STEM jobs Will Daugherty started his job as the CEO of the Pacific Science Center eight months ago. The former tech company executive has some ideas about the best ways to train the next generation of tech-savvy workers. National Tech News What's on the line as Twitter kicks off NFL streaming? New co-living space opens first San Francisco location, as competition for high-end tenants heats up Why Meg Whitman and other ultra-rich are investing in real estate

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