Airtight Games, the Redmond studio I wrote about in today's column, announced that it's hired a key developer from Bellevue's Valve Software.
Kim Swift, creative director on Valve's experimental hit puzzle game "Portal" and part of the "Left 4 Dead"...
Top talent at Microsoft and other multinational companies better have their passports ready.
The head of Microsoft's India business group, Ravi Venkatesan, told the Wall Street Journal that companies will be rotating talent to fast-growing countries...
Three years after they cooked up a business plan over a kitchen table, Kabir Shahani and Chris Hahn landed $3.5 million for Appature, their Seattle venture providing online software and services to healthcare marketers.
The profitable company today...
Bloomberg News is reporting that Apple is buying music-streaming service Lala, which would give the company a platform to finally add streaming services to iTunes.
Palo Alto, Calif.-based Lala lets users hear a song once for free, and build online...
Microsoft just disclosed how much CFO Chris Liddell will get for his last two paychecks: $1.9 million, pursuant to a "resignation agreement" they reached Dec. 1.
Liddell, who resigned Nov. 24, is getting $950,000 on Dec. 31 and another $950,000 on...
