eBay Is the Most Recent Bay Area Transplant to Seek Access to Seattle’s Talent Pool

The e-commerce giant has joined a growing list of companies willing to brave the rain in order to gain access to a deep pool of technology engineers in Seattle.
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When It Wasn't Stuffing Cars, EMC Was Doing Real Business

Aside from producing oddly funny onstage stunts, storage company EMC launched 41 new enterprise products at its New York event yesterday.

Greylock Adds Former Data Domain CEO As A Partner

Frank Slootman, who in 2009 sold Data Domain to EMC for $2.4 billion joins Greylock to “add firepower” to its enterprise team.

Dell to Acquire Compellent

Three months after losing a bidding war with Hewlett-Packard over 3Par, Dell acquires another storage company.

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Report: EMC Bidding to Buy Isilon

The New York Post is hearing from a source that data-storage leader EMC is wooing Isilon, a specialist in “clustered storage,” with a $2 billion acquisition offer and that a deal should be sealed before the end of the year. The report also says that EMC-controlled VMware is talking to Novell about buying its SUSE Linux business.

What's Up With Isilon Systems?

Big move today in Isilon Systems: shares of the storage systems company have jumped $1.08, or 19.9 percent, to $6.49, on volume of more than 660,000 shares, or more than 4x the daily average. Today’s rise boosts the company’s three-day rally to 33 percent. So, what’s going on here? Well, here’s what I know.