Daptiv, the Seattle online project management company, has named M:Metrics and RealNetworks veteran Mark Klebanoff as its new CFO.

The FCC today approved the $14.5 billion merger between Kirkland-based Clearwire and the Sprint Xohm assets in a 5-0 vote.

THQ's decision to close down gaming studios throughout the globe looks like it will impact one Seattle area entity. Gamasutra reports that THQ plans to close Sandblast Games, maker of "Destroy All Human! Path of the Furon."

Alex St. John, the cigar-chompin' former CEO of WildTangent, talks to VentureBeat following the Redmond company's recent layoffs and news that St. John had turned over the reins of the company to Mike Peronto.

In a guest post for VentureBeat, Silicon Valley investigator Justin Hibbard cites the Entellium case as an example of possible other fraud cases that might pop up in the tech industry. He writes:

"I’m not privy to the due diligence that was conducted or whether anything could have detected such a fabrication. But a cursory database search from my office today revealed that in 2004 the IRS slapped Entellium’s former CFO with a $117,690 tax lien — not a good sign for the executive overseeing your company’s accounting (the lien was released in 2007). I don’t know whether anyone followed up on that detail."