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LiquidPlanner hire; HipCricket; Paul Allen; and more
LiquidPlanner, the Bellevue online project management startup, has named Eileen McCormack to the position of vice president of finance. McCormack most recently served as acting CFO of SnapIn Software, and before that she held finance positions at companies such as Western Wireless, T-Mobile and Norcom Networks.
Hipcricket said that it will provide its mobile marketing tools to Journal Broadcast Group, which operates 33 radio stations and 13 TV stations. Milwaukee's WTMJ-AM and WTMJ-TV have already been using the Hipcricket service to run a school closure email and text message alert program. That program already has 18,000 members.
Barnes & Noble says that its Nook electronic book reading device will be in stores by midweek at the majority of its stores. FierceMobileContent says the release of the $259 device follows weeks of delays.
Menlo Park, Calif.-based Redpoint Ventures, a backer of Seattle area companies such as BlueKai and Entertonement, has raised a $400 million venture capital fund. Redpoint also was an early investor in Concur Technologies, a Redmond software company which now boasts a market value of $1.8 billion.
Targeted Genetics, the struggling Seattle biotech, said that it has completed a sale of certain technology assets to Genzyme Corp. for $7 million. The company -- which finished 2009 with $4.9 million in cash and cash equivalents -- also announced that it has received a $750,000 milestone payment from Amsterdam Molecular Therapeutics.
Allen
A federal bankruptcy judge ruled on Monday that Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and other former executives of Charter Communications can't be sued under the company's reorganization plan, reports Bloomberg News.
Headline of the day comes via GigaOm: "With SMS, Twilio continues to shake up communications."
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