HCL Technologies announced at the grand opening of their new Redmond engineering center that the company will be hiring 400 people over the next two years. The Indian technology outsourcing firm also received $200,000 from the state of Washington for workforce training efforts.

Tippr, a local group buying service, announced the expansion of their affiliate service. The expansion will broaden the reach of the service to blogs, deal aggregators and social media sites.

Digital Seattle has teamed up with FiberCloud to offer small- and medium-sized businesses access to FiberCloud’s cloud storage platform. The services will be marketed to Digitial Seattle clients under its name.