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With no Angel Oregon this year, OEN rolls out a new event
Oregon Entrepreneurs Network is throwing a Food and Beverage Showcase next month designed as a replacement for its signature event Angel Oregon, which was put on hiatus this year. The showcase will run similar to Angel Oregon and feature startups pitching their companies. The audience will include investors, potential partners and retailers. It will not, like in previous years, hand out a capital investment. Instead, companies will vie for prize packages that include shelf space at the retailer…
Lawyer calls for CEO’s release; prosecutors say he planned to flee
A new court filing details how investigators planned to arrest CEO Pradyumna Kumar Samal after he left the country, but his attorney said there’s more to the story.
Domain name company Donuts Inc. is gobbled up by private equity firm
The deal comes about a year after Donuts acquired rival Rightside for $213 million.
Sources: Facebook to eat up big chunk of Austin’s ‘second downtown’
HomeAway did it. Indeed, too. Now Facebook is choosing to split in a major way its workforce between downtown and what’s becoming known as Austin’s second downtown. The developer of North Austin’s next tallest tower announced this week that a Fortune 100 company has chosen to take all of the Domain 12 tower being built in Domain Northside. Multiple sources not directly involved in the deal told Austin Business Journal the tenant was Facebook Inc.
US tech groups seek key product protections from China tariffs
Cisco, Dell, Hewlett-Packard and Juniper Networks have issued a last-ditch appeal to the Trump administration to protect key products from being included on a list of $200 billion in new tariffs on Chinese imports, amid growing anxiety in corporate America over the escalating trade war with Beijing.
Planned Seattle skyscraper will be built as condos, developer says
As apartment rent growth slows, more developers are shifting to condos. Three condo towers are already under construction downtown.

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