Portland TechFlash: PDX faces stiff competition for tech workers; Startup nabs $1.7M

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Portland software maker lands $1.7M, names SurveyMonkey co-founder to board The company makes tools that help nonprofit organizations navigate Facebook. 4 items the Portland region must work on to win the battle for talent The Technology Association of Oregon commissioned a report from Portland State University to study Portland’s tech brand and compare it to similar cities in order to figure out what must be addressed for the scene to keep growing. Planar follows customers to mobile with new app Digital display maker Planar Systems is following its customers into the mobile market developing native apps to control its products. Portland researchers help keep the hackers away Galois research was featured on "60 Minutes" as part of a bigger military project to create more secure software. Portland collaboration software pros land a high-flying national client Kavi is moving from nonprofits and membership organizations and into businesses and government. Rising Portland connected car startup lands a spot in Houston-based SXSW pitch contest The company will compete in the Hatch Pitch competition, a SXSW pitch event for early-stage technology companies. National Technology News Juno co-founder on how science is turning T-cells into microprocessors Facebook rolls out new 'sell' service, but not to take on Craigslist, eBay Intellectual Ventures: 70,000 patents, $3 billion in licenses, dozens of companies sued BitTorrent, Rapid Eye partner to launch original content videos Emergence VC Ritter on why he raised only a third of $1B he could have Tabula to shut down; 120 jobs lost at fabless chip company Who will be the titan of takeout? Yelp takes on GrubHub Twitter: Government demands for user information jump 40 percent in 6 months ViaWest will build another large data center Pebble CEO Migicovsky sees software as the key to wearables

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