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West Coast law firm Fenwick & West has helped some of the world’s most recognized companies become and remain market leaders. From emerging enterprises to large public corporations, our technology, life sciences and cleantech clients are fundamentally changing the world through rapid innovation. Having worked alongside such progressive and cutting edge companies for over 40 years, our culture has come to reflect the entrepreneurial spirit of our client base. Unlike traditional law firms, we move at our clients’ speed and have earned the reputation as a go-to law firm for growing companies that need insightful, strategic counsel to help tackle the challenging issues that arise when the law cannot keep up with their pace of innovation.

What makes Amazon tick, and where is the company headed? This week on the GeekWire radio show, we go behind-the-scenes of the technology giant with our guest, John Rossman, author of the book, The Amazon Way: 14 Leadership Principles Behind the World’s Most Disruptive Company. Rossman, who is now a managing director at management consulting firm Alvarez and Marsal, previously worked at Amazon, starting as the company’s director of merchant services. His book offers a wide variety of insights on Amazon’s culture and strategy, in the form of the lessons he took away from his tenure at the company. We start our conversation with.

Splunk was founded to make machine data, one of the fastest growing and most pervasive segments of “big data,” accessible, usable and valuable to everyone. Their engineering office in Seattle is building the developer platform that provides open APIs to plug into Splunk’s map/reduce data processing pipeline, storage technology and management facilities.

Comr.se, a social commerce startup that graduated from B2B incubator 9Mile Labs last year, has reeled in an additional $800,000 in capital that it will use to grow the team and add new customers. The company earlier this month rolled out a full public release of the technology, which allows brands using e-commerce platforms such as Magento, Shopify, BigCommerce and Demandware to run targeted commerce campaigns via social channels. Comr.se — pronounced as “commerce” — says that its tools sync with a brand’s existing shopping cart to “power data-rich transactions into any environment where manufacturer’s connect with their customers.” “We continue to believe.

There’s plenty of room for innovation in the car-buying space, and one Seattle startup thinks it has a great solution. Founded in 2011, CarcodeSMS gives car salespeople a phone number that helps them text and communicate with buyers more efficiently.

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