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Tech Moves: Top Blue Origin engineer joins SpaceX; Axon hires HTC Vive exec; Porch adds to board

GeekWire

Arora spent more than two years at Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin, most recently as part of the team building the space venture’s human landing system. billion contract to return astronauts to the moon. The former Expedia CEO, who joined trucking startup Convoy a year ago , previously served as CFO at the Seattle travel giant.

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Interview: Expedia’s new leaders from Apple and Verizon hope to help travel giant bounce back

GeekWire

Over the course of nearly two decades, the Seattle travel platform snatched up more than 40 companies with a combined worth of nearly $13 billion. Last week Expedia announced the hiring of Jon Gieselman , Apple’s former head of marketing for services, to help customers make sense of the online travel giant’s tangled product lineup.

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CIOs rethink all-in cloud strategies

CIO Business Intelligence

The savings are just too big to ignore for a ton of companies,” says David Heinemeier Hansson, the Danish developer of Ruby on Rails and co-owner and CTO of 37signals, which completed a six-month total exit from the cloud last June. “‘Cloud exit’ became a big theme in 2023 and there’s good odds it’ll turn into a real trend for 2024.

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Tech Moves: Microsoft hires activist fired by Amazon; ex-Sprint CEO leaves F5 Networks board

GeekWire

Amazon meanwhile has promised to become net carbon neutral by 2040, and in fall 2019 started the Climate Pledge , an effort to get corporations to join it in committing to climate goals. billion merger with T-Mobile that closed in 2020 as having an impact on his attendance, as well as travel restrictions stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Zoox CTO on the Amazon acquisition, and the environmental promise of self-driving taxis

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Jesse Levinson, co-founder and CTO of Zoox, the self-driving taxi company acquired by Amazon last year. A veteran in the world of autonomous vehicles, Levinson is the co-founder and CTO of Zoox, a Foster City, Calif., But in recent years they have announced the Climate Pledge to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2040.

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