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Tech Moves: Flexe hires Amazon biometrics leader; Fresh Chalk founder departs; and more

GeekWire

Flexible warehousing company Flexe hired Amazon vet Lara Rogers as SVP and general manager. Enterprise software startup Magnify announced Sajo Jacob as its CTO and a co-founder. Muppirala was most recently CTO and president of digital innovation at retailer Restoration Hardware, now know as RH. Lara Rogers. Flexe Photo).

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Rad Power Bikes lays off employees for the 4th time in the past year

GeekWire

This unfortunate measure is necessary for Rad to correct course and become a sustainable, enduring business.” Rad launched in 2007 and began selling e-bikes directly to consumers through online sales in 2015. Mike Radenbaugh , who helped start the company in 2015, stepped down as CEO in November and is now board chairman.

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27 Jan Webinar With SEI’s Cyber Intelligence Research Consortium: Learn how to have intelligence successes instead of security failures

CTOvision

Details are below: Date: January 27, 2015. Time: 1:30 p.m. The consortium''s membership consists of practitioners and decision makers from multiple sectors, including government, energy, banking, defense contracting, and academia. Analysis Big Data CTO Cyber Security DoD and IC News Carnegie Mellon University'

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TuSimple finds a partner to help it build a fleet of robot semi trucks

The Verge

This is a major key component, of course, of being able to bring autonomy to the market,” TuSimple president Cheng Lu told The Verge. This is a major key component, of course, of being able to bring autonomy to the market”. But expansions and vehicle manufacturing take money — lots of money.

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Careers in Tech: New Changes Means New Training

Linux Academy

When I joined my company in 2015 it was 100% a Windows house, so we hired staff with only Windows server experience. There are teams who have already deployed containers and are serving a small fraction of our platform. I thought there would be some overlap between the courses, especially the AWS content, but there wasn’t.

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‘Convoy Mafia’: Alumni from trucking marketplace company lead new startups in Seattle

GeekWire

“I attribute the entrepreneurialism of so many alums to the culture and high hiring bar in the early days of the company,” said Ryan Soskin , the 15th employee at Convoy who is now CEO of trucking software platform GoodShip. Former Convoy employees point to several factors that made the company a hub for future entrepreneurs.

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Still Dreaming of the Paperless Office?

CTOvision

A staggering 40% still use paper for filing “important stuff”, and 56% are wedded to signatures on paper for contracts and order forms. The number of companies actively looking at every process for paper elimination has grown from 9% in 2014 to 16% in 2015. Those that have made the move to paper-free have seen the benefits quickly.

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