GeekWire

MAY 3, 2021

. — Ad Lightning co-founder Scott Moore is stepping down from his CEO role for personal reasons but will remain on the board of directors and support the company’s business strategy. Spun out of Pioneer Square Labs in 2017, Ad Lightning provides tools for publishers and ad networks to identify non-compliant ads. Marc Patrick.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 15, 2022

Almost all major IT companies have joined the West’s global economic sanctions against Russia in recent weeks. The following is an overview — without claiming to be exhaustive — of companies from all over the world that have temporarily suspended all or part of their business in Russia. How the IT industry reacted. Petersburg.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 1, 2023

Amazon’s cloud revenue growth rate and its artificial intelligence initiatives will be closely scrutinized when the company reports second-quarter earnings Thursday afternoon, Aug. Wall Street analysts expect the company to report net sales (revenue) of $131.5 Amazon Web Services revenue growth declined to 15.8%

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GeekWire

JULY 19, 2021

New funding: Web monitoring service Visualping has raised a second $6 million seed round. based company, which launched in 2017, is now $8.5 The company just released a tool to train its system to better recognize online changes. Visualping’s Chief Technologist Xavier Raffin worked for Amazon Web Services (AWS).

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GeekWire

MAY 26, 2021

billion purchase of Whole Foods in 2017. The real financial value behind this deal is the treasure trove of IP in the deep catalog that we plan to reimagine and develop together with MGM’s talented team,” Mike Hopkins, SVP of Prime Video and Amazon Studios, said in a statement. A privately held company, MGM was valued around $5.5

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The gist: Upbound has built a “Universal Cloud Platform” for users to manage multiple cloud vendor environments and switch to different clouds, such as between Amazon Web Services and Microsoft’s Azure. The platform also simplifies the operating environment for developers. Upbound can help them stay more nimble. “We million.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

GoDaddy’s Seattle-area office was created more than a decade ago as part of a wave of engineering centers established in the region at the time by companies from outside the area. If the rollout goes as the company hopes, Airo could serve as a case study in AI growth opportunities, both for its customers and its own business.

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GeekWire

JUNE 8, 2020

A lawsuit filed by Amazon against Brian Hall, former Amazon Web Services vice president of product marketing, alleges that his new role at Google Cloud violates the terms of his non-compete agreement with the Seattle company and risks exposing valuable competitive information to one of its biggest rivals.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

On the flipside, the arrangement could help Madrona bolster the diversity and performance of the 80 companies in its portfolio, as well as create opportunities for the VC firm to discover new startups led by women and other underrepresented entrepreneurs. Wang recognized the need for a more formal organization and co-founded AWIP in 2017.

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GeekWire

MARCH 19, 2021

The company raised $500,000 in 2017. The team: CEO and founder Serge Salager also launched RetargetLinks, a company that helped small-scale advertisers create campaigns. Earlier in his career Salager spent more than a decade in marketing and product development for Procter & Gamble in Switzerland. The Vancouver, B.C.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 21, 2021

A Seattle tech vet, Morrow was an executive at Apptio for five years including through the software company’s IPO and later $1.9 The company recently subleased 123,000 square feet of office space in downtown Seattle. The company raised $40 million earlier this year and counts many ex-Googlers among its staff. Steve Shure.

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GeekWire

JUNE 5, 2023

” Generative AI is taking the tech world by storm and has already developed to the point that a full stack ecosystem exists, allowing for the rapid prototyping and development of a new generation of applications and innovations. Training platforms allow developers to train their own language models.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The data warehousing company opened at $245/share after pricing its IPO at $120/share. Its stock continued climbing in Wednesday trading, closing at $253.93, valuing the company at more than $60 billion. The IPO is a windfall for the company’s investors, including Madrona Venture Group.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 13, 2020

Oracle wasn’t the first big tech company to offer public cloud computing infrastructure, or the second, or the third. His predecessor, Don Johnson, has taken on a new role that points to the longtime database company’s broader ambitions in the cloud. (Photo by Marc Fiorito / Gamma Nine Photography, via Oracle.).

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Cropin, an agritech startup backed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, on Tuesday said that it was launching its industry cloud for agriculture, built on Amazon Web Services (AWS). The suite, according to the company, consists of three layers: Cropin Apps, the Cropin Data Hub and Cropin Intelligence.

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GeekWire

JULY 1, 2020

Seattle’s Madrona Venture Group is leading a $27 million investment in Fauna , a company founded by two former Twitter engineers that is positioning itself as a leader in databases for a new generation of applications. The approach removes the complexities that developers face in setting up, configuring and operating a database.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy was named Amazon’s next CEO this week. ” The interviewer was Andy Jassy, the Amazon Web Services leader, during a session with Carlile at the virtual AWS re:Invent conference. . billion in operating profits as a division of the company last year. Amazon Photo).

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GeekWire

APRIL 13, 2021

Jeff Wilke, CEO of Amazon Worldwide Consumer, at the 2017 GeekWire Summit. Founded in 2016, the San Francisco startup helps companies develop and manage their AI and machine learning systems. GeekWire Photo / Dan DeLong). Jeff Wilke , the former CEO of Amazon Worldwide Consumer, has joined Scale AI as advisor to the CEO.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Eric Rudder, Pulumi president, COO and cxecutive chairman, left, and Joe Duffy, Pulumi CEO, in the company’s downtown Seattle offices last year. Pulumi says it will use the funds to accelerate its research and development, and expand its sales and marketing initiatives. The company faces no shortage of competition.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

This won’t be the first time NASA has connected the space station to cloud computing services. In 2019, for example, Amazon Web Services participated in a demonstration that used cloud-based processing to distribute live video streams from space. It won’t be the first orbital go-round for HPE, either.

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GeekWire

JUNE 19, 2020

Sharma was most recently a senior product manager at Amazon Web Services. Prior to Amazon, Sharma co-founded LifeLemon, a consumer apparel e-commerce startup, led marketing at Flipkart, and was a developer at Oracle. Reynolds was most recently director of research and development at Mountain View, Calif.-based

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Flexible warehousing company Flexe hired Amazon vet Lara Rogers as SVP and general manager. The company’s marketplace lets retailers purchase warehousing space on an on-demand basis, avoiding long-term warehouse leases. Longtime Microsoft executive Gavriella Schuster joined the board of cybersecurity company Open Systems.

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GeekWire

MAY 15, 2020

Sampaio was a director of product in Apple’s cloud infrastructure group and previously held product management and marketing roles at Canadian companies Digital Ocean and Sandvine. • Ken Oestreich as VP of product marketing. to join London-based games technology company Improbable as general counsel. Megan Quinn. Aaron Kornblum.

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GeekWire

JUNE 15, 2021

The task force, created by The National Science Foundation and the Biden administration, includes ten other technical experts from academic institutions, government agencies and technology companies across the U.S. He co-founded Boundless with Wang and Doug Rand in 2017 after spinning out from Seattle-based Pioneer Square Labs.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Julie Larson-Green, an engineering leader and executive who spent more than 25 years at Microsoft, is retiring from her position as the chief experience officer at Qualtrics following the experience management technology company’s recent initial public offering. The former Porch COO remains a board member of the Seattle company.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 16, 2023

Kirkland, a founding member of SustainabilityIT.org, an organization to drive global sustainability through technology leadership, says Choice was the first hospitality company to make a strategic commitment to developing a cloud-native and sustainable platform on AWS. It also helped reduce energy consumption and costs.

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Cloud Musings

DECEMBER 28, 2016

As a leading Portuguese IT sourcing partner, they also take the responsibility of managing and developing consultant skills very seriously. As the only Portuguese IT company listed as a Top 500 Growth Company in Europe , they also contribute directly to the creation of jobs in the European Union.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

It’s the 18th company in the region to achieve that designation. Fabric CEO Faisal Masud said in an interview that he believes the 300-person company is just starting to tap its potential market opportunity as trillions of dollars in commerce moves online. Fabric has raised a total of $293.5 million to date. SoftBank Photo).

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 29, 2017

This is a liveblog of the day 1 keynote at VMworld 2017 in Las Vegas, NV. He goes on to talk about how the rapid development of technology has changed people’s expectations and frame of reference (example given was the intuitive nature little kids just “know” how to use handheld devices).

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GeekWire

APRIL 1, 2021

Anuj Gosalia , a veteran of Microsoft, Facebook and Google, joined the company as its chief software and cloud officer. This is the third recent executive hire from the Seattle area by the augmented reality company based in Plantation, Fla. Peterson originally joined Tagboard in 2017 as SVP of revenue and partnerships.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Twitter has a new CEO : Parag Agrawal, who’ll be taking over for Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, the longest-serving chief executive in the company’s 15-plus-year history. He’s been with the company for over a decade, though, working his way up from an engineer to become its top executive (and a close friend of Dorsey’s).

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Amazon Web Services had embarked on a data center building boom to handle soaring demand as attendees gathered for its 2019 re:Invent conference in Las Vegas. The August 2017 meeting at an Amazon office in downtown Seattle was, by all appearances, a normal bit of business. Amazon Web Services needed more capacity.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Amazon may have skipped putting its name on the outside of the renovated stadium where the Seattle Kraken will begin NHL play next month, but the company is bringing its technology to the inside of Climate Pledge Arena. He was echoing the March 2017 sentiment of Tim Leiweke, CEO of Oak View Group , which led the arena redevelopment.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 12, 2021

He originally joined the travel company’s board in 2005. AskJeeves was acquired in 2005 by IAC, the internet media company run by Barry Diller, who is also chairman of Seattle-based Expedia Group. The company posted revenue of $4.2 The company is ranked No. billion for first nine months of 2020, down from $9.3

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 12, 2022

Already this year, there are numerous smaller M&A deals, as enterprise software providers buy their way into new markets or acquire new capabilities rather than develop them in house. Perforce Software, a privately held provider of software development tools, has agreed to buy the infrastructure automation software platform Puppet.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The company helps entrepreneurs raise funding without going the traditional route of venture capital. “I’m passionate about the company’s mission,” Widner told GeekWire via email. “Lighter is the pioneer and the leader in RBF for software-as-a-service companies.” Microsoft Photo).

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GeekWire

AUGUST 28, 2020

Amazon Consumer CEO Jeff Wilke at the 2017 GeekWire Summit. Jeff Wilke, the flannel-wearing CEO of Amazon’s vast consumer business, has been described as a natural business leader and the most important executive at the company over the past decade. Even so, every large publicly-traded company — especially one with a $1.7

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