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Microsoft is (mostly) killing off Flash at the end of 2020

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Back in July 2017, Microsoft, Adobe, and other tech giants, including Facebook, Apple, and Google, announced that Flash would no longer be supported after 2020. Now, Microsoft program manager Suchithra Gopinath writes that the company is dropping support for Flash Player in Edge, Edge Legacy, and Internet Explorer on December 31, 2020.

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This new Seattle VC firm raised a $10M fund to back women-led startups

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The Graham & Walker team, from left to right: Amanda Eldridge, vice president of business development; Rohre Titcomb, COO; Leslie Feinzaig, founder & managing director; Es Famojure, program manager; and Divya Kakkad, vice president of marketing. “We should be investing in these companies,” she said.

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Startups to watch: 13 venture capitalists offer their picks for the next Pacific Northwest unicorns

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CB Insights’ unicorn tracker — keeping tabs on privately-held companies valued at $1 billion or more — is quickly approaching 1,000 companies. In fact, the average pre-money valuation for later-stage venture-backed companies hit $750 million last year, up from $431 million in 2020, according to the Venture Monitor report.

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Microsoft hires Google and Facebook product vet, building out ‘Teams for Life’ consumer group

GeekWire

Fulay will work on the initiative known internally as “Teams for Life,” or TfL, seeking to further expand the reach of the company’s platform for workplace communications and collaboration into the consumer market. Microsoft Teams, the collaboration software that launched in 2017, has grown significantly during the pandemic.

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Tech Moves: Ex-Microsoft COO Kevin Turner leaves Core Scientific; Magic AI founder joins ThruWave

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” “Company is in great shape to go public in the near future. Turner will remain an advisor to the company. He previously spent 11 years at Microsoft from 2005 to 2016, leading the company’s global sales and marketing teams. It manages a fleet of more than 130,000 cryptocurrency miners. The company raised $11.5

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Boeing’s Insitu subsidiary to pay $25M to settle whistleblower complaint about used drone parts

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Special Operations Command and the Department of the Navy between 2009 and 2017, according to the U.S. When Insitu was awarded the contracts to supply the drones, under the terms of no-bid contracts, the company said it would use new parts and materials. The parts were put into drones that Insitu built for the U.S.

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Amazon’s Ring names Xbox and Oculus vet Elizabeth Hamren as new CEO; founder Jamie Siminoff remains chief inventor

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Five years after its acquisition by Amazon, smart doorbell and home security technology company Ring named a new CEO: Elizabeth (Liz) Hamren, a former executive in Meta’s Oculus division and Microsoft’s Xbox business, who was most recently chief operating officer for social messaging platform Discord. Photo courtesy of Amazon.)