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Uncommon Thinkers: MagniX CTO Riona Armesmith geeks out over electric aviation

GeekWire

MagniX’s chief technology officer, Riona Armesmith, works on electric propulsion systems like the one in the background at the company’s headquarters in Everett, Wash. where scores of employees design, develop and manufacture electric powertrains. Read the other profiles here.

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LeoStella delivers first Loft Orbital satellite for SpaceX’s jam-packed rideshare mission

GeekWire

SpaceX is getting set to launch scores of satellites for its Transporter-2 rideshare mission, and one of those satellites marks a milestone for LeoStella. “This is the first satellite LeoStella has delivered to a customer other than BlackSky,” Brian Rider, LeoStella’s chief technology officer, told GeekWire in an email.

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New CIO appointments in India, 2022

CIO Business Intelligence

He has assisted the top management in planning IT strategies and leveraging technologies for rationalizing manpower, enhancing organizational productivity, and improving the efficiency of operations. Amit Goel joins Blox as CTO. Real estate buying platform Blox has appointed Amit Goel as its chief technology officer, based in Mumbai.

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Chunghwa Telecom’s ODA-inspired operation automation

TM Forum

What: Operations automation initiative to automate and streamline OSS/BSS stacks, developed automation ecosystem to enrich 5G supply chain. That’s easy to type but difficult to execute, says Dr. Rong-Shy Lin, SEVP and CTO, CHT. to transform its OSS/BSS stacks and develop an automation ecosystem to enrich its 5G supply chain.

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Washington state’s space industry doubles its economic impact in just four years

GeekWire

. “Space is indeed the new frontier,” said Axel Strakeljahn, who’s president of the Port of Bremerton’s Board of Commissioners as well as chair of the Central Puget Sound Economic Development District Board. billion annually, supporting a little more than 13,000 jobs. Back then, the economic impact was pegged at $1.8

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Bill Gates leads $85M investment in Kymeta as satellite broadband venture preps for key rollout

GeekWire

The Microsoft co-founder has been Kymeta’s lead investor since its launch in 2012 as an outgrowth of brainstorming sessions with former Microsoft chief technology officer Nathan Myhrvold and a crew of inventors. Nathan Kundtz, the company’s founder and past CEO, left his role at Kymeta in 2018.

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Meet the unicorns: A look at the 15 Seattle-area startups that boast valuations over $1 billion

GeekWire

(Hint: They are in the real estate, consumer internet, transportation, clean tech and gaming categories). To put that number in perspective, that compares to a grand total of $2 billion that every Washington startup — 175 in total — raised in all of 2018. billion in the past 12 months. And that annual haul was the highest since 2000.

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