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This Seattle e-commerce startup didn’t raise any VC money and was just acquired in a nine-figure deal

GeekWire

The 4-year-old company provides advertising and sales tools to online retailers selling products on Amazon, Walmart, Instacart, and other marketplaces. Burdick previously worked for a decade at Amazon on the company’s retail merchandising and advertising teams.

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Who will be the Next Tech Titan? Cast your vote in the GeekWire Awards

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The finalists in this year’s cohort represent a range of industries: supply chain and logistics; electric vehicle battery manufacturing; TV advertising statistics; gaming; and recruiting. He was nominated as an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 2018 in the Media & Advertising category in the Pacific Northwest.

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Microsoft says Windows 11’s File Explorer ads were ‘not intended to be published externally’

The Verge

This was an experimental banner that was not intended to be published externally and was turned off,” says Brandon LeBlanc, senior program manager for Windows, in a statement to The Verge. Sadly, Microsoft isn’t alone in advertising its own services in its operating system or apps.

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Shift AI Podcast: Setting AI guidelines at work, with City of Seattle interim CTO, Jim Loter

GeekWire

Developing the City of Seattle AI guidelines: I didn’t want to just sit in a dark room and mull it over within our department, or just assign it to one of our program managers and say, here, go figure this out. Being mission-driven is important to me. I wanted to get the perspective of multiple stakeholders.

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GeekWire Awards: Cast your ballot for the top CEO

GeekWire

And now the former online advertising executive is applying some of that logistical and industrial operations knowledge he learned in the Navy to Flexe, a pioneering Seattle software startup that’s transforming how businesses access warehouse space. Flexe co-founder and CEO Karl Siebrecht. Flexe Photo). As a former U.S.

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Amazon employees walk out against to board to make a change

Dataconomy

The e-retail giant has also laid off some of its workforce recently, parting ways with 27,000 jobs in several divisions, including cloud computing, advertising, and retail divisions. According to the group, Amazon employees walk out to point out a “lack of trust in company leadership’s decision-making.”

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Orange's goal-getting VP targets digital innovation

TM Forum

Then in 2005 she saw an advertisement for Orange, and without knowing much about the world of telecoms, she applied. . “But I could not see the direct impact between what I was doing on a day-to-day basis and the bigger picture.” ” Banking was a similar source of disappointment.

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