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2021 GeekWire Awards revealed: Big winners, surprise guests, and the best in Pacific NW tech

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The event featured a number of celebrity cameos and entertaining moments throughout the show, with video greetings from Sue Bird of the Seattle Storm, Bobby Wagner of the Seattle Seahawks, and “The Office” actor Rainn Wilson. Some of the winners at the 2021 GeekWire Awards during their virtual acceptance speeches on Thursday.

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Testing Amazon Pharmacy: Tech giant’s clever system collides with realities of modern healthcare

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Amazon’s move into healthcare is multifaceted, including COVID-19 testing, its Halo health band and service, cloud services for healthcare and life sciences, and even primary care for its employees. “Based on third-party data, they have not been successful,” Voermann said of Amazon.

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List of the world’s top female futurists (Update #5)

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[UPDATE: We have added 25 additional futurists to the list for a total of 203. Thank you for your help building out the list!]. I find I am frequently asked where all the female futurists are. The discussion on why the profession of futurist appears to be so male-dominated has grown in recent years. Summary list. Tanja Hichert. Geci Karuri-Sebina.

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Amid widespread tech industry layoffs, some companies are still hiring in a ‘flipped’ labor market

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Hartley Riedner, new head of operations at Seattle-area startup Docugami, with CEO Jean Paoli on a video call this week. Riedner interviewed for the role and has been working at the company without yet meeting Paoli or other members of the team in person. “There are a lot of great companies today that are laying off people.”

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23 things we think will happen in 2023

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As my colleague Dylan Matthews wrote last year, “the most critical skills for forecasting are thinking numerically, being open to changing your mind, updating your beliefs incrementally and frequently instead of in rare big moments, and — most encouragingly — practicing.” Practice makes Future Perfect, in other words. The United States.

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Read Jeff Bezos’ shareholders letter: Amazon founder focuses on employee welfare, comments on union vote

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What’s next: Bezos will step down as CEO in the third quarter of this year, replaced by Amazon Web Services chief Andy Jassy. Customers have connected more than 100 million smart home devices to Alexa. But now the tech giant needs to turn its focus to the company’s 1.3 million employees, Bezos wrote. We won’t change that.

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