GeekWire

AUGUST 17, 2021

Law enforcement technology company Axon added former HTC Vive exec Chris Chin as vice president of immersive tech. The company says its mission is to help de-escalate police use of force by providing transparency, technologies and tools that can replace deadly weapons. Chris Chin. Axon Photo). — Read the story.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The bad news is that many of them are net-new, meaning that the mass of customers still using its legacy ECC system, or running its modern S/4HANA system on-premises, are not migrating as quickly as the company would like to cloud offerings such as Rise with SAP , its subscription package of licensing, hosting, and application management.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Moonstone Bank , formerly known as Farmington State Bank, said in a statement that FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s Alameda Research trading firm has less than a 10% stake in its parent company, with no board seats and no direct involvement in management. 23 that FBH, the parent company of Farmington State Bank, received $11.5

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 12, 2024

Oracle’s latest financial report boasts substantial increases in revenue, net income, and earnings per share, largely thanks to cloud sales, which the company was quick to credit to the rise of AI. Despite the fact that we are opening new and expanding existing cloud data centers very, very rapidly.”

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GeekWire

JULY 8, 2023

Jim Loter, a longtime tech leader inside the city of Seattle, currently serves as interim chief technology officer. City of Seattle Photo) Jim Loter, interim chief technology officer for the City of Seattle, grappled with these issues as he and his team produced the city’s first generative AI policy this spring.

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GeekWire

MAY 10, 2023

Helion’s co-founders, left to right: Chris Pihl, chief technology officer; David Kirtley, CEO; and George Votroubek, director of research. Helion plans to build the commercial facility in Washington state, where the companies are headquartered. billion that’s unlocked if the company hits milestones with Polaris.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has awarded the company a cybersecurity contract worth up to $32.4 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has awarded the company a cybersecurity contract worth up to $32.4 HP Enterprise Security Solutions to help 33 U.S. government agencies prevent network and system vulnerabilities.

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GeekWire

MAY 11, 2020

Surefield founder David Eraker claims Redfin copied technology that he developed after leaving the company that allows prospective homebuyers to take virtual 3D tours of properties in a lawsuit filed Monday. That complaint concerns image-based rendering technology that makes it possible to move around a property virtually.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Big Data Companies Cloud Computing Companies CTO Ambari Apache Apache Ambari Apache Hadoop Apache License bdutil Big Data cloud GitHub Google Google Cloud Google Compute Engine Google Storage Hadoop Hortonworks MapR Open Source' An Open Microsoft: Azure HDInsight Available for Linux (windowsitpro.com).

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GeekWire

JANUARY 7, 2021

Epic Games, the company behind Fortnite and the Unreal Engine , has acquired the game development toolset creator RAD Game Tools , headquartered in Kirkland, Wash. RAD is one of those companies that runs under the radar, but has quietly influenced much of the modern games industry. Fortnite is one of Epic Games’ top titles.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 10, 2024

Be strategic with reserve pricing Reserve pricing for cloud services can reduce resource usage costs by as much as 70%, says David McKee, who in his role as fractional CTO, tech founder, and digital twins thought leader at Counterpoint Technologies acts as a part-time CTO for nine companies in the US and Europe.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Brad Peterson, the company’s CIO and CTO, has been implementing AI for more than a decade and is all in on the promised innovation afforded by generative AI. “We The company, which reported net revenues of $3.6 The company, which reported net revenues of $3.6 No doubt, Nasdaq is bullish on generative AI.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 11, 2022

During a call with analysts after the results were announced Thursday, Oracle Chairman and CTO Larry Ellison named a long roster of high-profile customers the company had signed up recently. While overall revenue including services and license support rose 4% year over year to reach $10.5 Oracle’s user base grows. billion.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 10, 2023

“People may be used to working on legacy applications and processes, but as part of digitally transforming the organization, an IT leader will have to put in place new processes and solutions that are beneficial for the company and don’t impact it in any negative way.” To curtail costs, Pal froze new hiring.

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GeekWire

APRIL 21, 2021

The leadership team includes Monsef, CEO; Fish, who is chief medical officer; Chief Technology Officer Asa Miller; and Chief Operations Officer Maryam Taheri. The company is a graduate of the Silicon Valley accelerator Y Combinator. A Brave Care clinic lobby in Portland.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Keeping a tight rein on the budget allows the company to have flexibility in making strategic decisions when needed for a new platform, project, or taking on growth.” Periodic checks on your IT spending can unearth hidden costs you might not be aware of, from unused software licenses to redundant services.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 6, 2023

Group14 Technologies Chief Technology Officer Rick Costantino, left, and CEO Rick Luebbe inside the company’s commercial-scale manufacturing factory in Woodinville, Wash. Group14 Technologies , a Seattle-area battery materials company, is embroiled in a lawsuit in which it claims that a U.K.-based

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 28, 2023

(GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we’re featuring a panel discussion from the recent GeekWire Summit in Seattle, with three technology and business leaders offering first-hand insights into the new era of artificial intelligence. Bridget Frey, Redfin CTO. and Canada.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Zoox, the self-driving taxi company acquired by Amazon earlier this year for more than $1 billion , has been teasing an unveiling of its vehicle next week, on Dec. They sported the “ZOOX” logo and license plate, and the “push me, pull you” configuration expected to be a signature element of the Zoox design.

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The Verge

JUNE 25, 2020

Waymo is the “exclusive global L4 partner” for Volvo Car Group, the two companies announced Thursday. That means that Volvo will integrate Waymo’s autonomous driving technology, widely considered to be among the best in the world, into a fleet of electric robotaxis that it will deploy at some point in the future.

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CTOvision

APRIL 11, 2014

I recommend you visit every one of these firms so you can get the latest on some very virtuous technologies: 1) Carahsoft. Visiting Carahsoft is like visiting 150 companies at once. They make it a point to learn technologies and to provide demos and information on the greats. Let me share my personal list.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 16, 2022

Cloud-first applications support a manageable OpEx cost model, metered like a utility, as opposed to requiring significant upfront capital investments in infrastructure and software licenses. Nichol (@PeterBNichol) , chief technology officer at OROCA Innovations. Quick response to disruptions.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 16, 2023

As expected, operating in the cloud has enabled the 80-year-old company to significantly reduce the cost of running its data center in Minneapolis. MoneyGram’s IT makeover When CTO Joe Vaughan joined the company two years ago, MoneyGram moved roughly 8% of its workloads to the cloud. The answer was the elasticity of the cloud.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 12, 2024

“We want our software developers and engineers to use AI and gen AI tools to help generate various test cases, and our quality assurance engineers will use these tools to conduct evaluations more thoroughly without sacrificing time,” says Brian Lanehart, president and CTO. “So The research showed that Copilot has several strengths.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 5, 2023

Experimenting with user interfaces, delivering new services Sendinblue, a provider of cloud-based marketing communication software, uses low code workflow automation, data integration and management tools to quickly experiment with features such as new pricing plans, says CTO Yvan Saule. It’s for speed to market,” says CTO Vikram Ramani.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

But there’s also the downside: the possibility gen AI will take companies down. The phrase “existential risk” is now everywhere—not in the sense the AI would destroy humanity, but that it would make business functions, or even entire companies, obsolete. Then gen AI came out. This is where large language models get me really excited.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 19, 2023

For Gangavarapu, technology procurement specialists and modern software product experts are also hard to find. Where tech is moving from on premise to software as a service, the licensing, procurement and contractual models have changed and keep evolving, which requires expert procurement professionals who are hard to come by,” he says. “A

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GeekWire

MARCH 23, 2021

AWS has grown into a $45 billion business and a market leader that helps boost Amazon’s profits and allows the company to invest heavily in other areas. “I think (Jassy) has brilliantly addressed it, and it set him up for greater success as the leader of the overall company,” said McIlwain.

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The Verge

MAY 19, 2020

Kevin Mayer, once heir apparent to the Disney throne, is leaving the House of Mouse to run a different kind of entertainment company: TikTok. That background gives Mayer a crucial understanding of how to work with other companies and top-tier talent, something TikTok needs as it battles fires with record labels and artists.

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CTOvision

JULY 9, 2014

It is my contention that when the total cost of using all your data exceeds what you are able to spend using purpose-built technologies, it is time to consider using a general purpose solution like Hadoop for process offloading. What is Big Data? However, this may not be the best fit for your use case(s) in terms of appropriateness or cost.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 9, 2022

Successful Chief Information Officers (CIOs) and Chief Technology Officers (CTOs) align technology with the organization’s business plan, consistently leaning on updated three- to five-year strategic vision plans to guide data and technology choices that maximize value and support business objectives.

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The Verge

JUNE 18, 2020

In a letter sent to Hey creator Basecamp and obtained by The Verge , Apple outlines the App Store rules it says the Hey app breaks and advises the company to adhere to developer guidelines if Basecamp wishes to continue updating the software on iOS or release it for the Mac. The fight comes at precarious time for Apple. I'm literally stunned.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 24, 2023

It can also expose companies to future legislation. These complaints, filed by a variety of different copyright holders, allege the companies of training their AIs on copyrighted data—images, code, and text. The company also prohibits staff from using ChatGPT to write letters to clients. Not without warning signs, however.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Financial services company USAA carefully chose which of its four cloud service providers host each of its workloads and regular business applications. “We We aligned the cloud providers with the business or technical services they’re most proficient at,” says SVP and CTO Jeff Calusinski.

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Self-service solutions also allow for the possibility of being able to assign the management of authorizations within the organization to the identity and access management (IAM) software employed within the company. Architecture CTO News' With an identity vault, the costs are easy to chart. About the author: .

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 11, 2022

The company is a key player in the telecommunications industry, with annual revenues of $1.7 Before joining Lumentum, Loura served as CTO at Rodan +Fields, and before that, as CIO of the Enterprise Group at Hewlett Packard, and as SVP and CIO at Clorox. billion and 5,000 employees around the world.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

McKee, tech founder and digital twins thought leader at Counterpoint Technologies, acts as a part-time CTO for nine companies in the US and Europe. We’ve seen 10 to 15% increases across the board for two years in a row,” says CTO and chief transformation officer Richard Wiedenbeck.

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