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GeekWire 200 rankings update: E-commerce, virtual event, fintech startups heat up

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Also unique: record breaking investment and M&A activity across the country and in Seattle, as companies take advantage of pandemic-driven trends such as virtual experiences, at-home healthcare, remote education and more. Hootsuite , the widely used social media management platform and a star of the Vancouver, B.C. Snapbar (No.

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Rackspace’s CTO takes a broad view of sustainability

CIO Business Intelligence

Srini Koushik has been passionate about the environment for 35 years and now, as a board member of the nonprofit SustainableIT.org and CTO of cloud services provider Rackspace Technology, he wants to help enterprises achieve sustainability in the cloud. By choosing them, enterprises are almost adopting net zero by proxy,” Koushik says.

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Elon Musk says he’ll step down as Twitter CEO. But he’s not going anywhere.

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Excited to announce that I’ve hired a new CEO for X/Twitter. My role will transition to being exec chair & CTO, overseeing product, software & sysops. Since Twitter is now a private company, Musk has virtually no outside accountability from an independent board of directors to question his decisions.

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Top Technology News Ticker for 6 June 2016

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After acquisition by Google, Nest got "virtually unlimited budget", quadrupled employees, had no new products, caused constant bad PR, and may be for sale now (Ron Amadeo/Ars Technica). American Airlines signs contract with ViaSat for in-flight Wi-Fi on some of its planes, ending Gogo's exclusivity (Mike Freeman/Los Angeles Times).

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Sam Altman’s venture fund invests $3M in startup using humans and AI to keep people on task

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Calling herself a non-engineering “hacky person” proficient in no-code product development, Pope joined forces with co-founders Lydia Swift , a college friend who was handling Microsoft PR at WE Communications, and CTO Chris Morse , who previously worked on Amazon’s Alexa.

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Top IT exec recuiters weigh in on talent trends today

CIO Business Intelligence

Two of the top executive recruiters in the CIO retained search space, Shawn Banerji and Martha Heller, joined me for the first episode of 2024 to share their insights on a range of talent-related issues, including hiring trends, hybrid work questions, and the critical skills companies are looking for at the executive level.

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CIOs in transition: 5 tips for landing your next IT leadership job

CIO Business Intelligence

They manage networking with other professional development activities such as attending conferences, reading leadership books, and participating in social media. Once in transition, they develop weekly outreach plans, schedule time with people in their network, and share a clear direction on the types of opportunities they seek.