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TelecomTV: Rakuten Mobile CTO targets self-driving network within two years

TM Forum

At the Digital Transformation World Series, Rakuten Mobile's CTO Tareq Amin discusses his company’s mobile network architecture, and how he believes it can achieve “Level 4” automation (can operate without, but enables, human intervention) two years from now.

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Why your CTO Makes or Breaks your Enterprise Mobile Strategy

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Why your CTO Makes or Breaks your Enterprise Mobile Strategy. For consumers, mobile phone adoption has skyrocketed and smartphone ownership continues to climb in emerging economies. Plus, 90% of mobile users time is spent in apps. Sunil Thomas. Native Apps vs. Responsive Web. Scalability & Security.

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Tech Moves: Appen lands ex-Upwork CTO; DocuSign hires former Amazon GM

GeekWire

Appen Photo) — Saty Bahadur is now chief technology officer at Appen, a publicly traded IT services and consulting company that provides training data for artificial intelligence systems. Bahadur was previously chief technology officer at freelancing platform Upwork and a general manager for Alexa at Amazon.

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DTWS: Rakuten Group's CTO gives details of Symphony

TM Forum

Tareq Amin, Rakuten Group’s Group Chief Technology Officer, Rakuten Group fleshed out some of the details around the new service at TM Forum’s Digital Transformation World Series. At the same time “Symphony needs Rakuten Mobile to. Rakuten Symphony in Augus.

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Facebook names a new CTO with a major focus on hardware

The Verge

Incoming CTO Andrew Bosworth wearing Facebook’s new smart glasses with Ray-Ban. On Wednesday, the company promoted Andrew Bosworth, the current head of its hardware division that makes Oculus and other consumer devices, to the role of chief technology officer, replacing outgoing CTO Mike Schroepfer when he becomes a senior fellow next year.

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Interview: Vodafone CTO juggles legacy network and cutting-edge technology

Computer Weekly

Vodafone UK chief technology officer Jorge Fernandes talks legacy networks, digitisation and how he is positioning the operator to lead in the mobile-enabled future

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Tech Moves: Google engineering director Ankur Sinha joins Remitly as CTO

GeekWire

Ankur Sinha , who spent the past two years as an engineering director at Google, joined remittance company Remitly as its chief technology officer. Founded in 2011, the company offers a mobile platform for sending money internationally, used heavily by immigrants and their families. Remitly went public in September.

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