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Seattle’s Climate Pledge Arena to feature Amazon’s ‘Just Walk Out’ tech to avoid lines in select stores

GeekWire

Amazon may have skipped putting its name on the outside of the renovated stadium where the Seattle Kraken will begin NHL play next month, but the company is bringing its technology to the inside of Climate Pledge Arena. Climate Pledge Arena is not the first sports venue to introduce Amazon’s cashier-free checkout tech.

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Tech Moves: Smartsheet, Qumulo, Zipwhip add board directors; Bardy hires a new president; Maven co-founder steps down; and more

GeekWire

The company, founded in 2012, handles more than 150 billion files for customers such as Hyundai, Cinesite Studios, Telus, and others. “It’s an exciting time to join the company’s board.” Sornsin co-founded the company in 2016. His departure is part of a “realignment” at the company.

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Tech and hockey vet Todd Humphrey on his dream job with Seattle Kraken, ‘the nirvana of all startups’

GeekWire

Humphrey was most recently CEO of LiquidPlanner, a Seattle-based project management company. In a city that’s seen its share of startups get off the ground, launching a professional sports franchise may rank with the most intriguing. Prior to that he co-founded and served as the chief commercial officer of League, Inc.,

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Basically everything on Amazon has become an ad. It’s only the beginning.

Vox

While company founder Jeff Bezos once said that “advertising is the price you pay for having an unremarkable product or service,” Amazon has in recent years become an ad-selling machine, driven by the substantial profit margins and the rising value of digital retail estate on the most popular shopping site in the West.

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Here are all the winners of the 2020 Webby Awards

The Verge

This year’s winners, announced on Tuesday , were largely dominated by media and entertainment companies. Webby Award for Music : Bastille - Doom Days Web AR by Powster. Webby Award and Webby People’s Voice Award for Net Art : 150 years of Nature by IBM Research AI - Northeastern University. Collective.

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Twitter is reinventing itself

The Verge

One of the things that [Twitter CEO] Jack [Dorsey] really emphasized when he came back to the company, was morphing our product development process to respect the “jobs to be done” framework a lot more. And really, unwinding that, I think, has been the biggest unlock that we’ve had as a company. It’s hard to pinpoint one.

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