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Tech Moves: Convoy vet joins Xembly; Seattle climate firm hires Goldman Sachs exec; and more

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Ismail was chief product officer at Marchex, and is also a veteran of Microsoft, where he was director of product management for Internet Explorer. He also worked at Yahoo and Chacha Mobile. Breaux was previously CEO of AirNow media and co-founded Airpush, a mobile advertising technology company acquired by Appscatter in 2020.

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Tech Moves: Expedia board director Skip Battle resigns; Madrona promotions; Vacasa’s new CFO

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AskJeeves was acquired in 2005 by IAC, the internet media company run by Barry Diller, who is also chairman of Seattle-based Expedia Group. Its net loss for the first nine months of this year was $2.2 The company offers mobile platforms for religious, education and nonprofit organizations. billion in 2019. Jamie Cohen.

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The next generation of startups is remote

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And I am part of the safety net of my extended family — when people need money, they come to me. I thought, look, if you get a job at Facebook, that’s your safety net. Nonprofits can do that. So like, you and I came up during a time where the internet happened, Web apps happened. Mobile phones happened.

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Here are all the winners of the 2020 Webby Awards

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Webby Break the Internet Award: Swizz Beatz + Timbaland for the Verzuz battles on Instagram Live. Webby Award for Charitable Organization / Nonprofit : Our Stories Alzheimer’s Awareness Campaign by The Ad Council. Webby People’s Voice Award for Charitable Organization / Nonprofit : Equal Justice Initiative by Madeo.

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

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This philosophy inspired her to found Teazl , a mobile learning platform that helps companies educate their employees. In the 1990s, she led change and innovation for massive market growth in mobile devices at Nokia and was instrumental in instituting futures thinking at the company. Location: Sydney, Australia. Anne-Marie Dahl.

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How to think about polarization on Facebook

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They found that affective polarization had increased faster in the United States than anywhere else — but that in several large, modernized nations with high internet usage, polarization was actually decreasing. Klein wrote: One theory this lets us reject is that polarization is a byproduct of internet penetration or digital media usage.

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