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Let’s get Kraken! Seattle hockey team has a name and logo as sports mystery finally surfaces

GeekWire

In the time since, Seattle sports fans who grew up on Mariners, Seahawks, Supersonics, Sounders, Storm and more have speculated about all the possible names which could befall a new hockey franchise. The team will play in a reimagined and expensively remodeled version of what was KeyArena, the sports and concert venue at Seattle Center.

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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 purchased naming rights in June 2020 and put the Climate Pledge name on the 18,100-seat venue as a way to draw more attention to the actual Climate Pledge, a promise to be net-zero carbon by 2040 that was first announced by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos in September 2019. ”

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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

” — Bill Sornsin has stepped down as chief operating officer of Maven, the Seattle-based media company that publishes Sports Illustrated. million, up 41%, and a non-GAAP net loss of $0.06 based CloudMoyo, Kaiser Permanente, Amazon Web Services, and Microsoft. Sornsin co-founded the company in 2016.

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

GeekWire

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. The peculiar moniker was a naming-rights purchase by Amazon , a first for the tech giant, whose influence will be felt in green initiatives throughout the net zero carbon building.

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

Vox

Along with Amazon Web Services, advertising has emerged as one of the company’s top two profit engines. The company has also invested heavily in in-house software tools that allow brands to purchase highly targeted ads around the web. So Amazon’s future ambition in advertising is targeting other parts of the web.

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Here are all the winners of the 2020 Webby Awards

The Verge

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. Webby Award for Sports : 1 / ST Website by DeepSleep Studio. Webby People’s Voice Award for Sports : Every Body Has a Story by ESPN.

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Twitter is reinventing itself

The Verge

I don’t know how much of the Analyst Day you watched, but this is one of our top company objectives, investing in our own development velocity, making a huge, multibillion-dollar commitment in leveraging public cloud solutions through AWS [Amazon Web Services] and GCP [Google Cloud Platform].

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