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Tech Moves: Ad Lightning CEO Scott Moore steps down; Amazon Prime Video adds Nike vet

GeekWire

Founded in 2001, the philanthropy provides funding and guidance for creative, novel projects that tackle challenges affecting low-income families. Its work also emphasizes the role of innovation in the social sector. Software development consultancy GenUI promoted David Barnes to COO. Color of Change President Rashad Robinson.

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Funding roundup: Nick Hanauer’s Second Avenue backs gift-box venture; support for Alzheimer’s app

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Jennings has been an investor and was a Microsoft vice president for 13 years, ending in 2001. The founders: The startup was launched this year by Mark Tarbutton , who has a background in marketing, and software engineer Alan Allison. She bootstrapped the company until this round. billion, among other entrepreneurial successes.

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Jimmy Wales is selling his first Wikipedia edit as an NFT

The Verge

The funds will go toward charitable causes and WT.Social, a donation-backed social network that Wales launched in 2019. Wales’ NFT is effectively the keys to a very early version of Wikipedia, which debuted in January of 2001.

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Tech Moves: Starbucks names new CFO as pandemic fuels mobile ordering; Panopto adds IBM exec; F5’s new security leader; and more

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She joined Starbucks in 2001, helping to launch the Starbucks Card as a member of the company’s accounting team. Founded in 2007, Panopto offers video management software for business and universities. based social media management platform Hootsuite appointed Melissa Murray Bailey as senior vice president of global sales.

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IT leaders turn to HBCUs for future IT talent

CIO Business Intelligence

HBCU students and alumni attend an intern social at the Durham Bulls game with Employee Network, AABEN. White, a 2001 Morgan State University graduate with a bachelor’s in computer science, speaks from experience: He had two pivotal internships that propelled his professional career. There’s nothing like gametime experience,” he adds.

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Xbox architects share stories from the console’s early days and discuss the future of gaming

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On Sega and Xbox: In Moore’s previous job at Sega of America, he was the executive who’d made the call to discontinue Sega’s last console, the Dreamcast, in 2001. More on Sega and Xbox: That in turn explained something I’d always wondered about the original Xbox’s software lineup.

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IT leaders adjust budget priorities as economic outlook shifts

CIO Business Intelligence

His team also upgrades ITW corporate’s packaged software. Some custom software requires more time to move to the cloud, as do cross-border applications that are more common in Europe than in the US, he explains. They recognize the value you provide, and IT budgets won’t be affected in the same way they were in 2009 and 2001.”.

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