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Tech Moves: BECU hires first chief data officer; Amazon exec to depart; and more

GeekWire

Erickson, a former executive at early Seattle tech software sales company Egghead Software, founded Know Labs in 2003. Seattle Bank named Howie Wu as Head of Product and General Manager of CD Valet, a tech platform that shows certificate of deposit rates.

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Chappelle’s Show returns to Netflix now that Dave got paid

The Verge

Photo By: Will Heath/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images. Now, three months later, and 15 years after Chappelle famously walked off the show that aired on Comedy Central between 2003 and 2006, we have a resolution. Dave Chappelle reclaims his namesake. View this post on Instagram. A post shared by Dave Chappelle (@davechappelle).

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Founder reflects on lessons learned after closing startup: ‘Jump in, test a lot, don’t quit your day job’

GeekWire

” The Seattle tech vet first considered the idea for the startup back in 2003 after the death of his father, when his wife asked him to tell a story about his dad and he realized he hadn’t known him all that well. The harsh truth however was no one wanted to pay for this, so I had to make the call.”

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Peer-to-peer banking - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

The principle is simple – you lend to individuals at interest rates based on their credit rating, and since you’re cutting out the bank as middleman, both lender and depositer get more attractive interest rates than they can get commercially. Banks are the archetypical intermediary, in this case between depositers and lenders.

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Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of May 17, 2020

GeekWire

The search for COVID-19 therapies has turned to an antibody that was first identified back in 2003, in a blood sample from a patient who recovered from a similar coronavirus-based disease. Scientists say 17-year-old blood sample yields promising antibodies for COVID-19. … Read More. … Read More. … Read More.

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This could be the next big game for Microsoft’s Xbox platform

GeekWire

Microsoft is banking on it to be the next big “killer app” for the Xbox platform. Bethesda Game Studios has primarily worked on games in the Elder Scrolls and Fallout series since it was spun off into its own division in 2001; its first project as Bethesda Game Studios was 2003’s Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind. (Bethesda Image).

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The HP-Autonomy lawsuit: Timeline of an M&A disaster

CIO Business Intelligence

Its Agentware internet search tools are used by enterprises including Barclays Bank and Unilever and sold as shrink-wrapped software through retail outlets. However, Companies House, the UK register of commerce, has no record of such a company, and it’s not until 1997 that Lynch creates another company, called simply Neurodynamics.

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