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Tech Moves: Lighter Capital names new CEO; Amazon exec joins Uber as CTO; and more

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Widner, a board member at Lighter, most recently served as managing partner at the venture capital arm of the National Australia Bank. ” — Uber appointed Sukumar Rathnam as its new chief technology officer. He was an executive at PeopleSoft, which was acquired by Oracle in 2005. The Redmond, Wash.,

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Meet the Seattle-area startups that just graduated from Y Combinator

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Watto AI, an AI program that generates consulting reports. Founded in 2005, YC is one of the leading startup accelerators. Watto AI From left: Watto AI founder and CEO Rishabh Panwar, co-founder Ishita Bhandari, and CTO and founder Suryansh Soni. The companies include: Talc AI, a service for assessing large language models.

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Announcing Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum: Sydney, 19 February 2008 - Trends in the Living Networks

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He is Founding Chairman of four companies: professional services and venture firm Advanced Human Technologies , future and strategy consulting group Future Exploration Network , leading events firm The Insight Exchange , and influence ratings start-up Repyoot. Enterprise 2.0 Permalink | View blog reactions Categories : Enterprise 2.0

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Web 2.0 in Australia: The birth of Silicon Harbour? - Trends in the Living Networks

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David Backley, Chief Technology Officer of Australian banking giant Westpac, said that risk aversion in corporations means both that they are less likely to try new technologies, and to by them from smaller vendors rather than the software giants. Another key theme was the application of Web 2.0 in the enterprise.

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