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Ray Ozzie’s cellular IoT startup Blues Wireless raises $22M from Bill Gates and others

GeekWire

Sequoia Capital and former Stripe exec Lachy Groom led the Series A round, which will fuel growth for the company’s technology that helps product manufacturers send data from their physical assets to cloud-based apps over cellular networks. Developers use the JSON programming language and two lines of code to make it all work.

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Amazon entertainment exec Marc Whitten departs, joins Unity as senior vice president

GeekWire

Whitten joined Amazon in 2016 and oversaw projects such as Fire TV, Kindle, and the upcoming cloud-gaming service Luna. As chief product officer of Xbox, Whitten was one of the primary architects of the Xbox Live online service, and worked on three generations of console hardware. He also spent two years at Sonos.

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Tech Moves: Microsoft Teams CVP joins UiPath; Sage Bionetworks names president; and more

GeekWire

He began as a product manager and from 2005 to 2008 served as a technical advisor to Satya Nadella, who was then a senior vice president and is now Microsoft CEO and chairman. UiPath also recently promoted Munil Shaw from senior vice president of engineering to chief technology officer of cloud.

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The view from day one: Microsoft challenges FTC in court over acquisition of Activision Blizzard

GeekWire

The Call of Duty franchise has dominated American sales charts since 2005, and is the primary point of argument between Microsoft and the FTC. That would provide Microsoft with a significant competitive advantage in the field, bordering on a monopoly, particularly in the case of the perennially best-selling Call of Duty franchise.

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Tech Moves: T-Mobile adds former U.S. intelligence director to board; Amazon execs depart; and more

GeekWire

A longtime veteran of Amazon’s cloud computing arm, Valdez joined the company as a senior manager of business development in 2005. Seattle cloud services provider Skytap announced Chris Min as its new CFO. Another longtime Amazon exec, Dorothy Li , took a job at Seattle startup Convoy as its new CTO. Read the story.

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Amazon Cloud - Becoming a Storm? - Social, Agile, and.

Social, Agile and Transformation

Amazon Cloud - Becoming a Storm? Call one of a dozen hosting vendors, select hardware line, OS, number of systems, purchase via credit card, wait 24 hours or less, get root/admin access to your server farm, spend time installing your applications, figure out how to scale the application later. cloud computing. (6). about me. (33).

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Broadcom’s Approach Towards Delivering Customer Value

CIO Business Intelligence

Half of that investment has already been earmarked toward accelerating the deployment of VMware solutions to customers, enabling us to increase cloud competition by growing and strengthening VMware’s customer base and bringing value to the on-premises data center while advancing software-enabled workloads.

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