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Tech Moves: OfferUp names new CTO; Amazon data center leader departs; and more

GeekWire

Mobile marketplace OfferUp hired former Splunk VP of Engineering Melissa Binde as its new CTO. She oversaw Splunk’s cloud engineering business while CTO at the software giant. Binde succeeds Ameesh Paleja who served as OfferUp’s CTO for two years. He was previously CFO at React Mobile and Allrecipes.

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

GeekWire

T-Mobile Photo). — T-Mobile appointed former National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) Director Letitia Long to its board. A longtime veteran of Amazon’s cloud computing arm, Valdez joined the company as a senior manager of business development in 2005. Raise hired Mike Cartwright as vice president of e-commerce.

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

GeekWire

The company now has 25 employees and plans to hire. He was an executive at PeopleSoft, which was acquired by Oracle in 2005. Long-time Uber CTO Thuan Pham stepped down earlier this year shortly before the company cut 25% of its global workforce. “As we grow our team, we will do so without being limited by location.”

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Tech Moves: Startup Haven grows team to lead new fund; PSL promotions; F5 Networks adds execs

GeekWire

NEU co-founder and CTO Claudius Mbemba is an investment director. Crimmins, a Seattle tech veteran, founded Startup Haven in 2005. He began running Startup Haven full-time in 2019 and recently launched a Startup Haven accelerator. Seattle e-commerce startup Fabric added Umer Sadiq as CTO and Nevin Shetty as CFO.

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Airship AI, a Seattle-area edge computing company that never raised investment, set to go public

GeekWire

based mobile marketing company Airship — sells software that uses computer vision and artificial intelligence to analyze data from cameras and sensors at the “edge.” Army Special Forces, and CTO Yanda Ma , who joined Airship in 2005. “Nobody is going to rush you.”

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The Big Tech antitrust report has one big conclusion: Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google are anti-competitive

Vox

In one email, Zuckerberg told Facebook’s former CTO that “ that he had “been thinking about. how much [Facebook] should be willing to pay to acquire mobile app companies like Instagram. that are building networks that are competitive with our own.”

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