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Tech Moves: Pathable founder joins vanlife app; Opanga Networks taps Seattle telecom vet as CEO

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Schwartz previously founded and led Pathable, a Seattle startup that built mobile apps for conferences and pivoted during the pandemic to focus on virtual events before getting acquired in 2020. LinkedIn Photo) — Longtime telecom leader Cole Brodman joined Seattle-based Opanga Networks as CEO. Opanga initially got started in 2005.

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

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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. Letitia Long. (T-Mobile Read the story. Gopuff Photos).

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

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Crimmins, a Seattle tech veteran, founded Startup Haven in 2005. Mehta joined PSL in 2018 from ExtraHop Networks, where she was CFO. F5 Networks Photos). — F5 Networks hired Microsoft CVP Yvette Smith as SVP of customer success and business transformation and promoted Gail Coury to SVP and chief information security officer.

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Mobile social networking, meaning virtual networks bringing people physically together, will inevitably be a pervasive application - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

Arrington writes: A few years from now we’ll use our mobile devices to help us remember details of people we know, but not well. I wrote about proximity dating in my 2002 book Living Networks and on this blog in early 2003 , at the time referring to Imahima, an early player in this space in Japan.

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What accelerates – and slows – the development of social networking mobile platforms - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

Although the mobile phone offers an "extremely appropriate platform for social networks," he said current pricing structures were holding back the market. Although the mobile phone offers an "extremely appropriate platform for social networks," he said current pricing structures were holding back the market.

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

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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 is based in New York City and has an office in Bellevue, Wash. Sheldon spent more than 20 years at Microsoft in various roles.

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Elisa finds growth through digital services

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The telco, which operates fixed and mobile networks in Finland and Estonia, develops and sells an eclectic mix of digital services, including specialized manufacturing software and IT services for manufacturers worldwide; network operations center (NOC) automation for other telcos; and a content production company, which in 2021 won an award for.

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