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Tech Moves: UiPath CTO lands at Talkdesk; Elastic hires AWS vet; ex-Redfin leaders join LLM startup

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(Talkdesk Photo) — Munil Shah , a former engineering leader at UiPath who previously spent 23 years at Microsoft, has joined San Francisco startup Talkdesk as chief technology officer. Shah, based in Seattle, was most recently a CTO at UiPath, the robotic process automation software giant. million investment round.

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Tech Moves: Google engineering director Ankur Sinha joins Remitly as CTO

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Ankur Sinha , who spent the past two years as an engineering director at Google, joined remittance company Remitly as its chief technology officer. Founded in 2011, the company offers a mobile platform for sending money internationally, used heavily by immigrants and their families. Remitly went public in September.

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Twitter CTO Parag Agrawal replaces Jack Dorsey as CEO

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The company confirmed that CTO Parag Agrawal would succeed him and take a seat on the board, effective immediately, while Bret Taylor is taking over as the board’s new chairman. New CEO Parag Agrawal joined the company in 2011 as an ads engineer, eventually taking the title of CTO in 2018. Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images.

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Tech Moves: Former Rover CTO joins moving startup Dolly; Egencia’s CFO to depart; and more

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Former Rover CTO Scott Porad joined peer-to-peer moving service Dolly as chief technology officer. Prior to joining Rover in 2013, Porad was CTO for Cheezburger and held multiple director roles at Bellevue, Wash.-based Based in San Francisco, Metromile is a publicly traded company founded in 2011.

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Google’s CTO of Android tablets sees tablet sales passing laptops ‘in the not too distant future’

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Android 12L is in development to support larger-screened devices, and one of the platform’s co-founders, Rich Miner, has rejoined the team with the title “CTO of Android tablets.” Now, speaking to developers during an episode of Google’s The Android Show , Miner explained the opportunity the company is seeing (via 9to5Google ).

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Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of March 31, 2024

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a Colorado-based corporate travel management company, founded in 2011, with more than $300 million in annual revenue and 1,800 employees. .” The Seattle-based business leader and investor, former CEO of companies including Concur and Docker, is leading a group of investors in the acquisition of Direct Travel Inc., … Read More

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