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Facebook names a new CTO with a major focus on hardware

The Verge

Incoming CTO Andrew Bosworth wearing Facebook’s new smart glasses with Ray-Ban. On Wednesday, the company promoted Andrew Bosworth, the current head of its hardware division that makes Oculus and other consumer devices, to the role of chief technology officer, replacing outgoing CTO Mike Schroepfer when he becomes a senior fellow next year.

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Tech Moves: Twitch names CTO; Highspot adds board member; Apptio promotes sales leader

GeekWire

Amazon-owned live streaming platform Twitch named Christine Weber as its new CTO. Weber was most recently chief information officer and interim chief technology officer at communications company Liberty Latin America. Cloud-based IT management company Apptio promoted Toyan Espeut to chief customer officer.

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Tech Moves: Expedia taps execs to run new divisions; Bumble hires Microsoft vet as CTO

GeekWire

(Bumble Photo) — Antoine Leblond , a former longtime Microsoft exec who was most recently senior vice president of software at Sonos, joined dating app company Bumble as chief technology officer. Leblond previously spent 25 years at Microsoft leading various engineering teams working on Windows, Office, and other products.

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A CTO’s Guide To The Top Federal Technology Topics of 2013

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By Bob Gourley You know the top federal IT news of 2013, after all, you probably lived it. None of them were really about technology. The really interesting stories, at least from a CTO perspective, are big technology mega trends that are forcing change and positive improvements in enterprise IT.

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Former CIA CTO Gus Hunt Joins Venture Capital Firm Artis Ventures’ Board of Advisors

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Former CIA CTO Gus Hunt Joins Venture Capital Firm Artis Ventures’ Board of Advisors. 27, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — From his office in Langley, Va., former Central Intelligence Agency CTO Gus Hunt made some of the government’s most important technology decisions. – bg. San Francisco, Feb.

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

GeekWire

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 Scott Porad. Dolly Photo). based drugstore.com.

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Software AG: webMethods 9.5 Launched at Innovation World 2013

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10, 2013 - Software AG today announced the launch of the next version of the market leading webMethods 9.5 Disruptive trends such as cloud, mobile and social continue to drive organization’s expectations for interacting with projects and applications,” said Wolfram Jost, CTO at Software AG. “By CTO Infrastructure modeling'

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