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Seattle VR startup Rec Room raises $145M, reaches $3.5B valuation

GeekWire

Rec Room , the Seattle-based development studio behind the fast-growing VR application Rec Room , has raised $145 million in new funding, bringing its current valuation to $3.5 Coatue Management led the latest round, with participation from existing investors Sequoia Capital, Index Ventures and Madrona Venture Group. (Rec Room Image).

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A comparative assessment of digital transformation in Italy

CIO Business Intelligence

“Digital is a powerful business lever,” says Alessandra Luksch, director of the Digital Transformation Academy Observatory at Politecnico di Milano, which has been mapping trends in ICT spending by Italian organizations since 2016. “In

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Tech Moves: Ex-Microsoft COO Kevin Turner leaves Core Scientific; Magic AI founder joins ThruWave

GeekWire

He previously spent 11 years at Microsoft from 2005 to 2016, leading the company’s global sales and marketing teams. Founded in 2017, Core Scientific is building blockchain infrastructure technology related to hosting, transaction processing and application development. It manages a fleet of more than 130,000 cryptocurrency miners.

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How commercial space stations could become the final frontier for data and cybersecurity

GeekWire

The application that typically comes up would be their use as space hotels, or maybe zero-gravity research labs and factories. Blue Origin’s Rob Meyerson speaks at the 2016 International Symposium on Personal and Commercial Spaceflight in New Mexico. And we think the natural application is in space.”

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NATO ACT “Art of the Possible” Interoperability Demonstration

Cloud Musings

GovCloud Network is proud to have served as the Program Manager for the NATO Allied Command Transformation , "Art of the Possible" Interoperability Demonstration on December 16, 2016. Jackson 2016 ) Follow me at [link]. Grab this Headline Animator ( Thank you.

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New CIO appointments in India, 2022

CIO Business Intelligence

Jai Menon has joined Skylo, a narrow-band satellite communications provider that targets IoT applications, as CIO. He will run the company’s ERP and order management systems, and manage IT support, business and operations support systems, networking, and security. He was a recipient of a 2016 CIO100 India award.

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OpenStack Summit 2015 Day 1 Keynote

Scott Lowe

The certification test will be available starting in 2016. This topic, in turn, leads Jonathan into a discussion of OpenStack’s new program management guidelines (aka “the Big Tent” model). Jonathan announces the first individual certification for OpenStack—the Certified OpenStack Administrator.