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Next Tech Titan: MotherDuck, Rec Room, Statsig, Submittable, Zuper vie for pivotal GeekWire Award

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Smartsheet CEO Mark Mader accepts the Next Tech Titan award at the GeekWire Awards in 2016. Rec Room , the virtual reality community and gaming platform, a mainstay of VR and mixed reality platforms including the Meta Quest and, more recently, the Apple Vision Pro. The company in 2023 announced a $52.5

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GeekWire Awards 2021: Geeks Give Back celebrates groups that better our community

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That includes kids who are Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC); children who struggle socially due to autism, ADHD or other conditions; and women eager to break into technology or entrepreneurial roles. On May 20 we will announce the winners live at the virtual GeekWire Awards , presented by Wave Business. iUrban Teen.

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Tech Moves: Lyft hires CFO from Amazon; Tomo adds CMO; Gopuff taps more Seattle talent

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Social media management tool Hootsuite appointed four new board members: Angel investor and HubSpot board member Julie Herendeen , who will serve as board chair. Scener co-founder Joe Braidwood departed the virtual watch party platform to join San Diego-based Vektor Medical. Joe Braidwood. TraceMe Photo). Vancouver, B.C.-based

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Seattlepi.com will try newsletter strategy in Hearst’s ‘next phase’ for former newspaper website

GeekWire

The rise of local blogs, social media, and now newsletters have chipped away at the audience for major news sites over the past decade. One former seattlepi.com staffer, who recently left her role as a web producer for a job in nonprofit communications, expressed skepticism about Hearst’s long-term commitment, based on her experience.

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IT leaders turn to HBCUs for future IT talent

CIO Business Intelligence

Meanwhile, the 2022 State of Tech Diversity: The Black Tech Ecosystem report from the NAACP and Kapor Center, a nonprofit addressing racial inequities in STEM education and the tech industry, found that the proportion of Black students receiving bachelor’s degrees in computer science decreased between 2016 and 2020, going from 9% to 8%.

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GeekWire Awards 2020 revealed: Big winners, celebrities and surprises power virtual event

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We couldn’t get together in person, but we still found a way to celebrate the best in Pacific Northwest tech on Thursday as the GeekWire Awards went virtual. Founded in Boston in 2000, the nonprofit training program launched in the Puget Sound region in 2011 with a mission to “close the opportunity divide.”

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The next privacy crisis

The Verge

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg predicted in 2016 that televisions and phones would be replaced by holographic glasses. In 2016, for instance, millions of people fell in love with the phone-based AR game Pokémon Go. Public memorials like the US Holocaust Museum asked players to respect the space by not chasing virtual monsters in it.

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