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Amazon partners with UCLA on science hub focusing on AI and its social impact

GeekWire

Amazon and UCLA are launching a research hub that will draw upon industry and academic research to address the social issues raised by the rapid rise of artificial intelligence. In 2016, for example, Amazon contributed $10 million to the University of Washington to support the expansion of the Paul G. UCLA Photo).

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December Tech Trends Report and 2016 Enterprise Tech Projections

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The Trends To Track in 2016. Here is more on what we expect each will bring us in 2016: Cloud Computing : The efficiencies of this new architecture are driving compute costs down. For 2016, expect more IT departments to be buying these small form factor cloud in a box data centers. For more see: [link] TheCyberThreat.

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Microsoft’s ‘Verified ID’ will confirm that LinkedIn members actually work where they say they do

GeekWire

Microsoft acquired LinkedIn for more than $26 billion in 2016. The new verified identity service is a notable integration between the business social network and the company’s Security, Compliance, Identity, and Management group, which has been led by former Amazon Web Services executive Charlie Bell since late 2021.

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Parler is gone for now as Amazon terminates hosting

The Verge

After Parler was banned on both the Apple and Google app stores for failing to curb violent and threatening content on its platform, the social media site is now completely offline as a result of Amazon terminating Parler’s web hosting services. Parler has been taken offline | Photo by OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images.

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Salesforce’s $27.7B Slack deal combines two Amazon allies, creates big new rival for Microsoft

GeekWire

” The deal combines two allies of Amazon Web Services, which provides the underlying infrastructure for the Slack and Salesforce video features through its AWS Chime technology, and partners with Salesforce to sell its customer service software.

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Tech Moves: Starbucks names new CFO as pandemic fuels mobile ordering; Panopto adds IBM exec; F5’s new security leader; and more

GeekWire

based social media management platform Hootsuite appointed Melissa Murray Bailey as senior vice president of global sales. She previously held senior marketing roles at startups LiveStories, Smartsheet, Allrecipes.com and Turi, which sold to Apple in 2016. Song currently serves on the board of digital payment provider CSG.

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Tech Moves: Smartsheet CFO joins Auth0 board; Outreach opens NYC office; Concure Oncology adds CEO; and more

GeekWire

Demoz most recently was a senior manager of software engineering at Google Cloud and previously a software development manager at Amazon Web Services. Gauthey most recently was the global field lead for Amazon Web Services artificial intelligence and machine learning. The Seattle office will initially hire 10 employees.

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