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Strata + Hadoop World is March 13–16, 2017 in San Jose, CA

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Strata + Hadoop World 2017 (happening March 13–16 in San Jose) has its strongest program ever. Plan early for 2017 and register before Early Price ends on January 20. Bob Gourley. You'll find Business Case Studies and Data-driven Business Management. Save an extra 20% on most passes with PCCTOV. link] cpc/42643.

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Tech Moves: Lighter Capital names new CEO; Amazon exec joins Uber as CTO; and more

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.” — Uber appointed Sukumar Rathnam as its new chief technology officer. Long-time Uber CTO Thuan Pham stepped down earlier this year shortly before the company cut 25% of its global workforce. Long-time Uber CTO Thuan Pham stepped down earlier this year shortly before the company cut 25% of its global workforce.

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Cloud startup Pulumi raises $41M from Madrona, NEA to grow ‘infrastructure as code’ platform

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From left to right: Pulumi CTO Luke Hoban; Pulumi CEO Joe Duffy; Pulumi co-founder and chairman Eric Rudder; and Madrona Managing Director S. Madrona Venture Group, which led the company’s seed round in 2017, led the latest round. Madrona Venture Group, which led the company’s seed round in 2017, led the latest round.

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Tech Moves: Qumulo hires cloud CTO; ex-Tableau CMO joins Conversica board; 98point6 adds COO

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. — Seattle startup Qumulo named Janine Corey as its cloud chief technology officer. Corey spent the past five years at Amazon Web Services, most recently leading the transformation team for enterprise customers. She previously held IT roles at Tyler Technologies, Novartis-Alcon Labs and Southwest Airlines.

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An introduction to Parag Agrawal, Twitter’s new CEO

The Verge

He was later appointed chief technology officer in October 2017, during which time he’s jumped in to address high-profile problems (like a large-scale password security issue) and take on some of the company’s bolder initiatives (like decentralization). Argrawal hasn’t spent much time in the public eye — until now.

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E-commerce startup Fabric, led by Amazon vets, raises $140M at $1.5B valuation to pursue ‘absurd’ market opportunity

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Fabric thinks of itself as the “AWS for commerce,” Masud said, referring to the Amazon Web Services cloud division that provides the underlying technology infrastructure for companies around the world. Karen Brewer , chief marketing officer, was a longtime executive at Autodesk and other technology companies.

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Seattle startup Downstream, which helps brands with their Amazon ads, acquired by Jungle Scout

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Downstream co-founders Salim Hamed (left, CTO) and Connor Folley (CEO). Connor Folley , an ex-Amazon marketing manager, and Salim Hamed , who worked in business intelligence engineering for Amazon Web Services, launched the company in late 2017. Downstream Photo). Terms of the deal were not disclosed.