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

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Data storage and compute is one market. “We have a lot of data that’s created in space, but how valuable would it be to actually do compute and storage in space? .” “We have a lot of data that’s created in space, but how valuable would it be to actually do compute and storage in space?”

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

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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. ThruWave spun out of the University of Washington in 2017. The company raised $11.5

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Julie Larson-Green retires as Qualtrics CXO following IPO; Instacart names Asha Sharma COO; and more

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She has worked for Qualtrics, which has dual headquarters in Seattle and Provo, Utah, since 2017. Former Allstate Chief Data Technologist Adam Kronick as president of Insurtech group. Former Verizon Communications executive Mike Millegan joined the board of Denver-based data center provider CoreSite.

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Who will be the Next Tech Titan? Cast your vote in the GeekWire Awards

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CEO background: Nick Fajt spent several years at Microsoft, including as a producer and program manager on HoloLens. He was nominated as a Young Entrepreneur of the Year at the 2017 GeekWire Awards. Related coverage: Seattle VR startup Rec Room raises $145M, reaches $3.5B

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Tech Moves: RealSelf appoints interim CEO; Hootsuite hires new CFO; Tune CEO lands at Roku

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Tune CEO Peter Hamilton at the company’s 2017 Postback conference. based Outlier offers an automated business analysis platform using AI and data science. Seattle-based product development firm Igor Institute announced three new director-level hires: Kathy Fedirchuk as director of program management. Oakland, Calif.-based

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Meet the unicorns: A look at the 15 Seattle-area startups that boast valuations over $1 billion

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Industry: Enterprise customer data. GeekWire story from July 2021 : Amperity is Seattle’s latest unicorn with $100M round to supercharge its customer data platform . Industry : Cloud data storage. Co-founder and CEO : Nick Fajt , former principal program manager working on Microsoft’s HoloLens.

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Tech Moves: Madrona grows investment team; MicroVision, Axon add board members; and more

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Max Schmeiser , an Amazon vet and former head of research and data science at Seattle startup Convoy, is now head of data science at Twitter. Spitzer retired in 2017 from Google where he oversaw operations for Google Glass and developing VR hardware. Redmond, Wash.-based Carmen Rojas. Marguerite Casey Foundation Photo).