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Amazon’s Ring names Xbox and Oculus vet Elizabeth Hamren as new CEO; founder Jamie Siminoff remains chief inventor

GeekWire

She started at Microsoft in 1995 as a group program manager, before working in marketing leadership roles at companies including Jawbone, Plantronics, and Dropcam.

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

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Last year, Saykara unveiled a new skill for its virtual assistant , called Kara, that documents an entire doctor-patient conversation without interruption. Spitzer retired in 2017 from Google where he oversaw operations for Google Glass and developing VR hardware. Carmen Rojas. Marguerite Casey Foundation Photo).

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2021 GeekWire Awards revealed: Big winners, surprise guests, and the best in Pacific NW tech

GeekWire

Some of the winners at the 2021 GeekWire Awards during their virtual acceptance speeches on Thursday. In another virtual event — which everyone hopes will be the last of the pandemic — GeekWire recognized more than 60 finalists and honorees across 14 categories, from Startup of the Year to CEO of the Year and lots in between.

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How Slack changed Apple’s employee culture, with Zoë Schiffer

The Verge

As has virtually every other company, ours included, because of the Delta variant and rising cases of COVID everywhere. So the next big thing is that in early August, Apple places Ashley Gjøvik, a senior engineering program manager, on administrative leave. And to be clear, Apple has delayed its return to work.

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List of the world’s top female futurists (Update #5)

Trends in the Living Networks

The following list provides a brief profile of 178 fabulous female futurists [up from 78 in the original list of September 2015, 143 in the update of November 2015, 158 in January 2018, 167 in February 2017, and 178 in the 2018 revision]. She is the 2017/2018 European Union Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford, St. Cathy Hackl.

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