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Seattle’s newest unicorn: Rec Room raises $100M as social gaming popularity fuels big growth

GeekWire

On a video call from the hospital where he and his wife welcomed a baby boy over the weekend, CEO and co-founder Nick Fajt was excited about the 5-year-old startup he’s been raising into a unicorn in Seattle, where a majority of top tech companies operate in enterprise software or cloud computing. Gaming company or social company?

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

GeekWire

Five years after its acquisition by Amazon, smart doorbell and home security technology company Ring named a new CEO: Elizabeth (Liz) Hamren, a former executive in Meta’s Oculus division and Microsoft’s Xbox business, who was most recently chief operating officer for social messaging platform Discord.

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

GeekWire

based social media management platform Hootsuite announced Tiziana Figliolia as its new CFO. She was most recently VP of finance at InterDigital, a mobile and video technology company. Tune CEO Peter Hamilton at the company’s 2017 Postback conference. Tiziana Figliolia. Hootsuite Photo). Vancouver, B.C.-based

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Bringing the National Museum of African American History and Culture to the world

CIO Business Intelligence

“After we opened the museum, the director and curatorial staff were talking about how to how to reach even more people who wouldn’t be able to come to the museum and experience it,” says Jill Roberts, program manager of the Searchable Museum at the Office of Digital Strategy and Engagement (ODSE). “We Today, it employs more than 200.

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Apple cares about privacy, unless you work at Apple

The Verge

If they did this to a customer, people would lose their goddamn minds,” says Ashley Gjøvik, a senior engineering program manager. In 2017, Apple rolled out an app called Gobbler that would allow employees to test Face ID before it became available to customers. Surely, those weren’t relevant to the lawsuit.

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How the Google union could boost labor organizing in Silicon Valley

The Verge

They had been hired through Accenture to moderate some of the most disturbing content on YouTube: videos that contain violent extremism, including murders and acts of terrorism. Just over a year ago, I spent some time in Austin meeting with Google contractors.

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GeekWire Awards 2024 revealed: Winners bask in momentum of AI and potential of region

GeekWire

With lyrics set to Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire,” performing in front of a rapid-fire video montage, McPherson touched on seemingly every gadget or gizmo that ever seemed cutting edge to the majority of the people in the room. ” — Hanako Osuga, program manager at Coding for Cancer.