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

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She started at Microsoft in 1995 as a group program manager, before working in marketing leadership roles at companies including Jawbone, Plantronics, and Dropcam. Hamren has a civil engineering degree from Princeton and an MBA from Harvard, according to her LinkedIn profile.

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

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.” Users can create a cartoony virtual avatar to participate in a variety of activities, many of which were designed by the application’s community. CEO background: Nick Fajt spent several years at Microsoft, including as a producer and program manager on HoloLens.

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Interoperability Clearinghouse Launches "Agile Cloud" Collaboration

Cloud Musings

We will develop and implement processes and high-performance technical solutions that allow globally distributed virtual teams to be formed on-demand, based on topics, people’s registered skills and security classifications. The target for implementing these changes is 2017.

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

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.” How it works: Rec Room is a free download which lets players use a collection of tools to make virtual rooms, objects, and playable games, such as paintball and laser tag, with a vast amount of community-created content that’s growing all the time. But less than half of its users are now using VR. The company is not yet profitable.

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Interoperability Clearinghouse Launches "Agile Cloud" Collaboration

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We will develop and implement processes and high-performance technical solutions that allow globally distributed virtual teams to be formed on-demand, based on topics, people’s registered skills and security classifications. The target for implementing these changes is 2017.

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

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“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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