GeekWire

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Emily Freeman , head of community for Amazon Web Services , is departing. LinkedIn Photo) — William Johnson stepped down from Vancouver Tech Journal , which he founded in 2018. The company raised $95 million in 2021. The company’s CEO Girish Mathrubootham is based in the Seattle region. Emily Freeman.

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GeekWire

JUNE 7, 2023

based AI drug design and development company Absci named Frans van Houten to its board of directors. During a nearly 12-year tenure as CEO, he divested in the company’s consumer tech divisions, including TV, audio, video, and lighting, while acquiring more than 30 med-tech companies. based toy company.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 12, 2021

It also exceeds the peak traffic volume of 2.3Tbps, the previous largest attack, which was directed at Amazon Web Services last year. DDoS attacks are typically used to force websites or services offline, thanks to a flood of traffic that a web host can’t handle. Image: Microsoft.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 15, 2022

Almost all major IT companies have joined the West’s global economic sanctions against Russia in recent weeks. The following is an overview — without claiming to be exhaustive — of companies from all over the world that have temporarily suspended all or part of their business in Russia. How the IT industry reacted.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Accenture on Wednesday said that it was acquiring US-based supply chain management (SCM) software provider Inspirage for an undisclosed amount to expand its Oracle-focused business. In October 2018, it acquired DAZ systems along with its 300 employees to bolster its Oracle Cloud ERP services business.

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GeekWire

MAY 7, 2021

ai, Athenahealth, and Blue Yonder, previously known as JDA Software. In January, the company raised $150 million , bringing total funding to date past $1 billion. Microsoft and Amazon veteran Dirk Didascalou has been appointed the first CTO of Siemens Digital Industries, a business unit of the German multinational company. .

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GeekWire

APRIL 4, 2024

The company, founded in 2018 by Robby Hamblet and Michael Johnston, Jr., The Seattle startup’s tools analyze AI systems to help software developers identify and address security threats, and build secure AI systems by design. The GeekWire Awards recognize the top innovators and companies in Pacific Northwest technology.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Cropin, an agritech startup backed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, on Tuesday said that it was launching its industry cloud for agriculture, built on Amazon Web Services (AWS). The suite, according to the company, consists of three layers: Cropin Apps, the Cropin Data Hub and Cropin Intelligence.

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GeekWire

MAY 28, 2021

Seattle-based Tableau Software generated $394 million in revenue for Salesforce in its first fiscal quarter, up 38% from a year ago. That’s up significantly from Tableau revenue growth of 15% in early 2019, in the data visualization technology company’s final earnings report as an independent operation. billion in 2018.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Flexible warehousing company Flexe hired Amazon vet Lara Rogers as SVP and general manager. The company’s marketplace lets retailers purchase warehousing space on an on-demand basis, avoiding long-term warehouse leases. Longtime Microsoft executive Gavriella Schuster joined the board of cybersecurity company Open Systems.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 9, 2023

The company is led by former executives at Turi, a machine learning startup acquired by Apple in 2016 for around $200 million in one of the largest acquisitions for a Seattle startup. XetHub resembles GitHub, a commercial service based on the Git open-source project founded in 2008 and acquired by Microsoft in 2018.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 20, 2023

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are software interfaces used by computers and applications to communicate with each other. APIs are used by web services to enable online apps and/or external partners to retrieve internal data, typically utilizing some type of authentication tokens.

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GeekWire

MARCH 14, 2022

Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services and other cloud-based services are already using hybrid systems to bring some of the benefits of the quantum approach to applications ranging from drug development to traffic management. To keep those quantum states stable, the wires would host Majorana zero modes localized at each end.

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GeekWire

MAY 27, 2021

Henry joined Amazon in 1998 when the 4-year-old company had about 2,100 employees. The company is in the midst of overhauling its leadership structure and brand after a long period of organizational disarray and declining revenues. . Fletcher spent seven years at the Seattle data visualization company and was promoted to CFO in 2018.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Analysts are keeping a close eye on the company’s cloud division, particularly as the COVID-19 pandemic and related stay-at-home orders increase demand for its products and services. ” Microsoft still trails Amazon Web Services in cloud infrastructure market share but is gaining ground. in 2019 to $44.5

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GeekWire

MAY 18, 2020

2 public cloud platform behind Amazon Web Services, as well as Microsoft’s Dynamics 365, which competes with Salesforce and other business software platforms. Amazon debuted a new delivery program in June 2018 in Seattle. The newly announced partnership will rely heavily on Microsoft Azure, the No.

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GeekWire

APRIL 15, 2021

The blank check company is called CM Life Sciences III Inc. The SPAC is targeting companies in “three separate areas of the life sciences industry that are often fragmented — life sciences tools, synthetic biology and diagnostics.” “The quality of the sponsor and the target company profile matters.”

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GeekWire

JANUARY 7, 2021

Rachel Ruggeri , a 16-year veteran of the company, will take over for the retiring Patrick Grismer , as the pandemic increases the Seattle-based coffee giant’s reliance on technology at its stores. The announcement Thursday morning follows one of the most difficult financial periods in the company’s history.

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GeekWire

MAY 18, 2023

Founded in 2015, the Seattle-based firm is one of more than 800 studios that generate ideas and recruit people to lead new companies. ” The studio’s own engineers are using generative AI and LLMs (large language models) to speed software development as they work on new ideas. .

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GeekWire

MAY 15, 2020

Sampaio was a director of product in Apple’s cloud infrastructure group and previously held product management and marketing roles at Canadian companies Digital Ocean and Sandvine. • Ken Oestreich as VP of product marketing. to join London-based games technology company Improbable as general counsel. Aaron Kornblum.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

It’s the 18th company in the region to achieve that designation. Fabric CEO Faisal Masud said in an interview that he believes the 300-person company is just starting to tap its potential market opportunity as trillions of dollars in commerce moves online. Fabric has raised a total of $293.5 million to date. SoftBank Photo).

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GeekWire

MARCH 24, 2021

The new fund provides investments to companies participating in the accelerator and also makes direct investments. It focuses on pre-seed companies with capital-efficient business models and early signs of commercialization. The fund is focused on the Pacific Northwest but is also open to backing companies beyond the region.

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GeekWire

APRIL 7, 2021

Former Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft executive Teresa Carlson will join Splunk in the new role of president and chief growth officer effective April 19. Splunk is a publicly-traded big data company based in San Francisco with more than 6,000 employees worldwide. The company’s revenue for the full year ended Jan.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Widner, based in Sydney, Australia, joined the Lighter board in 2018. The company helps entrepreneurs raise funding without going the traditional route of venture capital. “I’m passionate about the company’s mission,” Widner told GeekWire via email. The company now has 25 employees and plans to hire.

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Vox

DECEMBER 8, 2022

This is upending the lives of would-be staff and threatening the company’s reputation in the job market for technical talent — where it was already facing challenges, according to a leaked internal memo exclusively viewed by Recode. That’s very damaging to the ‘Think Big’ and ‘Invent and Simplify’ ethos of this company.”

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Fink previously served as chief marketing officer at Tableau Software for 11 years. The company, founded in 2012, handles more than 150 billion files for customers such as Hyundai, Cinesite Studios, Telus, and others. “It’s an exciting time to join the company’s board.” ” Fink retired in 2018. .

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Corey spent the past five years at Amazon Web Services, most recently leading the transformation team for enterprise customers. The 8-year-old company reached a $1.2 Since retiring from Seattle-based Tableau in 2018, Fink has joined the board of directors at several startups including Qumulo and Pantheon. based SnapAV.

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GeekWire

JUNE 2, 2020

The company raised $10 million earlier this year and plans to extend its model across the country. F5 Networks promoted Tom Fountain to EVP of global services and chief strategy officer reporting directly to CEO François Locoh-Donou. Fountain joined the Seattle-based company in 2018 and is based out of F5’s San Jose, Calif.

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GeekWire

JULY 22, 2020

-based mobile marketplace OfferUp hired Amazon Web Services and Real Networks veteran Michael Eggers as its chief financial officer. Karp joined Seattle-based Big Fish Games in 2018. Before departing in 2018, he was vice president of Amazon Prime and delivery experience. Read the story. Tapas Capital Photo). Lisa Nelson.

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GeekWire

APRIL 23, 2021

Aran Khanna is CEO of Reserved.ai , a Seattle startup offering software to automate cost management of companies cloud-related expenses. He also worked as an AI engineer at Amazon Web Services and interned at Microsoft Azure. for Seattle startup that helps companies save on cloud costs. Avi Schiffmann.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 28, 2020

Jeff Wilke, the flannel-wearing CEO of Amazon’s vast consumer business, has been described as a natural business leader and the most important executive at the company over the past decade. Most wanted to talk off the record, echoing the intense privacy that surrounds one of the world’s largest companies.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 14, 2020

based patent holding and technology company and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates. Seattle cloud compliance software startup Shujinko expanded its leadership team with three new executives : • Jason Kelleghan as VP of sales. . Kelleghan was most recently director of sales at Reciprocity, maker of audit and tracking software.

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GeekWire

MARCH 26, 2024

The finalists for CEO of the Year at the 2024 GeekWire Awards include software veterans working on a variety of enterprise problems, from helping companies manage contracts, to better analyzing data, or conducting A/B testing. Lexion raised $20 million last year for its AI-powered contract management software.

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Dataconomy

APRIL 26, 2023

With the rise of edge computing companies, businesses are increasingly turning to innovative partners to help them stay ahead of the curve. Top 10 edge computing companies to watch in 2023 Let’s get to know the top 10 edge computing companies to watch in 2023!

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

It’s reasonable to want Apple to not benefit from clearly harmful voices, but the incident speaks to how unprepared the podcast industry is to moderate: companies face huge challenges in even finding infringing content, and there’s little to no transparency from the big players in how they monitor the listings in their apps.

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GeekWire

MAY 18, 2021

While it’s a bandwidth hog, users can play Game Pass titles like Gears 5 and Halo: The Master Chief Collection at high resolution on a phone, tablet, or web browser, with no need for a new TV or an Xbox. The company remains independent despite several acquisition offers. GeekWire: I don’t know, man. I had meetings.

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Vox

JUNE 15, 2021

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos speaks during the grand opening of the Amazon Spheres, a botanical garden inside the Amazon office complex in Seattle, on November 13, 2018. | She worked at Amazon for less than a year before she sued the company this May for alleged racial discrimination and retaliation.

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