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Katie Buss and Ben Howard take command at KinectAir travel service as co-CEOs

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Buss previously served as KinectAir’s chief operating officer. Howard, who co-founded the privately held company in 2019, was chief technology officer before his promotion. -based KinectAir , which provides a digital platform for booking on-demand private air travel.

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New CIO appointments in India, 2022

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He has assisted the top management in planning IT strategies and leveraging technologies for rationalizing manpower, enhancing organizational productivity, and improving the efficiency of operations. Amit Goel joins Blox as CTO. Real estate buying platform Blox has appointed Amit Goel as its chief technology officer, based in Mumbai.

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Startup funding news: PairTree, RightBound, LOANtuitive, Crelate raise fresh cash

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Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Justin Friberg is an engineering leader who was previously CTO at Record360, which was acquired in 2019. based mobile connectivity startup, landed a new $84 million round led by longtime backer Bill Gates. million Series A round in 2019. a Redmond, Wash.-based

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Tech Moves: Lighter Capital names new CEO; Amazon exec joins Uber as CTO; and more

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.” — Uber appointed Sukumar Rathnam as its new chief technology officer. Long-time Uber CTO Thuan Pham stepped down earlier this year shortly before the company cut 25% of its global workforce. based Behavox as its first chief product officer. The Redmond, Wash.,

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Industrial headset company RealWear names CEO

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Parkinson has served as RealWear’s CTO since co-founding the company in 2016. He also ran a RFID consulting company and was a senior engineer at Alien Technology. million in 2019, according to an investor presentation made public when the SPAC was announced. (RealWear Photo) RealWear , a Vancouver, Wash.-based

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Food festival Bite of Seattle returns after 3-year hiatus, thanks to a local tech startup

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Seattle Center Image) A culinary event is returning to the Emerald City this week — with a mobile-ordering twist, courtesy of a Seattle startup. The event went on a pandemic hiatus and is returning for the first time since 2019 under new ownership. The addition of mobile-ordering to this year’s event received criticism on Reddit.

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Tech Moves: Facebook engineering lead joins gaming unicorn Playco; Bright.md names new CEO

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. — Former Facebook Director of Engineering Calvin Grunewald has left the social media giant after nine years and joined Playco , a Tokyo mobile gaming company, as chief technology officer. . Instant Games provides mobile friendly games that users can play via Facebook’s news feed or Messenger.