GeekWire

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Karat Image). — Karat , a Seattle-based startup that helps companies conduct technical interviews , hired two new executives. Its software is used by tech companies such as Compass, Intuit, Indeed, Ford and others that need help interviewing engineers. Common Room launched in 2020 and raised $52 million last year.

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GeekWire

JUNE 9, 2020

“In the manic highs and lows of the startup world, Manny was always a calm, stabilizing voice,” said Barry Crist , the CEO of Seattle technology company Chef who was the CEO of the former Likewise Software, an identity, security and storage startup where Vellon was CTO and co-founder. ” Not a venture capitalist. .

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The Verge

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The attack targeted an Azure customer in Europe, and was 140 percent higher than the highest attack bandwidth volume Microsoft recorded in 2020. Microsoft doesn’t name the Azure customer in Europe that was targeted, but such attacks can also be used as cover for secondary attacks that attempt to spread malware and infiltrate company systems.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The companies did not disclose terms of the deal. million Series B round in Aizen in 2020. Lee left his post as a data science program manager at Microsoft in 2019 to start Kurvv, drawing upon more than 15 years of experience in product management. Both Lee and Croft served as interim executives at the company.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 4, 2023

For decades companies have added PFAS to firefighting foams, food packaging, carpets and fabrics, water-repellent clothing and non-stick pans. “So we’re very fortunate we’ve validated the technology works, and we’re now to the point of [going to] commercial scale and growth of the company.”

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GeekWire

MAY 17, 2021

Amazon first started building out its internal COVID-19 testing lab with diagnostic equipment from third-party manufacturers in April 2020. Business Insider reported Monday that the company may offer at-home medical tests — including for COVID-19 — and a third-party marketplace for general home-diagnostics services.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 13, 2022

These once elusive creatures of the corporate world — privately-held companies valued at a $1 billion or more — certainly are plentiful these days. And then today, another blockbuster unicorn boosted its valuation, with Seattle-based sales engagement software company Highspot raising $248 million at a $3.5 billion (as of July 2020).

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 20, 2021

This is Rec Room’s second round of funding in 2021, following a $100 million raise in March that officially catapulted the company into “unicorn” status as a privately-held startup valued at over $1 billion. While Rec Room has been available since 2016, when it first arrived on Steam, its community grew dramatically over the course of 2020.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

AI is coming into its own as a practical technology for helping companies with a range of initiatives, from improving customer experience to streamlining business processes. Managers and employees can reach out directly to one another and connect over opportunities. “It It even enables employees to market their skillsets internally.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 9, 2023

” After more than eight years at the tech giant, Hayter had come to expect that decisions large and small at the company were always rooted in data. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Pamela Hayter just wanted someone at Amazon to answer “the why.” “There was no data,” Hayter said.

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GeekWire

JUNE 4, 2021

” “Company is in great shape to go public in the near future. Turner will remain an advisor to the company. He previously spent 11 years at Microsoft from 2005 to 2016, leading the company’s global sales and marketing teams. It manages a fleet of more than 130,000 cryptocurrency miners. The company raised $11.5

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Kizilbash is a recent hire at the Seattle-based company, joining in June as vice president of corporate development. Founded in 2006, RealSelf saw its business impacted early in the pandemic but bounced back later in 2020. The company acquired two international cosmetic resource platforms earlier this year. (RealSelf Photo).

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GeekWire

MARCH 2, 2024

The two have strong tech chops that date back to stints at Microsoft, where Sitner was a senior product manager for five years and Schwartz spent more than 10 years as a program manager. The startup built mobile apps for conferences, pivoted early in the pandemic to focus on virtual events, and was acquired in 2020.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Programmers looking to experiment or get better at the tools and technology that they use for their day jobs are turning to a competitive game called “Battlesnake” — made by a company of the same name — to earn bragging rights among a community of coders. based Battlesnake, the company announced Wednesday.

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GeekWire

MAY 1, 2021

Meyerson’s experience in the space industry goes even further back than Blue Origin, taking in a six-year stint as senior program manager for Kistler Aerospace’s K-1 reusable launch vehicle (which never got off the ground) and 12 years as an aerospace engineer at NASA’s Johnson Space Center. ISPCS via YouTube).

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Meanwhile, the 2022 State of Tech Diversity: The Black Tech Ecosystem report from the NAACP and Kapor Center, a nonprofit addressing racial inequities in STEM education and the tech industry, found that the proportion of Black students receiving bachelor’s degrees in computer science decreased between 2016 and 2020, going from 9% to 8%.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Former employees at trucking company Convoy have gone on to launch their own startups in Seattle. A vast alumni network from the trucking marketplace company is fueling entrepreneurial activity in Seattle, where at least 25 startups are now led by former employees of Convoy. Several others are still operating in stealth mode.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 1, 2022

This is a transformational time,” said Tonia Buell, alternative fuels program manager for the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT). The state requires 24/7 customer service from EV charging companies that receive funding, Buell said. Lee and other leaders at the company came from SpaceX.

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GeekWire

JULY 9, 2020

Zillow Group co-founder and former CEO Spencer Rascoff joined the board of Palantir Technologies, a big data company backed by PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel. Rascoff, who stepped down as CEO of Zillow in early 2019, resigned from the Seattle-based real estate company’s board in April. The company is currently ranked No.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

In a big news day for Microsoft’s Xbox division, the company announced a new wireless headset for the Xbox Series X|S and an upgrade of its gaming accessibility programs. The Xbox Wireless Headset is the first officially-branded set of headphones that the company has offered for Xbox users since the heyday of the Xbox 360.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Business drivers for the first wave of digital transformation through 2020 targeted growth, data capabilities, cloud migration, and delivering competitive technology capabilities. These leaders often come from IT backgrounds, such as product management, program management, application development, data science, and IT operations.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Bringing together existing groups from across the company, the new organization numbers 10,000 people including existing and open positions, representing more than 5% of the tech giant’s nearly 200,000 employees. ” Microsoft, he wrote, is “the only company in a position to deliver this.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 8, 2023

I was able to see that the breadth of technologies I could use in education was small compared to the tech that could help global private-sector companies,” she says. She took a position as a senior IT program manager, then global IT director and next delegate CIO. The WDNR turned 50 recently. I wanted my work to be meaningful.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 22, 2022

With more and more companies undertaking the journey of digital transformation, the role of the CIO has become critical. He joins the Indian beverage company after a 17-year stint at Wockhardt where he was associate vice president of information technology head. He will also plan and implement the company’s IT and digital strategy.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Still another cougar made it across I-5, hunkering down in a small patch of forest between a utility company and mobile home park before retreating back cross the freeway the next evening. Then in 2020 EarthRanger reached out to the project, already two years underway, and offered its platform. Angela Ambrosini / Panthera Photo).

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CTOvision

JULY 7, 2015

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The Verge

JANUARY 5, 2021

But with a handful of exceptions , the labor movement has made few inroads in the world’s most valuable companies. And the blue-collar workers who support and enable much of their work have been outsourced to companies like Accenture, making them ineligible for collective bargaining under the National Labor Relations Act.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 15, 2022

As a global chemical company and producer of PET, Indorama Ventures Limited (IVL) has made sustainability a priority for over a decade, from energy and greenhouse gas reductions to increased renewable energy and recycling. As such, it is the most widely recycled plastic in the world.

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GeekWire

MAY 20, 2021

The Series B round valued the company at close to $500 million. Where we are headed is, people are the most important asset any company has. How we can help companies do the best with internal and external talent — to develop, to hire, to retain, to redeploy. We are the people company.”

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The Verge

AUGUST 17, 2021

You might compare that to Elon Musk, who in 2019 promised a fleet of 1 million Tesla robotaxis on the streets by the end of 2020. I spoke to you in February of 2020 on The Vergecast , and then the whole world flipped over, but I’m glad to have you back on Decoder. You see all the big tech companies are doing better than ever.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Tech companies have made pledges, but often little progress , in building diverse workforces. Top universities are able to accept a fraction of applicants to their in-demand computer science programs. Sestak logged years doing administrative work in logistics and distribution companies. “I North Seattle College campus.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

New Frontier Aerospace’s chief operating officer, David Gregory (at left), lays his hand on the company’s Mjölnir rocket engine while CEO Bill Bruner strikes what he calls his “Wernher von Braun pose” with a 3D-printed model of the company’s hypersonic rocket ship. The company has been awarded $2.25

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Based in Seattle, Campher was most recently VP of corporate marketing at social media management platform Hootsuite. The company also promoted Chris McGuire to chief technology officer, taking over from Thinkific co-founder Matt Payne who will now be SVP of innovation. Chris McGuire. Thinkific Photo). Netlify Photos). —

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

It’s a tale far darker than “Superintelligence,” the 2020 romantic comedy starring Melissa McCarthy as a Seattle techie and James Corden as an AI overlord. Real-world AI companies would probably dispute the CEO’s claim. An ethical company would scrub the audio files to ensure the users’ anonymity.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

A law in South Korea might force the company to change how App Store payments work ; the company settled a Japanese case about the App Store recently , as well as a class-action lawsuit in this country. Because there is a big culture clash between those two companies, specifically around advertising. Probably zero.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla , released in 2020, has more than 30 accessibility options , including closed captions and subtitles with adjustable sizes, backgrounds, and the option to display speaker names. Most large companies keep their tech solutions under lock and key, only sharing with their subsidiary studios. The brain stuff.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Trust One is also knee deep in transforming its IT organization and operating model, transitioning away from a program management office (PMO) to a product-centered organization. “No matter how agile you are, you are solving different problems for customers in different ways unless you are organized by product and are customer backed.”

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