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Seattle VR startup Rec Room raises $145M, reaches $3.5B valuation

GeekWire

While Rec Room has been available since 2016, when it first arrived on Steam, its community grew dramatically over the course of 2020. 2020, Rec Room ’s userbase had tripled. I think it’s the nature of social apps to have a compounding effect,” said Cameron Brown, chief creative officer at Rec Room.

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

GeekWire

Founded in 2006, RealSelf saw its business impacted early in the pandemic but bounced back later in 2020. based social media management platform Hootsuite announced Tiziana Figliolia as its new CFO. The company acquired two international cosmetic resource platforms earlier this year. Tiziana Figliolia. Hootsuite Photo).

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Fed Tech News Roundup

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Census hopes mobile approach works in 2020 - FCW.com (blog) FCW (Today) Census hopes mobile approach works in 2020FCW.com (blog)WHAT: The U.S. How one company is embracing agile Washington Technology (Today) - CivicActions harnesses open agile software development in its bid for the GSA's 18F agile blanket purchase agreement.

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Tech Moves: Zillow co-founder joins Palantir board; Hootsuite names new CEO; and more

GeekWire

based social media management platform Hootsuite named Tom Keiser as its new CEO. Cambia Grove announced its 2020 Innovator Fellows. The program’s second cohort is focusing on data in digital health care transformation. Rascoff is an angel investor, co-founder of Los Angeles-based tech news venture dot.LA

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IT leaders turn to HBCUs for future IT talent

CIO Business Intelligence

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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New CIO appointments in India, 2022

CIO Business Intelligence

He has over 25 years of experience in banking and financial services, including service delivery, portfolio and program management, risk and controls, and information security. He also co-founded social media startup Stillwater in 2016, prior to which he was the VP of engineering at Ezetap. New CIO appointments in India, 2020.

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How the Google union could boost labor organizing in Silicon Valley

The Verge

This union builds upon years of courageous organizing by Google workers,” Nicki Anselmo, Google program manager, said in a statement that referenced the company’s decision not to renew a Pentagon contract to analyze drone footage after employees protested. In November 2020, Google illegally fired four workers for organizing.

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