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Tech Moves: Convoy names general counsel; startup founders land new gigs after shutdowns

GeekWire

Acting head of legal Megan Lutes departed in July to join 3D printing startup Glowforge as its general counsel. Other recent leadership appointments include Amazon vet Dorothy Li as CTO and Sunita Solao as VP of people. Aviation company Wheels Up announced Srikanth Satya as chief technology and development officer. Steve Shure.

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Funding news: Angel conference backs brain device startup, weapons detection company lands $15M

GeekWire

The crown: BrainSpace will use the new cash to support development of its automated external ventricular drain, a type of device that relieves pressure in the brain from trauma, stroke or other conditions. based medical device company Rehabtronics is developing a device to relieve pressure injuries resulting from immobility.

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Europe’s CSPs eye national data services amid public clouds

TM Forum

which Orange will develop with Cap Gemini and run on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform. “I think the biggest struggle we have right now is actually … on the legal side, where some of the legal people are starting to question can you put 3D everything in the cloud, what about all these rules, where are the clouds located?”

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5 hot IT budget investments — and 2 going cold

CIO Business Intelligence

This applies to his IT group as well, specifically, in using AI to automate the review of customer contracts, Nardecchia says. AI is also enabling users to do a quick 3D scan of their mouth with their mobile phone, so they can see their potential new smile in a matter of minutes, Skinner says.

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Tech Moves: Hiya adds startup vets; Bellevue College taps former governor as interim president; and more

GeekWire

3D content platform Unity Technologies appointed Scott Pitasky as chief people officer. Banfield’s co-founder is Bruce Roberts , who is CTO of the new startup. Roberts was previously CTO of cybersecurity company DomainTools, Rouxbe Online Cooking School and SixthEye, a social network for wine enthusiasts. Vancouver, B.C.

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Meta is facing the test of its lifetime

Vox

In a memo to Meta’s staff also posted on social media, one of Meta’s top executives, CTO Andrew “Boz” Bosworth, reflected on Monday about the difficult moment the company is in. He’s also put out several iterations of AR/VR headsets before Apple has even launched a single product in this space, giving Meta a head start in development.

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Tech Moves: Siblings at Seattle startup swap roles; Microsoft CVP departs to focus on DEI; and more

GeekWire

Jim founded Mason to address the challenges he observed with hardware development. Reddit hired Jonathan Flesher as vice president of business development. Flesher joins Reddit from Discord where he was head of business development. The drug development platform is led by founder and CEO Sean McClain. Mason Photo).

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