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Tech Moves: Ex-Microsoft president joins Google Cloud as VP; iSpot hires research chief; and more

GeekWire

The cloud arm of Google, which competes with Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services, boosted its operating profits to $395 million, a improvement of close to $1 billion from its loss of $590 million in the same quarter a year ago. chief research officer Leslie Wood. Photo) — TV advertising measurement company iSpot.tv

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

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A Seattle tech vet, Morrow was an executive at Apptio for five years including through the software company’s IPO and later $1.9 The company recently subleased 123,000 square feet of office space in downtown Seattle. Other recent leadership appointments include Amazon vet Dorothy Li as CTO and Sunita Solao as VP of people.

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How to leverage data to create a more intelligent organization

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Carrier CIO Gundeep Singh will describe how the company overhauled its data strategy, and Vanguard ’s chief data analytics officer, Ryan Swann, will discuss how the growing sophistication of advanced analytics connects to greater investor outcomes. It’s just one way the company uses data from its online dictionary.

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Tech Moves: Smartsheet CFO joins Auth0 board; Outreach opens NYC office; Concure Oncology adds CEO; and more

GeekWire

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. as chief operating officer. and has an engineering office in Bellevue, Wash. Megan Quinn.

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Young and visionary: Meet the finalists for Young Entrepreneur of the Year at the GeekWire Awards

GeekWire

Aran Khanna is CEO of Reserved.ai , a Seattle startup offering software to automate cost management of companies cloud-related expenses. Khanna previously co-founded Glia Intelligence, a machine learning consultancy for physical retail. He also worked as an AI engineer at Amazon Web Services and interned at Microsoft Azure.

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We asked 24 startups in the new Techstars Seattle class about how AI is impacting their business

GeekWire

We spoke to nearly 50 founders that are participating in the 15th cohort of Techstars Seattle, which counts companies including Remitly, Outreach, Skilljar, Mass Reforestation, and others as alumni. Many of the 24 companies use AI tools such as GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT to boost productivity. ” Astros Founder Zsika Phillip.

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Bias, disrespect, and demotions: Black employees say Amazon has a race problem

Vox

She had nearly two decades of experience leading diversity and inclusion efforts inside important institutions, like Washington state’s governor’s office, but she’d never worked at an influential global business leader like Amazon. Chanin Kelly-Rae was a manager of diversity for a division of Amazon Web Services in 2019.