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

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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. Photo) — TV advertising measurement company iSpot.tv chief research officer Leslie Wood.

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

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Other recent leadership appointments include Amazon vet Dorothy Li as CTO and Sunita Solao as VP of people. Former Amazon Web Services VP Steven Shure relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area from Seattle to join alternative search engine Neeva as chief business officer. . He previously managed advertising partnerships at Apple.

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

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Engstrom joins Create33 from advertising agency BRKThru Digital where she was an account director. Demoz most recently was a senior manager of software engineering at Google Cloud and previously a software development manager at Amazon Web Services. The Seattle office will initially hire 10 employees. Aaron Kornblum.

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

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The companies represent industries including healthcare, finance, culinary, advertising, robotics, and more. Keep reading below to learn more about AI’s impact on their industry, the biggest challenges they expect, and what they plan to do with their free time in Seattle. Others have AI embedded within the products.

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Amazon DynamoDB ? a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database.

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These were built as managed web services that eliminated the operational complexity of managing systems while still providing extremely high durability. Amazon engineers preferred to use these services instead of managing their own databases like Dynamo, even though Dynamos functionality was better aligned with their applicationsâ??