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This Seattle e-commerce startup didn’t raise any VC money and was just acquired in a nine-figure deal

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The 4-year-old company provides advertising and sales tools to online retailers selling products on Amazon, Walmart, Instacart, and other marketplaces. Burdick previously worked for a decade at Amazon on the company’s retail merchandising and advertising teams.

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Microsoft says Windows 11’s File Explorer ads were ‘not intended to be published externally’

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This was an experimental banner that was not intended to be published externally and was turned off,” says Brandon LeBlanc, senior program manager for Windows, in a statement to The Verge. Sadly, Microsoft isn’t alone in advertising its own services in its operating system or apps.

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Who will be the Next Tech Titan? Cast your vote in the GeekWire Awards

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Amazon employees walk out against to board to make a change

Dataconomy

The e-retail giant has also laid off some of its workforce recently, parting ways with 27,000 jobs in several divisions, including cloud computing, advertising, and retail divisions. According to the group, Amazon employees walk out to point out a “lack of trust in company leadership’s decision-making.”

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Orange's goal-getting VP targets digital innovation

TM Forum

Then in 2005 she saw an advertisement for Orange, and without knowing much about the world of telecoms, she applied. “We have a huge list of training programs in a catalog, but we have also created key performance indicators (KPIs) at a company level to help push more training and create a learning culture.”

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