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Tech Moves: Graham & Walker exec joins Seattle Storm; Union Bay founder lands new role

GeekWire

Titcomb, a Seattle native, began her career as part of a family-run apparel business that uses eco-friendly bamboo material. Benn Bollay is now CTO at B2B software startup ReachSuite. Bollay was also the founder and CTO at Union Bay Networks, a Seattle cloud startup acquired by Apple in 2014. CNBC first reported the news.

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Former Amazon exec inherits Microsoft’s complex cybersecurity legacy in quest to solve ‘one of the greatest challenges of our time’

GeekWire

.” That warning, so obvious today, was a blunt wake-up call 20 years ago for many of the software developers reading the book Writing Secure Code, by Microsoft security engineering leaders Michael Howard and David LeBlanc. And the security of Microsoft’s software is still falling well short of Gates’ vision.

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Expat CIOs: IT leaders broaden horizons with global experiences

CIO Business Intelligence

Ventre realized this when working on a large cloud migration project for Adani Ports as part of its strategy to digitize ports and logistics. I am not the expert in cyber, architecture, cloud, project delivery, or data, nor should I be. I would say the first three months were the hardest,” he says.

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Topgolf Callaway tees up digital transformation for global expansion

CIO Business Intelligence

While golf clubs and golf balls remain the company’s beating heart, over the past 40 years its revenue mix has shifted to include apparel and gear. By 2021, the mix had shifted to 38% in golf equipment, 38% from Topgolf, and 24% in apparel, gear, and other lines of business. In 2016, 84% of Callaway’s revenue mix was in golf equipment.

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Rooted in Tacoma, cloudPWR’s Shadrach White delivers tech solutions for governments everywhere

GeekWire

based cloud software company working on digital transformation solutions for government and public agencies across Washington state and beyond. As the shift to cloud computing began in 2010, he recognized an opportunity to build a company that delivered cloud based solutions for state and local governments.

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Basically everything on Amazon has become an ad. It’s only the beginning.

Vox

The company has also invested heavily in in-house software tools that allow brands to purchase highly targeted ads around the web. With this transformation, Amazon has become a power player in yet another industry, adding advertising to a list that already includes e-commerce, logistics, entertainment, cloud computing, and voice assistants.

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Content moderation issues are taking center stage in the presidential election campaign

The Verge

Zoe Schiffer wrote about it today at The Verge : Employees are specifically calling out Google’s ongoing Cloud contract with the Clarkstown Police Department in New York, which was sued for allegedly conducting illegal surveillance on Black Lives Matter protestors in 2015. Mark Zuckerberg and Donald Trump have forged an uneasy alliance.