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Portland startup Candid lands $2M to help brands and retailers run their wholesale business online

GeekWire

Candid is a software program meant to help retailers with their online wholesale efforts. Both wholesale buyers and sellers use the program. Founding story: Bloom started Candid after he and his wife built an apparel brand called North of West. Candid Photo). New funding: Portland, Ore.-based Candid Photo).

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Melinda Gates’ Pivotal Ventures and Techstars unveil cohort for ‘Future of Longevity’ Accelerator

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Melinda Gates’ Pivotal Ventures and Techstars unveiled the first cohort for the new Future of Longevity Accelerator , a program that supports startups building products and services for caregivers. See the full list of companies below, with descriptions from the program. Companies range from device makers to software platforms.

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Tech Moves: Madrona grows investment team; MicroVision, Axon add board members; and more

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Prior to Amazon, Sharma co-founded LifeLemon, a consumer apparel e-commerce startup, led marketing at Flipkart, and was a developer at Oracle. She previously held marketing and business development roles at Health Outcome Sciences, ChartLogic, and Remedy Informatics, which all offer technology solutions for the healthcare industry.

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3 certification tips for IT leaders looking to get ahead

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As a result, they procure solutions off-the-shelf rather than developing them in-house. For example, Puneesh Lamba, CIO of Shahi Exports, an apparel manufacturing company, acknowledges that “certifications have helped him perform better in board meetings, thereby making it easier to get approvals on IT spending.”.

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The Amazonification of the American workforce

Vox

As more Americans became Amazon Prime subscribers — the program boasts more than 200 million members worldwide as of April 2021 — it precipitated a shift toward more online shopping that only intensified in 2020. Walter developed and was diagnosed with tendonitis in his forearms during this time.

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Transformational or overhyped? How these geeks at Seattle’s giant ‘Founders Bash’ think about AI

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Charlotte Massey , co-founder of Gnara , an apparel tech company for women’s outdoor apparel. I think the real power is then the way that we interact with technology, and being able to talk to computers without needing to know how a program works. Here’s what they had to say: Charlotte Massey. Saurabh Jain.

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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’

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” 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. Microsoft Photo). “Your code will be attacked.” Bill Gates was one. ” (GeekWire File Photo).

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