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Tech Moves: OfferUp names new CTO; Amazon data center leader departs; and more

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— Mobile marketplace OfferUp hired former Splunk VP of Engineering Melissa Binde as its new CTO. She oversaw Splunk’s cloud engineering business while CTO at the software giant. Binde succeeds Ameesh Paleja who served as OfferUp’s CTO for two years. He is now a VP of engineering at Google. Joe Minarik.

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How Trainline’s CTO stays on track with professional development

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Few would swap sunny San Francisco and the innovation of Silicon Valley for a train ticketing company serving disgruntled UK commuters, but try telling that to Trainline CTO, Milena Nikolic. Vertical teams, meanwhile, operate across the tech stack so teams aren’t localised to certain operating systems, orchestration or data layers.

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Expedia Group hires top execs from Apple and Verizon as part of leadership structure overhaul

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Expedia Group has hired top executives from Apple and Verizon Media as the company overhauls its leadership structure and brand after a long period of organizational disarray and declining revenues. The key hires are part of Expedia’s efforts to streamline its operations and boost its revenues.

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MegaTrend Update: Dramatic and broad shifts in models due to software ("software eats the world")

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Then perhaps the government contracting world (we have previously written about software eating the government contracting world and DoD command and Control ). The CTOvision Big Data Top Enterprise Tech List: The most important data technologies to accelerate into your infrastructure. Who is next?

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Interview: Expedia’s new leaders from Apple and Verizon hope to help travel giant bounce back

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Expedia has since set out to simplify things, and it’s turning to a former Apple marketing leader to make it happen. Last week Expedia announced the hiring of Jon Gieselman , Apple’s former head of marketing for services, to help customers make sense of the online travel giant’s tangled product lineup. Tony Lystra Photo).

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Fed Tech News Roundup

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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Computer. Facebook Announces Fifth Data Center, Located In Fort Worth, Texas TechCrunch (Today) - Facebook just took the wraps off its fifth data center, with this one landing in Fort Worth, Texas. Big data's $1.6B sv1ambo / Flickr). This is a 1965.

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Tech Moves: Amazon’s director of Alexa Trust; BECU adds CIO; Lockstep, Fabric exit stealth mode

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Amazon hired Anne Toth as director of Alexa Trust, a team focused on the privacy, security, accessibility, ethics and biases of Amazon’s voice platform. The founding team includes: • CEO Peter Horadan, previously EVP of engineering and CTO at tax automation startup Avalara. Amazon Photo). Read more about Fabric and its $9.5