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Tech Moves: Xbox hires Seattle gaming vet Kim Swift; Frontdoor adds Amazon Fashion leader; more

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Tony Bacos , former vice president and CTO of Amazon Fashion, has been hired at Frontdoor as the company’s first senior vice president and chief digital officer. Parkhurst said this was an opportunity she “could not pass up” to use her skills to rebuild trust in local media. Tony Bacos. Frontdoor Photo).

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Hong Kong Democracy Website Crippled by DDoS Attack  

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In the last few years, major American banks have also suffered online outages from DDoS attacks – with many attributing the bank attacks to hacktivists, or ideologically motivated hackers. The Next Media website was down for nearly twelve hours. Next Media has its suspicions).

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Tech Moves: Lighter Capital names new CEO; Amazon exec joins Uber as CTO; and more

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Widner, a board member at Lighter, most recently served as managing partner at the venture capital arm of the National Australia Bank. The company now has 25 employees and plans to hire. Long-time Uber CTO Thuan Pham stepped down earlier this year shortly before the company cut 25% of its global workforce.

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New CIO appointments in India, 2022

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Amit Goel joins Blox as CTO. Web Werks India hires Kamal Goel as director of IT. Publicis Groupe India names Roopesh Pujari as CTO. Roopesh Pujari has been promoted to CTO at marketing and advertising firm Publicis Groupe India. He joined Publicis Media in 2019. February 2022. Kamal Goel Web Werks. January 2022.

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GeekWire 200 rankings update: E-commerce, virtual event, fintech startups heat up

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Hootsuite , the widely used social media management platform and a star of the Vancouver, B.C. The private company is a recent addition to the GeekWire 200 rankings, part of an ongoing project to update our comprehensive Startup List and community resources. It recently hired longtime Amazon tech leader Dorothy Li as CTO.

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Zulily co-founders Darrell Cavens and Mark Vadon invest in ID verification tech startup Vouched

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The idea is to provide fraud detection of a person in real-time. Use cases include KYC (know your customer) in banking; employment screening; gig economy hiring; contactless hotel check-in; and more. He founded online jewelry company Blue Nile in 1999; Cavens joined shortly thereafter and was CTO.

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AI meets M&A: How these former management consultants are upending due diligence

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The idea is to reduce the grunt work of M&A due diligence, creating more time for high-level analysis and human expertise. Wokelo CEO Masson and CTO Nanda experienced both ends of this spectrum in their prior roles. It also offers a secure data room where users can upload files, and a Q&A chat function for directed research.