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Bank downplays ties to FTX sister company in latest fallout from crypto exchange failure

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A bank in rural Washington state sought to distance itself from FTX on Tuesday following a report last week detailing its connections to the failed cryptocurrency exchange. The New York Times reported Nov. 23 that FBH, the parent company of Farmington State Bank, received $11.5 (Bigstock Image).

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Tech Moves: Life Science Washington names new CEO; AWS exec departs; Vizio CTO retires

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Amazon Web Services vice president Raju Gulabani departed last month, as reported by The Information. Vizio CTO Bill Baxter retired at the end of 2021 after seven years with the consumer electronics company. Morgan, most recently as head of West Coast technology investment banking. Sigfstead is based in San Francisco.

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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. Gaurav Sharma becomes group CTO of Poonawalla Fincorp. February 2022. January 2022.

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

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Wokelo uses AI to produce detailed, multi-page due-diligence reports in a matter of minutes — including an overview of the subject company, insights from news coverage, a funding summary, list of recent product launches, and industry landscape, backed up by extensive citations. ” Funding: The company, founded in 2022, has raised $1.5

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Vote for Startup of the Year: Arrived Homes, Lexion, Phaidra, Shipium, WhyLabs

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Legal contracts. Founders : CEO Ryan Frazier and CTO Kenny Cason were previously at Simply Measured. It produces an organized searchable repository and various reports. Real estate ownership. Industrial AI. E-commerce fulfillment software. Machine learning monitoring. He started Lexion with Emad Elwany and James Baird.

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How CIOs can be pillars of stability in an uncertain world

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Several economists, a bank president, and a couple of reporters walk into a bar. The bank president wails, “ Economic hurricane.” The reporters keen about “ gut-churning feelings of helplessness ” and “a world of confusion.” Sitting in a booth with his hard-working direct reports, the chief information officer sighs.

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Tech Moves: Microsoft’s Brad Anderson jumps to Qualtrics in wave of pre-IPO hires; Elena Donio joins Databricks board; Hiya, Esper add startup vets

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” Anderson will be replaced at Microsoft by Harvinder (Harv) Bhela, corporate vice president of Microsoft 365 Security and Compliance, reports Mary Jo Foley of ZDNet. ” Other executive hires announced by Qualtrics include: • Stephanie Barton as managing director of the EMEA region. She was most recently a VP at VMware.

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