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Fed Tech Roundup August 20

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Federal CTO Megan Smith to Receive Nonprofit Org’s ‘Charging Buffalo’ Award Sept. NIH funds new tools to crack genomic big data - GCN.com. NTIA extends ICANN contract for another year. GCN names 2015's top tech solutions - Washington Technology. Here Are the Best TSA Yelp Reviews - Nextgov.

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Tech Moves: AWS exec named Splunk president; Amazon vet joins Overstock as CMO; and more

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Splunk is a publicly-traded big data company based in San Francisco with more than 6,000 employees worldwide. Uber board member and former Xerox CEO Ursula Burns joined the advisory board of contract management startup Icertis. billion and sells its contract management software in 90 countries. 31 was down 5% to $2.23

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Tech Moves: Zillow co-founder joins Palantir board; Hootsuite names new CEO; and more

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Zillow Group co-founder and former CEO Spencer Rascoff joined the board of Palantir Technologies, a big data company backed by PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel. Founded by former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold, Intellectual Ventures is one of the world’s largest patent holders. contract management startup Icertis.