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Maritime marketplace and software platform OpenTug raises $3.1M

GeekWire

The fresh cash will be used to further develop OpenTug’s maritime marketplace and software platform and grow its network of shippers and service providers. He co-founded OpenTug with COO Michael Baldwin , who previously worked at Amazon Web Services, and CTO Luciano de la Iglesia , who spent time as a data scientist at Microsoft.

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Book excerpt: What makes a great startup idea? Lessons from a veteran entrepreneur

GeekWire

Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from a new book written by Shirish Nadkarni, a Seattle tech veteran who co-founded Livemocha (acquired by RosettaStone) and TeamOn (acquired by BlackBerry). While the trend toward globalization was accelerating, a number of social networks began emerging and capturing end-user attention.

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IHG maximizes hospitality with multicloud

CIO Business Intelligence

Turner helps drive that success by wearing two hats for the company: He oversees a product-driven organization that must develop and deliver innovative services out to hotel owners and guests continuously even as his teams continue to build out IHG’s internal technology stack and services.

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Microsoft President Brad Smith warns that U.S. is repeating a key Sept. 11 mistake in digital era

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Microsoft President Brad Smith discusses his book, Tools and Weapons, at a 2019 event in Seattle. government agencies, Smith writes in a new update to his book, Tools and Weapons: The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age , originally published two years ago. A new paperback edition includes three new chapters. 11 attacks.

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What is a telco marketplace? It's surprisingly hard to define

TM Forum

Below is how Tom McFadyen, Founder of marketplace developer McFadyen Digital, explains platforms and marketplaces in his book. the book by Geoffrey G. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the quintessential example of an infrastructure platform. to build their IT and network infrastructure. and increasingly networks.

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A 15th Amazon leadership principle? Former exec floats new idea for tech giant’s next era

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John Rossman, a former Amazon executive, is the author books including The Amazon Way and Think Like Amazon. John Rossman, a former Amazon business leader, is floating the idea of a 15th leadership principle in a new edition of his book, The Amazon Way. Could a new leadership principle help to guide the company in its next era?

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Living Networks - Chapter 9: The Flow of Services - Reframing Digital and Professional Services

Trends in the Living Networks

Download Chapter 9 of Living Networks on the Flow of Services. Every chapter of Living Networks is being released on this blog as a free download, together with commentary and updated perspectives since its original publication in 2002. Living Networks - Chapter 9: The Flow of Services.

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