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Who will be the Next Tech Titan? Cast your vote in the GeekWire Awards

GeekWire

Last year’s winner was Highspot, a startup that sells enterprise software to help make salespeople more efficient. CEO background: Rick Luebbe was previously the CEO and co-founder of EnerG2 , a University of Washington spinoff that was acquired by German chemical company BASF. The company ranks No.

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DARPA boosts Microsoft’s far-out effort to build topological quantum computer

GeekWire

. “Experts disagree on whether a utility-scale quantum computer based on conventional designs is still decades away or could be achieved much sooner,” Joe Altepeter, US2QC program manager in DARPA’s Defense Sciences Office, said in a news release. “We need to integrate within the larger cloud, right?

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New CIO appointments in India, 2022

CIO Business Intelligence

A certified lead auditor, hacking forensic investigator, and security analyst, Tiwari is an IT veteran from the Indian Navy where he set up the information security and incident response organization, including the formulation of policy frameworks, security audits, product testing, cyber forensics, and risk management. . November 2021.

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Sustainable Petrochemical Company Expands Risk-Based Inspection Philosophy

CIO Business Intelligence

As a global chemical company and producer of PET, Indorama Ventures Limited (IVL) has made sustainability a priority for over a decade, from energy and greenhouse gas reductions to increased renewable energy and recycling. This disparity could lead to minor or even catastrophic chemical releases. “In

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Apple’s fortress of secrecy is crumbling from the inside

The Verge

The overarching desire — the thing that connects the tenured software engineer in Cupertino with the retail employee in New Jersey — is that employees want to feel heard. Steve Jobs was so adamant about keeping his workforce under wraps that he removed all the names from the ‘About’ boxes on the software when he returned to Apple in 1997.

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