The Verge

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Facebook is planning to change its company name next week to reflect its focus on building the metaverse, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter. The rebrand would likely position the blue Facebook app as one of many products under a parent company overseeing groups like Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus, and more.

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The Verge

JULY 21, 2021

“SpaceX, Tesla, and I own Bitcoin,” Elon Musk said at a Bitcoin conference today. Musk spoke at a panel with Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter and payment company Square, and Cathie Wood, the founder and CEO of ARK Invest. “I My biggest focus right now is on a decentralized social media protocol, we’re calling it Bluesky,” he said today.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

As ABC News Australia explains, the laws would hold social platforms, like Facebook or Twitter, accountable for defamatory comments made against users. If the platforms can’t identify the troll for any reason — or if the platforms flat-out refuse — the company will have to pay for the troll’s defamatory comments.

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Dataconomy

JULY 19, 2023

In a stunning turn of events, the popular online gaming platform Roblox faced a major data breach in July 2023, leading to the exposure of highly sensitive information from attendees of the 2017-2020 Roblox Developers Conferences. The company could face potential fines and lawsuits, further amplifying the gravity of this situation.

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GeekWire

APRIL 13, 2024

Amazon CTO Werner Vogels sits down for a wide-ranging conversation on the GeekWire Podcast at Amazon in Seattle, focusing on issues including AI and social responsibility. … Individual companies like Amazon will be doing the education themselves, assisted by these large language models.

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Vox

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Snap co-founder and CEO Evan Spiegel is leading a company with a steeply declining stock price, competition from a much bigger industry rival, and painful staff cuts — but he isn’t ready to give up. Last week, the company laid off 20 percent of its workforce , or over 1,200 employees — one of the biggest in a recent wave of layoffs in tech.

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Vox

MAY 17, 2022

Companies are getting better at responding to incidents like the Buffalo shooting. This time, the shooter shared his appalling acts on Twitch, a livestreaming video app popular with gamers, where it was shut down much more quickly, less than two minutes after the violence began , according to the company.

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GeekWire

JULY 29, 2020

Don’t expect Amazon to roll out a social media platform anytime soon. Speaking at an antitrust hearing that often waded outside of antitrust-related topics, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos called social media a “nuance destruction machine.” — Brian Fung (@b_fung) July 29, 2020. .”

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 2, 2021

With more than 600K followers on YouTube, LiveOverflow is one of infosec’s first social media influencers. In this episode, LiveOverflow talks about his six years of producing engaging YouTube content and what the rise of social media influencers might mean for traditional conferences like Black Hat.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 2, 2021

With more than 600K followers on YouTube, LiveOverflow is one of infosec’s first social media influencers. In this episode, LiveOverflow talks about his six years of producing engaging YouTube content and what the rise of social media influencers might mean for traditional conferences like Black Hat.

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GeekWire

MAY 14, 2020

Seattle-area startups PDM Automotive and Tribute took home $132,500 each at the 17th Seattle Angel Conference event — and the first to be held virtually. PDM Automotive is a 3-year-old company that runs an automotive product data platform for manufacturers and receivers. auto parts. .”

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GeekWire

JANUARY 17, 2021

Lee, who is the CEO, is based in San Francisco while Watts, the CTO, is in Seattle, where the 2-person company is headquartered. When the “Shuffl” happens, the organizer can share links for video conferences and provide icebreaker questions or articles for discussion. What does your company do?

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Galido

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Information Technology Blog - - Here’s How SMEs Can Improve their Social Presence - Information Technology Blog. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) from around the world know that social media is here to stay. Although the content is vital on social media, it’s not enough to post your content and walk away. Set a Goal.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Bill Bowman, CISSP, CIPM, is the Chief Information Security Officer & Data Privacy Officer at financial software company Emburse. He serves on the Advisory Council for SecureWorld Boston and has spoken on our conference agendas. He has been a first-hired CISO at five different companies. I learned from them.

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ComputerWorld IT Management

MARCH 26, 2021

In the analyst community, we’ve been red-flagging a clear (and expensive) trend: companies that are building huddle and conference rooms in office buildings under the assumption people will want to come into the office to use them. There is virtually no empirical data that this will be the case.

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Computerworld Vertical IT

AUGUST 19, 2021

But convincing employees to put on VR headsets for conference meetings — or companies to buy the hardware in the first place — could be a tough sell, say analysts. Facebook introduced Horizon , its virtual reality social space accessed via Oculus VR headsets, last year, though it remains in private beta.

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GeekWire

JUNE 16, 2020

Protestors carried signs that read ‘Tax Amazon’ on the company’s campus during the 2018 ‘head tax’ fight. It would levy a tax on salaries exceeding $150,000 annually at Seattle’s largest companies. Companies with annual payroll exceeding $1 billion would pay a 1.4% million dollars each year.

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Forrester IT

JUNE 6, 2016

Informatica World wrapped up in San Francisco last week where almost 3,000 customers and partners gathered in the Moscone West conference center for four days packed with executive keynotes, customer and partner presentations. Based on my time there it's clear that: Informatica is pivoting to cater to a business audience. Informatica.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Some 3,900 companies worldwide have made pledges to cut their carbon emissions. ” Microsoft recently released a report that examined the shortage of workers with the skills required to help companies cut emissions and suggested solutions for bolstering this segment of the workforce. ” But even that isn’t enough.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

We have been diving deep into Web3 at Madrona and the two of us spent the past week meeting with entrepreneurs at the ETHDenver conference. Web3 is an evolution of the internet built on decentralized protocols, including Ethereum (the ETH of the conference title), that enable users to own their contribution to the internet.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Business email compromise scheme and social engineering. The university, believing it was paying the construction company, wired $11.8 Stephen Dougherty of the United States Secret Service investigates this type of crime and recently talked about it during a keynote at a national SecureWorld conference. Too many do.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

As CEO of a cybersecurity company that’s raised nearly $15 million in funding, Frances Dewing has a surprising confession to make. “I I’ve always had a social justice kind of pull.”. The company pitches itself as a security solution for people’s private and professional lives that’s accessible for non-tech experts.

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Spearline Testing

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

GITEX ("Gulf Information Technology Exhibition") is an annual consumer computer and electronics trade show, exhibition, and conference that takes place in the United Arab Emirates at the Dubai World Trade Centre with over 10,000 attendees. Highlights of GITEX Technology Week 2019 6th - 10th OCT. Highlights of Capacity Europe 2019.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The scam began with the employee receiving a phishing message purportedly from the company's chief financial officer requesting an urgent confidential transaction. Police investigations revealed that the deepfakes likely relied on publicly available company videos and audio to digitally recreate the likenesses and voices of executives.

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Trends in the Living Networks

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Tomorrow is the Australian Human Resources Institute HR Technology conference. I will be MC for the conference day, and will also run a half-day workshop on Creating Results Using Social Media on the following day. Workshop: Creating Results With Social Media in HR. View more presentations from rossdawson.

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Trends in the Living Networks

OCTOBER 14, 2011

This week I was MC for the AHRI HR Technology conference , and ran one of the workshops on the following day, on Creating Results Using Social Media. One of the many topics discussed was the use of social media to track metrics and correlate these with organizational success metrics. Get going with social media.

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Computerworld Vertical IT

MARCH 26, 2021

In the analyst community, we’ve been red-flagging a clear (and expensive) trend: companies that are building huddle and conference rooms in office buildings under the assumption people will want to come into the office to use them. There is virtually no empirical data that this will be the case.

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Kitaboo

JANUARY 25, 2024

8 Key Higher Education Publication Strategies for Academic Success Focus on Research Planning and Quality Delve into Effective Content Formation Focus on Collaboration and Networking Gather Feedback from Stakeholders Promote on Academic Platforms Leverage Social Media Engagement Attend Conferences Stay Informed about Trends IV.

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Trends in the Living Networks

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Last week I gave the keynote on Technology Leadership in an Accelerating World and chaired the C-Level Executive Luncheon at the Oracle Impact conference in Bangkok, Thailand. CEOs who describe their companies as platforms. The concept of company-as-platform is often aligned with the concept of the ‘API-enabled enterprise’.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 30, 2024

The company’s overall revenue increased 18% to $62 billion, with profits of $21.9 “We’ve moved from talking about AI to applying AI at scale,” said Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, in the company’s earnings release , citing the growing adoption of Microsoft’s AI tools across different industries and technologies.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

“Between Amazon and Whole Foods purchases, the Amazon card, and all the ‘pay with Amazon’ merchants, the company has vastly more individualized data than any insurance actuary.” You need more processing power, because instead of talking to people in conference rooms, you’re talking to them over Zoom.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

The subject of the meeting had not been disclosed to me in advance, and when we sat down in a conference room, Systrom had a surprise for me: his team had cloned Snapchat’s popular stories feature and planned to more or less import the design wholesale into Instagram. Then in March, ephemeral tweets finally appeared on Twitter.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Microsoft chairman and CEO Satya Nadella described his company’s role in a new economy and society transformed by the pandemic in a keynote address on Tuesday kicking off Microsoft’s virtual 2021 Ignite developer conference. Related: Microsoft offers its own take on the metaverse with the introduction of Mesh for Teams.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Impact on EU and non-EU businesses While the law will apply to companies operating in the EU, it is unclear if companies that are based outside the EU and might have customers in the region will also have to abide by the new rules. The non-EU firms will have to decide over time whether it’s worth operating in the EU. “The

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 21, 2011

Financial services is one of the most industries in which the use of social media is the most relevant, not least because customer service is a critical differentiator between highly commoditized offerings. Smaller banks are strongly behind in their social media presence. * Vindaya Senadheera, Prof. Get serious!

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GeekWire

JULY 24, 2021

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at a Facebook developer conference. Facebook Photo). A new book called “Move Fast: How Facebook Builds Software” doesn’t delve into the metaverse, specifically. Facebook influences the engineering culture and economy not just in its hometown of Menlo Park, Calif.,

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 6, 2023

Moreover, only 35% of LGBTQ+ and 41% of trans or GNC workers say they feel “represented in upper management at their company.” Maven Youth Maven Youth is a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering LGBTQ+ youth to “network, organize, and educate for social change through technology and the tech sector.”

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