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Convoy hires former Expedia CEO as president and COO as digital freight startup tops 1k employees

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Mark Okerstrom is shifting from travel and tourism to trucking, looking to apply his digital commerce expertise to a new marketplace. The announcement comes as Convoy tops 1,000 employees, five years after it was founded by Lewis and CTO Grant Goodale. I hadn’t worked in an earlier stage company before. Convoy Photo).

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5 hot IT budget investments — and 2 going cold

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The company is embedding AI into each level of the tech stack it sells to customers, he says. “We We run factories and help companies run them and optimize them” and AI is used to optimize everything from getting more throughput to better quality to preventative maintenance, productivity, and cost optimization, Nardecchia says.

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6 tips for making the most of a tight IT budget

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This is where Saurabh Mittal, CTO at Mumbai-based Piramal Capital & Housing Finance, wants IT leaders to make a careful distinction. Of course, making this distinction can be challenging, and is a skill that can take time to develop, says Mittal, whose company is taking a tech-first, cloud-native approach to transforming loan servicing.

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Startup survival: How a pandemic pivot helped this photo booth company see a bigger picture

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Even though many people and companies have returned to in-person gatherings, Snapbar isn’t going back. The startup is a tech company now, embracing software and two core products that bring its photo capabilities to people anywhere in the world. The tourism board of France was a customer.” Snapbar CEO Sam Eitzen.

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