GeekWire

MAY 24, 2023

Ada Developers Academy graduates at a graduation event on Jan. Jenny Crooks Photo) Ada Developers Academy , the Seattle-based tuition-free software development boot camp for women and underrepresented sexual, gender and racial minorities, laid off 45% of its workforce, the nonprofit confirmed to GeekWire Wednesday.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 11, 2020

A Seattle-based nonprofit launched to provide digital health solutions for poorer countries is applying its expertise to help with COVID-19 testing. Audere is building software for administering rapid result COVID tests that can be integrated into products being developed by U.S. Audere Photo). ” But they’re not fail-proof.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 23, 2023

” “It is getting harder and harder to exist as a volunteer-only organization and we feel the need to finally hire a dedicated developer who would work for us on the project to keep the apps up-to-date while trying to increase our reach,” Watkins wrote.

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GeekWire

JULY 15, 2023

WTIA Photo) Terrance Stevenson is bringing his passion for peace-building, community development, and innovation to the Seattle tech industry. Stevenson this week was named director of Sea.citi, a nonprofit that launched in 2018 and aims to help tech workers engage with civic issues. Terrance Stevenson.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 16, 2024

GMI Photo) A Seattle-area nonprofit helping disadvantaged job seekers around the world is adding generative artificial intelligence to the toolkit for its participants. Browning recognized the potential impact of the AI tools and the team began developing these resources for Global Mentorship Initiative.

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GeekWire

APRIL 16, 2024

Avalara Photo) — Seattle-based tax software company Avalara named Ross Tennenbaum as its new president. He will continue to serve as CFO while taking on more responsibilities overseeing the company’s main business lines and other departments. He later launched Jetson , a startup developing probiotics, and was its CEO.

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GeekWire

MAY 15, 2021

million into efforts by Seattle-based nonprofit PATH to bring more oxygen to COVID-19 patients in India. Lack of access to medical oxygen is one of the defining health challenges of our age,” said Chris Elias, president of global development at the Gates Foundation. “As companies.”. That includes the U.S. In the U.S.,

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

(Amazon Photo) Amazon is donating $9 million to six organizations in the Seattle area that are working to address the needs of people experiencing homelessness, the company announced Thursday. Amazon has also invested $600 million to build 6,000 affordable homes in the Seattle region as part of its Housing Equity Fund.

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Vox

JULY 28, 2023

Getty Images Companies like OpenAI and Google could make unthinkable profits from successful AI. Demis Hassabis, the founder of DeepMind, sold his company to Google in 2014 only after the latter agreed to an independent ethics board that would govern how Google uses DeepMind’s research. (How Will they share the wealth?

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Kitaboo

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

And a majority of these organizations are the nonprofit associations. While for-profit companies will always be the first ones to invest in latest technologies and innovations to drive their revenue, nonprofit organizations lag behind. Find a company that offers digital archiving solutions.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Ada Developers Academy graduates at a graduation event Jan. Ada Developers Academy , the Seattle-based tuition-free software development boot camp for women and underrepresented sexual, gender and racial minorities, is spinning out from its parent organization and going independent. Jenny Crooks Photo).

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GeekWire

JULY 16, 2021

Shape Therapeutics , a Seattle preclinical stage biotech company developing RNA editing and gene therapy technologies, has raised $112 million. Other Juno veterans at the company include Adrian Briggs , head of platform technologies, and David Huss , vice president and head of research. Shape CEO Francois Vigneault.

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The Verge

AUGUST 26, 2021

A proposed agreement between Apple and a class-action lawsuit representing US app developers includes a $100 million payout from Apple. The change, while potentially important for developers, isn’t quite as significant as it may seem. Apple has decided to name this the “Small Developer Assistance Fund.”.

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GeekWire

MARCH 8, 2023

(Wexford Science + Technology Image) The University of Washington will move ahead with a building envisioned as a gateway into a reimagined part of its Seattle campus after prevailing in a lawsuit brought by a prominent developer. The UW chose Baltimore-based Wexford Science + Technology to develop the project.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The nonprofit Mars Society is getting set to take the next giant leap in its mission to support Red Planet exploration and settlement, by establishing a Mars Technology Institute to develop the tools and processes those settlers will need. A computer-generated image shows an early Mars settlement.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 23, 2023

The tech industry has long been known for its lack of diversity and, as a result, there’s been a big push for companies to take DEI strategies seriously. In fact, diverse companies have been shown to have a 2.5 In fact, diverse companies have been shown to have a 2.5 based company’s wide-ranging DEI efforts that truly stand out.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Protheroe previously worked at the UK-based Royal College of Art as director of development and alumni relations. Yang is a biotech vet who worked at Adaptive Biotechnologies, AstraZeneca, and Genentech before joining the Allen Institute, a Seattle-based nonprofit founded almost 20 years ago by Paul Allen, the late Microsoft co-founder.

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The Verge

AUGUST 20, 2020

A fertility app that helps women monitor their cycles when hoping to become pregnant was sharing user data with several Chinese companies, The Washington Post reported on Thursday. IDAC identified the companies as Jiguang, UMSNS, and Umeng. The latter company, Umeng, is owned by Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 19, 2022

Mariya Burrows wanted to make a career change to software development after taking an introductory course on the topic, but the last thing she wanted to do was take out more student loans. Beatrice Tohni found out about the program when a friend texted her a link to Ada Developers Academy saying, “This sounds like the perfect program for you.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 12, 2022

Now that it is considered safe to return to the office, many companies are trying to determine if it’s worth the investment. In the world of tech, some companies are choosing to forgo a physical office in an effort to reduce costs, but most major tech companies are choosing to retain their office spaces, and for good reason.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Sharma was previously a vice president of product at Meta and COO at Seattle-based home services company Porch Group. Seattle biotech company Athira Pharma named Rachel Lennington as chief development officer and Samantha Willing as chief people officer. Lennington joined Athira in 2021 and Willing joined last year.

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GeekWire

JULY 6, 2023

CoMotion Photos) The BECU Fintech Incubator named three companies that won its fifth annual competition, including two from the Seattle region. Participating companies get a one-year membership to CoMotion’s Labs tech incubator at UW’s Startup Hall. They also gain access to training, events, and BECU’s networks.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

— Seattle-based Ada Developers Academy, a non-profit, tuition free coding school for women and gender-diverse adults, added four new board members in its quest to expand its impact on the tech industry: Clockwise from top left: Jeffrey Spector, Michele Broderick, Melina Garcia and Justin Beals. Ada Developers Academy Photos).

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GeekWire

MARCH 25, 2024

The GeekWire Awards recognize the top innovators and companies in Pacific Northwest technology. The nonprofit acts as a matchmaker, connecting landlords looking to fill vacant units and would-be renters who lack perfect rental records due to eviction, low credit scores, or other factors that can contribute to homelessness.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 25, 2022

Locana’s staff fills the company’s office in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood in pre-pandemic times, when it was known as Critigen. “Actually, changing the name of the company was the very last step in this process.” ” Haight’s company traces its corporate roots back more than 20 years.

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GeekWire

MARCH 8, 2023

(Wexford Science + Technology Image) The University of Washington will move ahead with a building envisioned as a gateway into a reimagined part of its Seattle campus after prevailing in a lawsuit brought by a prominent developer. The UW chose Baltimore-based Wexford Science + Technology to develop the project.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

(Photo courtesy of Devon Horace) RAIN Catalysts , a Pacific Northwest-based nonprofit promoting entrepreneurship for underrepresented groups, is accepting applications for its first tech accelerator. Economic Development Administration, is for tech startups located in Oregon or Washington state.

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Vox

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Sam Altman, the poster boy for AI, was ousted from his company OpenAI. But the truth is, the company was probably always going to break. On Friday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was fired by the board over an alleged lack of transparency, and company president Greg Brockman then quit in protest. That included hiring and firing power.

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GeekWire

APRIL 4, 2024

The quartet for the company’s first crewed flight in 2021 included Wally Funk, a member of the “Mercury 13” group of women fliers who missed out on joining NASA’s early astronaut corps. .”) Hess , a software engineer and entrepreneur who developed the Family Tree Maker product line in the 1990s.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 4, 2024

An view from the south of the proposed green space expansion within the University of Washington’s planned Portage Bay Crossing development. We’re not a private, profit-making company,” Hodgins said. to develop what it calls “knowledge communities.” “We’re a public university.

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GeekWire

JUNE 13, 2023

The Seattle-based company is the sales and marketing arm of Climate Vault platform, which is a nonprofit initiative created in 2021. The strategy: Climate Vault takes a somewhat unusual approach to helping companies, organizations and individuals reduce their carbon emissions. There are dozens of companies working in the sector.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

The surprise removal of the OpenAI CEO on Friday is the buzz of the tech industry — raising questions about the company’s role in the AI revolution, the ambitions of Altman and his team, the impact of his exit on the rest of the tech industry, OpenAI’s complex corporate structure, and its unusual partnership with Microsoft.

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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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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Amazon is making a $15 million donation to Code.org to help the Seattle nonprofit launch a new Advanced Placement computer science programming course aimed at underrepresented groups of students. Code.org will supply the curriculum and professional development workshops needed to offer the course to all participating schools.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 28, 2016

Even though half of the in-house counsel report that their companies have increased their spending on cybersecurity, the report shows that many organizations are not taking basic precautions to prevent a data breach. Breaches are more than twice as likely to occur at large companies. About the ACC Foundation. Related articles.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Environmental sustainability Dell Technologies and Equinix have developed joint solutions to support our customers in this critical area by enabling businesses to deploy their infrastructure on Dell architecture within Equinix’s low-carbon colocation infrastructure covered by 96% renewables globally1. CDP A-List is extremely prestigious.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 16, 2024

Photo) — Vahé Torossian , a longtime former corporate vice president at Microsoft , joined software development startup Builder.ai uses AI and other tech to help companies build and maintain apps across various verticals. The company raised a $250 million Series D funding round in May. as president and chief partner officer.

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