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Ciara and Russell Wilson’s fashion house will raise up to $50M as revenue grows

GeekWire

The news: The House of LR&C , a Seattle-based fashion house co-founded by music superstar Ciara and Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson, plans to raise up to $50 million this year as part of a Series A investment round. The company is co-led by former Lululemon and Starbucks exec Christine Day , and employs less than 30 people.

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Access Governance: Managing the who and what of data access rights in a timely fashion

CTOvision

Basically, this means that the network users – employees, consultants, outside vendors, etc. Accomplishing the above may seem simple but can be a daunting task in a company where there are hundreds or thousands of unique roles. Inevitably, there will be some components that still need to be accomplished in a manual fashion.

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CES 2024: Here are the Washington state companies taking tech innovation to Las Vegas

GeekWire

of Commerce will lead a delegation of companies to the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES), taking place in Las Vegas next Tuesday through Thursday. The delegation of six companies includes robotic barista maker Artly — a Seattle-based startup founded in 2020 in a bid to use tech to make the perfect cup of coffee — and others.

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What Should A CIO Do After You’ve Been Hacked?

The Accidental Successful CIO

What you don’t do may be the most important thing Image Credit: Cigac Semiárido CIOs send a great deal of our time trying to secure the company’s networks. We invest in firewalls, two-factor authentication systems, and lots and lots of training for everyone in the company. Companies can avoid 99.9%

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Technology Companies Need to Make Hard Choices to Teach More ‘Soft Skills”

CIO Business Intelligence

As anybody in IT can attest, the skills gap companies are facing is real, and it’s getting more pronounced. One that’s being taught across disciplines is to address specific issues in a journalistic who-what-where fashion. Companies are only as effective as the people they employ. The Great Resignation trend is hitting IT hard.

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IDG Contributor Network: 7 steps to proactive security

Network World

Data breaches are increasingly becoming an expensive problem for more and more companies. According to the most recent Ponemon Institute Data Breach report , insecure data cost companies an average of $221 per compromised record in 2016, an increase of 7 percent from the previous year and an all-time high.

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Android is becoming a worldwide earthquake detection network

The Verge

The company is proceeding fairly cautiously, though. That data is processed in classic Google fashion: using algorithms on the aggregated data from thousands of phones to determine whether an earthquake is happening. Google also had to put in extensive effort to ensure its notifications wouldn’t overwhelm cellular networks.

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