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Seattle’s newest unicorn: Rec Room raises $100M as social gaming popularity fuels big growth

GeekWire

On a video call from the hospital where he and his wife welcomed a baby boy over the weekend, CEO and co-founder Nick Fajt was excited about the 5-year-old startup he’s been raising into a unicorn in Seattle, where a majority of top tech companies operate in enterprise software or cloud computing. The company is not yet profitable.

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Join Architects, Planners, Program Managers, Data Scientists at 4th Annual Cloudera Federal Forum in DC 25 Feb

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Attendees will have the opportunity to attend expert briefings, learn from and network with experienced practitioners, and ask questions to advance their agency data analytics initiatives and save their organization’s time, funding, and staff resources. Registration & Networking Breakfast. Networking Break. Register here.

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This new Seattle VC firm raised a $10M fund to back women-led startups

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The Graham & Walker team, from left to right: Amanda Eldridge, vice president of business development; Rohre Titcomb, COO; Leslie Feinzaig, founder & managing director; Es Famojure, program manager; and Divya Kakkad, vice president of marketing. “We should be investing in these companies,” she said.

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Amazon says 19,000 employees tested positive for COVID-19 as it reveals pandemic data for first time

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An Amazon employee enters the company’s fulfillment center in Kent, Wash., The company said it has conducted an analysis of data on 1.3 An in-house pilot testing program for employees was confirmed in May. GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser). million front-line employees who worked for Amazon and Whole Foods in the U.S.

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Spotlight on Cybersecurity Leaders: Diego Maldonado

SecureWorld News

From R&D, configuration management, network engineering, systems engineering, leading teams, and management, moving naturally through those realms as they developed and progressed into cybersecurity as it is now known. Establishing some enforceability to the regulatory action.

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Amazon’s Ring names Xbox and Oculus vet Elizabeth Hamren as new CEO; founder Jamie Siminoff remains chief inventor

GeekWire

Five years after its acquisition by Amazon, smart doorbell and home security technology company Ring named a new CEO: Elizabeth (Liz) Hamren, a former executive in Meta’s Oculus division and Microsoft’s Xbox business, who was most recently chief operating officer for social messaging platform Discord.

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IT leaders turn to HBCUs for future IT talent

CIO Business Intelligence

IT leaders say they’re committed to improving those figures, with the 2024 Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in IT report from TEKsystems , a business talent solutions and consulting company, finding that 80% of responding IT execs, HR decision-makers, and IT employees believed “diversity initiatives are crucial for an inclusive IT workplace.”