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Tech Moves: Washington STEM names new CEO; Conversica and Iterable hire marketing vets

GeekWire

Washington STEM announced Milton Lang as the education nonprofit’s new CEO. Washington STEM is a nonprofit organization focused on statewide education and social change. Madrona’s strategic directors help its portfolio companies and investment team. The company acquired startups Chorus.ai Milton Lang.

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US says internet services are exempt from Russian sanctions

The Verge

The US Department of the Treasury is exempting telecommunications services from ongoing sanctions against Russia. It may not, however, cause companies that voluntarily cut off access to restore it. The decision comes after several telecommunications companies pulled out of Russia and suspended user accounts from the country.

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Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson to retire; Howard Schultz returns as interim chief

GeekWire

Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson , a longtime tech exec who led the coffee giant since 2017, will retire next month, the company announced Wednesday. Schultz, 68, led the company for more than two decades before handing the CEO reins to Johnson. “I feel this is a natural bookend to my 13 years with the company,” Johnson said.

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Tech Moves: Accolade appoints execs; Vacasa adds board member ahead of SPAC deal; and more

GeekWire

The publicly traded company expanded its personalized mental health service this year along with additional offerings. based vacation rental company Vacasa after it goes public via SPAC. “I Thill was previously an HR leader at Medallia, a San Francisco software company. Accolade is based in Seattle and Philadelphia.

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Why many rural communities are still in the ‘digital dark’ — and how Washington state is trying to help

GeekWire

That money is poised to fund massive buildouts by telecom companies large and small, as well as ports, public utility districts and public/private partnerships. Volume I concerns the process by which local governments, nonprofits and tribes can challenge the FCC’s broadband service maps.

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Meet ADP's 'business anthropologist,' putting human thought behind chatbots

ComputerWorld IT Management

has developed her craft over 15-plus years at a variety of organizations — a nonprofit, a telecommunications company and an e-commerce firm. Bird, who ran a family farm in New Hampshire before earning an anthropology Ph.D.,

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Facebook left 6,500 gallons of drilling fluid off the coast of Oregon

The Verge

The company was constructing a landing site for an undersea telecommunications cable when it hit an unexpected snag. It’s biodegradable and nontoxic, the company tells The Verge. It’s not uncommon for companies to leave behind pieces of broken equipment when digging it up is more costly or could cause even more destruction.