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

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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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Track sessions will focus on: Enabling Business Results with Big Data — How to enable agency programs that will yield enormous value through big data to deliver actionable information and measureable results. Government is ever more reliant on data to deliver on mission and programs. www.intel.com. Premier Sponsor. Media Sponsor.

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PCI compliance: The best defense is a great defense

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Researchers for the 2023 DBIR identified system intrusion, social engineering and basic web application attacks as the most common attack patterns that led to breaches and data theft. This begins with having the right goal for a PCI DSS compliance program, Philipsen notes. Compliance with PCI DSS v4.0

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IT leaders turn to HBCUs for future IT talent

CIO Business Intelligence

So NCDIT officials took action, creating an internship program for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) students, a move that would open up for the organization a new pipeline for talent traditionally underrepresented in the IT industry. The HBCU internship program launched in 2023.

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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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Microsoft hires Google and Facebook product vet, building out ‘Teams for Life’ consumer group

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Fulay will work on the initiative known internally as “Teams for Life,” or TfL, seeking to further expand the reach of the company’s platform for workplace communications and collaboration into the consumer market. The company last year started releasing new Teams features designed for families. .

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