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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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Hittle is a Level III, top-ranked, Acquisition Program Manager and Systems Planning Research, Development, and Engineering Professional. Previously, Webster held positions in sales and services at companies like Microsoft and FAST Search and Transfer and in software development at firms like Time Inc. Media Sponsor.

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Tech Moves: B.C. startup Thinkific adds CMO from Hootsuite; Amplero founder departs Zulily

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Based in Seattle, Campher was most recently VP of corporate marketing at social media management platform Hootsuite. The company also promoted Chris McGuire to chief technology officer, taking over from Thinkific co-founder Matt Payne who will now be SVP of innovation. From left: Dana Lawson and Akram Hassan.

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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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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. Compliance with PCI DSS v4.0 PCI DSS compliance is a robust defense that significantly mitigates the risks involved with all three.

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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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