All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Running a business at the scale of Amazon, we often have to solve problems that no other company has faced before. When you’re a customer-centric company, you often find yourself in the great unknown because customers will always want more and better. The disadvantage of this is that there is no “how to” guide for us—a lot is unknown.

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TechSpot

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Nokia's latest proposal for mobile operators is the Virtual Power Plant (VPP) Controller Software, a "near-real-time" platform designed to exploit battery systems installed in cell towers making money out of them. Nokia said it has "successfully" completed several trial tests of VPP, and the company is now ready to sell.

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GeekWire

JUNE 27, 2023

Zillow’s Listing Showcase combines media and immersive virtual viewing to present a home’s features and layout. Zillow Image) Seattle-based real estate technology company Zillow is leveraging artificial intelligence to create more immersive listings designed to stand out from the pack and help a home sell faster.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 29, 2023

(Sandbox VR Photo) After years of hype, virtual reality still hasn’t achieved mainstream consumer adoption. We spent a weeknight at Sandbox VR in Seattle, one of more than 45 locations worldwide where the San Francisco-based startup offers virtual reality experiences for groups of 2-to-6 people.

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Trends in the Living Networks

APRIL 30, 2020

A few companies have long relied heavily on remote work, or even been completely virtual organizations since they were founded. A number of those companies, in line with their philosophies and principles, have openly shared their internal resources to help do remote work well.

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Venture Beast

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Virtual events startup Welcome emerged today after seven months in development to allow anyone to host an "Apple Keynote-style" experience. Read More.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 13, 2021

RTFKT claims that in February, a collaboration with teenage artist FEWOCiOUS to sell real sneakers paired with virtual ones managed to sell some 600 pairs/NFTs in just six minutes , netting over $3.1 million at the time.

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GeekWire

APRIL 24, 2024

(GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Like it or not, the Federal Trade Commission’s ban on non-competition agreements could force a change in mindset inside the companies that use them — ultimately improving their ability to hire and retain talented employees. ” Brian Hall Hall has first-hand experience with the issue.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 22, 2023

To tackle that, businesses are turning their budgets toward the cloud, with two out of every three IT decision-makers planning to increase cloud budgets in 2024, and nearly a third (31%) reporting that 31% of their IT budget is earmarked for cloud computing, according to the 2023 Cloud Computing Study from CIO.com parent company Foundry.

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Forrester IT

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Creating an effective chatbot is hard. To get it right, you need to master conversation design, a new discipline for creating experiences that are based on conversational AI, and you need to know where and when to use new technologies like generative AI.

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CTOvision

MAY 19, 2014

Virtual server deployments can get complex quickly. When you are studying for your certification exams, educators typically have virtual labs setup for you that allow you to quickly login to and plug away at your task. Once you begin using virtual servers in a live production environment, it can be easy to get unorganized.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The United States Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has taken decisive action against Ekaterina Zhdanova, a Russian national, for her significant role in laundering and transferring funds using virtual currency on behalf of Russian elites and ransomware actors, including the notorious Ryuk gang.

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CTOvision

JULY 10, 2014

If you keep up with the latest technology news, it seems like virtualization is happening in every corner of the IT world. Microsoft acquired a company called Softricity in 2006. Post-acquisition, Microsoft rebranded Softricity’s application virtualization suite into App-V. To read more please log in.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Amazon’s Prime One Medical membership benefit includes 24/7 virtual care through the service’s app. billion acquisition of primary care company One Medical, Amazon is making health care through the platform a benefit for Prime members. There is no additional charge beyond the membership fee for virtual care.

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Venture Beast

AUGUST 9, 2021

Deepbrain, a company developing a platform to create 'virtual humans' using AI technologies, has raised $44 million. Read More.

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GeekWire

MARCH 8, 2024

Seattle-based Cap Hill Brands, which raised more than $250 million to acquire and grow e-commerce shops, has merged with Juvo+, a company that focuses on developing and selling its own products online. The combined company is now known as Infinite Commerce and will be led by Steve Neufer , a Seattle-based executive who founded Juvo+.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 24, 2022

Many formerly in-person events from team meetings to conferences transitioned to virtual events and many companies seem conflicted on if, when or how they can get everyone back to the office. So, will virtual events continue to thrive and, if so, can they deliver better experiences? Room to grow virtually.

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Venture Beast

JUNE 10, 2020

Wave, the virtual concert company that has teamed up to do live music in virtual settings with John Legend and others, has raised $30 million in funding. Read More.

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TechSpot

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Facebook… er, Meta, has been working for the past seven years – presumably ever since it purchased virtual reality headset maker Oculus VR for $2 billion in 2014 – to develop gloves capable of bringing the sense of touch to the virtual world… er, metaverse. This week, the company provided.

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Venture Beast

MARCH 29, 2022

Salesforce has implemented virtual collaborative tools developed by Finland company Glue Corporation. These create 'true presence' with spatial audio and customizable, 3D avatars that mimic the gestures and movements of their users. Read More.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 19, 2022

While Aflac’s other major division, its business-to-business insurance line, was relatively unaffected by the pandemic, its independent agents hung in the balance, just as the publicly traded company was undertaking a transformational journey to the cloud. Virtualizing policy enrollment. We’ve made them more bionic, right?”.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Banzai Photo) Marketing tech company Banzai rang the opening bell at Nasdaq on Friday as the Seattle firm officially became a public company. Banzai provides marketing tools to help companies run webinars, virtual events, and more. It shifted to help companies drive registrations to events.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 8, 2023

based headset maker that serves frontline workers at industrial companies, named Chris Parkinson as CEO. Parkinson has served as RealWear’s CTO since co-founding the company in 2016. He also ran a RFID consulting company and was a senior engineer at Alien Technology. Chris Parkinson. RealWear reported $20.5

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Venture Beast

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

We split our entire company into teams that dedicated their full brain power to projects that feed our company-wide goals. Read More.

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Trends in the Living Networks

APRIL 25, 2021

I have been thinking and writing about the rise of virtual professional service firms for over two decades, since my first book. I must acknowledge that I have been consistently surprised at how slow the shift from legacy to virtual professional service firms has been.

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Venture Beast

JANUARY 26, 2022

Virtual reality game studio Alta has raised $12.4 million in a funding round that shows that "metaverse" companies are in a boom. Read More.

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Trends in the Living Networks

JUNE 10, 2020

Today virtual live music platform Wave announced a $30 million investment , placing it at the center of the burgeoning virtual live music performance space. I recorded a segment for The Virtual Excellence Show on this, watch the short video below, including relevant video clips, or a transcript is below.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 19, 2021

Facebook today unveiled its vision for the future of work: a virtual reality experience called Horizon Workrooms that uses avatars and VR headsets to replicate in-person collaboration. Other companies including Microsoft have unveiled similar experiences recently. ” An example of a virtual GeekWire office built with Spot. .

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Seattle-based software company Pluto VR has brought its virtual reality streaming platform PlutoSphere into Early Access. Initially announced in February 2021, PlutoSphere allows its users to stream VR applications to a headset without the need for a local computer, in order to dramatically reduce the cost of entry for virtual reality.

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Venture Beast

MAY 14, 2020

Apple today confirmed that it has acquired a virtual reality video streaming company based in Southern California, though the details remain ambiguous. Read More.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

In part, this shift is driven by students, who increasingly demand virtual and hybrid learning experiences that better match the ways they like to consume content at home. Meanwhile, virtual education has become an essential element of resilience for educational institutions by ensuring that students don’t fall behind during closures.

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Venture Beast

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Synthesis AI, a synthetic data company, has released HumanAPI, a new tool for generating virtual humans from synthetic data. Virtual humans are photorealistic digital representations of people who will move, talk, and behave like rea… Read More. Learn more about what comes next.

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Dataconomy

APRIL 19, 2024

Did you know that every year, companies spend more than $4 trillion on M&A activities, but the failure percentage is still 70%-90%? Here is everything you need to know about virtual data rooms and their benefits in mergers and acquisitions. What is virtual data room software?

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GeekWire

MARCH 22, 2023

Kenneth Ma, left, a member of the University of Washington team behind the PrezVR virtual reality presentation app, gives a demo to Lawrence Tan, right, a fellow computer science student attending the recent AR/VR Capstone Demo Day on the UW campus. However, several said they still came away with valuable experience and insights.

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Association of Information Technology Professional

JANUARY 21, 2022

What near-term trends should Canada's MSPs, solution providers—and all tech companies—be aware of for 2022? We asked members of CompTIA’s Canadian Business Technology Community their thoughts for what to expect this year. Here’s what they had to say.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

” The idea is to let people feel and touch in a virtual environment, or manipulate objects from afar with a robotic avatar. “This capability has been our ultimate goal because involving the entire body allows for total immersion in virtual environments.” The 8-year-old Seattle startup received a $1.5 Army medics.

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