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Meet the 5 finalists for CEO of the Year at the 2023 GeekWire Awards

GeekWire

But if they have one thing in common, it’s that they are growing their companies at a time when the broader tech economy is contracting. He served as CTO before stepping into the CEO role in 2014. The manufacturer of radio-frequency identification devices and software reported revenue of $76.6

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Product manager salary: Pay range factors, tips for making more

CIO Business Intelligence

We dove into publicly available information and talked to a number of product managers and those who hire, supervise, and mentor them in order to get a sense of what you can expect in this job market — and how you can improve your prospects and your compensation if you’re working in this field.

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Total Cost of Ownership and the Return on Agility - All Things.

All Things Distributed

An apples to apples comparison of the costs associated with running various usage patterns on-premises and with AWS requires more than a simple comparison of hardware expense versus always-on utility pricing for compute and storage. AWS allows customer workloads to be fault-tolerant for a fraction of the cost of self-hosting.

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Seattle-area counties’ experiment with on-demand, door-to-door public bus service is showing promise

GeekWire

Operating in the same manner as Uber or Lyft, riders use the Ride Pingo app to hail a 15-passenger bus to take them from their doors to an on-island destination for $2 – a fraction of a rideshare price. On demand shuttle-and-software company Via pulled in $130 million in investments. The Routing Company Image). Vancouver B.C-based

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Oracle names new cloud infrastructure leader, signals broader ambitions to challenge Amazon

GeekWire

That same Gartner report, for example, also cautioned that Oracle Cloud Infrastructure has “a very limited ecosystem of third-party management software.” Larry Ellison, Oracle executive chairman, CTO and co-founder, described the initiative as “a first in the cloud industry.” The Redwood Shores, Calif.,

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Why you should care about Facebook’s big push into the metaverse

Vox

It’s putting some of the brightest engineering minds in the world to work on this project, acquiring virtual reality and augmented reality companies, hiring over 10,000 people to work on it, and backing the initiative with tens of billions of dollars. Facebook designs its mobile app software to run on Apple’s and Google’s operating systems.

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John Deere turned tractors into computers — what’s next?

The Verge

CTO Jahmy Hindman on farming, data, and right to repair One of our themes on Decoder is that basically everything is a computer now, and farming equipment like tractors and combines are no different. Jahmy told me that John Deere employs more software engineers than mechanical engineers now, which completely surprised me.

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