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Funding news: Angel conference backs brain device startup, weapons detection company lands $15M

GeekWire

The news: Five startups jostled for $200,000 in funding in the final round of the Seattle Angel Conference , with new medical device company BrainSpace rising to the top. based startup has created a working model of the device with $100,000 in self-funding, according to Wesley Johnson , a manager of the conference.

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Tech Moves: RealSelf appoints interim CEO; Hootsuite hires new CFO; Tune CEO lands at Roku

GeekWire

-based social media management platform Hootsuite announced Tiziana Figliolia as its new CFO. Figliolia was previously based in Shanghai where she held senior roles at software companies PTC and Autodesk. Tune CEO Peter Hamilton at the company’s 2017 Postback conference. Fabric Photo). — GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota).

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Amazon group that created Kindle and Echo is working on technology for COVID-19 testing

GeekWire

It’s part of a larger effort by Amazon to expand its COVID-19 testing capabilities, tapping employees from a variety of roles across the company, including research scientists, program managers, procurement specialists and software engineers.

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Seattle vanlife gurus see tech and AI’s potential as a copilot, to boost human connections on road trips

GeekWire

” Jordan Schwartz , the software entrepreneur who previously founded and led Seattle startup Pathable, is the new chief product officer at Sēkr , an app to help travelers plan trips, find campsites and more. The startup built mobile apps for conferences, pivoted early in the pandemic to focus on virtual events, and was acquired in 2020.

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Microsoft hid lots of secret nerdy messages to devs in its Build stream

The Verge

The shelf also had little Easter eggs hidden away, including an 8-inch floppy disc, an original Microsoft cap, the GitHub Octocat mascot, and even a Gold Master CD-ROM that Microsoft used to use for shipping final software to PC makers. All of these fun Easter eggs really underlined a different Build conference this year.

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What CIOs need to become better enablers of sustainability

CIO Business Intelligence

“Organizations with the most mature environmental, social, and governance (ESG) strategies are increasingly turning to software platforms to meet their data management and reporting needs,” says Amy Cravens, IDC research manager, ESG Reporting and Management Technologies.

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

CIO Business Intelligence

Stephanie White, director and head of product, technology, and professional at fintech recruiting company EC1, says that salaries for high-level product management professionals roughly match their tech peers. Trisha Price, CPO at software development company Pendo, had a similar take. Otherwise, LinkedIn Learning is pretty great.”