GeekWire

JUNE 25, 2021

T-Mobile Photo). — T-Mobile appointed former National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) Director Letitia Long to its board. Another longtime Amazon exec, Dorothy Li , took a job at Seattle startup Convoy as its new CTO. He previously was SVP of product at Roku and led mobile apps at Yahoo. Letitia Long. (T-Mobile

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GeekWire

MAY 7, 2021

Microsoft and Amazon veteran Dirk Didascalou has been appointed the first CTO of Siemens Digital Industries, a business unit of the German multinational company. Prior to Microsoft, Didascalou was an executive at Nokia and previously worked for Siemens’ mobile phones division earlier in his career. He will start in September.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 6, 2022

Blaise Judja-Sato , founder of Seattle-based global health nonprofit VillageReach. A company spokesperson confirmed Grosse’s departure and said the company would not be hiring a CMO in the foreseeable future. She was previously senior director of technology and product at T-Mobile and a consultant at Slalom Consulting.

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Vox

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Many critics and skeptics have mocked Zuckerberg’s plan to change Facebook from a social media company to a metaverse company. Those are investments Facebook is willing to make because it sees the metaverse as the successor to the mobile internet. The company is betting a lot on this concept succeeding.

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The Verge

JUNE 25, 2020

Riley writes (emphasis hers): Researchers at the global nonprofit group Avaaz found nearly two dozen Facebook pages affiliated with the “boogaloo” movement, a generally anti-government and anti-law enforcement ideology. The move comes after Twitter added a “manipulated media” warning to one of his videos that Trump shared last week.

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