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

MAY 20, 2021

It pulls information on potential hires from sites such as LinkedIn and GitHub; from research papers and patents; and other public domains. The platform has built-in diversity filters to help reduce unconscious bias; an automated messaging tool; and a search engine that understands past hiring patterns and needs based on job descriptions. .

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

based Kymeta announced Walter Berger and Doug Hutcheson as co-CEOs of the Bill Gates-backed mobile connectivity company. Kymeta also this week announced a partnership OneWeb to test mobile satellite broadband service. Seattle health tech startup Optimize Health has hired Todd Haedrich as CEO. Kymeta Photos). — Redmond, Wash.-based

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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

Mark Zuckerberg sees the metaverse as the “successor to the mobile internet,” an invention that reshaped all our lives by allowing us to go online anywhere, and made it possible for Facebook’s current business to exist. Those are investments Facebook is willing to make because it sees the metaverse as the successor to the mobile internet.

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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. It’s also now illegal for the city government to enter into contracts that permit the use of facial recognition technology.

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