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5 hot IT budget investments — and 2 going cold

CIO Business Intelligence

Besides surgery, the hospital is also investing in robotics for the transportation and delivery of medications. Massive robots are being used in pharmacies to automate processes such as pulling pills, ointments, and creams, putting them into packs, sealing them, and transporting them to floors, he says. IDC is forecasting a 5.1%

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Tech Moves: Zillow exec Racquel Russell joins Bird’s board; new gig for startup vet Rebecca Lovell

GeekWire

. — Zillow’s VP of Partner Success Racquel Russell joined the board of micro-mobility company Bird, known for its scooter sharing platform. is now the chair of the Senate Committee on commerce, science and transportation. Seattle-area cybersecurity startup Polyverse hired Curtis Brown as chief product officer.

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New CIO appointments in India, 2022

CIO Business Intelligence

Amit Goel joins Blox as CTO. Web Werks India hires Kamal Goel as director of IT. Publicis Groupe India names Roopesh Pujari as CTO. Roopesh Pujari has been promoted to CTO at marketing and advertising firm Publicis Groupe India. Gaurav Sharma becomes group CTO of Poonawalla Fincorp. February 2022. January 2022.

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Los Angeles School District Targeted with Ransomware

SecureWorld News

While the cyberattack would not interrupt any instruction or transportation, LAUSD did say that things such as food services and business operations may be delayed or modified. Most school districts don't usually have a dedicated, full-time staff member focused on cybersecurity. So why attack? Lack of staffing is also an issue.

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Tech Moves: B.C. startup Thinkific adds CMO from Hootsuite; Amplero founder departs Zulily

GeekWire

He is the former CTO of Canadian startups Checkfront and Foodee. San Francisco cloud computing company Netlify hired Dana Lawson as senior vice president of engineering and Akram Hassan as vice president of product. Microsoft veteran Hemant Vashisth has joined Amazon as senior program manager for Amazon Transportation Services.

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

Vox

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. The first time I tried it out, I was impressed. The company is betting a lot on this concept succeeding.

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Zoox CTO on the Amazon acquisition, and the environmental promise of self-driving taxis

GeekWire

Jesse Levinson, co-founder and CTO of Zoox, the self-driving taxi company acquired by Amazon last year. A veteran in the world of autonomous vehicles, Levinson is the co-founder and CTO of Zoox, a Foster City, Calif., Behind him is the company’s autonomous electric vehicle. Zoox Photo).

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