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GeekWire 200 rankings update: E-commerce, virtual event, fintech startups heat up

GeekWire

After more than a year of lockdowns, states are reopening, travel is picking up, and employees are returning to the office. Hootsuite , the widely used social media management platform and a star of the Vancouver, B.C. It recently hired longtime Amazon tech leader Dorothy Li as CTO. billion as of November 2019.

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Top IT exec recuiters weigh in on talent trends today

CIO Business Intelligence

Two of the top executive recruiters in the CIO retained search space, Shawn Banerji and Martha Heller, joined me for the first episode of 2024 to share their insights on a range of talent-related issues, including hiring trends, hybrid work questions, and the critical skills companies are looking for at the executive level.

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Tunstall’s CTO wants to build the Porsche 911 of telehealth

CIO Business Intelligence

Gary Steen joined assistive technology provider Tunstall Healthcare as its group chief technology officer (CTO) in August 2021, having previously been managing director for technology at telecommunications provider TalkTalk. So Steen has a critical role to play. It’s the same thing we’re trying to reach at Tunstall,” he says.

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What Meta employees really think about their company’s brutal year

Vox

Wall Street analysts blamed a number of setbacks specific to the company: rising competition from TikTok, slowing ad sales because of Apple’s new privacy restrictions , and skepticism about Zuckerberg’s $10-billion-a-year investment in building a virtual- and augmented-reality metaverse. Zuckerberg says he has a plan to reverse the slump.

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2021 Predictions: Why these tech, science and startup leaders are upbeat about the year ahead

GeekWire

Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering; Oren Etzioni, CEO of the Allen Institute for AI; Leslie Alexandre, President and CEO of Life Science Washington; Leen Kawas, CEO of Athira Pharma; Peter Lee, CVP of Research and Incubations at Microsoft; Caroline Lewis, partner at Rogue Venture Partners; and Saad Bashir, CTO for City of Seattle.

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Insider’s Guide to the New Holographic Computing

CTOvision

I’ve been writing about virtual reality and augmented reality (the VR/AR split) for a decade, first inside government and over the past seven years on this blog. Previous ShepherdsPi posts on Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality: 2008 War is Virtual Hell on emergent defense thinking about virtual reality.

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The Big Tech antitrust report has one big conclusion: Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google are anti-competitive

Vox

The report argues that the company unfairly gleans data and information from its third-party sellers that it uses to strengthen the retail side of its business, including by favoring its own product brands over those of competitors, giving this merchandise exclusive merchandising space on its virtual shelves, and prioritizing it in search results.

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