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Convoy hires former Expedia CEO as president and COO as digital freight startup tops 1k employees

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Mark Okerstrom is shifting from travel and tourism to trucking, looking to apply his digital commerce expertise to a new marketplace. The announcement comes as Convoy tops 1,000 employees, five years after it was founded by Lewis and CTO Grant Goodale. Convoy Photo). billion valuation in November. . It’s gonna be a blast.’

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5 hot IT budget investments — and 2 going cold

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This applies to his IT group as well, specifically, in using AI to automate the review of customer contracts, Nardecchia says. Businesses are exploring new ways to apply low-code data science to unlock insights on how to improve processes, says Matt Mead, CTO at tech modernization firm SPR. “AI IDC is forecasting a 5.1%

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6 tips for making the most of a tight IT budget

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This is where Saurabh Mittal, CTO at Mumbai-based Piramal Capital & Housing Finance, wants IT leaders to make a careful distinction. Enterprise technology leaders must differentiate between cost and investment if they want to make the most of their limited budgets.

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Startup survival: How a pandemic pivot helped this photo booth company see a bigger picture

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But the company’s single software engineer, originally hired to rebuild Snapbar’s website, was already working on the future — a virtual photo booth. The tourism board of France was a customer.” ” The software engineer, Patrick Ellis, is now Snapbar’s CTO. “Google was using us in Pakistan.

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