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How Trainline’s CTO stays on track with professional development

CIO Business Intelligence

Few would swap sunny San Francisco and the innovation of Silicon Valley for a train ticketing company serving disgruntled UK commuters, but try telling that to Trainline CTO, Milena Nikolic. For example, she says that an iOS developer could learn eCommerce, or a web developer could study back-end infrastructure.

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GeekWire news round-up: Pulumi and Muir raise cash; LinkedIn’s new AI tools; ‘Uncommon Thinkers’

GeekWire

From left: Pulumi CTO Luke Hoban; CEO Joe Duffy; co-founder and chairman Eric Rudder; and Madrona Managing Director S. The company announced a $41 million Series C round led by Madrona Venture Group as it looks to boost its leadership position in the infrastructure as code market and invest in new AI-fueled products. Soma” Somasegar.

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After tripling revenue in 2022, Lexion lands $20M to expand AI-powered contract management software

GeekWire

From left: Lexion CTO and co-founder Emad Elwany; CEO and co-founder Gaurav Oberoi; and Chief Legal Officer Jessica Nguyen. Existing backers Khosla Ventures, Madrona Venture Group, and Wilson Sonsini also invested. But now it’s taking aim at a much larger vision. Total funding to date is more than $35 million.

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Vote for Startup of the Year: Arrived Homes, Lexion, Phaidra, Shipium, WhyLabs

GeekWire

Founders : CEO Ryan Frazier and CTO Kenny Cason were previously at Simply Measured. Elwany worked as an engineer at Microsoft on artificial intelligence and Baird came from web development firm Pancake Labs. CEO Alessya Visnjic spent eight years at the company helping develop its machine learning infrastructure.

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IBM to Acquire Cloudant: Open, Cloud Database Service Helps Organizations Simplify Mobile, Web App and Big Data Development

CTOvision

Cloudant’s JSON cloud-based data service allows mobile and web developers to quickly and easily store and access the explosion of mobile data using an application programming interface (API) that is significantly easier to use than alternatives. Analysis Big Data CTO' About Cloudant.

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The CIO Paradox - A Must Read - Social, Agile, and Transformation

Social, Agile and Transformation

Geir Ramleth , Bechtel Groups CIO uses a simple formula, Speed = Innovation * Simplicity to remind IT to keep solutions simple in order to target 80% of the payback. Tom Conophy , CIO of the Intercontinental Hotels Group provides advice to CIOs that need to take on cultural challenges and transform ITs mission to drive innovation.

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The Internet of Things Will Deliver Big Data's Promise

Social, Agile and Transformation

When Web 2.0 and social media technologies made it easier for users to share information, my partner and I developed TripConnect, a travel site for sharing travel reviews and questions with your connections and groups believing the more personal experience would gain followers and establish better leads for travel agencies.

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