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Facebook names a new CTO with a major focus on hardware

The Verge

Incoming CTO Andrew Bosworth wearing Facebook’s new smart glasses with Ray-Ban. Facebook is serious about being a long-term player in hardware. Facebook is still a relative newcomer to selling consumer hardware, and it faces steep skepticism from potential customers given its long litany of privacy scandals.

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DTWS: Rakuten Group's CTO gives details of Symphony

TM Forum

Tareq Amin, Rakuten Group’s Group Chief Technology Officer, Rakuten Group fleshed out some of the details around the new service at TM Forum’s Digital Transformation World Series. At the same time “Symphony needs Rakuten Mobile to. At the same time “Symphony needs Rakuten Mobile to.

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Tech Moves: T-Mobile adds former U.S. intelligence director to board; Amazon execs depart; and more

GeekWire

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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Former Amazon Prime Air employees raise $4.5M for stealthy solar airplane startup

GeekWire

Radical’s co-founders, CTO Cyriel Notteboom and CEO James Thomas, carry a solar-powered demonstrator aircraft that flew continuously for more than 24 hours during a test flight last year. Radical’s co-founders are CEO James Thomas and chief technology officer Cyriel Notteboom. Radical Photo).

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Boeing Black Smartphone: Security, modularity and productivity

CTOvision

Security, modularity and productivity delivered – all in one trusted mobile device. Despite the continuous innovation in commercial mobile technology, current devices are not designed from inception with the security and flexibility needed to match their evolving mission and enterprise environment. – bg.

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Amazon to Enter the Smartphone Market

CTOvision

We have recently written about the release of Amazon’s (NASDAQ: AMZN ) Fire TV – the world’s largest Internet retailer is continuing to develop hardware, providing users with more devices to access its troves of music, shows, games, and movies. To read more please log in.

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Tech Moves: Former AMD named Kymeta CEO; GitHub exec joins Twilio; DocuSign security vet joins Proof; Fred Hutch adds VP

GeekWire

(Kymeta Photo) Rick Bergman , former executive vice president at semiconductor giant AMD, joined Seattle-area mobile connectivity company Kymeta as its new CEO, effective April 1. He was previously CEO of Synaptics, a hardware and software giant also based in Silicon Valley. based company.

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