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Tech Moves: Ex-Amazon sports leader lands at DraftKings; Seattle tech vet launches advisory firm

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Debique is a former longtime Microsoft leader and also co-founded a startup called SyncFloor which aimed to provide licensed commercial music to businesses and creators. Plainsight launched in 2007 and serves customers in various industries including manufacturing, food service, real estate, and more. Regan Sheehy.

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Here’s what employers are cutting instead of your job

Vox

Companies are cutting back on real estate ahead of a potential recession. Many more are taking a much harder look at their software licenses than they did earlier in the pandemic — even as they potentially allow more people to work from home. Getty Images. You may get to keep your job, but you might lose your Zoom and your desk.

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New round of layoffs at Hasbro impacts Wizards of the Coast — read CEO’s memo to staff

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Conversely, soft toy sales, several expired licenses, and this summer’s Writers’ and Screen Actors’ Guild strikes contributed to significant shortfalls in Hasbro’s Consumer Products and Entertainment segments. Hasbro also plans to reduce its real estate holdings, and will exit its Providence, R.I.

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Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Jan. 8, 2023

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Zillow, Redfin, and the real estate market: 5 trends to watch in 2023. The once high-flying real estate market sputtered in 2022, dragging many real estate tech companies down with it. New bill aims to allow digital driver’s licenses in Washington state. … Read More. … Read More.

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Inside the AI Revolution: Tech execs on the new realities for software, startups, and the future

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Bridget Frey, CTO at Redfin , the tech-powered real estate company that operates in more than 100 markets in the U.S. Inbal Shani, chief product officer at GitHub , the software development platform used by more than 100 million developers around the world. Using ChatGPT to generate 4x more localized real estate content.

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CIOs take aim at SaaS sprawl

CIO Business Intelligence

“It’s often the data in these silos [that needs] to be integrated between multiple sites, multiple systems, especially in the [real-time] world that we live in today versus the more batch-oriented architecture of a decade ago.” It’s unwieldy at times managing a detailed budget by vendor.

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Redfin co-founder sues company for alleged patent infringement over 3D home tour technology

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One of Redfin’s co-founders is suing the high-tech real estate brokerage for patent infringement and intellectual property theft, alleging that the violations handicapped his current startup. Eraker launched Surefield as a real estate technology startup in 2012 after leaving Redfin. (Surefield Photo).

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