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Longtime Microsoft hardware leader Panos Panay is leaving the company after 19 years

GeekWire

Panay joined the company in 2004 as a program manager and rose to prominence in the tech industry as the leader of Microsoft’s Surface hardware business, overseeing the development and launch of various products such as the dual-screen Surface Duo. He also led development of Windows 11.

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PCI compliance: Is your qualified security assessor up to the task?

CIO Business Intelligence

Created by the PCI Security Standards Council (SSC), a global entity that brings industry leaders—including American Express, Discover, JCB International, Mastercard, UnionPay and Visa—together to develop Standards that ensure the secure use of payment cards, PCI DSS v4.0 CISOs should evaluate the value they are getting from QSAs.

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Amazon Web Services cuts hundreds of jobs in sales, training, and physical stores tech group

GeekWire

The company said it’s shifting its focus to self-serve digital training and training programs run by external partners. AWS also cited overlap in some program management and sales operations roles. “We operate in an incredibly fast-moving industry, and it is important that we stay agile as an organization.”

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Tech Moves: Zulily hires Nike exec as new CTO; Google vet Phil Bogle joins Kalshi; Auth0 adds CISO

GeekWire

. — After executive stints at Nordstrom, Starbucks, and Nike, Courtney Kissler is now the CTO and senior vice president of technology at Seattle online retailer Zulily. She was VP of Retail Technology for 18 months at Starbucks, and previously spent 14 years at Nordstrom where she held various tech-related leadership positions.

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Funding news: Angel conference backs brain device startup, weapons detection company lands $15M

GeekWire

The crown: BrainSpace will use the new cash to support development of its automated external ventricular drain, a type of device that relieves pressure in the brain from trauma, stroke or other conditions. based medical device company Rehabtronics is developing a device to relieve pressure injuries resulting from immobility.

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This Seattle e-commerce startup didn’t raise any VC money and was just acquired in a nine-figure deal

GeekWire

The 4-year-old company provides advertising and sales tools to online retailers selling products on Amazon, Walmart, Instacart, and other marketplaces. Burdick previously worked for a decade at Amazon on the company’s retail merchandising and advertising teams.

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LinkedIn and Year Up partner for a more diverse IT future

CIO Business Intelligence

Since then, LinkedIn has “grown into one of the major enterprise partners for Year Up,” says Audrey Rhodes Market, the Year Up program manager at LinkedIn. Audrey Rhodes Market, Year Up program manager, LinkedIn. Antonyo Todd was working retail at Target when he decided to take part in the Year Up program.