Remove Energy Remove Programming Remove Social Remove Web Services
article thumbnail

Amazon Web Services debuts 5-week accelerator for clean energy startups

GeekWire

Amazon Web Services is announcing the creation of a 5-week accelerator to support clean technology startups. Applications to the AWS Clean Energy Accelerator are being accepted starting today until June 4. The exact value of the Clean Energy Accelerator’s perks are a little fuzzy. GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser).

article thumbnail

Cloud, Mobile, Social and Cyber: 2015 Predictions That Will Rock The World (AGAIN!)

Cloud Musings

The worlds of cloud, mobile, social and cyber will continue expanding, permuting and recombining. Their individual effect on society and commerce will become moot as these technological capabilities merge to deliver products and services straight out of Star Trek! Today the average Fortune 100 brand has 320 social media accounts.

Social 169
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Amazon begins the ‘huge’ lift to shrink the carbon footprint of its devices to reach climate goals

GeekWire

It added a low-power mode feature to its newest plug-in Echo and Fire TV devices to curb power energy use when the electronics aren’t active; it plans to offer power-saving updates “over-the-air” for older products. Amazon has a program for taking back its electronic devices. Amazon Photo).

Energy 110
article thumbnail

Julie Larson-Green retires as Qualtrics CXO following IPO; Instacart names Asha Sharma COO; and more

GeekWire

Speaking with GeekWire this week, Larson-Green said the time was right for the next phase of her life after helping Qualtrics get to its IPO by working to build key functions and teams including people operations, program management, data science and user experience. Patel spent almost a decade at APR Energy. Read the story.

CTO Hire 142
article thumbnail

Tech Moves: Intellectual Ventures exec departs; Shujinko grows leadership team; and more

GeekWire

Ekin Yasin was named director of the University of Washington’s Communication Leadership graduate program. Yasin joined the UW faculty in 2013 and served as co-director of the “Comm Lead” program during the 2019-20 school year. “I He took a young professional Master’s program with potential and led it to greatness.

article thumbnail

Amazon shareholders tackle tech giant’s prickliest problems after a turbulent year amid the pandemic

GeekWire

Jennifer Bates, an Amazon warehouse employee in Bessemer, is expected to call on Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Wednesday to appoint one of the company’s hourly workers on the company’s board of directors, according to Oxfam, the social justice and antipoverty organization. and abroad, may be abusing the technology to violate civil and human rights.

Meeting 74
article thumbnail

Tech Moves: Smartsheet CFO joins Auth0 board; Outreach opens NYC office; Concure Oncology adds CEO; and more

GeekWire

They join Executive Director Rebecca Lovell and Director Jaren Schwartz as the four-person team behind the center for entrepreneurs, offering a shared workspace, programming and other resources for building startups. Gauthey most recently was the global field lead for Amazon Web Services artificial intelligence and machine learning.

CTO Hire 100