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Tech Moves: Xbox hires Seattle gaming vet Kim Swift; Frontdoor adds Amazon Fashion leader; more

GeekWire

Swift is a longtime Seattle-area gaming industry vet whose resume includes Valve Software (she helped lead development of Portal), Airtight Games, Amazon, EA, and most recently Google Stadia, where she was a game design director for the tech giant’s cloud gaming service. Google Stadia closed its first-party game studios in February.

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GeekWire 200 update: Top Pacific Northwest tech startups hold their ground atop the list

GeekWire

Companies such as Big Fish Games, Cheezburger Network, and Tableau Software once sat atop the GeekWire 200 , our ranking of the Pacific Northwest’s privately-held tech startups. Also on the move is Outreach, the sales enablement software startup valued at more than $1 billion, which moved up two spots since last month to No.

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From CIO to CEO: IT leaders rise to the top

CIO Business Intelligence

“That’s when it moved from being opportunistic to very purposeful,” says Meyercord, who after a search for the right fit took over the CEO reins last November at Propel Software, a SaaS provider of engineering and product management software. “I

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What is synthetic data? Generated data to help your AI strategy

CIO Business Intelligence

Synthetic data can also be a vital tool for enterprise AI efforts when available data doesn’t meet business needs or could create privacy issues if used to train machine learning models, test software, or the like. To simulate the future: When fashions change, historic data might become obsolete overnight.

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Sysco’s recipe for growth centers on IT

CIO Business Intelligence

The Recipe for Growth has everything to do with how we run the business—the cloud and the underlying technology, how we deliver software and all the fundamental foundational capabilities that underpinned our strategy.” Like most companies, Sysco traditionally ran its B2B e-commerce business in a bulk reordering fashion.

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Apple stumbled into a war with the gaming industry, and the future of iOS is at stake

The Verge

Games, in Apple’s eyes, aren’t to be treated the same as music, movies, and TV shows, but rather as software that warrants careful inspection lest they be updated later in ways that violate its strict content guidelines, the company tells The Verge. But really, Epic knew that Fortnite would be banned all along. This as an awful notion.

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Step by step into a droid future

Dataconomy

Meanwhile, companies like Pebble started experimenting with smartwatches, bridging the gap between fashion and technology. Wearable computers may appear sleek and unassuming on the outside, but beneath their stylish exteriors lies a complex integration of hardware, software, and communication technologies.

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