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Tech Moves: Appen lands ex-Upwork CTO; DocuSign hires former Amazon GM

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Appen Photo) — Saty Bahadur is now chief technology officer at Appen, a publicly traded IT services and consulting company that provides training data for artificial intelligence systems. Bahadur was previously chief technology officer at freelancing platform Upwork and a general manager for Alexa at Amazon.

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GeekWire 200 rankings update: E-commerce, virtual event, fintech startups heat up

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Also unique: record breaking investment and M&A activity across the country and in Seattle, as companies take advantage of pandemic-driven trends such as virtual experiences, at-home healthcare, remote education and more. It recently hired longtime Amazon tech leader Dorothy Li as CTO. billion as of November 2019.

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Invincea Announces 54 New Enterprise Customers for Its Flagship Enterprise Solution, $8.1M in Advanced Research Contracts for Its Labs Division

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in Advanced Research Contracts For its Labs Division. Major Market Demand for Advanced Threat Protection Driving Rapid Platform Adoption and Expansion of Technology Ecosystem; Company Announces Integration With Palo Alto Networks’ Wildfire Platform. contract with the U.S. FAIRFAX, VA—April 7, 2014 —Invincea, Inc.,

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Industrial headset company RealWear names CEO

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Parkinson has served as RealWear’s CTO since co-founding the company in 2016. He also ran a RFID consulting company and was a senior engineer at Alien Technology. RealWear sells rugged head-mounted voice-controlled devices that project a virtual Android tablet below a user’s line of sight.

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Tech Moves: Providence leader returns to Amazon; Seattle marketing vet joins LiveRamp; and more

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Amazon has rolled out several healthcare-related products and services, including a virtual care platform called Amazon Care, as well as Amazon Pharmacy. Late last year Amazon consolidated its healthcare groups under Amazon senior executive Neil Lindsay , a key figure in the growth of the company’s Kindle and Prime businesses.

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Tech Moves: Facebook engineering lead joins gaming unicorn Playco; Bright.md names new CEO

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Former Facebook Director of Engineering Calvin Grunewald has left the social media giant after nine years and joined Playco , a Tokyo mobile gaming company, as chief technology officer. . Contract management startup Icertis added two new board members; Penny Pritzker, founder and chairman of PSP Partners, former U.S.

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The 4 most overhyped technologies in IT

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“The anticipation and fear of the impact of generative AI in particular, and its relationship to artificial general intelligence (AGI), makes it overhyped,” says Daryl Cromer, vice president and CTO for the PCs and smart devices division at Lenovo. The number of use cases and utility values are limited, impacting the potential.