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Tech Moves: T-Mobile adds former U.S. intelligence director to board; Amazon execs depart; and more

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T-Mobile Photo). — T-Mobile appointed former National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) Director Letitia Long to its board. He previously was SVP of product at Roku and led mobile apps at Yahoo. Last year, the startup sold off its fundraising product for universities and nonprofits. Letitia Long. (T-Mobile

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First job lessons: Seattle tech startup CEOs on what they learned from car washing, delivery, and more

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Colacurcio previously worked as a director of retail communications and partner brand for Starbucks. Most of my clients were endowed nonprofits, foundations and universities, and the returns we achieved for them went back into helping further their missions, so there was a lot of meaning to the work we did there.”. Zenoti Photo).

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GeekWire Awards 2023 revealed: Community honors top innovation in Pacific Northwest tech

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GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) The gist: The Seattle startup is developing all electric powerboats for the retail market. GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) The gist: The nonprofit A Way Home Washington a nonprofit uses tech to tackle youth homelessness. In 2021, General Motors acquired a 25% stake in the company.

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Top 10 video game stories of 2021: Successes, surprises, big hits — and what could have been

GeekWire

The retail client has been riddled with bugs and exploitable glitches , while Amazon’s quirky take on an in-game economy resulted in a short-lived deflationary spiral that rendered its currency nearly useless. New World is still dealing with some growing pains three months later, and has made a number of unusual mistakes. GeekWire Photo).

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Sundar Pichai on managing Google through the pandemic

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Pichai also talked about Google’s commitment to its hardware business, including the Pixel phone line, and how the company is continuing to try to simplify its famously complex messaging app strategy. I’ll comment on hardware, and then talk about Pixel, too. We absorbed the mobile division of HTC. Hardware is hard.

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List of the world’s top female futurists (Update #5)

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This philosophy inspired her to found Teazl , a mobile learning platform that helps companies educate their employees. In the 1990s, she led change and innovation for massive market growth in mobile devices at Nokia and was instrumental in instituting futures thinking at the company. Location: Sydney, Australia. Anne-Marie Dahl.

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