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Music-licensing startup Audiosocket hits play on effort to get more digital creators using its products

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Founded in 2009, Audiosocket is seeing growth of its music licensing software products used by social media creators, movie production studios, and others. On TikTok, the video-sharing social giant, Audiosocket’s artists are trending, amassing more than 300 million views this year.

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Meet 6 women of color-led startups that pitched their businesses in Seattle

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“Unfortunately, too many people have just not had exposure, or any reason to meet people outside of their network,” said Johnson, who began her career as an analyst at Goldman Sachs before founding IFEL with her father in 2002. Reetu Gupta.

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Microsoft study: 75% of knowledge workers using AI at work, nearly doubling in six months

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This finding also plays into Microsoft’s hands, as the tech giant seeks to upsell its business customers on the notion of adding premium AI capabilities to their existing software licenses. AI is also changing the job market, according to data from LinkedIn, the Microsoft-owned business social network.

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Geeks Give Back at the GeekWire Awards: Meet three groups wielding tech for good causes

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Sightline Institute Photo used under Creative Commons License ) As the Seattle area’s housing crisis continues, Housing Connector is trying to level the playing field for the region’s most vulnerable renters. It works with partners to provide conflict mitigation, behavioral support and other social services for renters.

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Creating a Return on Investment (ROI) calculation for Enterprise 2.0 and internal social media

Trends in the Living Networks

A major challenge for organizations that are considering internal social media initiatives is that a business case including a financial justification is frequently required. and social media. Software license fees. Fewer meetings. Replacement of existing software licenses. Social capital. Technology.

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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. Membership in industry specific community clouds will accelerate as public cloud security is improved and SLAs are enhanced to meet new government IT security standards and requirements. 2015 PREDICTION TIME!!

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Paul G. Allen Family Foundation giving $1.4M in COVID-19 relief aimed at underserved communities

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We cannot overlook communities that are disproportionately burdened by the economic and social impacts of this pandemic,” Jody Allen, chair of the Allen Family Foundation, said in a news release. These grants provide resources supporting the urgent needs of vulnerable populations during this unprecedented health and economic crisis.” .

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