GeekWire

JUNE 28, 2023

Kate Behncken, Microsoft Philanthropies corporate vice president. LinkedIn Photo) Microsoft is launching a new AI Skills Initiative that includes a global grant challenge, free online courses, and a training toolkit for teachers. “We’ll need to revolutionize how we train people, and we believe that AI skills can help.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Nonprofit NPower is working to change that by fostering opportunity for those outside traditional IT pipelines through its tuition-free Tech Fundamentals program , which has helped young adults from underserved communities, as well as military members, military spouses, and veterans, forge new careers in IT for over 20 years.

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Venture Beast

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Microsoft announced a trio of new industry clouds as the company doubles down on its specialized, sector-specific support. Read More.

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GeekWire

APRIL 17, 2024

(GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) More than 100 companies, tribal groups, union organizations, environmental nonprofits and political groups are backing a campaign to defeat a November ballot initiative that would scuttle Washington state’s most impactful climate policy.

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The Verge

JULY 8, 2021

Microsoft is gifting its employees a $1,500 pandemic bonus. In an internal memo seen by The Verge , the software giant says this one-time bonus “is in recognition of the unique and challenging fiscal year that Microsoft just completed.”. Photo by Sam Byford / The Verge.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 16, 2024

Photo) — Vahé Torossian , a longtime former corporate vice president at Microsoft , joined software development startup Builder.ai with the same thrill and excitement to be part of something bigger than myself as I experienced when I joined Microsoft in 1992,” Torossian wrote on LinkedIn. . Vahé Torossian.

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GeekWire

MAY 2, 2024

CDL Photo) Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), a nonprofit that runs 13 startup accelerators across the world, just graduated another swath of early stage companies from its Seattle program. Back row, from left: Macey McGovern (Seattle), Dhwani Patel (Seattle), Emer Dooley (Seattle), Ramzy Huneidi (Seattle), Carter McDonald (Vancouver).

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GeekWire

JULY 13, 2023

(LinkedIn Photo) — Diena Lee Mann , former senior vice president at Seattle startup SoundCommerc e , launched a startup that aims to help business analysts work more effectively with platforms such as Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, Looker Studio, and others. Prior to his role at Microsoft, Wagner was president of IT services company ManTech.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Microsoft President Brad Smith. Microsoft announced a scholarship program for U.S. Altogether, the campaign aims to to train as many as 250,000 new cybersecurity workers in the country by 2025, most of whom will work for businesses other than Microsoft. GeekWire File Photo / Dan DeLong). government agencies.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 11, 2023

. — Graham Sheldon , former corporate vice president of product for Microsoft Teams, is now chief product officer of UiPath, an artificial intelligence and automation company. Sheldon spent more than 20 years at Microsoft in various roles. She also spent four years at Microsoft as a senior marketing manager for Xbox.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Bumble Photo) — Antoine Leblond , a former longtime Microsoft exec who was most recently senior vice president of software at Sonos, joined dating app company Bumble as chief technology officer. Leblond previously spent 25 years at Microsoft leading various engineering teams working on Windows, Office, and other products.

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GeekWire

MAY 5, 2021

To alleviate India’s severe oxygen shortage, Microsoft worked with the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum to provide oxygen concentration devices to healthcare facilities in India. FedEx Photo via Microsoft). Taking action: In a blog post Wednesday, Kate Behncken, head of Microsoft Philanthropies, laid out what the Redmond, Wash.-based

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GeekWire

MARCH 1, 2023

In its pursuit of becoming carbon negative, Microsoft has invested in and bought carbon offsets from Climeworks. GeekWire Photo / Brent Roraback) In January 2020, Microsoft announced its $1 billion Climate Innovation Fund, and six months later Amazon unveiled its $2 billion Climate Pledge Fund. .

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GeekWire

MARCH 11, 2024

He was previously CEO of Synaptics, a hardware and software giant also based in Silicon Valley. Kymeta, which was founded in 2012 with backing from Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates , makes use of an innovative type of technology called metamaterials to build antennas that can be steered by software, without moving parts.

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GeekWire

MARCH 24, 2024

. … Read More Analysis: Microsoft’s big hires foreshadow bold new move into consumer AI Editor’s note: This is a guest analysis post written by S. … Read More Jama Software to be acquired for $1.2B … Read More Jama Software to be acquired for $1.2B billion deal, the company announced Monday.

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The Verge

AUGUST 10, 2021

The software is called Codex and is designed to speed up the work of professional programmers, as well as help amateurs get started coding. Users type English commands into the software, like “create a webpage with a menu on the side and title at the top,” and Codex translates this into code. It’s most proficient, though, in Python.

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Dataconomy

JULY 27, 2023

OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic, four of the biggest AI firms, have founded a new industry association to ensure the “safe and responsible development” of so-called “frontier AI” models.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Pathable Photo) — Veteran Seattle-area software entrepreneur Jordan Schwartz joined Sēkr , a San Diego startup that aims to help “vanlife” travelers find campsites and community, as its chief product officer. The company now focuses on using machine learning to boost software used by telecom companies and network operators.

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GeekWire

JULY 12, 2021

Blues Wireless , an IoT startup founded by former Microsoft exec Ray Ozzie , has raised $22 million from investors including Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates. He later launched and sold two startups to Microsoft: Groove Networks in 2005 , and Talko in 2015. LinkedIn Photo).

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GeekWire

MAY 20, 2021

The news: Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), a nonprofit that runs nine startup accelerators across the world, is coming to Seattle. It will host a 9-month program this November for 20-to-25 companies in partnership with Microsoft and the University of Washington’s business, engineering, and computer science schools.

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GeekWire

MARCH 19, 2024

Round quickly hit $1 million in annual recurring revenue after launching in 2021 with its software that connected senior leaders working at technology companies. “There were times that I wish we were a nonprofit,” he said. “There were times that I wish we were a nonprofit,” he said.

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GeekWire

MARCH 24, 2023

— Barry Christ joined the board of Perth, Australia-based software company Buildkite. Buildkite’s products support the building, testing and deployment of software, and enable customers to run pipelines on their own infrastructure. It competes with Microsoft’s GitHub and others. Barry Crist. Alice Steinglass.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

… Read More Microsoft emerges victorious from OpenAI meltdown with Sam Altman leading its new AI research team Microsoft turned one of the most bizarre weekends in modern tech history into one of the most consequential for itself and perhaps the rest of the industry. Seattle startup Expanso raised a $7.5 … Read More .

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

He also previously spent 12 years at Microsoft in roles including principal software engineering manager and senior director. Sinha said lessons in leadership, agility and scale he picked up at Google and Microsoft “will help us continue to deliver transformative products to immigrants.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 8, 2024

The organization, which started with a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and about four or five employees, has since grown into a global nonprofit with more than 1,500 change leaders, universities, companies, nonprofits, and government organizations on board. They become familiar with the map, which is our change model.

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Venture Beast

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Microsoft launched new cloud-powered marketing, supply chain, retail solutions, and more at its Ignite 2021 conference. Read More.

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GeekWire

MARCH 10, 2023

Ballmer Group Photo) The Ballmer Group , co-founded by former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and his wife Connie, is investing $3 million in CodePath , an education platform that helps underrepresented students pursue computer science careers. Steve and Connie Ballmer.

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GeekWire

MAY 15, 2023

The nonprofit has multiple programs including: Designated “anchor communities” in which they form coalitions of organizations that interact with homeless youth to coordinate their outreach efforts. . of all software engineers in the U.S. are Black, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Not pictured: CEO Hannah Freeman.

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Kitaboo

JUNE 8, 2021

The few non-profit associations who have appropriate software do not have a proper budget for training staff on how to make the most of the software. For every new hire, some of the basic technological skills include proficiency in Microsoft Outlook, Word, PowerPoint and Excel. The Need to Adopt Technology.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 23, 2023

OpenAI has landed billions of dollars more funding from Microsoft to continue its development of generative artificial intelligence tools such as Dall-E 2 and ChatGPT. Microsoft stands to benefit from its investment in three ways. Microsoft stands to benefit from its investment in three ways. It’s going to get ugly,” she said.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 6, 2023

BAs engage with business leaders and users to understand how data-driven changes to process, products, services, software, and hardware can improve efficiencies and add value. Depending on the role, a business analyst might work with data sets to improve products, hardware, tools, software, services, or process.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 25, 2022

Atlas Health’s software is built on a proprietary database of more than 20,000 medical financial aid programs. Atlas links customers with organizations that can alleviate some of these expenses, such as nonprofits that help cancer patients afford costly drugs. Software engineer Bryan Andrade is a co-founder and serves as CTO.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella calls failed TikTok talks ‘the strangest thing I’ve ever worked on’ Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella offered new details about the company’s unsuccessful attempt to acquire TikTok a year ago on Monday night at the Code Conference. … Read More. … Read More. into Seattle.

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GeekWire

MARCH 28, 2023

Ismail was chief product officer at Marchex, and is also a veteran of Microsoft, where he was director of product management for Internet Explorer. — Rob Wilk , previously global head of advertising at Microsoft, joined Snapchat parent company Snap. He moves from business spend management platform Coupa Software.

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GeekWire

APRIL 26, 2024

Salpeter lives in western New York where he runs Sweet Farm , an nonprofit organization that combines sustainable agriculture and animal rescue with a technology startup accelerator. Microsoft and Amazon also have significant climate investment funds. He holds a Ph.D. ” Kurani said.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Stacey was most recently a VP at Microsoft and previously VP of global strategy and operations at SAP Concur. The former CEO of BoldIQ, Yarkoni was most recently an executive at Check Point Software and previously EVP of customer operations and strategy at Apptio. Accolade is based in Seattle and Philadelphia. Danielle Ishem.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 8, 2020

She was previously a senior director of Microsoft’s global diversity and inclusion team. He also led Seattle-based microfinance nonprofit Vittana. Collaboration work management software company Smartsheet announced Pete Godbole as CFO. . He is also an advisor for nonprofits and educational organizations.

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