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Mariners owner and wireless industry vet John Stanton on T-Mobile/Sprint, future of retail, more

GeekWire

The wireless industry veteran is certainly keeping busy these days as CEO and chairman of the Seattle Mariners, a position he took on in 2016 following decades of leadership roles at VoiceStream Wireless (the predecessor of the modern day T-Mobile), Clearwire Corp, McCaw Cellular, and Western Wireless. On the T-Mobile-Sprint merger.

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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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PGA of America swings for the public cloud

CIO Business Intelligence

The PGA of America is building a world-class resort with multiple golf courses and retail shops near Dallas, due to be complete next year. As a nonprofit, the PGA of America is not alone in seeking the ease and efficiencies of migrating entirely to the public cloud, according to Sid Nag, vice president and analyst at Gartner.

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Feeding America turns to data to feed the hungry

CIO Business Intelligence

Feeding America is a nonprofit that behaves like most for-profits,” says Maryann Byrdak, chief information technology officer of Feeding America. “We We coordinate donations from manufacturers, retailers, grocers. MealConnect connects retailers with food banks to support local food rescue. We source a lot of food.

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Amazon withholds its ebooks from libraries because it prefers you pay it instead

The Verge

At the heart of the issue is a debate over whether libraries, which often pay far higher than retail price for physical and ebook copies of books, ultimately harm publisher sales by letting people check out copies for free. The eBook titles from Amazon Publishing are not available to libraries for lending at any price or any terms.

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Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson to retire; Howard Schultz returns as interim chief

GeekWire

He’s involved with nonprofits such as NPower and Catalyst; supports Youth Eastside Services in Seattle; and is a board member at Seattle startup Amperity. In the second quarter of last year, mobile orders represented 26% of U.S. Bush and Barack Obama. Howard Schultz passes the company’s key to incoming CEO Kevin Johnson in 2017.

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Microsoft’s Erik Arnold merges passion for tech and philanthropy to help nonprofits gain digital success

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Arnold spent time at the Gates-owned Corbis, at PATH, which has a close partnership with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and now Microsoft, where Arnold is CTO of the company’s nonprofit-focused Tech for Social Impact. For many nonprofits, it’s not a lack of willingness to modernize, it’s simply not knowing where to start.”

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