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Feeding America turns to data to feed the hungry

CIO Business Intelligence

One organization, Feeding America, the country’s largest domestic hunger relief organization, is turning to information technology to help, having hired three years ago its first IT chief to transform how its network of 200 food banks serve the food insecure. We coordinate donations from manufacturers, retailers, grocers.

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Ray Ozzie’s cellular IoT startup Blues Wireless raises $22M from Bill Gates and others

GeekWire

Sequoia Capital and former Stripe exec Lachy Groom led the Series A round, which will fuel growth for the company’s technology that helps product manufacturers send data from their physical assets to cloud-based apps over cellular networks. Developers use the JSON programming language and two lines of code to make it all work.

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LinkedIn and Year Up partner for a more diverse IT future

CIO Business Intelligence

Companies have been responding of late by offering volunteer time off and by partnering with organizations that could benefit greatly from the added help of programs and staff time. Since then, LinkedIn has “grown into one of the major enterprise partners for Year Up,” says Audrey Rhodes Market, the Year Up program manager at LinkedIn.

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AWS launches Skills Center in Seattle, boosts efforts to give free cloud training to 29M people

GeekWire

The Skills Center will also host career networking events with employers. In addition to opening the center, Amazon announced additional efforts to provide free training: Expanding AWS re/Start , its in-person,12-week program that provides training for entry-level cloud computing careers. GeekWire Photo / Lisa Stiffler). to 4 p.m.

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Charge up: How the Pacific Northwest is boosting electric infrastructure as EV sales rise

GeekWire

“This is a transformational time,” said Tonia Buell, alternative fuels program manager for the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT). Even Matthew Metz, the Seattle founder of the EV-boosting nonprofit Coltura , can’t say for sure if the infrastructure build out is on track to meet demand.

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

GeekWire

He has more than three decades of experience working at tech companies including IBM, Juniper Networks (he was CEO from 2008 to 2013), and Microsoft, where he led worldwide sales for two years before running the Windows and Online Services division for three years, working closely with Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer. Bush and Barack Obama.

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Why many rural communities are still in the ‘digital dark’ — and how Washington state is trying to help

GeekWire

billion in federal funding toward network expansion projects that aim to reach some 260,000 unserved households statewide. The office must first finalize major decisions about what entities will be eligible for the funds, how to rank applications and how to ensure the long-term viability of the new networks by a federal deadline of Dec.