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Tech Moves: Microsoft names lead independent director; startup vet Rebecca Lovell joins Greater Seattle Partners

GeekWire

She also spent nearly five years at the City of Seattle’s Office of Economic Development, and was executive director of the Northwest Entrepreneur Network and GeekWire’s chief business officer. Lovell starts the job March 20.

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Convoy hires former Expedia CEO as president and COO as digital freight startup tops 1k employees

GeekWire

Mark Okerstrom is shifting from travel and tourism to trucking, looking to apply his digital commerce expertise to a new marketplace. Its digital network is like ride-sharing for freight, matching shippers with truck drivers that have available space. Convoy Photo). billion valuation in November. .”

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Australia takes the wrong path on Twitter advertising disclosure

Trends in the Living Networks

This followed the announcement on ABC’s MediaWatch program that celebrity chef Matt Moran, among others, had accepted payment from South Australia’s Tourism Board for tweets. The most prominent Twitter advertising platforms, Ad.ly

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Top Email Marketing Trends for 2019

Galido

Email marketing and social networks. 72% of respondents prefer to receive offers by mail, while 17% consider social networks more convenient. Email campaigns usually have an opening rate of more than 16%, while a message on social networks reaches approximately between 2 and 6% of the audience. Email marketing and spam.

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The future of cities, according to the experts

Vox

While remote work has reduced the pull of dense urban labor markets, this effect has weakened the least for young professionals in their 20s and 30s still forming the networks that will shape their career trajectories,” Economic Innovation Group research associate Connor O’Brien said. “At Florida advises the Tulsa Remote program.)

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Year in Space: Jeff Bezos and his billionaire rivals finally usher in the age of commercial spaceflight

GeekWire

In a December news release , issued just before Blue Origin’s third crewed flight , FAA Administrator Wayne Monteith said the 17-year-old astronaut wings program “served its original purpose to bring additional attention to this exciting endeavor.” The real thing, observed from a safe distance, should make for quite a show.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Charity

ForAllSecure

Today Jinja is known for its tourism. This office had sort of crawled to a halt, because they were processing kids that had lost their parents and they were trying to find profiles and sponsors for them, sponsors that pay for their schooling and all that stuff, and their network, their computers were so screwed up that they had to like stop.

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