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Seattle’s newest unicorn: Rec Room raises $100M as social gaming popularity fuels big growth

GeekWire

We are one of many, and we’re excited to add a consumer social company to that mix.” When GeekWire visited the company’s office and tested Rec Room in 2017, the startup was focused on virtual reality. Year-over-year revenue growth of 566% was fueled in part by the pandemic and trends toward social gatherings online.

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Seattle VR startup Rec Room raises $145M, reaches $3.5B valuation

GeekWire

Rec Room is a free app described as a “universally accessible online community,” where users create a cartoony virtual avatar to participate in a variety of activities, many of which were designed by the application’s community. 16, the PlayStation 5.

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Join Architects, Planners, Program Managers, Data Scientists at 4th Annual Cloudera Federal Forum in DC 25 Feb

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Hittle is a Level III, top-ranked, Acquisition Program Manager and Systems Planning Research, Development, and Engineering Professional. We feature news, commentary, podcasts, analysis and social media connections in domains of Big Data, Gov2.0, Steve joined Intel as part of the acquisition of Sarvega, Inc. Media Sponsor.

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Techie-turned-lawmaker uses his Microsoft chops to challenge the status quo as a state senator

GeekWire

Washington State Democrats Photo) After a decade working in the tech sector, Joe Nguyen tackled his new role as a state senator like any good program manager. He started using social media more extensively than many of his colleagues, creating a Facebook series dubbed “Olympia Explained.”

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Ensuring Continuity in Learning in the Times of COVID-19

Kitaboo

Though employee safety is the priority at this time, critical workplace learning cannot be put on hold and leaders have to take some effective steps and establish virtual live learning. To ensure the active participation of employees during digital training sessions, efforts can also be made to include social-learning components.

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Amazon’s Ring names Xbox and Oculus vet Elizabeth Hamren as new CEO; founder Jamie Siminoff remains chief inventor

GeekWire

Five years after its acquisition by Amazon, smart doorbell and home security technology company Ring named a new CEO: Elizabeth (Liz) Hamren, a former executive in Meta’s Oculus division and Microsoft’s Xbox business, who was most recently chief operating officer for social messaging platform Discord.

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Best IT and Tech Blogs – Must Read Information Technology Resources 2019

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These areas of IT include general IT and technology, security, IT feeds, cloud computing, data center, mobile, social media, tips and tricks, virtualization, and operating system and software blogs. Slashdot is a social news website that originally billed itself as “News for Nerds. Social Media Technology Blogs.

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