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Tech Moves: UiPath CTO lands at Talkdesk; Elastic hires AWS vet; ex-Redfin leaders join LLM startup

GeekWire

” — Ajay Nair , a longtime engineering leader at Microsoft and Amazon Web Services, joined search technology giant Elastic as a group vice president. Libretto , a LLM startup led by former employees at Seattle real estate giant Redfin, this week came out of stealth and announced a $3.7 million investment round.

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Building elite teams to map out the business and customer journey

CIO Business Intelligence

Watch the full video below for more insights. I was one of the pioneering members of Amazon marketplace and Amazon Web Services, and was instrumental building a lot of those foundations and products that grew both those businesses. Both of those are very close to my heart. Companies that do this will thrive.

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Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Nov. 28, 2021

GeekWire

Reality check: Microsoft, David Bowie, Bill Gates, and a creepy video game called ‘Omikron’ Yes, there was a game called Omikron: The Nomad Soul, starring a virtual David Bowie, released in 1999 for Microsoft Windows. … Read More. … Read More. … Read More. … Read More. … Read More.

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Top Stories of ’21: Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, COVID, and what’s next for tech in Seattle and beyond

GeekWire

Amazon’s “remarkable year,” including its ability to scale up in response to COVID, the leadership transition to new CEO Andy Jassy, new leadership principles and the continued success of Amazon Web Services.

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Tech Moves: Seattle AI experts join national task force; Boundless co-founder departs; and more

GeekWire

Microsoft veteran and former Amazon Web Services (AWS) leader Harshit Shah joined New York-based Spring Health as chief technology officer. Formerly known as Elemental Technologies, AWS Elemental is a video processing company that was acquired by Amazon in 2015 during Ewert’s tenure. Harshit Shah. Spring Health Photo).

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Amazon, Microsoft, other tech leaders sound off amid protests over death of George Floyd

GeekWire

” Here’s Amazon Web Services cloud chief Andy Jassy: *What* will it take for us to refuse to accept these unjust killings of black people? How many people must die, how many generations must endure, how much eyewitness video is required? What else do we need? — Andy Jassy (@ajassy) May 30, 2020.

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MWC 2022: 5G software, service assurance and sustainability

TM Forum

There has been a suspicion in the industry that the likes of Ericsson, Nokia, Samsung and Amazon Web Services (AWS) want to eat the CSPs’ lunch when it comes to the growing market for mobile private networks (MPNs). More on the edge cloud story to come. Network suppliers’ MPN plans include CSPs.

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