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Tech Moves: CFO shuffles at Remitly and F5; Flexport exec joins DoorDash; and more

GeekWire

million in the second quarter , the company reported Wednesday, while net losses came in at $12.1 Seattle tourism group Visit Seattle hired Stephanie Byington as senior vice president and chief marketing officer. He’ll replace Hemanth Munipalli , who held the role since July 2022 and is leaving for family reasons.

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Journey Beyond transforms its contact center to deliver better customer journeys

CIO Business Intelligence

Journey Beyond, a part of Hornblower Group, is Australia’s leading experiential tourism group. The advanced feedback capabilities allow Journey Beyond to measure customer net promoter scores (NPS) right down to the consultant level. Headquartered in Adelaide, it operates 13 brands and experiences spanning the country.

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The pandemic stopped Angela Shen’s Seattle food tours — and tech powers her pivot to delivery

GeekWire

It’s tough to run a business dependent on tourism when there are no tourists, and when the places you would show off to the tourists are closed by a global health crisis. When tourism and the restaurant industry came to a screeching halt, the business pivoted nearly overnight into the curated and aggregated food delivery space.

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Vergecast: the state of MagSafe, Valve’s Steam Deck, and billionaires in space

The Verge

Biden’s executive order puts net neutrality back in the spotlight. Space tourism rivalry gets extremely petty ahead of Branson’s spaceflight. Apple’s weather app won’t say it’s 69 degrees. Facebook says FTC chair shouldn’t help decide the future of its antitrust case.

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Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Aug. 23, 2020

GeekWire

Mark Okerstrom is shifting from travel and tourism to trucking, looking to apply his digital commerce expertise to a new marketplace. Jeff Bezos crossed into new billionaire territory on Wednesday with another surge in Amazon stock that pushed the CEO’s net worth to more than $200 billion. … Read More. … Read More.

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We asked ChatGPT to predict 2025

Dataconomy

But what happens when we hand the crystal ball to a neural net? Are we ready for full-on space tourism by 2025? Space tourism will exist, but it’ll remain more of a luxury novelty than widespread reality. You probably do too. Your aunt’s horoscope-obsessed friend has been making predictions about your life since ’98.

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Orbite begins the launch countdown for its commercial astronaut training programs

GeekWire

“Working with a dozen high-net-worth individuals to put together a Starship mission is a tremendous undertaking,” he said. (Orbite Illustration) Andrews said managing the preparations for space trips is likely to become more complicated once SpaceX’s Starship super-rocket enters the picture.

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