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Tech Moves: Seattle tech vet named CEO at Vouched; Sana hires chief scientific officer

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He was previously executive vice president of engineering and CTO at tax software giant Avalara, and also led teams at Microsoft and Concur. Paron previously spent more than eight years at Shopify, where he held roles including senior lead for sustainability programs, head of community relations and head of social impact.

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Top Technology News Ticker for 6 June 2016

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American Airlines signs contract with ViaSat for in-flight Wi-Fi on some of its planes, ending Gogo's exclusivity (Mike Freeman/Los Angeles Times). Hackers claim hijack of Mark Zuckerberg's social-networking accounts - CNET. Dozens in Russia imprisoned for social media likes, reposts (Nataliya Vasilyeva/Associated Press).

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GeekWire 200 rankings update: E-commerce, virtual event, fintech startups heat up

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Hootsuite , the widely used social media management platform and a star of the Vancouver, B.C. The private company is a recent addition to the GeekWire 200 rankings, part of an ongoing project to update our comprehensive Startup List and community resources. It recently hired longtime Amazon tech leader Dorothy Li as CTO.

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SAP poaches Microsoft exec as its new global head of AI

CIO Business Intelligence

As part of Microsoft’s development team, Sun created Bing Predicts, the inference engine that provides the “favored to win” forecasts beneath search results for sporting fixtures and attempted to predict the 2016 US presidential election winner. The company is hiring engineers in Berlin and Shanghai. Spoiler alert: it failed.)

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Tech Moves: Leafly announces new board ahead of SPAC merger; Amazon vets depart; and more

GeekWire

A company spokesperson confirmed Grosse’s departure and said the company would not be hiring a CMO in the foreseeable future. Tagboard originally launched as a social media aggregator. Oregon Venture Fund Partner Scott Sandler left his full-time role at the Oregon and southwest Washington-focused investment firm. .

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Meet The Ultimate Connector, Cognitio’s Don Begley, At AFCEA West

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Connectors like Don serve as a human social network, able to keep thousands of connections linked together. If you will be at the AFCEA West conference in San Diego 17-19 Feb 2016 this will be a great opportunity to meet Don yourself.

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New CIO appointments in India, 2022

CIO Business Intelligence

Amit Goel joins Blox as CTO. Web Werks India hires Kamal Goel as director of IT. Publicis Groupe India names Roopesh Pujari as CTO. Roopesh Pujari has been promoted to CTO at marketing and advertising firm Publicis Groupe India. Gaurav Sharma becomes group CTO of Poonawalla Fincorp. February 2022. January 2022.