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Meet the startups that just graduated from Creative Destruction Lab’s accelerator in Seattle

GeekWire

(CDL Photo) Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), a nonprofit that runs 13 startup accelerators across the world, just graduated another swath of early stage companies from its Seattle program. CDL launched its Seattle hub in 2021. Seattle’s CDL program focuses on two sectors: manufacturing and computational health.

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Ada Developers Academy ‘significantly’ reduces headcount, pauses admissions, names interim CEO

GeekWire

Ada Developers Academy graduates at a graduation event on Jan. The organization previously said a lack of internships for its students was due to decreased demand for software development talent. Shawna Young, inerim CEO at Ada Developers Academy. Former Ada Developers Academy CEO Lauren Sato.

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Diversity-focused school Ada Developers Academy cuts 45% of staff amid tech industry hiring pullback

GeekWire

Ada Developers Academy graduates at a graduation event on Jan. Jenny Crooks Photo) Ada Developers Academy , the Seattle-based tuition-free software development boot camp for women and underrepresented sexual, gender and racial minorities, laid off 45% of its workforce, the nonprofit confirmed to GeekWire Wednesday.

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10 hottest IT jobs for salary growth in 2023

CIO Business Intelligence

This demand has driven up salaries for IT roles, especially those around development, engineering, and support. Skills such as software engineering, architecture, cloud, and program management are highly sought after as more companies explore creating both internal and external applications and solutions.

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GeekWire Awards 2021: Geeks Give Back celebrates groups that better our community

GeekWire

Nominees for the 2021 award share some common goals of working to benefit folks who risk being left behind despite their talent and skills. Past winners for this category include the Year Up and Apprenti training programs, the Technology Access Foundation (TAF) and a campaign to end malaria. Ada Developers Academy. iUrban Teen.

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Green Software Foundation: On a mission to decarbonize software

CIO Business Intelligence

Good coding practices for performance and efficiency have been part of software engineering since the earliest days. Computers that piggyback on vast libraries with extraneous lines of code, developers who have lost count of the number of virtual machines they have spun off — all add drag and increase the carbon emissions related to software.

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Rescheduling the Playdate: Portland startup sets 2021 release for unique handheld game device

GeekWire

Panic has announced new plans for the debut of its retro-styled, Pacific Northwest-developed portable gaming device, the Playdate, after COVID-related shutdowns forced the company to abandon its original 2020 release date. ” What’s more interesting is Panic’s emphasis on home development. (Source: Playdate press kit).