GeekWire

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Mark Nelson is stepping down as CEO of Tableau Software, less than two years after he took the helm of the Seattle-based data visualization company owned by Salesforce. He became CEO in March 2021, filling a vacancy created when his predecessor, Adam Selipsky, was named CEO of Amazon Web Services and replaced current Amazon CEO Andy Jassy.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 30, 2021

And before we wave goodbye to 2021, we thought it would be fun to test your geek knowledge. Which of these Seattle area companies did not go public via a SPAC or special purpose acquisition corporation in 2021(possibility of two points)? Who did Amazon tap to lead its Amazon Web Services cloud business in March 2021?

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GeekWire

JULY 25, 2021

Here are the most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of July 18, 2021. Amazon says it plans to investigate allegations of discrimination and bias within its Amazon Web Services cloud computing unit after an employee petition criticizing the culture and seeking a probe garnered hundreds of signatures. … Read More.

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GeekWire

JULY 18, 2024

(Momento Images) Seattle startup Momento , which offers infrastructure tools to help companies speed up software development processes, raised a $15 million Series A round led by Bain Capital Ventures. The company, founded in 2021 by former Amazon Web Services engineers, enables faster access to databases and facilitates messaging at scale.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Changes Microsoft made to its cloud licensing of Windows and application software to “make bringing workloads and licenses to partners’ clouds easier,” the company says, have drawn the ire of those cloud partners, some of whom have jointly filed an antitrust complaint in the European Union.

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GeekWire

MAY 30, 2023

GeekWire File Photo The Amazon Web Services executive who oversaw the cloud giant’s massive network of data centers is suddenly gone, without explanation. Amazon confirmed the departure of Chris Vonderhaar, who had been at the company for nearly 13 years, in response to a GeekWire inquiry on Tuesday.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 31, 2021

When Apptio launched in 2007, early employees debated whether the enterprise software startup should establish its headquarters in Seattle or nearby Bellevue. Here are the most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Oct. Sign up to receive these updates every Sunday in your inbox by subscribing to our GeekWire Weekly email newsletter.

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GeekWire

MARCH 26, 2021

It's 2021 and @JCrossover is still rocking a Blackberry. — NBA on TNT (@NBAonTNT) March 26, 2021. Executive Chairman and CEO John Chen even touted a multi-year, exclusive partnership with Amazon Web Services to co-develop and co-market BlackBerry IVY. pic.twitter.com/LFMkmsAJhB. “They still got BlackBerry?

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Founded in 2021 by former engineers at Amazon Web Services, the company is targeting a wide range of customers that use Row Zero for business intelligence, finance, operations, marketing, and more. It’s aiming to fill a gap between pricey spreadsheet tools and software that requires programming skills.

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GeekWire

MAY 14, 2024

LinkedIn Photo) — Baskar Sridharan , a longtime Seattle-area software engineering leader who was most recently a vice president at Google, joined Amazon Web Services as a vice president leading the AI/ML Services and Infrastructure team. Jarnot joined WTIA in 2021 and previously worked for the U.S.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 12, 2021

It also exceeds the peak traffic volume of 2.3Tbps, the previous largest attack, which was directed at Amazon Web Services last year. DDoS attacks are typically used to force websites or services offline, thanks to a flood of traffic that a web host can’t handle. Image: Microsoft.

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GeekWire

JULY 1, 2024

(GeekWire File Photo / Kevin Lisota) — Michel Feaster , who co-founded and led Usermind for eight years before its acquisition to Qualtrics in 2021, joined San Francisco-based contract management startup Ironclad as chief product officer. Seattle-based Usermind helped companies acquire, retain, and service customers.

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Venture Beast

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Cloud computing platform, Amazon Web Services, revealed new tech to support its vast array of tools at its conference this week. Read More.

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TM Forum

JULY 1, 2021

Appetite for IoT services is also reflected in demand for cellular IoT modules, with shipments increasing 50% between the first quarters of 2020 and 2021, according to Counterpoint Research’s. IoT Analytics estimates that. global enterprise IoT spending will grow 24%. This follows a 12.1% Together they are forming.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 4, 2023

. — Emily Freeman , head of community for Amazon Web Services , is departing. ” Freeman joined AWS as head of DevOps Product Marketing in 2021. The company raised $95 million in 2021. LinkedIn Photo) — Enterprise software company Freshworks hired Mika Yamamoto as chief marketing officer and chief customer officer.

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GeekWire

MAY 17, 2021

Twilio , a communications software company with Seattle roots, is acquiring Seattle-based business-texting startup Zipwhip for approximately $850 million in a cash and stock deal, the companies announced Monday. ” The company reported revenue of $590 million for the first quarter of 2021, and non-GAAP profits of $17.3

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 27, 2023

increase from 2021. Average salary: US$164,814 Increase since 2021: 8.4% It’s a role that typically requires at least a bachelor’s degree in information technology, software engineering, computer science, or a related field. Average salary : US$155,934 Increase from 2021 : n/a 3.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The company separately announced a new AWS Robotics Startups Accelerator , in partnership with MassRobotics , to help robotics startups incorporate Amazon’s cloud technologies into their products and services. ” Amazon is far from alone in pursuing this market.

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GeekWire

APRIL 11, 2024

Shah, based in Seattle, was most recently a CTO at UiPath, the robotic process automation software giant. Founded in 2011, Talkdesk sells software built for customer service contact centers. The company raised a $230 million Series D round in 2021, but has had multiple rounds of layoffs since then.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 5, 2021

She did a short stint with Amazon Web Services in 2013 and has worked for a number of smaller startups, with a focus on emerging technologies and marketing strategies. The company topped Forbe’s Best Startup Employers List for 2021 and was a finalist for Workplace of the Year at the 2021 GeekWire Awards.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Tableau Software will launch new Slack integrations that let users interact with data and graphics inside the popular communication and collaboration platform, trying out their newfound status as Salesforce sister companies. Salesforce spent $50 billion from 2018 to 2021 for Slack, Tableau and integration software company Mulesoft.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Adam Selipsky, Amazon Web Services CEO. Amazon Web Services this week is holding its first re:Invent conference without Andy Jassy at the helm of the tech giant’s cloud unit. Seplisky, previously Tableau Software CEO, gave a preview of two new directions for AWS in interviews prior to the event.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 24, 2023

Valid8 Financial sells a forensic accounting platform to lawyers, CPAs, and other enterprise and government customers that use the software to organize and analyze the flow of funds. million seed round in 2021. McCall said six states currently use Valid8’s software in white collar crime investigations. That follows a $6.3

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GeekWire

JANUARY 5, 2023

Carlson also spent more than a decade at Amazon Web Services, and joined Splunk in 2021 as president and chief growth officer. Other key personnel changes across the Pacific Northwest tech industry: Seattle tax software giant Avalara hired Kimberly Deobald as its new chief revenue officer.

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GeekWire

MARCH 28, 2021

Here are the most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of March 21, 2021. Tableau CEO Adam Selipsky will return to Amazon Web Services as CEO, replacing Andy Jassy. Tableau Software CEO Adam Selipsky will be the new CEO of Amazon Web Services, replacing Andy Jassy, who will take over as Amazon’s CEO later this year.

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GeekWire

MAY 5, 2021

— Satya Nadella (@satyanadella) April 26, 2021. Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy tweeted Wednesday that Amazon is also part of the U.S. — Andy Jassy (@ajassy) May 5, 2021. Microsoft software engineer Prarthana Sannamani was also spurred into action and built a COVID Resources India website.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Accenture on Wednesday said that it was acquiring US-based supply chain management (SCM) software provider Inspirage for an undisclosed amount to expand its Oracle-focused business. In October 2018, it acquired DAZ systems along with its 300 employees to bolster its Oracle Cloud ERP services business. billion by 2030 from $3.91

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The Verge

MARCH 8, 2022

Twitter is launching a version of its site as a Tor onion service, optimizing it for the privacy-protecting and censorship-evading network. Software engineer Alec Muffett announced the news today on Twitter, describing it as “possibly the most important and long-awaited tweet that I’ve ever composed.”

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TM Forum

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

DevOps principles can help communications service providers (CSPs) evolve from a highly architected and reliable, yet fixed environment to new ways of cross-functional collaboration – but only if they are willing to embrace significant cultural change. DevOps is as much about culture as it is about processes and tools. The network.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Newly named to the s-team, or “Steam” as it’s known internally, are: Steve Boom , VP of Amazon Music; Candi Castleberry , VP of Global Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; Udit Madan , VP of Worldwide Last Mile; and Rob Williams , VP of Device Software and Services. in 2021, according to Amazon’s diversity stats.

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GeekWire

MAY 31, 2024

Adam Selipsky, shown here at AWS re:Invent in November 2023, is working his last day as Amazon Web Services CEO today, before longtime AWS executive Matt Garman takes over the top job next week. When Selipsky rejoined AWS as its CEO in early 2021, in the midst of the pandemic, the run rate was $54 billion.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Now that the dust has settled, we can ask how could the smart and savvy team at Zillow Group, armed with cutting-edge AI methods and mountains of data, lose half a billion dollars buying homes in the second half of 2021. billion operating loss in Q4 2021 if not for Amazon Web Services. … Read More.

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TM Forum

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Some communications service providers (CSPs) are focusing on the higher end of the 5G mobile private networks (MPNs) market to differentiate their offerings amid growing competition. from Juniper Research has ranked Nokia, Ericsson and Druid Software as 2021’s leaders in the private networks market.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 9, 2023

GitHub gives users a web-based way to collaborate on software development. Similar to GitHub’s software development tools, the XetHub platform will let machine learning developers collaborate while also providing a “governance record” that tracks any changes made to data.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Salesforce and Slack “will shape the future of enterprise software,” said Benioff, the Salesforce CEO, in a statement announcing the deal. This move fundamentally re-orders the enterprise software landscape, giving Slack a new level of scale and creating all new opportunities across the entire ecosystem. .”

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Venture Beast

MAY 12, 2021

OpsRamp's spring 2021 release will help companies migrate to the public cloud and better manage their hybrid IT infrastructure. Read More.

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TM Forum

OCTOBER 14, 2021

TM Forum’s 2021 Catalyst awards recognized innovative solutions to some of the biggest challenges facing the industry and broader society on the closing day of Digital Transformation World Series. About: An integrated platform for the composition of cross-industry digital services leveraging the true power of 5G edge clouds.

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