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Tech Moves: Microsoft leader joins Shopify as CTO; StraighterLine taps Seattle tech vet as CEO

GeekWire

(Shopify Photo) — Shopify hired one of Microsoft’s top engineering leaders as its new chief technology officer. Parakhin spent the past five years at Microsoft leading artificial intelligence efforts and teams working on Bing, Edge browsers, advertising, web services, and more.

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How to leverage data to create a more intelligent organization

CIO Business Intelligence

Dana McGraw, vice president of audience modeling and data science at Disney Advertising , will discuss how the company uses data clean rooms to allow marketers to incorporate their own data with Disney’s to better reach consumers. Check out the full summit agenda here. The event is free to attend for qualified attendees.

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CIOs worry about Gen AI – for all the right reasons

CIO Business Intelligence

Generative AI chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT are emerging as the ultimate no-code content-generation tools, with the capability to empower virtually any employee to produce drafts of budgets and customer proposals – even advertising jingles and presentation art – in just seconds. Your products, your solutions will be more limited.

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Seattle startup Downstream, which helps brands with their Amazon ads, acquired by Jungle Scout

GeekWire

Downstream co-founders Salim Hamed (left, CTO) and Connor Folley (CEO). Jungle Scout raised $110 million and today announced the acquisition of Downstream , a Seattle startup that helps brands with their Amazon advertising strategies. Downstream Photo). Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Rackspace: AWS is Clouding the Picture on Dedicated Servers.

Data Center Knowledge

That’s the message today from Rackspace Chief Technology Officer John Engates, who says recent price cuts on dedicated virtual machine instances from rival Amazon Web Services have led to confusion about “dedicated” products. Cloud Computing. By: Jason Verge July 16th, 2013. November 2005 (8).

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Why Microsoft is Pinterested

GeekWire

Pinterest uses Amazon Web Services, the market leader, as its cloud provider. Nor is the reason to shore up Microsoft’s standing in the digital advertising market, though that can’t hurt. But more importantly, Microsoft would likely use Pinterest as a testing ground for consumer AI services.

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Tech Moves: Convoy names general counsel; startup founders land new gigs after shutdowns

GeekWire

The company recently subleased 123,000 square feet of office space in downtown Seattle. Other recent leadership appointments include Amazon vet Dorothy Li as CTO and Sunita Solao as VP of people. He previously held engineering leadership roles at Microsoft and Amazon Web Services. Steve Shure. Neeva Photo).

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