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Tech Moves: Xbox hires Seattle gaming vet Kim Swift; Frontdoor adds Amazon Fashion leader; more

GeekWire

Tony Bacos , former vice president and CTO of Amazon Fashion, has been hired at Frontdoor as the company’s first senior vice president and chief digital officer. He will help lead the company’s engineering, product management, data science, machine learning, AI, user experience, data security and corporate technology teams.

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Tech Moves: GameStop hires more Amazon execs; Twitch COO joins Karat board; CEO of Washington STEM steps down; Big Fish HR chief joins Qumulo

GeekWire

As vice president of interview delivery, she will focus on improving Karat’s interviewing process to help companies stay ahead on hiring engineers. GameStop hired two other Amazon execs in April, bringing on Chief Growth Officer Elliott Wilke and COO Jenna Owners. Rachael Granby (Karat Photo). The company raised $28 million in 2019.

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Does Next-Generation Anti-Virus Solve the Fatal Flaws of Anti-Virus?

CTOvision

Many of us in the community, myself included, have long said that anti-virus is dead and even a senior VP at Symantec has now admitted such. When the biggest anti-virus vendors, folks who want to perpetuate anti-virus myths for financial reasons, admit anti-virus is dead, it is time to realize anti-virus is a failed approach.

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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. The Oregon company also added Symantec and Google vet Stephen Gillett to its board of directors in December. Real estate property management startup Doorstead hired Philip Lee as CTO.

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The Sony Hack in Context

CTOvision

The good news for the moment is that the North Korean attack on Sony Pictures is in the headlines and has the nation discussing cyber security issues. In connection with these losses the recently retired Director of the National Security Agency has stated, "In fact, in my opinion, it''s the greatest transfer of wealth in history,".

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Broadcom Software Return to Face-to-Face Customer Engagements

CIO Business Intelligence

Talk about timing: just as we completed the acquisition of Symantec in November 2019, a global pandemic hit. To support that, a core part of our mission is to enable customers to consume software in whatever format they want, across those different environments.