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Microsoft creates new AI platform and tools division, led by former Facebook engineering chief

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Jay Parikh will lead the new CoreAI Platform and Tools division at Microsoft. Microsoft Photo) Microsoft is creating a new engineering division, led by the former global head of engineering at Facebook (now Meta), that will be responsible for building fundamental AI technologies and tools for the company and its customers.

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Seattle startup Moondream, led by AWS vets, raises $4.5M for vision language model software

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.” Allen previously spent seven years at Amazon Web Services, where he helped build AWS IQ, a marketplace for on-demand AWS talent, as well as internal sales products. He was also the former CTO at Porch and was a senior director of development at Zynga, and spent a decade at Microsoft from 1994 to 2004.

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Turning boulders into pebbles: behind Westpac’s cloud journey

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The move supports the goal to adopt a standard for all new systems at the bank, whether created by its own tech team or sourced from others, to be built to continuously change using evergreen cloud-native technologies, according to David Walker, Westpac Group chief technology officer. Building a simpler tech environment.

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

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(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. Matt Hulett.

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What is an IT consultant? Roles, types, salaries, and how to become one

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As a result, for IT consultants, keeping the pulse of the technology market is essential. Being a successful IT consultant requires knowing how to walk in the shoes of your IT clients and their business leaders, says Scott Buchholz,CTO of the government and public services sector practice at consulting firm Deloitte.

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Tech Moves: Salesforce-backed Oleria hires CTO; Microsoft vet joins Lyra Health; and more

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Oleria’s new CTO Siva Garudayagari. Oleria Photo) — Salesforce-backed cybersecurity startup Oleria hired Siva Garudayagari as its chief technology officer. Bill Cox , a longtime Microsoft business leader , joined Lyra Health as its vice president of product marketing.

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Amazon Web Services is creating its very own space force for cloud computing

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Amazon Web Services today unveiled a new business unit devoted to developing data infrastructure and cloud services for the aerospace and satellite industry — and headed by someone who helped set up the U.S. Amazon Web Services facilitates Capella Space’s catalog of satellite radar imagery. AWS Photo).