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Walmart acquires virtual clothing try-on startup Zeekit

TechCrunch

It had once worked with Rebecca Minkoff during Fashion Week to help women shop the show’s looks. Shoppers will also be able to share their virtual outfits with friends for a second opinion, via the new integration, adding the social element back into online shopping. EVP of Apparel and Private Brands, in an announcement.

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Glossier just laid off one-third of its corporate employees, mostly in tech

TechCrunch

The company built its own point-of-sale system and commerce APIs in-house, allowing them to deliver a “seamless” customer experience, former Glossier CTO Bryan Mahoney said in 2018. E-commerce sales typically account for 80% of Glossier’s revenue, the Business of Fashion reported last July. .

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Nestcoin raises $6.45M pre-seed to accelerate crypto and web3 adoption in Africa and frontier markets

TechCrunch

Orilogbon was the company’s chief technology officer. Nestcoin has involved itself with other projects like collaborating with crypto-exchange platform Bitsika to launch a social token for Davido, an African music artiste.

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AI's Offensive & Defensive Impacts

Palo Alto Networks

We recently chatted with Michael Sikorski, the CTO of Unit 42 who leads Threat Intelligence and Engineering for the division. He warns: "Imagine with AI, they have the ability to make decisions about who to target, how to move laterally, and grab the valuable data … in an automated fashion. I think that's where this is going.

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Thirdweb raises $24M at a $160M valuation from Haun Ventures, Shopify and Coinbase for its web3 development kit

TechCrunch

Bartlett likes to tackle opportunities when they’re only starting to emerge: He was an early adopter and proponent of social media and specifically brands leveraging it to grow, long before brands came to recognize social media strategy as a must-have.

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From CIO to CEO: IT leaders rise to the top

CIO

CIOs are often dealing with a three-ring circus, and their ability to context shift, prioritize, and keep things moving along in an orderly fashion are skills that are incredibly transferable to the CEO role,” Meyercord contends. The common thread is clients focused on initiatives that have a positive social impact, Kennedy Vickers says.

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The Radiant Group Acquires HumanGeo to Advance Data Analytics and Open Source Capabilities

CTOvision

Abe Usher, HumanGeo's Chief Technology Officer, also shared, "HumanGeo is a great fit with The Radiant Group. Our technology for geospatial analysis, event analysis, and location detection, are a good complement to The Radiant Group's technical capabilities in cyber defense, signal processing, and intelligence analysis.".