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Travel app Hopper raises $96M from Capital One to double down on social commerce

TechCrunch

Evidently, the downturn hasn’t soured investors on the travel industry. Travel booking startup Hopper today announced that it closed a $96 million follow-on investment from Capital One, bringing the company’s total raised to $740 million. Hopper differentiates itself from rival travel services (e.g.

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Transforming the leadership trajectory for women in tech

CIO

Given this reality – and the business world’s drive to create more diverse and inclusive leadership teams – the pressure is now on companies to hold on to the few women leaders they already have. This can hinder their ability to take on leadership positions because they’re perceived to come with additional responsibilities.

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CIOs Have To Treat Social Media With Care

The Accidental Successful CIO

Hackers can learn a lot from a CIO’s social media Image Credit: Blogtrepreneur Every person with the CIO job knows what social media is. In fact, we all probably have Facebook, LinkedIn, and other social media accounts. However, it turns out that there is a downside to social media that we may not be aware of.

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How software can digitally transform child adoption

CIO

Through the right intentions and business technology leadership, BEB has placed 3,133 orphans with families since it began in 2010. In Zambia, the implementation team travels four to six times a month to children’s homes to spend one to three days training the orphanage staff on Children First Software. We’re not about that,” he adds.

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Top IT exec recuiters weigh in on talent trends today

CIO

Banerji is the managing partner for the Data, Digital & Technology Leaders Practice at Caldwell, recruiting such roles as CIO, CTO, chief digital officer, chief data officer, CISO, and the related leadership suites. Do you want to travel? You’re going to travel around; you’re going to be busy. Do you want a full-time job?

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COVID-19 demands a new era of authentic leadership

Capgemini

Remote work and virtual teams accelerate the transformation of existing leadership models. Our recent paper, Virtual organizations need real leadership , showed that by imposing virtual collaboration, the current crisis provides important insights into our understanding of leadership.

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Orro: Delivering a sustainable future enabled by the cloud

CIO

Greengarten believes that effort begins with building an Environmental, Social, and Governance program that addresses the unique risks faced by the IT services industry. For Orro, those include carbon emissions, obsolete equipment, data theft, gender diversity, disturbance to natural sites, and ethical sourcing.