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Chegg has hired Dr. Nina Huntemann as the edtech company’s first-ever Chief Academic Officer.

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Chegg Taps Former Professor as First Academic Chief

Last week Faraday Future revealed that its CFO stepped down for health reasons. 

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Embattled EV Startup Faraday Future Loses Finance Chief as Production Looms

On Monday, DocuSign named Iesha Berry as its first-ever Chief Diversity and Engagement Officer.

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DocuSign Names First Diversity and Engagement Chief

The Org wanted to draw attention to the impact that Ukrainians have made in the tech community worldwide by highlighting some of the country’s most widely used technologies and growing startups.

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Meet the Tech Companies and Entrepreneurs From Ukraine 

Learn more about Evan Spiegel and what companies he’s founded, owns, or has shares in. 

What Companies Does Evan Spiegel Own? 

Netflix has promoted Marian Lee to Chief Marketing Officer following the sudden exit of Bozoma Saint John. 

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Netflix Names a New Marketing Chief, Replacing Bozoma Saint John

We took a look at the data and have compiled seven of the most high-profile U.S. tech M&A deals that never happened.

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The Six Biggest Tech M&A Flops in the Past Five Years

Here, Italic founder Jeremy Cai explains his vision and the company's evolution.

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Founders File: Italic, A New Market Democratizing Luxury

Splunk tapped Gary Steele to take over as the security and observability-focused data platform’s next CEO.

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Splunk Selects its Next CEO to Fuel Further Revenue Growth

At this year’s Winter Olympics, China’s digital e-CNY wallet made its public debut and gained international attention. 

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How the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics Boosted China’s Digital Currency

More than $12.3 billion of venture capital was poured into HR tech startups in 2021. 2022 has started out with a similar trend—just four deals have accounted for $1.4 billion of fundraising in the space. In an increasingly crowded industry, The Org compiled a list of 50 U.S. HR tech startups to look out for this year. 

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50 Emerging HR Tech Startups to Watch in 2022

Amazon’s sprawling tech and logistics organizations couldn’t operate without its rigid level system to sketch out some form of hierarchy. We took a look at how much Amazon pays some of its core white-collar employees.

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How Much Does Amazon Pay?

Just one week after Russia invaded Ukraine, people and organizations have donated $54 million in cryptocurrency to support Ukraine’s army and non-profit groups. How exactly is cryptocurrency impacting the war?

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The Role of Cryptocurrency in the Russian-Ukrainian War

These are the most notable hires, promotions, and departures within the US tech community in the last week. For executive news updated daily, check out The Org's News tab.

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The Biggest Moves in Tech This Week

Multinational big tech companies are finding themselves caught in between the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Here is how they have responded to the conflict so far.

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An Online War: How Big Tech is Responding to Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine

Read about Ernest Holmes: Google engineer and president of CodeHouse, the non-profit organization on a mission to tackle the diversity gap in the technology industry. 

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How This Googler is Helping to Close the Diversity Gap in the Tech Industry

HR tech has seen explosive growth both in VC funding and company adoption, fueled in part by COVID compliance measures, a drastic increase in distributed workforces and a sea change in the demographics of engineers within the HR space. But will it continue to stay as lucrative in 2022? We talked to industry experts to find out their predictions for the space in the future. 

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Why HR Tech Will Continue to Stay White Hot

The tech world is no stranger to accelerators and the benefits they can provide for startups that are looking to redefine their idea and scale and raise venture capital. Why not extrapolate the accelerator model to nonprofits and bet on a better world?

This is exactly what IBM set out to build. In February the company launched the IBM Sustainability Accelerator, supporting nonprofit and governmental organizations globally that serve communities especially vulnerable to environmental threats.

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How IBM is Paving a Path Forward for Non-Profits

Instacart’s Head of Product for Payments, Ofek Lavian, has joined Forage as the fintech startup’s COO.

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Instacart’s Payments Product Lead Jumps Ship to Forage

Verizon has appointed Maggie Hallbach as its new SVP for Verizon Public Sector, the U.S. telecommunications giant’s division responsible for securing lucrative government contracts.

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