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By Kevin Eck on Sep. 23, 2021 - 3:38 PM Meteorologist Brian MacMillan is leaving Portland, Ore. Fox affiliate KPTV to work in Seattle. MacMillan announced the news on LinkedIn, saying he’s leaving the station after 12 years to work as the weekday morning meteorologist at KCPQ in Seattle. His last day at KPTV will be Friday, Sept. 30. “These types of changes are always bittersweet, however this is an incredible opportunity I couldn’t pass up,” said MacMillan. “This move brings my wife and I back to our home town and gives us a chance to be closer to our families.” MacMillan began his local TV career at KOHD in Bend, Ore. He started working at KPTV in 2009.

LinkedIn has identified the startups that are attracting top talent this year, even amid some of the largest employee turnover in history.On Wednesday the Sunnyvale, California-based networking platform released its fifth annual list of 50 U.S. companies on the rise. The list tracks growth in employee count, interest from people looking for jobs, and how people interact with the online presence of the company and its employees. It also measures the startups' ability to bring in employees from LinkedIn's Top Companies list, which includes more established businesses like Amazon and Alphabet. All startups on the list are less than seven years old, headquartered in the U.S., and have at least 50 employees. LinkedIn used data from July 1, 2020 to June 30, 2021. The ranking features some of the year's breakout companies, like Clubhouse, and others that flourished in the pandemic, like Discord. Several of them have succeeded through their use of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and robotics. Here are six of the most innovative from LinkedIn's list. GongComing in at No. 2 on LinkedIn's list, Gong uses artificial intelligence to analyze all of a company's interactions with customers--calls, meetings, and emails--to improve their sales and marketing. The San Francisco-based company boasts clients including LinkedIn and Pinterest and was a 2021 Inc. 5000 honoree, ranking No. 99 with over $37 million in 2020…

The last year and a half can’t have been easy for anyone. With the global pandemic still raging on, we celebrate the small wins whenever we can. This is why LinkedIn’s list of Top Startups 2021 serves as a source of encouragement and hope. To put together this year’s rankings, LinkedIn accessed their data across four pillars: employee growth, jobseeker interest; member engagement with the company and its employees; and how well these startups pulled talent from our flagship LinkedIn Top Companies List. In order to be eligible, companies must be seven years old or younger, have at least 50 employees, be privately held and be headquartered in Singapore. Here’s a look at the 15 startups in Singapore that have seen tremendous growth this year: 1. Advance Intelligence Group Image Credit: Advance.ai Founded in 2016 and now with 1,500 employees, Advance Intelligence Group is the one to watch. Advance Intelligence Group uses artificial intelligence to power its range of brands, including Advance.AI, which helps finance and retail companies stop fraud, automate processes, and buy now, pay later platform Atome. This Series C-backed company now has a presence across 12 markets: Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Vietnam, Mainland China, India, Thailand, Taiwan, Mexico…

An article from LinkedIn has made collecting audience data a little easier with the launch of a new Event Registration trigger in the Lead Generation Forms integration for Zapier, enabling you to connect your gathered lead gen forms info with third-party tools and apps. For those unfamiliar, Zapier is an automation tool that enables you to connect different app functionalities into a single stream. Optional Caption Retrieved from Zapier on September 23, 2021 The app makes it easier to set up automation flows like this, without needing specific programming knowledge, with Zapier’s bolt-on modules essentially enabling you to build processes that can streamline your efforts, without a lot of technical set-up on your part. And the updated LinkedIn Lead Gen integration could provide significant benefits – as explained by LinkedIn: “Automation can make it significantly easier (and faster!) to add registrants from LinkedIn to an event or to a list in another app, like your web conferencing tool or a CRM” For example, using the Zapier/LinkedIn lead gen integration, you could create an automation flow that automatically adds a webinar registrant in Zoom every time someone signs up for your event, or you could add all Lead Gen Forms responses to…

Thinkerbell's Broquet for Fig & Bloom. Thinkerbell has been named as one of Australia's most sought-after startups to work for. The agency is ranked 14th in the LinkedIn Top Startups 2021 announced today. According to LinkedIn, the independent agency “uses its experience in research, strategy and creative execution to help brands achieve results”. Chief thinker Adam Ferrier told AdNews the validation is rewarding. "It's just really nice validation for the team and the people who chose to work with us. Most awards we enter, so to get some external validation that is unprompted is worth double!!" This year’s rankings were driven by LinkedIn data across four pillars: employee growth; jobseeker interest; member engagement with the company and its employees; and how well these startups pulled talent from the LinkedIn Top Companies list. LinkedIn News Australia managing editor Capucine Yeomans says startups offer staff the opportunity to contribute to innovation. “We’re witnessing the Great Reshuffle – a moment where everyone is rethinking not just how we work, but why we work. "Professionals are asking themselves the question ‘What’s next?’ driven by changing priorities in their work and life. "Startups are a great place to turn to achieve the flexibility they are looking for…

A business owner who said people wanting to work from home were “lazy, spoilt and entitled” has received dozens of abusive phone calls and been labelled “dated” and “small minded”.James Cox, 35, took to LinkedIn to criticise those not wanting to return to the office, saying they must want to “feed the squirrels” and watch Loose Women, the daytime TV programme.The recruitment company owner from Putney, southwest London, said he was “sick and tired” of hearing candidates refuse to be put forward for office-based roles.He wrote: “I’ve done this job for 15 years and before Covid I had never heard anyone ever say to me that they want to work from home.“You want to work from home! So you don’t

LinkedIn Marketing Solutions has announced new features and product enhancements to help marketers grow engagement and measure impact.Last week, LinkedIn Marketing Solutions announced new features designed to help marketers navigate a new working world while building greater connections with their communities.The series of features is aimed at growing and deepening audience engagements, as well as a number of new product enhancements designed to help marketers obtain and measure their brand-building goals.Related | LinkedIn Is Rolling Out Dark Mode On MobileThe first, called “Articles for Pages,” is a new tool that allows creators to publish articles on their LinkedIn pages and engage members with professional content on the platform itself. In other words, users will be able to consume the articles without being redirected elsewhere. This tool will help organizations better keep track of their organic reach in the LinkedIn feed.The second is “LinkedIn Live Events.” This new feature will join strengths with the reach and engagement of LinkedIn’s native live-streaming tool, and with the planning and targeting options on LinkedIn Events. The result is a new all-in-one simplified experience that enables creators to live-stream an event, to advertise an upcoming stream in advance, and send automatic notifications to those who register for…

By FRANK BAJAK Updated: September 20, 2021 05:01 PM Created: September 20, 2021 04:58 PM A ransomware attack by the BlackMatter gang forced New Cooperative, an association of Iowa corn and soy farmers, to take their systems offline but it said it created workarounds to receive grain and distribute feed, a person close to the business said. Member-owned New Cooperative said in a statement that the attack was "successfully contained" and that it had quickly notified law enforcement. It said it took its systems offline out of "an abundance of caution" and was working with data security professionals to quickly remedy the situation. It did not specify when the ransomware was activated. The attack hit just as Iowa's corn and soy harvesting is getting under way, Security researcher Allan Liska of Recorded Future said the criminals demanded a $5.9 million ransom for a decryptor key to unlock files they scrambled. He said a sample of their malware was uploaded to a research site either late Friday or early Saturday. Security researchers believe BlackMatter may be a reconstituted version of the ransomware syndicate DarkSide that disrupted the Colonial Pipeline last spring then announced it was disbanding. BlackMatter claims on its darkweb…

Indian procure-to-pay startup PayMate is seeking to raise $4 million, including a lead investment of $2 million from U.S.-based Felicitas Equity Fund, as well as additional funds from Astor Management and CXI Valley I, Inc42 reported. In 2019, according to Crunchbase, FinTech PayMate was invested in by Visa, Recruit Strategic Partners, Brand Capital and Mayfair 101. Describing the business, PayMate CEO Ajay Adiseshann’s LinkedIn profile stated: “PayMate works with large enterprises to facilitate seamless and real-time payments to vendors, and from customers. It enables small and medium enterprises to manage their business, cash flow and payments from a cloud based platform. It also enables banks to provide mobile banking services to their customers.” Further describing its business in its LinkedIn profile, PayMate stated it “works with leading Visa commercial card-issuing banks to facilitate credit for both payables and receivables across supply chains moving traditional cash, cheque and EFT to card streams with several built-in risk-mitigating benefits for banks and extended days payables for buyers.” Mumbai, India-based PayMate did not respond to a request for comment from inc42.com, according to the report. Adiseshann previously founded Coruscant Tec and Webresource, according to his LinkedIn profile. Last month, PayMate partnered with financial institution…

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