Tech Moves: Xbox vet joins 9Slides; Blessington lands at ExtraHop; Mixpo bolsters team

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Aaron Khoo has joined Redmond online presentation startup 9Slides as director of engineering. Khoo is the former CTO at PaidPunch, and before that held numerous engineering roles at Microsoft, primarily working on Xbox. Khoo holds a PhD in computer science from Northwestern University. “Aaron brings in vast experience working with large companies like Microsoft where he managed… Read More…

9Slides releases iPad app to make slick presentations

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Does your PowerPoint presentation need a little spice? 9Slides, a Seattle startup led by former Microsoftie Ruchit Garg, thinks it can help. And today the company is rolling out a new iPad app, which allows users to quickly add video to the presentation using the iPad’s built-in camera. Garg notes that the service could be… Read More…

Ruchit Garg’s 9Slides unveils presentation software to easily sync slides with videos

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Ruchit Garg sees no reason why slide decks can’t be more interactive, allowing viewers to not only consume the graphical presentations but the accompanying videos in which the presentations were made. That’s why former Microsoftie created 9Slides, which today is publicly unveiling its presentation software for meshing slide decks with video. The way Garg sees… Read More…

Ex-Microsoft manager raises cash for 9Slides to sync videos with presentation slides

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A Seattle area startup by the name of 9Slides has raised a tiny bit of angel financing that it will use to roll out a new service that synchronizes videos from presentations with slide decks. San Francisco-based SlideShare already is a juggernaut in that arena, boasting some 55 million unique visitors. It is backed by… Read More…