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Amazon stock rises, then drops after beating Q1 estimates with $127.4B in revenue

GeekWire

Net income was $0.31 Analysts were closely watching Amazon Web Services as it is a key profit driver but has faced slowing growth amid the broader tech spending slowdown and other macroeconomic conditions. He added that consumers are “still looking to stretch their budgets further” and are focused on value.

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Defense Innovation Unit explores Pacific Northwest’s national security tech frontier

GeekWire

On the space front, there’s Amazon Web Services and Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellite effort, Microsoft and its partnership with SpaceX for Azure cloud services, Xplore, BlackSky , New Frontier Aerospace and Tethers Unlimited. At the roadshow, DIU representatives said $24.5 It’s a hard problem.”

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Top 10 countries attracting international tech talent

CIO Business Intelligence

In total, the businesses operating in the technology park brought in $13 billion to Canada’s GPD in 2018, including QNX Blackberry, Amazon Web Services, Nokia, Cisco, and Mitel. It’s also home to Canada’s largest tech park, called Kanata North Technology Park, home to more than 540 companies and 23,000 employees.

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Slack warns investors about risk of possible retaliation from Microsoft over antitrust complaint

GeekWire

We price on a per-seat basis and when our customers downsize, freeze hiring, or hire more slowly, net dollar retention is negatively impacted. On the Enterprise side there is also more budget scrutiny, especially for new categories with longer adoption curves. .

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Former AWS real estate managers, accused of taking millions in kickbacks, challenge Amazon’s motives amid FBI investigation

GeekWire

Amazon Web Services had embarked on a data center building boom to handle soaring demand as attendees gathered for its 2019 re:Invent conference in Las Vegas. Amazon Web Services needed more capacity. An Amazon Web Services data center in Sterling, Va. GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop).

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Top 10 Transformational Impacts of the Cloud in 2013

Cloud Musings

Personal comments and insight on cloud computing related technologies and their use in the public sector to support net-centric operations. will turn to cloud services brokers to manage the growing complexity. problem by integrating heterogeneous infrastructure services; whereas. Cloud Musings by Kevin L. NJVC Cloud Computing.

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