GeekWire

APRIL 11, 2024

He joined UiPath in 2018 after a long stint at Microsoft, where he held various engineering leadership roles. Founded in 2011, Talkdesk sells software built for customer service contact centers. The company raised a $230 million Series D round in 2021, but has had multiple rounds of layoffs since then. .”

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GeekWire

JULY 26, 2023

Protect AI sells software that allows companies to monitor the various layers and components of machine learning systems, detecting potential violations and logging information on those attacks. predicts businesses will spend more than $100 billion on related services by 2025. McKinsey and Co. McKinsey and Co.

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GeekWire

APRIL 30, 2024

Amazon’s two big profit drivers, Amazon Web Services and advertising, posted year-over-year revenue growth of 17% and 24%, respectively. billion Q1 2018: $51.0 Amazon Web Services: Amazon’s cloud business was up 17% at $25 billion, with $9.4 Analysts expected Q1 revenue of $142.7 billion Q1 2023: $127.4

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Emily Freeman , head of community for Amazon Web Services , is departing. LinkedIn Photo) — William Johnson stepped down from Vancouver Tech Journal , which he founded in 2018. The company raised $95 million in 2021. The company’s CEO Girish Mathrubootham is based in the Seattle region. Emily Freeman.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Tableau Software will launch new Slack integrations that let users interact with data and graphics inside the popular communication and collaboration platform, trying out their newfound status as Salesforce sister companies. Salesforce spent $50 billion from 2018 to 2021 for Slack, Tableau and integration software company Mulesoft.

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GeekWire

JUNE 7, 2023

based AI drug design and development company Absci named Frans van Houten to its board of directors. During a nearly 12-year tenure as CEO, he divested in the company’s consumer tech divisions, including TV, audio, video, and lighting, while acquiring more than 30 med-tech companies. based toy company.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 16, 2021

Wei Gao , an Amazon executive who helped lead the company’s grocery efforts, is leaving the Seattle tech giant after more than 16 years. Gao held multiple positions at Amazon, including as Jeff Bezos’ technical advisor from July 2018 to January 2020. Gao was only the second woman to be appointed to the role.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Mark Nelson is stepping down as CEO of Tableau Software, less than two years after he took the helm of the Seattle-based data visualization company owned by Salesforce. ” Nelson joined Tableau in 2018 as executive vice president of product development. Salesforce founder and co-CEO Marc Benioff will continue to lead the company.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 12, 2021

It also exceeds the peak traffic volume of 2.3Tbps, the previous largest attack, which was directed at Amazon Web Services last year. DDoS attacks are typically used to force websites or services offline, thanks to a flood of traffic that a web host can’t handle.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 15, 2022

Almost all major IT companies have joined the West’s global economic sanctions against Russia in recent weeks. The following is an overview — without claiming to be exhaustive — of companies from all over the world that have temporarily suspended all or part of their business in Russia. How the IT industry reacted.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Four leaders from top Seattle tech companies are working together on a stealthy new startup. The company is working on tools that help users build digital communities, according to a recent tweet from Lian. He joined Convoy in 2018 as its senior director of engineering, then transitioned into a role advising CEO Dan Lewis.

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GeekWire

JULY 2, 2021

Amazon Web Services chief Andy Jassy will join the company’s board of directors as he takes over for Jeff Bezos as Amazon’s new CEO on July 5, the company said in a new filing Friday. The company currently has six men and four women on the 10-member board. (GeekWIre Photo / Todd Bishop).

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GeekWire

APRIL 4, 2024

The company, founded in 2018 by Robby Hamblet and Michael Johnston, Jr., Founded by veterans of DataScience.com, Oracle, and Amazon Web Services, the company raised $35 million in July 2023. The GeekWire Awards recognize the top innovators and companies in Pacific Northwest technology.

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GeekWire

JUNE 8, 2020

Brian Hall was the AWS vice president of product marketing from June 2018 until earlier this year. Amazon similarly sued Philip Moyer , a former Amazon Web Services sales executive, after he took a job with Google Cloud last year. He went on to be CEO and COO of smart earbud maker Doppler Labs before joining Amazon in June 2018.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

(GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Amazon beat revenue expectations for its fourth quarter as the company continues to navigate various headwinds. billion, up 9% year-over-year, topping both analyst expectations and the company’s own guidance. billion attributed to the company’s investment in Rivian.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Cropin, an agritech startup backed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, on Tuesday said that it was launching its industry cloud for agriculture, built on Amazon Web Services (AWS). The suite, according to the company, consists of three layers: Cropin Apps, the Cropin Data Hub and Cropin Intelligence.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 6, 2020

ZDNet reports the company is moving part of the Windows engineering team out of the Azure group and into Panay’s Windows + Devices group. Ensing will report to RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser, who invested $10 million into the company earlier this year as it makes a major pivot into facial recognition technology. Microsoft Photo).

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Inspirage will move its 710 employees to the Accenture Oracle Business Group in order to bolster its supply chain management skills and expand its ability to help product-centric clients create interconnected, intelligent and innovative supply chain networks, the companies said in a joint statement.

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Vox

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

While the fundraising effort is certainly notable, Bezos’s commitment to protecting the environment serves as a stark reminder that much of his legacy and largely untaxed fortune was built by companies that have staggering carbon footprints. Meanwhile, Amazon Web Services (AWS) uses massive amounts of energy to keep its servers online.

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GeekWire

MAY 7, 2021

In January, the company raised $150 million , bringing total funding to date past $1 billion. Microsoft and Amazon veteran Dirk Didascalou has been appointed the first CTO of Siemens Digital Industries, a business unit of the German multinational company. Guzmán was previously VP of local for media technology company WhereBy.Us

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 20, 2023

APIs are used by web services to enable online apps and/or external partners to retrieve internal data, typically utilizing some type of authentication tokens. "In The latest breach is the eighth to hit the company since 2018.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

The company sent an email alerting customers to the security breach. Many on social media were quick to comment on other breaches connected to GoDaddy servers, which made some question the security of the web hosting company. This is the third data breach GoDaddy has experienced since 2018. customer numbers.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy speaks at re:Invent 2018. And it connects directly to Jassy’s current day job of leading Amazon Web Services, the cloud juggernaut that earlier this week disclosed a mind-blowing $13.5 GeekWire Photo). billion in operating profit last year. (As

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The Verge

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Massive tech companies like Google, Amazon, Netflix, and more have had a huge impact on the way we live our lives, and have had incredible levels of financial success. Amazon — In July 2021, Jeff Bezos officially handed the CEO position of Amazon over to former Amazon Web Services head Andy Jassy.

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GeekWire

MAY 27, 2021

Henry joined Amazon in 1998 when the 4-year-old company had about 2,100 employees. The company is in the midst of overhauling its leadership structure and brand after a long period of organizational disarray and declining revenues. . Fletcher spent seven years at the Seattle data visualization company and was promoted to CFO in 2018.

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GeekWire

APRIL 18, 2023

The company did not provide specific numbers supporting its assertion. Amazon doesn’t publicly disclose the number of Prime members as part of its financial reporting, although the company has periodically announced major milestones in its global Prime membership. and worldwide—as the value members receive continues to increase.”

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GeekWire

MAY 28, 2021

That’s up significantly from Tableau revenue growth of 15% in early 2019, in the data visualization technology company’s final earnings report as an independent operation. Tableau was involved in eight of the San Francisco-based company’s top 10 customer deals for the recent quarter. billion in 2018.

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The Verge

JANUARY 11, 2021

Its Amazon Web Service (AWS) “cannot provide services to a customer that is unable to effectively identify and remove content that encourages or incites violence against others,” the letter to Peikoff states , adding that Parler “poses a very real risk to public safety.”.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Analysts are keeping a close eye on the company’s cloud division, particularly as the COVID-19 pandemic and related stay-at-home orders increase demand for its products and services. ” Microsoft still trails Amazon Web Services in cloud infrastructure market share but is gaining ground. in 2019 to $44.5

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 29, 2020

In its third quarter earnings report , the Seattle company said it added 248,500 new full- and part-time permanent employees from July to September. The company has added 400,000 positions in 2020 alone. Olsavsky said Amazon continues to hire at a normal pace for tech roles in areas such as Amazon Web Services and Alexa.

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GeekWire

APRIL 15, 2021

The blank check company is called CM Life Sciences III Inc. The SPAC is targeting companies in “three separate areas of the life sciences industry that are often fragmented — life sciences tools, synthetic biology and diagnostics.” “The quality of the sponsor and the target company profile matters.”

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GeekWire

JANUARY 9, 2023

The company is led by former executives at Turi, a machine learning startup acquired by Apple in 2016 for around $200 million in one of the largest acquisitions for a Seattle startup. XetHub resembles GitHub, a commercial service based on the Git open-source project founded in 2008 and acquired by Microsoft in 2018.

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GeekWire

MARCH 14, 2022

Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services and other cloud-based services are already using hybrid systems to bring some of the benefits of the quantum approach to applications ranging from drug development to traffic management. To keep those quantum states stable, the wires would host Majorana zero modes localized at each end.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 7, 2021

Rachel Ruggeri , a 16-year veteran of the company, will take over for the retiring Patrick Grismer , as the pandemic increases the Seattle-based coffee giant’s reliance on technology at its stores. The announcement Thursday morning follows one of the most difficult financial periods in the company’s history.

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GeekWire

MAY 18, 2020

2 public cloud platform behind Amazon Web Services, as well as Microsoft’s Dynamics 365, which competes with Salesforce and other business software platforms. On a video call with FedEx CEO Fred Smith, distributed by the companies, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said the partnership will “reimagine what commerce can look like.”

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

In October 2021, the company announced plans to turn on two-factor authentication by default for 150 million Google users who were not currently using the service and to require 2 million YouTube creators to use it. There is a lot of educating that needs to happen with 2SV”.

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GeekWire

MAY 18, 2023

Founded in 2015, the Seattle-based firm is one of more than 800 studios that generate ideas and recruit people to lead new companies. Gottesman likened the technology to how Amazon Web Services made it easier for startups to get up and running. Gottesman said the portfolio companies are still young.

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