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Advertising surge lifts Amazon’s ‘Other’ segment past subscription business, on pace to rival AWS

GeekWire

Since most of the company’s ad revenue comes from the sponsored ads on product pages and in product search results, its advertising business has accelerated along with its online shopping business during the pandemic. By comparison, AWS growth has been steadily declining and is now in the sub-30% range. “It was up $2.5

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Interview: Microsoft President Brad Smith supports plan for AI ‘safety brakes’ in U.S. Senate hearing

GeekWire

Brad Smith, the Microsoft president and vice chair, drew that comparison Tuesday in his testimony before the U.S. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Josh Hawley (R-MO), leaders of the subcommittee. And I think that’s fundamentally what they’re doing. And they’re doing it in a bipartisan way.

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How do you cross-examine a whistleblower?

The Verge

She worked in both, starting with the R&D lab. By comparison, the commercially available machines failed much less frequently. There was a 120-page long document that set out standards from the lab assistants like Cheung to the very top of the lab. We saw pages of documentation with signatures affirming the procedures.

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The House’s three big ideas to take on tech power

The Verge

Apple CEO Tim Cook, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and Google CEO Sundar Pichai headlined one of the biggest must-watch hearings last summer and they faced tough lines of questioning from lawmakers who (for the most part) did their homework, prepped with thousands of pages of evidence alleging illegal business practices.

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Amazon Music will offer My Favorite Murder episodes a week early

The Verge

Just the R&R I needed :~). Two things stick out to me here: one is the week-long timeframe, particularly in comparison to Spotify, which signed deals with Call Her Daddy and Armchair Expert over the past year and immediately shuffled them behind the platform’s wall. Anyway, I’m happy to be back with you and the podcast news.

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Data mining for B2B churn and loyalty management in India and South Asia

TM Forum

Their results demonstrate that using CC and social features derived from interaction records and network structure yields substantially improved prediction in comparison to using conventional classification and user profile features only. What pages do they visit? See figure 1 below for B2B Telecoms and Media churn predictive modeling.

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The antitrust case against Google is gathering steam

The Verge

A large portion of searches are for commoditized information like weather and sports that hardly differ in their presentation on any one web page; why not just put it all in search results? So it’s very much unregulated to a large degree, and what has definitely become apparent from the page is just seeing how many influencers need help.”.

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