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Zoom revenue spikes to $328M in Q1; CEO thanks Amazon Web Services for help meeting demand

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Zoom CEO Eric Yuan gave a special shout-out to longtime partner Amazon Web Services and its CEO Andy Jassy for helping the company meet demand. Zoom does not report monthly active user numbers but CNBC cited its mobile app at a whopping 173 million monthly active users, up from 14 million in March. Zoom Chart).

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Tech Moves: AWS community head departing; Pfizer exec joins Truveta board; UW Medicine names CEO

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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. Glick was previously an engineer at New Relic and Amazon Web Services. Emily Freeman. before considering my next role.”

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Salesforce Names Amazon Its Preferred Cloud Provider

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Salesforce has officially named Amazon Web Services its preferred public cloud infrastructure provider, Amazon announced Wednesday. The announcement follows a report by the Wall Street Journal earlier this month that Salesforce was using AWS for infrastructure that underpins its new Internet of.

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Report: Amazon, Microsoft and Google vie for billion-dollar Boeing cloud contract

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Amazon, Microsoft and Google are involved in a bidding process to provide Boeing with cloud computing services, a contract that’s expected to be worth at least $1 billion over several years, The Information reports. Today’s report is attributed to four people with knowledge of the matter.

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Quantum bits: AWS releases hardware design tool; Google reduces error rates

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Amazon opens a ‘Palace’ for designers Amazon Web Services is introducing an open-source software platform called Palace (which stands for Pa rallel, La rge-Scale C omputational E lectromagnetics) that can perform 3-D simulations of complex electromagnetic models and enable the design of quantum computing hardware.

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Amazon reportedly close to deal to acquire Hollywood studio MGM for almost $9B

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Amazon is close to a deal to acquire Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) according to a new report in The Wall Street Journal on Monday. (MGM.com Image). The historic Hollywood studio would cost the Seattle-based tech giant almost $9 billion, people familiar with the matter told the newspaper.

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Amazon begins shifting 2,000 employees from Seattle to new Bellevue office towers

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Amazon said it will move additional employees into the West Main Tower One later this year, and that Amazon Web Services employees are being assigned to these locations over the next few months. The Puget Sound Business Journal reported this summer that Amazon surpassed Microsoft as Bellevue’s largest employer.