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Dancing with the cloud: Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky takes steps to fight homelessness

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Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky during a rehearsal session with his professional dance partner Lauren Smith. But a group of notable personalities in the city, including Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky , will do their best to use dance to raise money to help combat the issue. .

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To the moon! Amazon Web Services lists first startups for AWS Space Accelerator

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The first 10 companies to participate in Amazon Web Services’ accelerator program for space-centric startups are targeting territory ranging from low Earth orbit to the surface of the moon and Mars. Lunar Outpost via YouTube). Today’s announcement follows up on the unveiling of the AWS Space Accelerator in March.

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Amazon says Project Kuiper satellites ace orbital tests — including video streaming and online sale

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Amazon Photo) Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellite network streamed its first video and facilitated its first online sale during a monthlong series of orbital tests that the company says achieved a “100% success rate.” for a two-way satellite video call on the Amazon Chime videoconferencing platform.

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Spearline and Amazon Web Services Partnership

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Amazon Web Services. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a secure cloud services platform which offers compute power, database storage, content delivery and other functionality to help businesses scale and grow as required. AWS Partner Network. AWS offers an AWS Partner Network (APN) Programme. About Spearline.

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Amazon’s online store sales dip below 40% of net sales for first time, and other earnings notes

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The declining percentage comes from noticeably slower growth in the online segment over the past couple years (including year-over year declines in some recent quarters) and the continued growth of the company’s revenue from areas including third party seller services, Amazon Web Services, and advertising services.

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In new NFL deal, Amazon to be exclusive home for ‘Thursday Night Football’ at a reported $1B per year

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Amazon is going deep in its relationship with the National Football League, signing on for a new 11-year deal that will make Prime Video the exclusive home of “Thursday Night Football.” Sportico speculated on whether Amazon will outsource production of its games or whether Prime Video will build a team from the ground up.

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AWS opens up its Amazon Braket platform as ‘launch pad’ for quantum computing

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Eight months after unveiling its Amazon Braket quantum computing platform , Amazon Web Services says the cloud-based service is officially open for business. In April, the National Science Foundation kicked off a program to support researchers seeking to run quantum algorithms on Amazon Braket, IBM Q and Microsoft Azure Quantum.