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

GeekWire

The chart below is what Amazon’s net sales look like in raw numbers over the past several years, broken down into the major business segments reported by the Seattle-based company. Here are the same results, expressed as a percentage of net sales. Amazon Web Services posted revenue of $22.1 ” [Rose 18% to $32.3

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Amazon Prime Day, AWS and jobs in the spotlight for Andy Jassy’s first earnings report as CEO

GeekWire

While it may be tempting to view the numbers as setting the tone for a new era, it’s worth keeping in mind that these results were booked as of June 30, several days before Jassy officially took over from founder Jeff Bezos in early June. Amazon’s earnings report Thursday will be its first with CEO Andy Jassy at the helm.

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How Trainline’s CTO stays on track with professional development

CIO Business Intelligence

More recently, under the tutelage of former CTO Mark Holt, Trainline became a story of scale and mobility, moving to DevOps, agile principles and leveraging compute power through Amazon Web Services (AWS). The company sold more than 204 tickets every minute. The team has celebrated numerous achievements inside her first year.

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Twitter reacts to Jeff Bezos news: Maybe he’ll open an indie bookstore or work to defeat Superman

GeekWire

Some speculated on what type of leader Bezos’ successor Andy Jassy will be, and how Jassy’s impressive run as head of Amazon Web Services will inform his heading up of the entire company. Jeff Bezos has a net worth of $200 billion but has had a limited record as a philanthropist until recently.

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Father-daughters team launches Chances to attract Gen Z to new type of ‘social relationships app’

GeekWire

A tech veteran with previous startup and CEO experience, as well as a stint at Amazon Web Services, Rob Lipschutz sounds like he’s having the time of his life as a Gen Xer helping Gen Z find a better way to connect online. Social media, with all of its promise, has had a net-negative effect on human beings.

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Why Epic is burning its own cash to cook Apple

The Verge

Epic Games Store runs on Amazon Web Services. On March 28, Apple reported its quarterly earnings — almost $24 billion in net income, riding mostly on strong sales of the iPhone and Mac ; the previous quarter was a blowout for the company, with revenue of more than $100 billion. So does Fortnite itself.

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Inside Nasdaq’s AI-fueled pivot to SaaS provider

CIO Business Intelligence

The company, which reported net revenues of $3.6 As the first company to store data under regulation on the cloud, Nasdaq’s cloud roots go way back, says Peterson, whose IT department embraces Amazon Web Services as its primary cloud provider, relying on Amazon Redshift Spectrum for data analytics and warehousing.

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