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Google Cloud growth slows as Alphabet net income plunges

CIO Business Intelligence

Even though Google Cloud revenue growth showed signs of slowing, it nevertheless provided something of a bright spot as parent company Alphabet — hit hard by the tightening of customer budgets — posted a year-over-year decline in net income for its 2022 fourth quarter. billion a year ago, according to company results posted Thursday.

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Amazon’s carbon footprint grew 15% in 2019, highlighting the challenge of net zero emissions

GeekWire

Amazon has pledged to make its retail and cloud-computing operations “net carbon zero” by 2040, but its newly released 2019 sustainability report shows that greenhouse gas emissions rose over the previous year by 15%. This is the first time that the Seattle-based company has issued a sustainability report. grams last year.

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Nike just bought a virtual shoe company that makes NFTs and sneakers ‘for the metaverse’

The Verge

One comparison I’ve heard repeatedly over the last year is that buying NFTs to “flex” on people in the metaverse is just like collecting sneakers, and now Nike is apparently trying to make sure it’s ready for the literal version of that possibility. RTFKT made these A16Z sneakers to celebrate a round of venture capital funding | Image: RTFKT.

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Why would anyone be against life-saving malaria bednets?

Vox

A young boy rolls up a mosquito net covering bedding at a refugee camp in 2023 in South Sudan. That mosquito nets are dangerous to people would be news to basically any public health professional who’s ever studied them. lives for every 1,000 children protected by nets. lives for every 1,000 children protected by nets.

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Microsoft adds 23k employees in one year, growing 14% despite pandemic and tight labor market

GeekWire

Microsoft’s global employee count grew to nearly 190,000 people at the end of the September quarter, a net increase of 23,500 people globally over the past year, or 14% year-over-year growth. The growth during the past year came despite the global pandemic and a tight labor market that has impacted hiring for many companies.

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Analysis: New jobs numbers show where Amazon has been adding and shedding U.S. workers

GeekWire

workforce for the first time since the company started to curb the growth of its fulfillment and delivery network a year ago. GeekWire compared the company’s latest stats, recently updated on its “About Amazon” website , with our own archive of numbers previously published by the company, dating back to 2015.

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Microsoft and Helion want to build the world’s first fusion plant and seize energy’s ‘Holy Grail’

GeekWire

Helion plans to build the commercial facility in Washington state, where the companies are headquartered. That market spans companies worldwide and in the Pacific Northwest includes Helion, Zap Energy, Avalanche Energy and General Fusion. billion that’s unlocked if the company hits milestones with Polaris.

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