GeekWire

AUGUST 1, 2023

Amazon’s cloud revenue growth rate and its artificial intelligence initiatives will be closely scrutinized when the company reports second-quarter earnings Thursday afternoon, Aug. Wall Street analysts expect the company to report net sales (revenue) of $131.5 Amazon Web Services revenue growth declined to 15.8%

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GeekWire

MARCH 27, 2024

In 2019, then-CEO Jeff Bezos vowed the company would become carbon neutral by 2040 and created the Climate Pledge — an effort that calls on other corporations to join it in slashing their greenhouse gas emissions. Since that time, the company’s carbon footprint has increased by 39%. Amazon prides itself on innovation.

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GeekWire

JULY 29, 2021

While the company typically doesn’t disclose detailed Prime Day financial results, its overall numbers will provide new clues about how things went. What to watch in the numbers: Wall Street expects Amazon to report overall net sales of $115 billion , on average, a 29% increase year-over-year. per share a year ago.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 28, 2022

We recently connected with Corriero to learn about IT Vortex’s commitment to the Zero Carbon Committed Initiative, what motivated the company to radically lower its carbon footprint, and why environmentally-friendly IT solutions are crucial. We’re very much focused on our customers’ needs now and in the future,” says Corriero.

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Vox

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

While the fundraising effort is certainly notable, Bezos’s commitment to protecting the environment serves as a stark reminder that much of his legacy and largely untaxed fortune was built by companies that have staggering carbon footprints. Meanwhile, Amazon Web Services (AWS) uses massive amounts of energy to keep its servers online.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 6, 2024

Startup investor Nancy Wang sees the potential for generative artificial intelligence to change the balance of power in fields such as cybersecurity, which is one of her areas of focus, leveraging her background as a former Amazon Web Services general manager and Google lead product manager.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Providing hardware, software, and IT solutions and services, the company also delivers an extensive array of cloud offerings from dedicated private clouds to deployments with the world’s largest hyperscalers, including Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Google parent company Alphabet weathered the tail end of 2020 to post better-than-expected earnings for the fourth quarter of the year. But the bigger story is that Alphabet broke out Google Cloud’s sales for the first time ever, revealing an eye-popping $5.6 Google Cloud lags behind Azure and AWS, but it’s growing fast.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 3, 2023

Net income was $0.65 billion in the year-ago quarter and well above the high end of analyst estimates and the company’s guidance. Recent changes to the company’s shipping fulfillment network, including better inventory placement, have also resulted in decreased costs, said Amazon CFO Brian Olsavsky on a call with reporters.

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GeekWire

MAY 8, 2020

Amazon took a swipe at Microsoft’s cloud computing technology performance this week, calling out the company’s “spotty operational performance during the COVID-19 crisis.”. Cloud lift: Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Apple and others find a common cushion in the crisis. Amazon Web Services posted net sales of $10.2

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

based company is acting as a guinea pig and testing greener alternatives to conventional concrete. The alternatives can cut the concrete’s carbon footprint in half, according to the company. “It The company is looking for ways to help Blue Planet scale its operations. So the Redmond, Wash.-based

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GeekWire

AUGUST 24, 2020

Cloud computing startup Snowflake Computing filed for an IPO on Monday, revealing its financial data for the first time as the company prepares to go public. based company said it more than doubled revenue to $242 million in the first half of 2020, with a net loss of $171.3 The San Mateo, Calif.-based Slootman owns 5.9%

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GeekWire

AUGUST 5, 2023

As the retail, cloud and entertainment giant strives to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2040, most of its carbon cuts so far have come from its shift to renewables. ” Charley Daitch, the Amazon Web Services director of energy and water strategy. . They’re not used to people like us — companies.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Few would swap sunny San Francisco and the innovation of Silicon Valley for a train ticketing company serving disgruntled UK commuters, but try telling that to Trainline CTO, Milena Nikolic. I had been at Google for so long that I stopped counting,” she says. The company sold more than 204 tickets every minute.

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GeekWire

MAY 26, 2021

Previously the company had said only that the change would take place in the third quarter of this year. Jassy, the longtime leader of the Amazon Web Services cloud business, “is going to be an outstanding leader, and he has my full confidence,” Bezos said. ” Incoming Amazon CEO Andy Jassy. fulfillment center.

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GeekWire

JUNE 5, 2023

“I think it’ll probably be the biggest Gen AI hackathon that we’ve seen in our community yet,” said Jon Turow, a partner at Madrona Venture Group, former Amazon Web Services product leader and one of the organizers of the event. “We’ve Change is hard for people but ultimately, it nets out.”

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The data warehousing company opened at $245/share after pricing its IPO at $120/share. Its stock continued climbing in Wednesday trading, closing at $253.93, valuing the company at more than $60 billion. The IPO is a windfall for the company’s investors, including Madrona Venture Group.

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The Verge

MAY 3, 2021

Epic Games Store runs on Amazon Web Services. At many companies, losing this much money would be a problem, but that figure is only slightly more than Epic’s Fortnite revenue from April 2020 , which was $400 million that month. So does Fortnite itself. Fortnite’ pretty much prints cash. In 2019, Epic Games had revenue of $4.2

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

New language in Slack’s quarterly regulatory report warns investors that Microsoft could retaliate against the workplace collaboration company over its antitrust complaint against the tech giant. And it’s common for companies to caution investors about standard risks and uncertainties associated with such legal actions. .”

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Galido

MARCH 19, 2019

Mashable is a global, multi-platform media and entertainment company. TechCrunch is a news website focused on information technology companies, ranging in size from startups to established NASDAQ-100 firms. Help Net Security. Help Net Security has been a valuable resource for information security news since 1998.

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Vox

SEPTEMBER 26, 2020

The pandemic has brought new urgency to the problem, and while companies like Google and Facebook have floated far-out ideas for solving this problem, the internet technology that’s most promising is also the one that’s already proven: satellite broadband. In 2020, there are two main ways companies deliver satellite broadband.

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Galido

MAY 1, 2019

Mashable is a global, multi-platform media and entertainment company. TechCrunch is a news website focused on information technology companies, ranging in size from startups to established NASDAQ-100 firms. Help Net Security. Help Net Security has been a valuable resource for information security news since 1998.

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Galido

MARCH 22, 2019

Mashable is a global, multi-platform media and entertainment company. TechCrunch is a news website focused on information technology companies, ranging in size from startups to established NASDAQ-100 firms. Help Net Security. Help Net Security has been a valuable resource for information security news since 1998.

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Galido

MARCH 19, 2019

Mashable is a global, multi-platform media and entertainment company. TechCrunch is a news website focused on information technology companies, ranging in size from startups to established NASDAQ-100 firms. Help Net Security. Help Net Security has been a valuable resource for information security news since 1998.

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Galido

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Mashable is a global, multi-platform media and entertainment company. TechCrunch is a news website focused on information technology companies, ranging in size from startups to established NASDAQ-100 firms. Help Net Security. Help Net Security has been a valuable resource for information security news since 1998.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 27, 2023

A survey from global talent marketplace Andela found that 88% of enterprise companies are looking for top tech talent in other countries. Booking.com and TomTom were founded in Amsterdam, and companies such as Google, Canon, IBM, and Cisco each have offices located in the city.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 13, 2023

We spoke to nearly 50 founders that are participating in the 15th cohort of Techstars Seattle, which counts companies including Remitly, Outreach, Skilljar, Mass Reforestation, and others as alumni. Many of the 24 companies use AI tools such as GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT to boost productivity. ” Astros Founder Zsika Phillip.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 1, 2023

Ofcom, the UK’s communications regulator, is concerned the market for public cloud infrastructure services is concentrated in the hands of just three providers, limiting competition and making it difficult for enterprises to switch or use multiple suppliers. Those three providers—AWS, Microsoft, and Google—argue the contrary.

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Vox

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

While company founder Jeff Bezos once said that “advertising is the price you pay for having an unremarkable product or service,” Amazon has in recent years become an ad-selling machine, driven by the substantial profit margins and the rising value of digital retail estate on the most popular shopping site in the West.

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The Verge

MAY 20, 2020

This year’s winners, announced on Tuesday , were largely dominated by media and entertainment companies. Google came in a close second, with 14 wins, for categories including best navigation and best branded editorial experience. Webby Special Achievement: Google Classroom. Webby Special Achievement: Invisible Hands. Collective.

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GeekWire

MARCH 18, 2021

It feels sometimes like the “enemy hordes are at the gates,” an Amazon shareholder told Jeff Bezos at the company’s annual meeting in 2018. “Is All large institutions “deserve to be inspected and scrutinized,” Bezos said, acknowledging how much the company had grown. Is this a trend? Is it going to blow over?”

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

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. After many years at @amazon I can tell you that @ajassy is the absolute best person lead the company. stilldayone [link].

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Amazon’s sustainability chief defended the company’s partnerships with fossil fuel companies Thursday during an Axios virtual event with Washington Gov. Amazon’s Climate Pledge, unveiled in 2019 , is a commitment to become net carbon neutral by 2040, among other sustainability goals. Jay Inslee.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 12, 2022

Keeping on top of activity in this area can help your company make the most of emerging opportunities and steer clear of issues that often arise when vendors combine. The appetite of Indian IT service companies for European acquisitions is still unsated. Equinix buys West African data center company for $320 million.

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The Verge

MARCH 9, 2021

One of the things that [Twitter CEO] Jack [Dorsey] really emphasized when he came back to the company, was morphing our product development process to respect the “jobs to be done” framework a lot more. And really, unwinding that, I think, has been the biggest unlock that we’ve had as a company. It’s hard to pinpoint one.

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Vox

JANUARY 21, 2021

Apple, Google, and Amazon Web Services banned the right-wing Twitter alternative Parler, effectively shutting down the site indefinitely (though it’s attempting to return ) and relegating many right-wingers to the hinterlands of the internet. “I The same was true for many of Trump’s more extremist followers.

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