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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 is undergoing a steady transformation under CEO Andy Jassy.

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GeekWire Podcast: Microsoft’s big bet on the AI economy, and the risks on the road ahead

GeekWire

(GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) This week on the GeekWire Podcast: Microsoft staked its financial claim in the AI gold rush this week, announcing pricing for its upcoming Microsoft 365 Copilot technology : a whopping $30/user per month on top of its existing license fees. Wall Street loved it. One analyst called it “eye popping.”

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Cloud, SaaS boost Oracle sales, but competition exacts costs

CIO Business Intelligence

While that cloud growth is good news for Oracle, it is still trailing market leaders Microsoft, AWS and Google. While overall revenue including services and license support rose 4% year over year to reach $10.5 billion, net income plunged 54% to $2.3 Oracle’s user base grows. And Oracle has tough competition ahead. billion.

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Innovative Approaches to Revenue Diversification: A CEO’s Playbook

Kitaboo

In this CEO’s playbook, we delve into innovative approaches, exploring how diversifying revenue streams isn’t just a safety net but a catalyst for financial sustainability. As of now, Adobe’s Creative Cloud offerings play a significant role in the company’s revenue, accumulating a substantial net sales figure of 10.5

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Why are iOS 14 default apps limited to just browser and email apps?

The Verge

Apple Maps has gradually improved over the years, but Google Maps is still far superior outside the US. Unfortunately, you can’t set Google Maps as the universal default for navigation and mapping. You can at least launch the superior Google Assistant through new back tap gestures that are coming in iOS 14. Apple’s HomePod.

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Futurist conversations: Ross Dawson and Gerd Leonhard on Open vs Closed Systems

Trends in the Living Networks

Google’s early move to expose APIs to many of its products provided the impetus for this to become standard practice across the net. * In music, for example, without open rights licensing platforms the system will crash, however financial systems need substantially closed systems.

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7 Effective Ways to Combat eBook Piracy in Publishing

Kitaboo

It provides various important licensing measures in eBook protection, which help to extend your ability to publish safely when distributing the eBooks in the digital marketplace. Since the PDF format supports data encryption, it is a secure approach to transfer data over the net. Acquire a DRM (Digital Rights Management) Software.

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