GeekWire

AUGUST 1, 2023

Wall Street analysts expect the company to report net sales (revenue) of $131.5 In its prior guidance for the second quarter, Amazon said it expected net sales between $127 billion and $133 billion; and operating income between $2 billion and $5.5 Amazon Web Services revenue growth declined to 15.8% billion, up 8.5%

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GeekWire

MARCH 27, 2024

Last week, the Troublemakers sent a letter to Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, asking him to cancel plans to tap into the GTN Xpress gas pipeline and use the fuel for its data centers, which house powerful computers that create the backbone for Amazon Web Services (AWS).

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GeekWire

JULY 29, 2021

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. That’s toward the high end of Amazon’s previous guidance of net sales between $110 and $116 billion. Earlier this week, Google Cloud reported revenue of $4.6

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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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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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Vox

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Amazon has moved to reduce its dependence on fossil fuels, like committing to electrifying its delivery vehicles , and it has recruited dozens of companies to sign its Climate Pledge , a corporate commitment to reach net-zero emissions by 2040. Meanwhile, Amazon Web Services (AWS) uses massive amounts of energy to keep its servers online.

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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 Microsoft and Google both posted strong cloud results in their earnings reports last week, benefitting in part from early interest in infrastructure and services to help corporate customers develop generative AI applications. Amazon Web Services: Amazon’s cloud business was up 12% at $22.1

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GeekWire

MAY 8, 2020

Cloud lift: Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Apple and others find a common cushion in the crisis. Amazon Web Services has long been the cloud infrastructure market leader, though Microsoft Azure has gained momentum in recent years. Amazon Web Services posted net sales of $10.2 GeekWire File Photo).

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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. “And we moved in a really meaningful way to do that.”

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Earlier this year, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google and Meta signed an open letter calling on the tech sector to use less concrete and lower-carbon materials in the construction of data centers. I’m really optimistic,” Middaugh said, “that we can get to net zero, or even carbon negative concrete.”

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GeekWire

AUGUST 24, 2020

based company said it more than doubled revenue to $242 million in the first half of 2020, with a net loss of $171.3 Founded in 2012, Snowflake sits in a unique position among other cloud service providers, partnering with giants such as Amazon and Microsoft but also competing against them. The San Mateo, Calif.-based

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

A long-time Googler, who’s role as engineering director saw her lead the Google Play developer ecosystem, Nikolic was keen for something new that offered a greater sense of social purpose. “ I had been at Google for so long that I stopped counting,” she says. “It It was close to 13 years… and I was itching for a bit of a change.”

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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

MAY 26, 2021

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. Bezos will become Amazon’s executive chairman following the transition, which was announced in February. In his remarks, Bezos addressed Amazon’s proposed $8.45

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

based company more than doubled revenue to $242 million in the first half of 2020, with a net loss of $171.3 In its IPO filing, Snowflake listed Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform under potential risk factors to the business. All three competitors offer their own data warehousing service.

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The Verge

MAY 3, 2021

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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Galido

MARCH 19, 2019

Help Net Security. Help Net Security has been a valuable resource for information security news since 1998. Help Net Security hosts fresh content including articles, new product releases, latest industry news, podcasts and more. Google Online Security Blog. Google Online Security Blog is Google’s own security blog.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

We price on a per-seat basis and when our customers downsize, freeze hiring, or hire more slowly, net dollar retention is negatively impacted. Microsoft was in the antitrust spotlight repeatedly in the 90s and early 2000s but has largely avoided the current scrutiny that its peers Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Google are experiencing.

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Galido

MAY 1, 2019

Help Net Security. Help Net Security has been a valuable resource for information security news since 1998. Help Net Security hosts fresh content including articles, new product releases, latest industry news, podcasts and more. Google Online Security Blog. Google Online Security Blog is Google’s own security blog.

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Galido

MARCH 22, 2019

Help Net Security. Help Net Security has been a valuable resource for information security news since 1998. Help Net Security hosts fresh content including articles, new product releases, latest industry news, podcasts and more. Google Online Security Blog. Google Online Security Blog is Google’s own security blog.

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Galido

MARCH 19, 2019

Help Net Security. Help Net Security has been a valuable resource for information security news since 1998. Help Net Security hosts fresh content including articles, new product releases, latest industry news, podcasts and more. Google Online Security Blog. Google Online Security Blog is Google’s own security blog.

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Galido

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Help Net Security. Help Net Security has been a valuable resource for information security news since 1998. Help Net Security hosts fresh content including articles, new product releases, latest industry news, podcasts and more. Google Online Security Blog. Google Online Security Blog is Google’s own security blog.

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GeekWire

JUNE 7, 2020

Slack has also seen record-level customer adoption, adding 12,000 net new paying customers over the past quarter , driven largely by the need for teams to collaborate while being distributed. Zoom became a household brand overnight, driven by record 169% year-over-year growth over the past quarter.

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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. However, for years, companies have struggled to make those ambitions meet reality.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Booking.com and TomTom were founded in Amsterdam, and companies such as Google, Canon, IBM, and Cisco each have offices located in the city. In total, the businesses operating in the technology park brought in $13 billion to Canada’s GPD in 2018, including QNX Blackberry, Amazon Web Services, Nokia, Cisco, and Mitel.

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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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GeekWire

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Founder: Bolbi Liu was previously a product manager at Amazon Web Services. He previously spent five years at Google, most recently as a product manager. ” Unplugging in Seattle: “There are a couple of cricket nets and clubs that I found here in Seattle,” Menon said.

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Vox

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

As a result, Amazon’s ad business grew 58 percent in 2021 to more than $31 billion in revenue, making it the third-biggest online ad seller in the US, only trailing Google and Facebook. Along with Amazon Web Services, advertising has emerged as one of the company’s top two profit engines.

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Cloud Musings

JUNE 14, 2013

Personal comments and insight on cloud computing related technologies and their use in the public sector to support net-centric operations. Benioff’s mission, “The End of Software,” is as brash as it has been predictive in an era that has seen the rise of Google Apps, Amazon Web Services and an entire SaaS industry.

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The Verge

MAY 20, 2020

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 Award for Music : Bastille - Doom Days Web AR by Powster. Webby Award for Web Services & Applications : Paste by WeTransfer. Collective.

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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. Jeff Bezos has a net worth of $200 billion but has had a limited record as a philanthropist until recently.

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GeekWire

MARCH 18, 2021

Its profits have also doubled to more than $21 billion annually , and its net sales are up 50% to $386 billion. Its cloud computing division, Amazon Web Services, powers many of the world’s online businesses, bringing in $45 billion in annual revenue and $13.5 Podcast feed available here ; Google Podcasts coming soon.).

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Amazon Web Services, the company’s cloud arm, actively pursues oil industry customers with technology promising to improve the efficiency of oil discovery and extraction. Amazon’s Climate Pledge, unveiled in 2019 , is a commitment to become net carbon neutral by 2040, among other sustainability goals.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 12, 2022

Salesforce, though, will likely need to add more components to its platform if it’s to be seen as a full-featured alternative to Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace. Ping Identity buys antifraud service SecuredTouch. stake in the virtualization software company in a process that will net it a special dividend of around $9.5

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The Verge

MARCH 9, 2021

I don’t know how much of the Analyst Day you watched, but this is one of our top company objectives, investing in our own development velocity, making a huge, multibillion-dollar commitment in leveraging public cloud solutions through AWS [Amazon Web Services] and GCP [Google Cloud Platform]. That’s a lot of cuts.

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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. The same was true for many of Trump’s more extremist followers.

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