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Zoom revenue spikes to $328M in Q1; CEO thanks Amazon Web Services for help meeting demand

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Zoom CEO Eric Yuan gave a special shout-out to longtime partner Amazon Web Services and its CEO Andy Jassy for helping the company meet demand. Zoom and AWS are among a group of tech companies seeing demand surge due to the pandemic. AWS posted net sales of $10.2 Zoom Chart).

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Protesters block entrances at Amazon HQ, objecting to planned use of fossil fuels in Oregon

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Environmental activists with a group called the Troublemakers blocked entrances at Amazon’s Day 1 building in Seattle on the morning of March 27, 2024. A Washington-based group called the Troublemakers organized the action, calling on the tech giant to cancel its plans to use natural gas from a new pipeline being built in Oregon.

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Seattle hoops legend Jamal Crawford defends his use of BlackBerry phone: ‘It’s the keyboard’

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Don’t try adding Jamal Crawford to the group text. ” "With my teammates I couldn't be on the group texts." Crawford said that the Android phone doesn’t allow him to be on group texts with his teammates and they have to “send him the stuff on the side. pic.twitter.com/LFMkmsAJhB. ”

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Can AI level the playing field? GeekWire Podcast with Nancy Wang of Advancing Women in Tech

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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. Collaborating with the U.S.

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This forensic accounting startup in Seattle is helping lawyers solve fraud investigations

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Common use cases include divorce disputes between high net-worth individuals, insurance companies auditing for Medicare fraud, and chapter 11 bankruptcies. The company also sells its tech to CPA and law firms including Mazars Group, Baker Tilly, Armanino and RSM, among others. ” Valid8 co-founder and CEO Chris McCall. .

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Generative AI hackathon in Seattle encourages entrepreneurs to tinker with ‘magic wand’

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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.” to 8:00 p.m.

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Amazon sustainability report: Carbon emissions rose 19% in 2020 as pandemic drove huge revenue

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But at the same time, the company last year lowered its carbon intensity, a measure of carbon pollution per dollar earned, edging slightly towards its pledged goal to reduce its net carbon footprint to zero by 2040. The company, which employs more than 1 million people worldwide, posted record revenue of $386 billion last year.

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