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Andy Jassy officially takes over as Amazon CEO from Jeff Bezos

The Verge

Andy Jassy is now listed as the company’s CEO on its investor relations website , after previously having run Amazon Web Services since 2003, while Bezos is listed as Executive Chair. The July 5th handover date was previously announced in a shareholder meeting in May. The end of a 27-year tenure.

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Tableau Software CEO Mark Nelson steps down

GeekWire

He became CEO in March 2021, filling a vacancy created when his predecessor, Adam Selipsky, was named CEO of Amazon Web Services and replaced current Amazon CEO Andy Jassy. Tableau originally launched in 2003. billion.

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Scientists share a wiring diagram tracing connections for 200,000 mouse brain cells

GeekWire

” The data set is hosted online by the Brain Observatory Storage Service & Database , or BossDB, and Amazon Web Services is making it freely accessible on the cloud through its Open Data Sponsorship Program.

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How commercial space stations could become the final frontier for data and cybersecurity

GeekWire

and served as the president of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture from 2003 to 2017. So does that mean Axiom Space will be going up against Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure? ” In connection with the funding deal, Meyerson has joined Axiom Space’s board of directors. ISPCS via YouTube).

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‘Tableau has been killed by Salesforce’: Past and current Tableau employees gather at ‘Irish wake’

GeekWire

Tableau began as a startup inside Stanford University back in 2003, based on an idea to visualize huge amounts of data. Nelson led the company for two years, after replacing former Tableau CEO Adam Selipsky, who returned to Amazon as CEO of Amazon Web Services, succeeding Amazon CEO Andy Jassy in that role.

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NASA names Perseverance rover landing site on Mars after Seattle sci-fi pioneer Octavia E. Butler

GeekWire

Those names honor space shuttle crews who lost their lives in 1986 and 2003. More than 7,000 raw images have been sent back to Earth and are available online in a gallery supported by Amazon Web Services. The scale bar indicates a length of 10 meters, or 33 feet. NASA / JPL-Caltech / ASU). ” The primary goal of the $2.7

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Former Amazon exec inherits Microsoft’s complex cybersecurity legacy in quest to solve ‘one of the greatest challenges of our time’

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Charlie Bell, a former Amazon Web Services executive, is now the leader of Microsoft’s newly formed, 10,000-person security engineering organization. based security tech company Polyverse , who worked in the role of technical advisor to Gates at Microsoft from 2003 to 2006. Microsoft Photo).

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