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Cloud, Mobile, Social and Cyber: 2015 Predictions That Will Rock The World (AGAIN!)

Cloud Musings

2015 PREDICTION TIME!! The worlds of cloud, mobile, social and cyber will continue expanding, permuting and recombining. Their individual effect on society and commerce will become moot as these technological capabilities merge to deliver products and services straight out of Star Trek!

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Former AWS engineers raise $3M to take on tech giants with ‘world’s fastest spreadsheet’

GeekWire

Founded in 2021 by former engineers at Amazon Web Services, the company is targeting a wide range of customers that use Row Zero for business intelligence, finance, operations, marketing, and more. It’s aiming to fill a gap between pricey spreadsheet tools and software that requires programming skills.

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Elon Musk’s SpaceX inks satellite connectivity deal with Google Cloud

The Verge

Google said on Thursday that it signed a deal with Elon Musk’s SpaceX to use the space company’s growing satellite internet service, Starlink, with its cloud unit. The Google-SpaceX deal marks another competitive win for Google in its own rivalry with Amazon’s behemoth cloud services unit, Amazon Web Services.

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Seattle investors back Battlesnake, makers of a growing game that turns coding into competition

GeekWire

Battlesnake originated in the Pacific Northwest as a developer recruiting event in 2015, and by 2019 the flagship Battlesnake Tournament in Victoria drew 1,200 developers and another 1,000 spectators intrigued by the e-sports-like drama of watching competitors compete with their coded snakes.

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Amazon reports $149B in revenue for holiday quarter, beating estimates, but shares fall 6%

GeekWire

In a sign of the broader tech spending slowdown, revenue for Amazon Web Services grew just 20% in the fourth quarter, compared to 40% growth in the year-ago period. Amazon warned in October that companies were cutting their cloud spend and said that continued in Q4. billion, with $5.2

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Biotech giant Moderna will open tech office in Seattle, plans to hire up to 220 workers

GeekWire

The office will focus on artificial intelligence, cloud-based tools, and other technology applications. The 13-year-old company also sees an opportunity to deepen its relationship with Amazon Web Services, its cloud provider that supports its DNA sequencing and other work, said Miller. It reported $19.3 billion in 2021.

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Expanding the Cloud: Introducing the AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region

All Things Distributed

In November, Amazon Web Services announced that it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region in South Korea. Mirae Asset Global Investments improved its web service environment and reduced annual management costs by 50% by consolidating the management of all web services, including servers, network, database, and security.

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