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NFL reveals new ‘Expected Rush Yards’ stat, with help from Amazon Web Services

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Football fans wondering whether the next handoff to a running back could be another Beast Quake have another stat to track thanks to Next Gen Stats , the platform powered by Amazon Web Services. The NFL has used AWS cloud computing technology for Next Gen Stats since 2015 and introduced machine learning to the mix in 2017.

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Tech Moves: Ad Lightning CEO Scott Moore steps down; Amazon Prime Video adds Nike vet

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Frechtling was most recently president of G2 Web Services, a Verisk Analytics company. G2 Web Services provides risk management services for e-commerce merchants. Before joining G2 Web Services in 2015, Frechtling was vice president of global website products for digital marketing company Hibu.

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Fed Tech News Roundup 9 July 2015

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The following are some of the hot topics in the federal technology ecosystem (from FedTechTicker.com and TopTechTicker.com ): AWS Announces New API Gateway Service TechCrunch (Today) - Amazon Web Services announced a new product today called Amazon API Gateway, designed to simplify creation and management of APIs.

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Amazon stock rises as Q1 earnings top estimates with $143.3B in revenue; AWS sales up 17%

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Amazon’s two big profit drivers, Amazon Web Services and advertising, posted year-over-year revenue growth of 17% and 24%, respectively. billion Q1 2015: $22.7 Amazon Web Services: Amazon’s cloud business was up 17% at $25 billion, with $9.4 Analysts expected Q1 revenue of $142.7 billion Q1 2023: $127.4

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Live video platform Videon lands $7.3M, hires new CEO and plans to open co-HQ in Seattle

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Videon’s EdgeCaster video live streaming hardware. Videon , a live streaming video infrastructure company, has raised $7.3 Videon plans to expand its senior leadership, engineering, marketing, and sales teams with the cash and bring its video compute platform to more customers worldwide. Amazon Web Services is a partner.

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Slack expands Amazon partnership, will switch to AWS Chime infrastructure for user calls

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Slack will shift to Amazon Web Services’ Chime infrastructure for voice and video calls on its platform under an expanded partnership announced by the companies Thursday afternoon. The expanded partnership with Amazon further aligns the two companies against a common rival.

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Pentaho 5.3 Continues To Deliver On Big Data Analytics With Scale Including AWS Redshift and Impala

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From their press release: Pentaho to Deliver On Demand Big Data Analytics at Scale on Amazon Web Services and Cloudera. February 17, 2015 , STRATA + HADOOP WORLD 2015, SAN JOSE, Calif. Learn more, read the whitepaper and watch the video at www.pentaho.com/product/powering-big-data-analytics-cloud.

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