GeekWire

MAY 3, 2021

. — Ad Lightning co-founder Scott Moore is stepping down from his CEO role for personal reasons but will remain on the board of directors and support the company’s business strategy. Spun out of Pioneer Square Labs in 2017, Ad Lightning provides tools for publishers and ad networks to identify non-compliant ads. Marc Patrick.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 1, 2023

Amazon’s cloud revenue growth rate and its artificial intelligence initiatives will be closely scrutinized when the company reports second-quarter earnings Thursday afternoon, Aug. Wall Street analysts expect the company to report net sales (revenue) of $131.5 Amazon Web Services revenue growth declined to 15.8%

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GeekWire

JUNE 10, 2020

Bloomberg and the Financial Times reported that the company has confidentially filed for an IPO with the U.S. Now the company could reach a valuation as high as $20 billion, the Financial Times reported. The company has more than 2,000 customers including Brex, ConAgra Foods, Domino’s, JetBlue, and Nationwide. San Mateo, Calif.-based

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The Verge

JULY 24, 2021

Amazon.com doesn’t accept cryptocurrency as payment, but a spokesperson told Insider that the company was “inspired by the innovation happening in the cryptocurrency space and are exploring what this could look like on Amazon.”. Amazon’s cloud division, Amazon Web Services (AWS) already has a managed blockchain service.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

billion acquisition of primary care company One Medical. The deal, announced in July, will significantly boost Amazon’s growing healthcare footprint, which includes Amazon Pharmacy and the recently launched telehealth service Amazon Clinic. billion purchase of Whole Foods in 2017 , and its $8.5 billion deal.

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GeekWire

APRIL 3, 2024

GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Amazon is closing its Fresh grocery store in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood, the company confirmed Wednesday, saying that it plans to focus on redesigned stores with an expanded selection. The produce section inside the Amazon Fresh grocery store on Capitol Hill in Seattle. will be Sunday.

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GeekWire

MAY 5, 2021

Bezos said in 2017 that he was selling $1 billion a year to fund his Blue Origin space venture, but he has been increasing the size and frequency of the stock sales recently. Amazon’s stock price soared last year to record-highs amid the pandemic as the company’s e-commerce, cloud computing, and advertising arms have boomed.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

(GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Amazon beat revenue expectations for its fourth quarter as the company continues to navigate various headwinds. billion, up 9% year-over-year, topping both analyst expectations and the company’s own guidance. billion attributed to the company’s investment in Rivian.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 24, 2023

Common use cases include divorce disputes between high net-worth individuals, insurance companies auditing for Medicare fraud, and chapter 11 bankruptcies. Valid8 Photo) Founded in 2017 and a graduate of Techstars Seattle, Valid8 recently raised $1.25 ” Valid8 co-founder and CEO Chris McCall. .” That follows a $6.3

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GeekWire

APRIL 26, 2023

(Amazon Photo) Amazon is pulling the plug on its Halo wearable fitness device and bedside sleep tracker, discontinuing the accompanying subscription service, and laying off an unspecified number of people from the team behind the products. Amazon Photo) The company also promised to refund any unused, prepaid Halo subscription fees.

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GeekWire

MARCH 4, 2021

Downstream will add its 11-person team to Jungle Scout, a 200-person Austin-based company that offers a suite of tools for Amazon sellers. Connor Folley , an ex-Amazon marketing manager, and Salim Hamed , who worked in business intelligence engineering for Amazon Web Services, launched the company in late 2017.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says the company will “continue to invest for the long-term” even as it deals with economic uncertainty. ” His predecessor, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, traditionally left the quarterly earnings calls to the company’s CFO, and Jassy had continued the tradition until now.

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GeekWire

JULY 19, 2021

New funding: Web monitoring service Visualping has raised a second $6 million seed round. based company, which launched in 2017, is now $8.5 The company just released a tool to train its system to better recognize online changes. Visualping’s Chief Technologist Xavier Raffin worked for Amazon Web Services (AWS).

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Cropin, an agritech startup backed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, on Tuesday said that it was launching its industry cloud for agriculture, built on Amazon Web Services (AWS). The suite, according to the company, consists of three layers: Cropin Apps, the Cropin Data Hub and Cropin Intelligence.

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GeekWire

MAY 26, 2021

billion purchase of Whole Foods in 2017. A privately held company, MGM was valued around $5.5 Brad Stone, author of the new book “ Amazon Unbound ,” wrote this week that Bezos gathered Amazon media execs in 2017 and said, “I want my Game of Thrones.” It’s official: Amazon will buy MGM for $8.45

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

GoDaddy’s Seattle-area office was created more than a decade ago as part of a wave of engineering centers established in the region at the time by companies from outside the area. If the rollout goes as the company hopes, Airo could serve as a case study in AI growth opportunities, both for its customers and its own business.

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GeekWire

JUNE 8, 2020

A lawsuit filed by Amazon against Brian Hall, former Amazon Web Services vice president of product marketing, alleges that his new role at Google Cloud violates the terms of his non-compete agreement with the Seattle company and risks exposing valuable competitive information to one of its biggest rivals.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The data warehousing company opened at $245/share after pricing its IPO at $120/share. Its stock continued climbing in Wednesday trading, closing at $253.93, valuing the company at more than $60 billion. The IPO is a windfall for the company’s investors, including Madrona Venture Group.

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The Verge

JANUARY 11, 2021

Its Amazon Web Service (AWS) “cannot provide services to a customer that is unable to effectively identify and remove content that encourages or incites violence against others,” the letter to Peikoff states , adding that Parler “poses a very real risk to public safety.”.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

On the flipside, the arrangement could help Madrona bolster the diversity and performance of the 80 companies in its portfolio, as well as create opportunities for the VC firm to discover new startups led by women and other underrepresented entrepreneurs. Wang recognized the need for a more formal organization and co-founded AWIP in 2017.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy was named Amazon’s next CEO this week. ” The interviewer was Andy Jassy, the Amazon Web Services leader, during a session with Carlile at the virtual AWS re:Invent conference. . billion in operating profits as a division of the company last year. Amazon Photo).

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 29, 2017

This is a liveblog of the day 1 keynote at VMworld 2017 in Las Vegas, NV. ” reference, but the discussion focuses on how Capital One sees itself as a technology company that is also a bank. He brings out Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon Web Services, to the stage. There is an obligatory “What’s in your wallet?”

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

In a bid to help enterprises offer better customer service and experience , Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Tuesday, at its annual re:Invent conference, said that it was adding new machine learning capabilities to its cloud-based contact center service, Amazon Connect. c (Sydney), and Europe (London).

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GeekWire

APRIL 13, 2021

Jeff Wilke, CEO of Amazon Worldwide Consumer, at the 2017 GeekWire Summit. Founded in 2016, the San Francisco startup helps companies develop and manage their AI and machine learning systems. GeekWire Photo / Dan DeLong). Jeff Wilke , the former CEO of Amazon Worldwide Consumer, has joined Scale AI as advisor to the CEO.

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GeekWire

MARCH 19, 2021

The company raised $500,000 in 2017. The team: CEO and founder Serge Salager also launched RetargetLinks, a company that helped small-scale advertisers create campaigns. The Vancouver, B.C. startup launched in 2015 and has 16 employees. The investment comes from Mistral Ventures, a Canadian fund, and N49P, an AngelList fund.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 16, 2023

Kirkland, a founding member of SustainabilityIT.org, an organization to drive global sustainability through technology leadership, says Choice was the first hospitality company to make a strategic commitment to developing a cloud-native and sustainable platform on AWS. It also helped reduce energy consumption and costs.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 24, 2020

Cloud computing startup Snowflake Computing filed for an IPO on Monday, revealing its financial data for the first time as the company prepares to go public. based company said it more than doubled revenue to $242 million in the first half of 2020, with a net loss of $171.3 The San Mateo, Calif.-based Slootman owns 5.9%

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GeekWire

JUNE 10, 2020

Bloomberg and the Financial Times reported that the company has confidentially filed for an IPO with the U.S. Now the company could reach a valuation as high as $20 billion, the Financial Times reported. The company has more than 2,000 customers including Brex, ConAgra Foods, Domino’s, JetBlue, and Nationwide. San Mateo, Calif.-based

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GeekWire

APRIL 7, 2021

Former Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft executive Teresa Carlson will join Splunk in the new role of president and chief growth officer effective April 19. Splunk is a publicly-traded big data company based in San Francisco with more than 6,000 employees worldwide. The company’s revenue for the full year ended Jan.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

This won’t be the first time NASA has connected the space station to cloud computing services. In 2019, for example, Amazon Web Services participated in a demonstration that used cloud-based processing to distribute live video streams from space. It won’t be the first orbital go-round for HPE, either.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 21, 2021

A Seattle tech vet, Morrow was an executive at Apptio for five years including through the software company’s IPO and later $1.9 The company recently subleased 123,000 square feet of office space in downtown Seattle. The company raised $40 million earlier this year and counts many ex-Googlers among its staff. Steve Shure.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

It’s the 18th company in the region to achieve that designation. Fabric CEO Faisal Masud said in an interview that he believes the 300-person company is just starting to tap its potential market opportunity as trillions of dollars in commerce moves online. Fabric has raised a total of $293.5 million to date. SoftBank Photo).

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 20, 2021

based company said on Wednesday that it has made meaningful moves toward those objectives, while acknowledging that its work is not done. of the company’s main U.S. The company also showed improvements in gender diversity over the past year. of technical roles among the company’s core workforce.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Julie Larson-Green, an engineering leader and executive who spent more than 25 years at Microsoft, is retiring from her position as the chief experience officer at Qualtrics following the experience management technology company’s recent initial public offering. The former Porch COO remains a board member of the Seattle company.

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GeekWire

JULY 1, 2020

Seattle’s Madrona Venture Group is leading a $27 million investment in Fauna , a company founded by two former Twitter engineers that is positioning itself as a leader in databases for a new generation of applications. Madrona Venture Group Photo, 2017). Evan Weaver, Fauna co-founder and CTO.

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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 We’ve increased the size and yet we’re still massively oversubscribed.”

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GeekWire

MAY 1, 2021

and served as the president of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture from 2003 to 2017. “But in 2020, it was perfectly aligned, and we said, ‘OK, well, here are all these services, and let’s invest in the destination.’ It’s the latest big move for Meyerson, who lives in Tacoma, Wash.,

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