The Verge

JULY 24, 2021

First reported by Insider , the ecommerce giant is looking for an “experienced product leader to develop Amazon’s Digital Currency and Blockchain strategy and product roadmap.” Amazon’s cloud division, Amazon Web Services (AWS) already has a managed blockchain service.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

This is a liveblog of the day 2 keynote (general session) at HashiConf 2017 in Austin, TX. Speakers today will (apparently, based on the schedule) include someone from Amazon Web Services and Kelsey Hightower from Google. At this point, Vargo introduces Kelsey Hightower, Senior Developer Advocate from Google.

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GeekWire

MAY 3, 2021

Spun out of Pioneer Square Labs in 2017, Ad Lightning provides tools for publishers and ad networks to identify non-compliant ads. Frechtling was most recently president of G2 Web Services, a Verisk Analytics company. Frechtling was most recently president of G2 Web Services, a Verisk Analytics company.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 1, 2023

. “Given Amazon’s exposure to both consumer and corporate spending we see the company as well positioned to benefit from a greater consumer confidence (through subscription, online stores, physical stores, and third-party seller services) and from increased corporate spending (through AWS and advertising services),” Pachter added.

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GeekWire

MAY 26, 2021

billion purchase of Whole Foods in 2017. The real financial value behind this deal is the treasure trove of IP in the deep catalog that we plan to reimagine and develop together with MGM’s talented team,” Mike Hopkins, SVP of Prime Video and Amazon Studios, said in a statement. It’s official: Amazon will buy MGM for $8.45

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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 team: CEO and founder Serge Salager previously launched RetargetLinks and spent more than a decade in marketing and product development for Procter & Gamble in Switzerland.

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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

JUNE 5, 2023

” Generative AI is taking the tech world by storm and has already developed to the point that a full stack ecosystem exists, allowing for the rapid prototyping and development of a new generation of applications and innovations. Training platforms allow developers to train their own language models.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

He succeeded Scott Wagner, who took the reins in 2017 from Blake Irving, a former Microsoft and Yahoo executive. .” Bhutani, a longtime tech leader who was previously Brand Expedia Group president at the Seattle-based travel giant, was named GoDaddy CEO in 2019. GoDaddy reported 2023 annual revenue of $4.3 billion for the year.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Wang recognized the need for a more formal organization and co-founded AWIP in 2017. In 2019, she moved to Seattle to work for Amazon and now has the role of general manager of AWS Backup at Amazon Web Services. Over time, AWIP has grown and evolved, with chapters in Seattle, San Francisco, New York, Washington, D.C.,

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 25, 2023

A transformer is a type of AI deep learning model that was first introduced by Google in a research paper in 2017. Meanwhile, however, many other labs have been developing their own generative AI models. There will be more developments in the generative AI space for the foreseeable future, and they’ll become available rapidly.

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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). There are other startups across the world that offer solutions and services similar to Cropin.

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GeekWire

MARCH 19, 2021

The company raised $500,000 in 2017. Earlier in his career Salager spent more than a decade in marketing and product development for Procter & Gamble in Switzerland. 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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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 29, 2017

This is a liveblog of the day 1 keynote at VMworld 2017 in Las Vegas, NV. He goes on to talk about how the rapid development of technology has changed people’s expectations and frame of reference (example given was the intuitive nature little kids just “know” how to use handheld devices).

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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

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

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Former Amazon Web Services VP Steven Shure relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area from Seattle to join alternative search engine Neeva as chief business officer. Former Amazon Air VP Gur Kimchi was appointed to the board of Pittsburgh-based Near Earth Autonomy, a developer of autonomous flight systems. Steve Shure.

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GeekWire

JULY 1, 2020

Fauna is betting on the rise of serverless computing, in which applications connect to key services using APIs rather than requiring developers to manually build backend infrastructure. The approach removes the complexities that developers face in setting up, configuring and operating a database. Madrona Venture Group’s S.

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GeekWire

JUNE 19, 2020

Sharma was most recently a senior product manager at Amazon Web Services. Prior to Amazon, Sharma co-founded LifeLemon, a consumer apparel e-commerce startup, led marketing at Flipkart, and was a developer at Oracle. Reynolds was most recently director of research and development at Mountain View, Calif.-based

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GeekWire

MAY 15, 2020

O’Leary most recently led marketing, sales and growth at startup Airlift, one of Create33’s members, and spent more than 12 years at Starbucks in business development. based video game developer Bungie. office in Seattle and hired Microsoft alum Benjamin Gauthey as VP of global strategy and business development. .

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The Seattle-based firm invested in 2017 when the company’s valuation was around $500 million, said Madrona Managing Director S. In 2017 Madrona invested in a Series E round for healthcare startup Accolade, which opened a second headquarters location in Seattle in 2015. Soma” Somasegar. Accolade went public earlier this year.

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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. . Amazon Photo). In hindsight, it was a glimpse into the personality of Amazon’s next CEO.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

” A former business development director at Amazon, Humphrey previously said that he was a fan of Just Walk Out tech and that he would love to partner on that sort of experience for Kraken fans. He was echoing the March 2017 sentiment of Tim Leiweke, CEO of Oak View Group , which led the arena redevelopment.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

She has worked for Qualtrics, which has dual headquarters in Seattle and Provo, Utah, since 2017. GameStop appointed former Zulily and Amazon Web Services engineering leader Matt Francis to the newly created role of CTO. “The technology changes all the time. . Francis was most recently an engineering leader at AWS.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Amazon Web Services had embarked on a data center building boom to handle soaring demand as attendees gathered for its 2019 re:Invent conference in Las Vegas. The August 2017 meeting at an Amazon office in downtown Seattle was, by all appearances, a normal bit of business. Amazon Web Services needed more capacity.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Prior to joining Apptio, Ung was a senior manager of software development at Amazon Web Services and spent five years at Microsoft. Educative raised $12 million for its coding development platform in May. In her new role, she will oversee Educative’s catalog of courses for software developers.

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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.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Fabric thinks of itself as the “AWS for commerce,” Masud said, referring to the Amazon Web Services cloud division that provides the underlying technology infrastructure for companies around the world. In addition, the company is looking to add new intelligence and autonomy into its commerce tools.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The startup focused on federal contracts and earned its first contract with the Secret Service in 2017. From the beginning, we challenged ourselves to follow a more audience-centered, data-informed approach to its design and development,” says Adam Martin, CDO of the museum. Today, it employs more than 200.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 21, 2022

In a bid to help enterprises offer better customer service and experience , Amazon Web Services (AWS) has added a new case management feature, dubbed Amazon Cases, to its Amazon Connect cloud-based contact center service. Lack of clarity in product placement. The question is who does AWS want to compete with?

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GeekWire

JANUARY 12, 2021

Cohen was most recently CFO for ANGI Homeservices, a digital marketplace created when home improvement directories Angie’s List and HomeAdvisor merged in 2017. ” Sharma joined Madrona last year from Amazon Web Services. Turner joined CI Security in 2017, originally as an information security analyst.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Amazon Web Services sales leader Ernesto Chavarin joined Bellevue, Wash.-based Media executive Virl Hill was named head of worldwide business development and strategy for Microsoft’s media and entertainment group. Hill most recently led business development and strategy for Microsoft News in North America and Asia.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Corey spent the past five years at Amazon Web Services, most recently leading the transformation team for enterprise customers. and opened a Seattle office in 2017. The startup develops virtual assistants for sales, marketing and customer service teams. based Armored Things as VP of business development.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Today, I am excited to announce plans for Amazon Web Services (AWS) to bring an infrastructure Region to the Middle East! 2017 continues a busy year for AWS in the Middle East. Based in Bahrain, this will be the first Region for AWS in the Middle East.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 28, 2020

Amazon Consumer CEO Jeff Wilke at the 2017 GeekWire Summit. “He brought lean thinking into the organization, developed the category leader model and set Amazon up for the tremendous growth over last 10 years,” the former executive said. GeekWire Photo / Dan DeLong). AWS CEO Andy Jassy at the 2019 re:Invent conference.

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Dataconomy

APRIL 26, 2023

This development is not surprising, given that the International Data Corporation (IDC) has forecasted a robust expansion of the global enterprise and service provider expenditure on hardware, software, and services for edge solutions until 2025, with spending expected to surpass $274 billion. The San Mateo, Calif.-based

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Vox

JUNE 15, 2021

Sources say Galetti tends to focus on developing software products, such as Amazon’s daily employee survey tool called Connections. million employees globally and that developing internal HR software products is crucial, including for effectively doing DEI work. Anderson, the Amazon spokesperson, noted that the company has 1.3

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