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Amazon stock jumps 7% after Q2 earnings beat estimates with $134.4B in revenue

GeekWire

Recent changes to the company’s shipping fulfillment network, including better inventory placement, have also resulted in decreased costs, said Amazon CFO Brian Olsavsky on a call with reporters. Amazon Web Services: Amazon’s cloud business was up 12% at $22.1 Advertising brought in $10.6 billion, with $5.3

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Book excerpt: What makes a great startup idea? Lessons from a veteran entrepreneur

GeekWire

WordPerfect and Lotus made the mistake of simply porting their applications from MS-DOS to Windows, which meant that the applications didn’t perform well on Windows. Over time, Microsoft made sure that all the applications had consistent user interfaces and that it was easy to share data across these applications.

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12 most popular AI use cases in the enterprise today

CIO Business Intelligence

Following is our analysis of the 12 most popular ways AI is being used across all industries in the enterprise today, as companies seek to capitalize on artificial intelligence’s promise to improve customer service, cut business costs, and supercharge business processes. AI can also be used for conducting initial video interviews.

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Official launch of the Top 100 Australian Web 2.0 Applications list

Trends in the Living Networks

The Top 100 Web 2.0 Applications list is now officially launched - the full list is below, after appearing this morning in a feature section in BRW magazine on Web 2.0. That's inevitable in drawing boundaries around defining Web 2.0 applications. That's inevitable in drawing boundaries around defining Web 2.0

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Dutch Enterprises and The Cloud

All Things Distributed

In my many conversations with customers, and with the media, I encountered surprise and excitement about the extent that European enterprises have already been using the Amazon Web Services for some time.

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Allez, rendez-vous à Paris – An AWS Region is coming to France!

All Things Distributed

Our CDN and DNS network now has 18 points of presence across Europe, we have added a third AZ in Ireland, a second infrastructure region in Frankfurt and a third region in the UK (due in coming months). Another of these exciting start-ups is Teads which runs video advertising for publishers and advertisers.

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How the pandemic is bringing Elon Musk’s dream to connect everyone on Earth closer to reality

Vox

Combined with improvements to existing technology like DSL, cable, and fiber — not to mention 4G and 5G cellular networks — futuristic satellite broadband stands to bridge the digital divide in the US and elsewhere. The agency says it will prioritize networks that offer low latency when giving out funding.

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