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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. Revenue from third-party seller services was up 20% to $36.3

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Amazon’s online store sales dip below 40% of net sales for first time, and other earnings notes

GeekWire

The declining percentage comes from noticeably slower growth in the online segment over the past couple years (including year-over year declines in some recent quarters) and the continued growth of the company’s revenue from areas including third party seller services, Amazon Web Services, and advertising services.

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In new NFL deal, Amazon to be exclusive home for ‘Thursday Night Football’ at a reported $1B per year

GeekWire

As part of the deal, Prime Video also secured rights to a weekly slate of original NFL programming and expanded rights to in-game highlights for all NFL matchups. Beyond broadcasting, Amazon’s relationship with the NFL extends to the league’s use of Amazon Web Services as its official cloud and machine learning provider.

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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. Shell''s scientists, especially the geophysicists and drilling engineers, frequently use cloud computing to run models.

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Tech Moves: AWS product head joins Faculty; Bezos Earth Fund hires BlackRock leader; and more

GeekWire

Sullivan was previously head of product for the AI DevOps group at Amazon Web Services, where he led teams helping customers build and manage cloud-based applications. — Edwin Miller was appointed CEO of Seattle-based advertising analytics company Marchex. million in seed funding but later shut down. Yakima, Wash.-based

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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.

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Microsoft will power virtual fan experience at NFL games with Teams, following NBA deal

GeekWire

The partnership is also an advertising vehicle for Microsoft. Microsoft’s rival Amazon has a streaming deal for Thursday Night Football games, while its cloud unit Amazon Web Services powers the NFL’s Next Gen Stats program and has a separate deal with the Seattle Seahawks.