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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy explains the company’s current mindset in surprise debut on earnings call

GeekWire

Jassy explicitly named several businesses in which the company will continue to invest despite its cutbacks: streaming entertainment, devices, the Project Kuiper satellite internet business, and healthcare. These are in addition to core businesses of online and physical stores, Amazon Web Services, and advertising.

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

GeekWire

Microsoft, for example, failed to recognize how its hold on the PC industry would be disrupted first by the internet and later by mobile devices. It was also possible to access applications from any location with internet access — users were not limited to accessing an application only from within a corporate network.

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

Vox

In vast swaths of the United States and the world, there are millions of people who don’t have reliable internet access. In early March, just days before cities across the US shut down due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Elon Musk shared the latest details about his plan to build a satellite broadband service called Starlink.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: The Internet As A Pen Test

ForAllSecure

Well, unlike large organizations, small to medium businesses lack the full accompaniment of network defenses. But if there’s an advanced persistent threat or APT lurking on one of the small or medium business networks, how would that organization know. I’ve spoken about this before, about managed service providers or MSPs.

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IT companies join Ukraine war sanctions against Russia

CIO Business Intelligence

On March 8, the largest online retailer said it would no longer make deliveries in Russia or accept new customers for its Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud offering. The Prime Video service for Russian users was also discontinued. Deutsche Telekom: The Bonn-based network operator stopped doing business in Russia altogether.

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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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Amazon’s strategy to squeeze marketplace sellers and maximize its own profits is evolving

Vox

That revenue translates to a lot of profit — more than even Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon’s cloud computing platform typically believed to be the company’s most profitable arm. Dave Clark, the CEO of Amazon’s consumer business, believes his company will be the largest delivery service in the United States by early 2022.

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