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Tech Moves: Madrona grows investment team; MicroVision, Axon add board members; and more

GeekWire

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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Clutter be gone: This startup will sell your stuff online for a $5.99 flat rate

GeekWire

His approach relies on gig economy workers, which has become a more developed sector; targets a public comfortable with interacting with gig workers; doesn’t use centralized warehouses or receiving sites for processing and selling items; and is ramping up during supply chain shortages that are reducing the availability of new goods.

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Former Amazon exec inherits Microsoft’s complex cybersecurity legacy in quest to solve ‘one of the greatest challenges of our time’

GeekWire

Charlie Bell, a former Amazon Web Services executive, is now the leader of Microsoft’s newly formed, 10,000-person security engineering organization. Bell is the husband of Nadia Shouraboura , an entrepreneur who was previously an Amazon vice president and founder and CEO of Seattle-based robot-powered apparel startup Hointer.

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Expanding the AWS Cloud: Introducing the AWS Canada (Central) Region

All Things Distributed

Earlier this year, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region in Montreal, Quebec. The new Canada (Central) Region offers a robust suite of infrastructure, management, and developer services that can enable innovators to deploy market-leading applications. in the coming year.

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Geek of the Week: Anu Sharma left Amazon for Madrona to invest in helping new businesses

GeekWire

Sharma, our latest Geek of the Week, spent eight years at Amazon and Amazon Web Services, most recently leading a product management team at AWS for a new service, AWS Outposts , which extends AWS infrastructure and services outside of AWS owned data centers to customer locations or colocation spaces.

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Basically everything on Amazon has become an ad. It’s only the beginning.

Vox

Along with Amazon Web Services, advertising has emerged as one of the company’s top two profit engines. Turf wars also developed when Amazon began allowing advertisers to bid on ads in Amazon search when a customer searched for a competitor’s product.