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Tech Moves: OpenAI hires former Amazon Web Services leader to lead new Tokyo office

GeekWire

LinkedIn Photo) Tadao Nagasaki , a longtime tech exec who led Japan-related operations for Amazon Web Services and F5, is joining OpenAI to head up the company’s new hub in Tokyo, its first office in Asia. ” Before helping launch Fixie, Welsh was an engineering leader at Apple, Google, Xnor.ai, and OctoML.

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Amazon Web Services to offer macOS on-demand in the cloud, in new appeal to Apple developers

GeekWire

Amazon Web Services will provide software developers with access to macOS on-demand in the cloud for the first time, promising to speed up the process and reduce the cost of making software for Apple’s computers and devices. Dave Brown, Amazon EC2 vice president, announces the new Mac Instances on Monday night.

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After reaching $40B in revenue in record time, Amazon Web Services hints at its own reinvention

GeekWire

Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy with a chart showing AWS revenue growth at the company’s virtual re:Invent conference this week. Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy at AWS re:Invent this week, in front of a slide showing some of the company’s customers and partners. Screenshot via webcast). Amazon Photo).

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Ex-Apple engineers raise $7.5M for new Seattle data storage startup

GeekWire

A trio of former Apple engineers is leading a new data storage platform for developers building machine learning and artificial intelligence applications. The company is led by former executives at Turi, a machine learning startup acquired by Apple in 2016 for around $200 million in one of the largest acquisitions for a Seattle startup.

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Apple needs to introduce an iCloud business suite for the enterprise

Computerworld Vertical IT

I agree with CCS Insight that Apple already has the building blocks to offer its own business productivity suite built around iWork and iCloud. Apple’s business services. It seems strange that it hasn’t provided these yet. In 2Q21, it accounted for over 20% of total revenue and registered 33% annual growth.

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Why Epic is burning its own cash to cook Apple

The Verge

Follow the money, baby Epic Games didn’t sue Apple to get a big payout, but that’s because the lawsuit itself is an investment. And to rewrite Apple’s rules, Epic is spending a fortune. Apple booted Fortnite for violating its rules. Epic Games Store runs on Amazon Web Services. So does Fortnite itself.

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Apple cloud future: Amazon, Google, Microsoft living on borrowed time?

ComputerWorld Consumerization IT

Apple boots out Amazon AWS -- it's migrating most of its S3 storage to Google's Cloud Platform. Apple's are more high-profile bytes moving away from Amazon Web Services, so soon after recent news of the Dropbox mostly-defection. And what is Apple up to, anyway? Should Jeff Bezos be worried?

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