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Former Amazon board member Tom Alberg reviews the new book, ‘Working Backwards’

GeekWire

He’s the author of the forthcoming book, “How Big Are Your Town’s Flywheels? They add to a small library of books that give us insights into Amazon’s operations, including John Rossman’s The Amazon Way on IoT. The book contains lots of information that will be valuable to some readers. What We Can Learn from Seattle.”].

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

GeekWire

Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from a new book written by Shirish Nadkarni, a Seattle tech veteran who co-founded Livemocha (acquired by RosettaStone) and TeamOn (acquired by BlackBerry). Later, Apple and Android completely upended the mobile market with their touch-based interfaces and application platforms.

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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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I Have A Job For You

CIO Musings

We get the fire trucks to the burning buildings faster, have better web services for citizens, keep the bad guys locked up, make sure the libraries have the book you want, make sure citizens have wifi access, and you get the idea. I will even teach you how to give a great interview and manage your career! And the best reason.

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO Business Intelligence

Migrating infrastructure and applications to the cloud is never straightforward, and managing ongoing costs can be equally complicated. Refactoring applications to take advantage of cloud-native services is vital to maximizing cloud ROI. But many CIOs, worried about going over budget, pre-book too much capacity.

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Make a Difference - Work For Us

CIO Musings

We get the fire trucks to the burning buildings faster, have better web services for citizens, keep the bad guys locked up, make sure the libraries have the book you want, make sure citizens have wifi access, and you get the idea. I will even teach you how to give a great interview and manage your career! And the best reason.

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IHG maximizes hospitality with multicloud

CIO Business Intelligence

“A driver of this is the ability to innovate at scale faster,” she says, noting that 60% of hotels are primarily moving to a cloud-first approach even as they continue to utilize on-premises IT stacks for certain applications. This is driving a hybrid approach to cloud.”

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