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Amazon Web Services cuts hundreds of jobs in sales, training, and physical stores tech group

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GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Amazon Web Services will cut several hundred jobs in its Sales, Marketing, and Global Services organization, and a few hundred jobs on its Physical Stores Technology team, executives in the tech giant’s cloud computing division informed employees Wednesday morning in internal emails.

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Amazon adding more space east of Seattle in Redmond for 800 new AWS jobs, Project Kuiper lab

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will be home to hundreds of Amazon Web Services employees. Amazon is making more real estate moves east of Seattle, adding hundreds of Amazon Web Services roles in Redmond, Wash. Redmond Town Center in Redmond, Wa., Invesco Photo). The majority of that growth has been centered on Bellevue, Wash.

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Join Architects, Planners, Program Managers, Data Scientists at 4th Annual Cloudera Federal Forum in DC 25 Feb

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Integrate raises $3.4M and wins Space Force contract for management software

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Space Force to boost its program management software platform into a higher orbit. “With our new partners at Hyperplane, Riot Ventures and beyond, we have the resources to accelerate development and truly meet the needs of all companies pursuing ambitious hardware development programs,” Conafay said.

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Tech Moves: Former Expedia leader joins Peerspace; Flexport adds another Amazon exec

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She also was previously director of product at Seattle mobile software development company Medio and spent nine years at Microsoft as a lead program manager. At Amazon, Richey scaled fleet logistics and helped oversee vehicle development with Rivian, Amazon’s electric delivery van partner.

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Longtime Microsoft hardware leader Panos Panay is leaving the company after 19 years

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Panay joined the company in 2004 as a program manager and rose to prominence in the tech industry as the leader of Microsoft’s Surface hardware business, overseeing the development and launch of various products such as the dual-screen Surface Duo. He also led development of Windows 11.

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Seattle investors back Battlesnake, makers of a growing game that turns coding into competition

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Battlesnake originated in the Pacific Northwest as a developer recruiting event in 2015, and by 2019 the flagship Battlesnake Tournament in Victoria drew 1,200 developers and another 1,000 spectators intrigued by the e-sports-like drama of watching competitors compete with their coded snakes. It’s mostly for fun.”