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Former Amazon Web Services data center leader Chris Vonderhaar joins Google Cloud

GeekWire

Chris Vonderhaar, former Amazon Web Services data center leader, will serve as Google Cloud’s vice president of demand and supply management. LinkedIn Photo) Chris Vonderhaar, a longtime Amazon Web Services executive who left the company this spring, has joined AWS rival Google Cloud.

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Amazon donates $10M to ACLU, Equal Justice Initiative, NAACP, other social justice organizations

GeekWire

Amazon will donate $10 million to “organizations that are working to bring about social justice and improve the lives of Black and African Americans,” the company announced Wednesday. The donation comes amid protests over George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis. Black employees make up 26.5% of Amazon’s workforce, and 8.3%

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Parler is gone for now as Amazon terminates hosting

The Verge

After Parler was banned on both the Apple and Google app stores for failing to curb violent and threatening content on its platform, the social media site is now completely offline as a result of Amazon terminating Parler’s web hosting services. We are the worlds [sic] last hope for free speech and free information.”.

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Simple Agile Product Development - Social, Agile, and Transformation

Social, Agile and Transformation

Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 Social, Agile, Transformation Pages. customer service. (3).

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India’s advisory on LLM usage causes consternation

CIO Business Intelligence

Numerous IT vendors are likely to be affected by the advisory, including cloud service providers such as Oracle, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and IBM; software vendors such as Databricks and Salesforce; model service providers (mostly startups) such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Stability AI, and Cohere, along with social platforms such as Meta.

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Why Microsoft is Pinterested

GeekWire

There’s good reason why Microsoft would consider a social network like Pinterest for its biggest purchase yet. Pinterest uses Amazon Web Services, the market leader, as its cloud provider. Microsoft Azure trails AWS and Google Cloud is in third. Just like in the case of TikTok , the cake here is data.

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Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Aug. 27, 2023

GeekWire

Most popular stories on GeekWire Compensation data from Blind app shows how much public tech giants pay engineers Blind, the anonymous social network for verified corporate employees, released new compensation data for software engineers working at Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, and Microsoft. city Seattle ranks No.