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

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Prior to joining EMC, Hittle was a member of the Ultra Electronics ProLogic senior management team, where he served for six years in key leadership positions, including Vice President Technology Applications, CTO, and Group Deputy General Manager. Prior to joining Sanctum, Steve was CTO and co-founder of LockStar, Inc.

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Julie Larson-Green retires as Qualtrics CXO following IPO; Instacart names Asha Sharma COO; and more

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Speaking with GeekWire this week, Larson-Green said the time was right for the next phase of her life after helping Qualtrics get to its IPO by working to build key functions and teams including people operations, program management, data science and user experience. “The technology changes all the time. .

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Amazon may launch healthcare business line with at-home COVID test and other diagnostic services

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The company first started building out its testing capabilities last year at the start of the pandemic, when it redirected workers from its Lab126 hardware group , best known for creating its Kindle e-readers, Fire tablets and Echo smart speakers. The company also sells Amazon Web Services to healthcare customers.

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

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Madrona Venture Group led a $1.5 Amazon Web Services hosted a tournament for all of its North American interns over the summer and AWS Program Manager Chelsea Stumm called the experience a “friendly, welcoming, and challenging way to build real programming experience both inside the company and in the broader developer community.”

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

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Seattle-based venture capital firm Madrona Venture Group announced that Anu Sharma is joining its investment team as a principal. Sharma was most recently a senior product manager at Amazon Web Services. Day has held marketing roles at Amazon Web Services and sales engagement startup Highspot. Anu Sharma.

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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’

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Charlie Bell, a former Amazon Web Services executive, is now the leader of Microsoft’s newly formed, 10,000-person security engineering organization. That is a key element these groups are exploiting,” he wrote. Microsoft Photo). “Your code will be attacked.” ’ “ Alex Gounares, Polyverse.

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