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Snowflake launches healthcare SaaS, data marketplace and consulting services

CIO Business Intelligence

Snowflake has launched a cloud-based, data-sharing platform for the healthcare industry that integrates the company’s core data warehousing, analytics and business intelligence offerings with a data marketplace and on-demand consulting services. Healthcare platform offers data marketplace.

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

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Amazon is reportedly considering launching a new line of business that expands on the tech giant’s interests around healthcare. Business Insider reported Monday that the company may offer at-home medical tests — including for COVID-19 — and a third-party marketplace for general home-diagnostics services.

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Tech Moves: AWS vet lands at health startup; ex-Qualtrics exec joins Typeform board

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LinkedIn Photo) Harshit Shah , a former head of engineering at Amazon Web Services, is now chief technology officer at Boston, Mass-based healthcare software company Kyruus Health. Harshit Shah. Shah, based in the Seattle region, most recently held the same position at Spring Health, a mental health company.

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AWS invests $100 million in new Generative AI Innovation Center

CIO Business Intelligence

Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Thursday said that it was investing $100 million to start a new program, dubbed the Generative AI Innovation Center, in an effort to help enterprises accelerate the development of generative AI- based applications.

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Snowflake stock soars in largest software IPO ever; Madrona among earlier venture investors

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billion in the largest software IPO ever. In 2017 Madrona invested in a Series E round for healthcare startup Accolade, which opened a second headquarters location in Seattle in 2015. In its IPO filing, Snowflake listed Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform under potential risk factors to the business.

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Amazon cloud chief Adam Selipsky hints at new directions for AWS as re:Invent begins

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Adam Selipsky, Amazon Web Services CEO. Amazon Web Services this week is holding its first re:Invent conference without Andy Jassy at the helm of the tech giant’s cloud unit. Seplisky, previously Tableau Software CEO, gave a preview of two new directions for AWS in interviews prior to the event.

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Amazon puts Fire TV Cube to work, repurposes streaming device for desktop computing

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Amazon WorkSpaces , the company’s virtual desktop service, just unveiled its first device for end users, a $195 product created by directly repurposing the hardware design for Amazon’s Fire TV Cube. AWS is marketing the WorkSpaces Thin Client to industries like healthcare, financial services, and contact centers.

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