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Internal memo: Amazon Web Services plans reorg of Sales, Marketing, and Global Services team

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GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Amazon Web Services will reorganize its Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) group to “lay the foundation for accelerated customer impact and growth in the years ahead,” according to an internal memo Monday morning.

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Amazon Web Services to offer macOS on-demand in the cloud, in new appeal to Apple developers

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Amazon Web Services will provide software developers with access to macOS on-demand in the cloud for the first time, promising to speed up the process and reduce the cost of making software for Apple’s computers and devices. Dave Brown, Amazon EC2 vice president, announces the new Mac Instances on Monday night.

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Microsoft will power virtual fan experience at NFL games with Teams, following NBA deal

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Microsoft is becoming the de-facto virtual fan enabler for sports leagues. The tech giant revealed today that it is working with the NFL to host a virtual fan experience for games during the 2020-21 season, which kicks off tonight. For each NFL game, the home team will invite fans to the virtual experience. Microsoft Image).

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Amazon and critics wage PR war in annual meeting with starkly opposing portraits of tech giant

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A scene from a video shown by Amazon during its virtual annual shareholders meeting. But the meeting, held virtually for the first time, provided a high-profile platform for criticism of the company. Each of the proposals was voted down. “This is environmental racism.” “This is environmental racism.”

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Incoming Amazon CEO Andy Jassy on why remote work hurts innovation: ‘You don’t riff the same way’

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Andy Jassy, the longtime Amazon Web Services boss who will replace Jeff Bezos as Amazon’s CEO later this year, talked about some of the benefits and downsides to remote work in an interview with CNBC in December. Jassy said “invention” is hard to do virtually compared to people brainstorming together in person.

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Insurance IT leaders herald new era for digital customer experience

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The insurance industry is undergoing a sea change, with IT playing a crucial role in rolling out digital customer experiences for policyholders and agents, as in-person meetings all but vanish in the post-pandemic era. IT as industry differentiator Insurers and financial services firms like MassMutual, of Springfield, Mass.,

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Young and visionary: Meet the finalists for Young Entrepreneur of the Year at the GeekWire Awards

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On May 20 we will announce the winners live at the virtual GeekWire Awards , presented by Wave Business. He also worked as an AI engineer at Amazon Web Services and interned at Microsoft Azure. Community voting is now underway across 13 GeekWire Awards categories in our 13th annual celebration of Pacific Northwest tech.

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