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Amazon gives developers access to Alexa device home screens, aiming to revitalize market for skills

GeekWire

Amazon will offer independent software developers a slice of the most important real estate on Alexa devices, giving users the option to see and interact with content from third-party Alexa skills on their home screens for the first time. Amazon Photo). Alexa debuted on Amazon’s first Echo speaker in 2014.

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Understanding Cloud Computing for Your Business

CTOvision

Since servers were generally located in one or two locations, catastrophic events like floods or power outages could completely take down a company's operation and lead to enormous costs. Companies offering public and hybrid cloud solutions addressed these problems by fundamentally changing the pricing structure of computing power.

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12 tips for achieving IT agility in the digital era

CIO Business Intelligence

“By housing our own data via the new order management system, we can also enable all sorts of applications both now and in the future,” says Stanbridge. Global commercial real estate firm Avision Young has grown by acquisition — and amassed a large and dispersed tech stack along the way. Balance control with agility.

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Q&A: Facebook’s new chief in Seattle on 23 years at Microsoft and the future of engineering centers

GeekWire

“We are going to be looking for real estate all over the place,” he said. I worked on many different things over the years — Windows operating system, Exchange server, email, SQL server. So we are going to be looking for real estate all over the place. You’ve mentioned a lot of real estate.

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How Shopify’s network of sellers can take on Amazon

The Verge

Shopify creates a centralized retail operating system. But what Shopify’s role in all that is, is that we want to integrate all of it into a centralized retail operating system. And so I met him and I said, “Look, I want to start a T-shirt business, direct-to-consumer, totally virtual. Which is crazy to me.

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