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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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This popular gathering is designed to enable dialogue about business and technical strategies to leverage today’s big data platforms and applications to your advantage. Chief Strategy Officer, Cloudera. Proven Strategies for Promoting Innovation and Technology Adoption. 9:00– 9:30 AM. Technology Insights Keynote. Eddie Garcia.

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Tech Moves: Former Expedia leader joins Peerspace; Flexport adds another Amazon exec

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She also was previously director of product at Seattle mobile software development company Medio and spent nine years at Microsoft as a lead program manager. Uslu was also a client service partner at Slalom and an executive at IT services and consulting firm Avanade.

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Longtime Microsoft hardware leader Panos Panay is leaving the company after 19 years

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Panay joined the company in 2004 as a program manager and rose to prominence in the tech industry as the leader of Microsoft’s Surface hardware business, overseeing the development and launch of various products such as the dual-screen Surface Duo. Moving forward, we will double down on our strategy.

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

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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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Amazon Web Services gets set to ignite space accelerator program’s third stage

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Startups in this year’s AWS Space Accelerator program include, from left, Lunasonde, which is developing a space-based radar sounding system; Raven Space Systems, which is building 3D-printed re-entry capsules; and Rogue Space Systems, which focuses of space robotic systems. ” The four-week curriculum begins in May.

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10 highest-paying IT jobs

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The demand for specialized skills has boosted salaries in cybersecurity, data, engineering, development, and program management. 1. IT management It’s no surprise that IT executive positions earn some of the highest average salaries, with Dice reporting an average yearly salary of $164,814 in 2022 — an 8.4%