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Former AWS real estate managers, accused of taking millions in kickbacks, challenge Amazon’s motives amid FBI investigation

GeekWire

Amazon Web Services had embarked on a data center building boom to handle soaring demand as attendees gathered for its 2019 re:Invent conference in Las Vegas. Eleven data center deals are now the subject of a suit by Amazon vs. two former AWS real estate managers and others. Amazon Web Services needed more capacity.

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Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of March 31, 2024

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… Read More Where Amazon Web Services is still hiring after cutting hundreds of jobs this week Amazon Web Services announced hundreds of job cuts this week, in areas including training, sales, and physical stores technology, but noted that it’s still hiring in core areas of its business, with thousands of jobs currently posted.

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Tech Moves: Startup Haven grows team to lead new fund; PSL promotions; F5 Networks adds execs

GeekWire

Tableau Software CEO Adam Selipsky will be the new CEO of Amazon Web Services, replacing Andy Jassy, who will take over as Amazon’s CEO later this year. F5 Networks hired Microsoft CVP Yvette Smith as SVP of customer success and business transformation and promoted Gail Coury to SVP and chief information security officer.

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Microsoft cloud revenue up 22%, Windows business plunges 27% in first report since job cuts

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Nadella also said Microsoft’s revenue from its security technology business was $20 billion in the past year, which is up from $15 billion a year ago. This is the business unit run by Charlie Bell , the former Amazon Web Services exec. That’s up from 270 million a year ago. per share, down 6%.

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IT Vortex: The Effort to Achieve Net Zero Carbon Emissions is Far More Than a Business Goal

CIO Business Intelligence

Offering a diverse array of cloud solutions, IT Vortex’s customers include enterprises in industries from manufacturing and mining to fashion and real estate. These include Infrastructure-as-Service, Desktop-as-a-Service, Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service, Security-as-a-Service, and Backup-as-a-Service.

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Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Sept. 12, 2021

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Microsoft in standoff with Amazon over big hire, names Charlie Bell to lead ‘bold’ new security group. Real estate investment app Concreit launches with $6M in new funding. … Read More. … Read More. … Read More. … Read More.

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Tech Moves: Tanium hires CFO; Utrip founder launches VC firm; AWS IoT exec joins Siemens

GeekWire

He was most recently CFO at RSA Security. Didascalou was most recently VP of IoT at Amazon Web Services and previously Microsoft’s CVP of technology and research, where he worked on the Surface Hub and led the Smart Things team. Ganesan joins from Amazon Web Services where he was a senior product manager.