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Former Amazon Web Services data center leader Chris Vonderhaar joins Google Cloud

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Chris Vonderhaar, former Amazon Web Services data center leader, will serve as Google Cloud’s vice president of demand and supply management. LinkedIn Photo) Chris Vonderhaar, a longtime Amazon Web Services executive who left the company this spring, has joined AWS rival Google Cloud.

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Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of March 21, 2021

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Tableau CEO Adam Selipsky will return to Amazon Web Services as CEO, replacing Andy Jassy. 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. round for new real estate startup Instashowing.

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Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of June 27, 2021

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Amazon is making more real estate moves east of Seattle, adding hundreds of Amazon Web Services roles in Redmond, Wash. Ex-Zillow CEO Spencer Rascoff and teen daughter cook up a new food-focused social media startup. Amazon adding more space east of Seattle in Redmond for 800 new AWS jobs, Project Kuiper lab.

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Judge tosses all but one claim in Amazon’s suit against former AWS real estate managers

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A judge dismissed most of Amazon’s claims in a lawsuit alleging that former Amazon Web Services real estate managers conspired with outside firms to receive kickbacks on data center development deals. The former employees deny the allegations. The April 6 summary judgment ruling , by U.S. District Judge Rossie D.

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The GeekWire Summit returns next week: Agenda released featuring Andy Jassy, Ciara and others

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The former Hotwire and Expedia exec has not slowed down since leaving Zillow, bankrolling a handful of new ventures, launching a SPAC that acquired real estate service Opendoor, and even starting a new food-oriented social networking startup with his teenage daughter. on Tuesday, Oct.

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Riveter CEO and husband dispute FBI’s seizure of their bank accounts in AWS kickback investigation

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Amazon alleges in court filings that Carl Nelson and his former Amazon real estate colleague, Casey Kirschner, engaged in outright fraud, not a side business, in receiving millions in payments from the real estate developer, Northstar Commercial Partners. — Amy Sterner Nelson (@Amy_K_Nelson) December 23, 2020.

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Julie Larson-Green retires as Qualtrics CXO following IPO; Instacart names Asha Sharma COO; and more

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GameStop appointed former Zulily and Amazon Web Services engineering leader Matt Francis to the newly created role of CTO. He previously served as CTO for Seattle real estate startup Flyhomes and VP of product and engineering at Zulily. Francis was most recently an engineering leader at AWS. Read the story.

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