GeekWire

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Amazon Web Services chief Andy Jassy will replace Bezos, who founded Amazon 27 years ago. The Seattle tech giant has surged amid the pandemic as consumers turn to online shopping and more people rely on its cloud arm, Amazon Web Services. Profit: Amazon reported net income of $7.2 billion in sales.

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GeekWire

APRIL 8, 2024

The net decrease in the state comes as Amazon builds up its workforce in downtown Bellevue, but sees its overall employment decline at its main headquarters campus north of downtown Seattle. That’s up year-over year, from about 65% in 2023; but down over the past four years, from about 72% in 2020.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 24, 2020

based company said it more than doubled revenue to $242 million in the first half of 2020, with a net loss of $171.3 Founded in 2012, Snowflake sits in a unique position among other cloud service providers, partnering with giants such as Amazon and Microsoft but also competing against them. The San Mateo, Calif.-based

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GeekWire

JULY 29, 2021

What to watch in the numbers: Wall Street expects Amazon to report overall net sales of $115 billion , on average, a 29% increase year-over-year. That’s toward the high end of Amazon’s previous guidance of net sales between $110 and $116 billion. Industry analysts believe Prime Day sales grew at a slower rate.

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GeekWire

JUNE 16, 2020

The news Tuesday morning comes nine months after Amazon announced the pledge , promising to become net carbon neutral by 2040. Amazon says it “plans to announce many more signatories throughout 2020.” From the beginning, the company said it wanted others to join the pledge.

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GeekWire

JULY 10, 2024

It called out the addition of 77 new signatories to The Climate Pledge, an initiative launched by Amazon in which entities commit to hitting net-zero carbon by 2040. From 2020 to 2023, the company’s carbon impact rose 13%. But the Seattle-area corporation also hinted at challenges ahead.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

— MadronaVentureGroup (@MadronaVentures) September 16, 2020. based company more than doubled revenue to $242 million in the first half of 2020, with a net loss of $171.3 In its IPO filing, Snowflake listed Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform under potential risk factors to the business.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

billion in revenue last year, up 68% from the year prior, with a net loss of $144.1 In 2021, the company shut down its Haven healthcare joint venture with Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase, and last year it closed its Amazon Care primary care service. The company went public in January 2020. at the end of December.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

As AI use is ramping up, Amazon Web Services and fellow hyperscale data center companies such as Microsoft and Google are making big investments in their computing capacity and expanding their electricity demands. In 2020 it organized a “virtual walkout” over firings and warehouse conditions, among other actions.

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The Verge

JULY 29, 2021

Amazon Web Services did $14.8 billion in net sales, up 37 percent year over year. Growth is still growth, but it means that Amazon and its investors can’t expect to see gains quite as enormous as the ones that happened in 2020, as much of the world tried to avoid indoor shopping. AWS is picking up speed.

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GeekWire

MAY 26, 2021

Jassy, the longtime leader of the Amazon Web Services cloud business, “is going to be an outstanding leader, and he has my full confidence,” Bezos said. Bezos will become Amazon’s executive chairman following the transition, which was announced in February. In his remarks, Bezos addressed Amazon’s proposed $8.45

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GeekWire

JULY 23, 2020

— NHL Seattle (@NHLSeattle_) July 23, 2020. Oak View Group , the team’s ownership parent group, includes Tim Leiweke, David Bonderman and Jerry Bruckheimer , as well as Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy and majority Seattle Sounders owner Adrian Hanauer. Get ready, Seattle. It's real. Seattle Kraken Image).

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The Verge

MAY 3, 2021

Epic Games Store runs on Amazon Web Services. At many companies, losing this much money would be a problem, but that figure is only slightly more than Epic’s Fortnite revenue from April 2020 , which was $400 million that month. So does Fortnite itself. Fortnite’ pretty much prints cash.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Google parent company Alphabet weathered the tail end of 2020 to post better-than-expected earnings for the fourth quarter of the year. The Google Services division’s profit margins there are immense — Google made more than $19 billion in net income for the fourth quarter of 2020, a 41 percent increase from the fourth quarter of 2019.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Amazon purchased naming rights in June 2020 and put the Climate Pledge name on the 18,100-seat venue as a way to draw more attention to the actual Climate Pledge, a promise to be net-zero carbon by 2040 that was first announced by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos in September 2019.

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GeekWire

APRIL 15, 2021

What’s next: Bezos will step down as CEO in the third quarter of this year, replaced by Amazon Web Services chief Andy Jassy. Amazon Web Services serves millions of customers and ended 2020 with a $50 billion annualized run rate. How much value did we create for shareowners in 2020? More than 1.9

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GeekWire

JANUARY 12, 2021

billion for first nine months of 2020, down from $9.3 Its net loss for the first nine months of this year was $2.2 ” Sharma joined Madrona last year from Amazon Web Services. Expedia has been crushed by the pandemic as travel restrictions slow its business. The company posted revenue of $4.2 billion in 2019.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

A tech veteran with previous startup and CEO experience, as well as a stint at Amazon Web Services, Rob Lipschutz sounds like he’s having the time of his life as a Gen Xer helping Gen Z find a better way to connect online. Social media, with all of its promise, has had a net-negative effect on human beings.

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Vox

DECEMBER 1, 2021

In his 2020 letter to shareholders, Jeff Bezos said it accounted for nearly 60 percent of Amazon’s retail sales, which come from nearly 2 million sellers. That revenue translates to a lot of profit — more than even Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon’s cloud computing platform typically believed to be the company’s most profitable arm.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

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. Amazon Web Services needed more capacity. An Amazon Web Services data center in Sterling, Va. GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop).

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Vox

SEPTEMBER 26, 2020

One could imagine Amazon using satellite broadband to boost its Amazon Web Services (AWS) business, or Facebook using it to ensure that more people get online and look at Facebook. In 2020, there are two main ways companies deliver satellite broadband. The key difference between them is how high the satellites orbit.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Not all of 2020’s developments have been gloomy: David Calhoun, who took the reins as CEO at the beginning of the year , has patiently worked on a turnaround for Washington state’s top aerospace company. 4 more top stories from 2020. How will Boeing fare in 2021? up in the air. That’s a continuing controversy.

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GeekWire

MAY 8, 2020

And, this has been further underscored by their spotty operational performance during the COVID-19 crisis (and in 2020 YTD).”. Amazon Web Services has long been the cloud infrastructure market leader, though Microsoft Azure has gained momentum in recent years. Amazon Web Services posted net sales of $10.2

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The Verge

MAY 20, 2020

Webby Award for Music : Bastille - Doom Days Web AR by Powster. Webby Award and Webby People’s Voice Award for Net Art : 150 years of Nature by IBM Research AI - Northeastern University. Webby Award for Web Services & Applications : Paste by WeTransfer. Webby Award for Travel : Conde Nast Traveler’s City Guides.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 12, 2022

trillion in 2020 to $5.16 Infor, the cloud ERP vendor swallowed by Koch Industries in February 2020, has agreed to sell its enterprise asset management (EAM) business to Swedish firm Hexagon for $2.75 stake in the virtualization software company in a process that will net it a special dividend of around $9.5

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