CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 21, 2024

Global insurance company A large insurance company adopted a cloud-based document management system to enable paperless operations around the world and simplify regulatory compliance. The IT team worked closely with business users to build a solution “in which paper wasn’t part of the process,” the company’s SVP and CIO said.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 16, 2024

by 2039 — a goal the companies deemed “the largest commercial deployment target” of its kind. data center hub, and electricity demands in the region are expected to spike 85% over the next 15 years, the companies report. Virginia is a U.S.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 11, 2024

Pegasystems has announced plans to expand the capabilities of its Pega GenAI enterprise platform by connecting to both Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud large language models (LLMs). Also, companies may have existing preferences for which language models they prefer.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 17, 2020

Shares of Rackspace climbed as much as 19% at one point this morning amid reports that Amazon is in talks for a potential investment in the cloud infrastructure and services company. billion and a net loss of $102.3 Neither company is commenting on the reports of the potential investment. million in 2019.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 4, 2023

The chart below is what Amazon’s net sales look like in raw numbers over the past several years, broken down into the major business segments reported by the Seattle-based company. Here are the same results, expressed as a percentage of net sales. Here’s how the company defines each segment in its 10Q filing.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Providing hardware, software, and IT solutions and services, the company also delivers an extensive array of cloud offerings from dedicated private clouds to deployments with the world’s largest hyperscalers, including Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The company also announced a $20 increase in its annual Prime membership fee , to $139 from $119 previously. billion the fourth quarter of the prior year, providing a more telling view of the state of the company’s business. Amazon Web Services, the company’s cloud division, posted $17.8

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GeekWire

JULY 29, 2021

Amazon posted net sales of 113.1 The result was within the range of the company’s previously issued guidance of net sales between $110 billion and $116 billion. However, Wall Street analysts had expected Amazon to report overall net sales of $115 billion, on average, a 29% increase year-over-year. billion or $15.12

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Network World

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Misconfigurations: In the public cloud model, the hyperscalers (such as Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure) are responsible for protecting their own infrastructure, but the enterprise using them — you — is responsible for properly configuring and managing its own data in the cloud. What is my biggest pain point?

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GeekWire

MAY 5, 2021

Amazon’s stock price soared last year to record-highs amid the pandemic as the company’s e-commerce, cloud computing, and advertising arms have boomed. Bezos is the world’s richest person, currently with a net worth of $191 billion, according to Bloomberg. 16, according to the company’s annual proxy statement.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Few would swap sunny San Francisco and the innovation of Silicon Valley for a train ticketing company serving disgruntled UK commuters, but try telling that to Trainline CTO, Milena Nikolic. The company sold more than 204 tickets every minute. The company has approximately 800 staff in total across the business.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos will step down as CEO and transition to a new position at the company as executive chair of the Amazon board in Q3 2021. Andy Jassy , who currently serves as CEO of Amazon Web Services (AWS), will replace Bezos as Amazon CEO. Jassy is a familiar face at the company, having joined back in 1997.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 3, 2013

There are also many web services only available via IE (ugh). Via Help Net Security, more here. In other words, Dropbox is now available on the Knox Apps store, which the company says will give employees the access they want while maintaining “crucial IT control.”‘ Via ComputerWorld, more here.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The Seattle-area software company set records “on multiple financial and operational levels,” CEO Mark Mader said in a statement following a third quarter earnings report. million and non-GAAP net loss per share was $0.03, beating expectations. million people and 100,000 companies now use its platform.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Net sales rose 15% to $110.8 billion, toward the high end of the company’s prior guidance, missing analyst expectations of $111.6 For the fourth quarter, Amazon is projecting net sales between $130 billion and $140 billion, or an increase of 4% to 12% from a year earlier. For the third quarter, Amazon posted earnings of $6.12

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GeekWire

MAY 13, 2024

Microsoft has an agreement with the startup to purchase its clean power — if the company is able to produce it. But the green power opportunities are getting harder to come by, said Sarah Delp, global director of buyer engagement for LevelTen Energy , a Seattle company helping organizations make renewable power purchases.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

billion in capital expenditures in the fourth quarter, and the company plans to keep spending at that pace in 2025, which would put the total at more than $100 billion for the year. When the cost of a technology component like AI inference comes down, Jassy said, it doesn’t mean companies will spend less overall on technology.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Amazon will invest up to $4 billion and take a minority stake in Anthropic , the San Francisco-based artificial intelligence company founded two years ago by former OpenAI executives and considered one of the world’s top AI labs. Anthropic makes large-scale AI models and a chatbot called Claude. ”

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

But Nasdaq is far more than a financial exchange, offers Peterson; it is a global technology company that is expanding into surveillance and security, continuing to build its SaaS business, and applying AI to many financial applications, he says. The company, which reported net revenues of $3.6 Not just the technology group.”

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GeekWire

MARCH 26, 2021

The longtime NBA player, who last played for the Brooklyn Nets during the 2019 season, was a standout player at Seattle’s Rainier Beach High School in the late 1990s. You can still get one on Amazon for $350 and the company posted $224 million in revenue during the third quarter. BlackBerry has lasted just as long.

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Vox

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

While the fundraising effort is certainly notable, Bezos’s commitment to protecting the environment serves as a stark reminder that much of his legacy and largely untaxed fortune was built by companies that have staggering carbon footprints. Meanwhile, Amazon Web Services (AWS) uses massive amounts of energy to keep its servers online.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 18, 2020

Walmart’s ecommerce business in the United States grew 97% in the company’s second fiscal quarter, ended July 31, the retail giant reported Tuesday morning. net sales for the first time, according to GeekWire’s calculations, based on Walmart’s current and past financial results. .” billion, or $2.29/share.

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GeekWire

JULY 29, 2021

While the company typically doesn’t disclose detailed Prime Day financial results, its overall numbers will provide new clues about how things went. 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. per share a year ago.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Amazon founder and soon-to-be-former CEO Jeff Bezos is stepping down from his role , making way for Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy to take his place, and the company couldn’t be in better shape financially for the big transition. Amazon’s full-year 2020 net sales were up 38 percent, to $386.1

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GeekWire

APRIL 8, 2024

(GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Amazon’s employment in Washington state, including warehouse and corporate workers, fell by 3,000 people to 87,000 employees between early 2023 and early 2024 — its first recorded year-over-year employment decline in the state since the company was founded nearly 30 years ago in Jeff Bezos’ Bellevue garage.

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GeekWire

JULY 1, 2024

Tomo Photo) — Carey Schwaber Armstrong , the former Zillow exec who co-founded real estate startup Tomo four years ago, has stepped down from the company. The company raised $40 million at a $640 million valuation in 2022 but laid off staff later that year amid a rocky real estate market. The company raised a $33.1

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Net income was $0.94 Amazon’s cost-cutting moves over the past year, including thousands of layoffs and tightening of its fulfillment network, appear to be helping improve the company’s bottom line as it manages macroeconomic forces such as inflation and interest rates. Amazon reported $143.1 per share, or $9.9

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GeekWire

APRIL 27, 2023

An Amazon delivery van at the company’s headquarters in Seattle. But its stock was down more than 2% later on Thursday after the company’s earnings call with analysts. But its stock was down more than 2% later on Thursday after the company’s earnings call with analysts. Net income was $0.31 billion.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Amazon Web Services chief Andy Jassy will replace Bezos, who founded Amazon 27 years ago. The company recorded a whopping $386 billion in annual revenue last year. The company recorded a whopping $386 billion in annual revenue last year. Here’s a quick breakdown of the company’s financials from the quarter.

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GeekWire

APRIL 30, 2024

were the first to be powered by the company’s Azure Cobalt 100 CPU, as part of a broader cloud infrastructure buildout. The big question, long-term, is whether demand for AI services will be worth the investment for each company. These servers inside a Microsoft data center in Quincy, Wash., What about Amazon?

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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. The company is investing heavily in data center infrastructure to power its AI services. From 2020 to 2023, the company’s carbon impact rose 13%.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 1, 2024

Amazon’s sales fell short of Wall Street’s estimates but profits exceeded expectations in the company’s second quarter results , released Thursday afternoon for the three months ended June 30, 2024. Highlights from the company’s business segments: AWS revenue was $26.3 billion, shy of expectations of $148.56

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GeekWire

JANUARY 24, 2023

Common use cases include divorce disputes between high net-worth individuals, insurance companies auditing for Medicare fraud, and chapter 11 bankruptcies. The company’s investors include Capital Midwest, which led the seed round, in addition to First Trust Capital, CPA.com, Green Cow VC and others. That follows a $6.3

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GeekWire

JULY 25, 2023

The result, posted Tuesday as part of its parent company Alphabet’s quarterly earnings , followed Google Cloud’s first-ever profit of $191 million in the first quarter of this year. billion, with net income of $18.4 based company topped Wall Street’s expectations across the board.

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GeekWire

JULY 20, 2020

Amazon has become one of the top beneficiaries of social distancing mandates amid the COVID-19 pandemic as more people rely on its online store, cloud computing services, digital media offerings, and more amid the pandemic. The company is currently valued at more than $1.5 trillion, with shares trading around $3,150 on Monday.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 1, 2023

Amazon’s cloud revenue growth rate and its artificial intelligence initiatives will be closely scrutinized when the company reports second-quarter earnings Thursday afternoon, Aug. Wall Street analysts expect the company to report net sales (revenue) of $131.5 Amazon Web Services revenue growth declined to 15.8%

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GeekWire

AUGUST 24, 2020

Cloud computing startup Snowflake Computing filed for an IPO on Monday, revealing its financial data for the first time as the company prepares to go public. based company said it more than doubled revenue to $242 million in the first half of 2020, with a net loss of $171.3 The San Mateo, Calif.-based Slootman owns 5.9%

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