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

MARCH 27, 2024

Environmental activists with a group called the Troublemakers blocked entrances at Amazon’s Day 1 building in Seattle on the morning of March 27, 2024. A Washington-based group called the Troublemakers organized the action, calling on the tech giant to cancel its plans to use natural gas from a new pipeline being built in Oregon.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Madrona Venture Group’s S. Madrona Venture Group Photo). The IPO is a windfall for the company’s investors, including Madrona Venture Group. based company more than doubled revenue to $242 million in the first half of 2020, with a net loss of $171.3 billion in the largest software IPO ever. Soma” Somasegar.

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GeekWire

JUNE 30, 2021

But at the same time, the company last year lowered its carbon intensity, a measure of carbon pollution per dollar earned, edging slightly towards its pledged goal to reduce its net carbon footprint to zero by 2040. The company, which employs more than 1 million people worldwide, posted record revenue of $386 billion last year.

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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 also sells its tech to CPA and law firms including Mazars Group, Baker Tilly, Armanino and RSM, among others. ” Valid8 co-founder and CEO Chris McCall. .

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The employee advocacy group found that only 14% of those surveyed believe that climate impacts are a key consideration when Amazon leaders make business decisions. Amazon spokesperson Steve Kelly pushed back on the validity of the group’s survey. The company tallied 68.8 million people worldwide. . million people worldwide.

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GeekWire

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. Seattle Freeze was even a leading contender among more sarcastic name watchers. Seattle Kraken Image).

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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’s announcement last year came amid public pressure from the group Amazon Employees for Climate Justice , which urged the company to set more specific goals on climate change.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Their results from a study of 139 infected people ranging from mild cases to hospitalizations and from an additional control group were published this week in print in the peer-reviewed journal Cell. Another paper on less severe cases is in review. The approach gives insight into the functions of various organs as well as the immune response.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 6, 2024

Startup investor Nancy Wang sees the potential for generative artificial intelligence to change the balance of power in fields such as cybersecurity, which is one of her areas of focus, leveraging her background as a former Amazon Web Services general manager and Google lead product manager. Collaborating with the U.S.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 12, 2021

George “Skip” Battle , the former CEO of AskJeeves, has resigned from Expedia Group’s board of directors. AskJeeves was acquired in 2005 by IAC, the internet media company run by Barry Diller, who is also chairman of Seattle-based Expedia Group. Its net loss for the first nine months of this year was $2.2 Skip Battle.

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GeekWire

MAY 13, 2024

In March, news broke that Amazon Web Services is spending $650 million on a data center in Pennsylvania that’s plugged into the nation’s sixth largest nuclear power plant, providing up to 960 megawatts of carbon-free energy for its operations. Europe, Asia and Latin America.

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GeekWire

JUNE 5, 2023

I think it’ll probably be the biggest Gen AI hackathon that we’ve seen in our community yet,” said Jon Turow, a partner at Madrona Venture Group, former Amazon Web Services product leader and one of the organizers of the event. “We’ve Change is hard for people but ultimately, it nets out.” to 8:00 p.m.

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Cloud Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Personal comments and insight on cloud computing related technologies and their use in the public sector to support net-centric operations. According to Federal News Radio , GSA awarded eleven vendor spots in the first Federal cloud infrastructure-as-a-service award. partnered with Amazon Web Services. * GovCloud Daily.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

He was echoing the March 2017 sentiment of Tim Leiweke, CEO of Oak View Group , which led the arena redevelopment. ” “We immediately began to talk to them about developing a self-service concessions stand in this facility, using their cloud system,” Leiweke said.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The peculiar moniker was a naming-rights purchase by Amazon , a first for the tech giant, whose influence will be felt in green initiatives throughout the net zero carbon building. Oak View Group CEO Tim Leiweke has even said that he envisions drone delivery of fans 10 years from now. Seattle Kraken Image).

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Trollope spent more than two decades at Symantec and was an SVP at Cisco Systems as part of the collaboration technology group. million, up 41%, and a non-GAAP net loss of $0.06 based CloudMoyo, Kaiser Permanente, Amazon Web Services, and Microsoft. He is currently the CEO of contact center software provider Five9.

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Cloud Musings

MARCH 25, 2013

Personal comments and insight on cloud computing related technologies and their use in the public sector to support net-centric operations. In short, typical Amazon Web Services users are not following relatively well know best practices when they deploy to the cloud. Connect via: CLOUD COMPUTING WORKING GROUP.

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The Verge

MAY 3, 2021

While Epic has cobbled together an alliance called the Coalition for App Fairness — along with Spotify, Match Group, Basecamp, and Tile — there’s one more tech behemoth in play. Epic Games Store runs on Amazon Web Services. Epic threw an… epic… hissy fit about this, culminating in the trial starting this week.

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Cloud Musings

JUNE 14, 2013

Personal comments and insight on cloud computing related technologies and their use in the public sector to support net-centric operations. Benioff’s mission, “The End of Software,” is as brash as it has been predictive in an era that has seen the rise of Google Apps, Amazon Web Services and an entire SaaS industry.

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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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Cloud Musings

APRIL 27, 2011

Personal comments and insight on cloud computing related technologies and their use in the public sector to support net-centric operations. CloudeFX is a robust software framework that is a self-contained, vendor agnostic service development environment where anyone can build custom applications from a browser - without programming.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 1, 2023

Its research uncovered that the big three providers of cloud infrastructure services, known as the hyperscalers, together controlled between 65% and 80% of the UK market in 2021. Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft together had a 60 to 70% share while Google, a late entrant, had 5 to 10%. Microsoft doubts that.

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Cloud Musings

JANUARY 26, 2012

Personal comments and insight on cloud computing related technologies and their use in the public sector to support net-centric operations. The SaaS Maker™ family of platform products is open and modular, so that you can integrate with existing open source, legacy and 3rd-party web services. Cloud Musings by Kevin L.

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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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Cloud Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Personal comments and insight on cloud computing related technologies and their use in the public sector to support net-centric operations. Computer Services Corporation Enforcement, Security & Intelligence Group. Lockheed Martin Information Systems & Global Services. Connect via: CLOUD COMPUTING WORKING GROUP.

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Cloud Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Personal comments and insight on cloud computing related technologies and their use in the public sector to support net-centric operations. will turn to cloud services brokers to manage the growing complexity. problem by integrating heterogeneous infrastructure services; whereas. Connect via: CLOUD COMPUTING WORKING GROUP.

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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. Our net income in 2020 was $21.3 “I’m an inventor. More than 1.9

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Galido

MARCH 22, 2019

Techvibes was founded in 2002 by President and Editor-in-Chief Robert Lewis and in June 2016 it was acquired by technology consulting firm, Konrad Group. Boing Boing is a website, first established as a zine in 1988, later becoming a group blog. Help Net Security. Tech Gadget and Computer HardwareBlogs. Boing Boing.

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Galido

MAY 1, 2019

Techvibes was founded in 2002 by President and Editor-in-Chief Robert Lewis and in June 2016 it was acquired by technology consulting firm, Konrad Group. Boing Boing is a website, first established as a zine in 1988, later becoming a group blog. Help Net Security. Tech Gadget and Computer HardwareBlogs. Boing Boing.

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Galido

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Techvibes was founded in 2002 by President and Editor-in-Chief Robert Lewis and in June 2016 it was acquired by technology consulting firm, Konrad Group. Boing Boing is a website, first established as a zine in 1988, later becoming a group blog. Help Net Security. Tech Gadget and Computer HardwareBlogs. Boing Boing.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Founder: Bolbi Liu was previously a product manager at Amazon Web Services. ” Unplugging in Seattle: “There are a couple of cricket nets and clubs that I found here in Seattle,” Menon said. “We’re both local and the three of us are apparently the only group that has chickens in this cohort.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Among those on board was Robert Isom, president of American Airlines Group. And it’s showing results: After suffering through a negative trend in net orders , Boeing reported a boost in 737 MAX orders and options from Alaska Airlines last week. In the weeks ahead, other U.S. air carriers will be following suit.

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Vox

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Along with Amazon Web Services, advertising has emerged as one of the company’s top two profit engines. In other cases, a grouping of product listings will appear above search results, with the sponsored label relegated to the far bottom-right corner. And one that doesn’t have a clear-cut answer for now.

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The Verge

MAY 20, 2020

Webby People’s Voice Award for Community : Stack Overflow by Moxie Communications Group. 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. Collective.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 12, 2022

Ping Identity, a provider of cloud-based enterprise identification services, has acquired SecuredTouch, a fraud and bot detection service, for an undisclosed sum. Addison Group buys HCM specialist ArcLight Consulting. stake in the virtualization software company in a process that will net it a special dividend of around $9.5

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Amazon has unveiled sweeping new sustainability policies over the last few years, but environmentalists — including the internal group Amazon Employees for Climate Justice — are demanding the company sever ties with the fossil fuel industry.

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