GeekWire

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Amazon Web Services will face a new challenge at its annual re:Invent conference in Las Vegas this week: keeping software developers and big corporate customers engaged with the long-term potential of its cloud platform, while grappling with the more immediate realities of an economic downturn. Amazon Photo).

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FEBRUARY 11, 2021

The Financial Times reported Wednesday that Microsoft has held talks in recent months to acquire Pinterest. The talks, which are “currently not active,” could have led to Microsoft’s largest acquisition to date, given Pinterest is valued upwards of $51 billion. Microsoft Azure trails AWS and Google Cloud is in third.

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GeekWire

MARCH 11, 2023

Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky during a rehearsal session with his professional dance partner Lauren Smith. But a group of notable personalities in the city, including Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky , will do their best to use dance to raise money to help combat the issue.

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GeekWire

MARCH 23, 2021

Tableau CEO Adam Selipsky will join Amazon Web Services as its new CEO. 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. GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop). GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop).

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GeekWire

AUGUST 31, 2020

Founded by two brothers who previously worked at Microsoft and Amazon — Lokesh Taneja and Vishal Taneja — Cloudshim aims to help companies manage cloud infrastructure services and track associated cloud costs. ” The software currently supports Amazon Web Services users but will soon expand to Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure. .

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GeekWire

JULY 30, 2024

Swami Sivasubramanian, Amazon Web Services vice president of AI and data, speaks at a Seattle Tech Week event hosted by Madrona at Amazon on Monday evening. Swami Sivasubramanian , the Amazon Web Services vice president of AI and data, stopped short of saying that last part out loud during an event Monday evening in Seattle.

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GeekWire

JULY 20, 2024

GeekWire Photo / Taylor Soper) The flawed update from cybersecurity software company CrowdStrike has affected 8.5 million Windows devices, Microsoft said in a post Saturday detailing its ongoing response to the extraordinary global IT outage. That number amounts to less than 1 percent of all Windows machines, according to the company.

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Network World

JULY 11, 2024

Microsoft has reportedly agreed to pay $22 million to settle an antitrust complaint with a group representing cloud computing companies in Europe. A complaint was filed in 2022 by CISPE (Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers Europe) accusing Microsoft of unfair licensing practices that hurt Europe’s cloud computing ecosystem.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Atom Computing is working with Microsoft on fault-tolerant quantum computers. Atom Computing Photo) Microsoft and Atom Computing say they’ve reached a new milestone in their effort to build fault-tolerant quantum computers that can show an advantage over classical computers.

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MAY 21, 2024

Microsoft Photo / Scott Eklund) Online education platform Khan Academy is shifting a portion of its cloud workload to Microsoft Azure under a partnership announced Tuesday morning. Microsoft announced the partnership at its Build developer conference in Seattle.

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CTOvision

MARCH 13, 2017

Major cloud infrastructure services like Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services have fueled new hiring strategies, with 81% of enterprises adopting DevOps strategies and engineers. Still, for business leaders without a strong technical background, cloud computing can seem almost impenetrable.

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OCTOBER 28, 2024

billion parameters, which allows the software to run on phones and edge devices. ” Allen previously spent seven years at Amazon Web Services, where he helped build AWS IQ, a marketplace for on-demand AWS talent, as well as internal sales products. . The model is small by today’s standards, operating with 1.6

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Changes Microsoft made to its cloud licensing of Windows and application software to “make bringing workloads and licenses to partners’ clouds easier,” the company says, have drawn the ire of those cloud partners, some of whom have jointly filed an antitrust complaint in the European Union.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Seeq raised another $28 million for its analytics software used by industrial manufacturers to collect and analyze data. It has close partnerships with Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. Founded in 2012, Seeq helps customers across various industries — oil and gas; food and beverage; metals and mining; etc.

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GeekWire

JULY 12, 2023

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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GeekWire

JUNE 24, 2020

A new Amazon service called Honeycode promises to let non-developers quickly create interactive web and mobile apps without knowing how to develop software. Amazon is looking to defend its lead as the top public cloud platform against rivals such as Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud.

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GeekWire

MAY 18, 2021

Amazon, which one year ago barred police from using its facial recognition software, is extending that moratorium indefinitely. The online retail giant first withheld use of the software by law enforcement last year when waves of protests erupted in cities across the country in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd during an arrest.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 16, 2023

Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky (left) and his wife Laura Selipsky. Seattle Sounders FC announced Wednesday that the families of Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky and Redapt CEO Rick Cantu are now owners. They join several other tech execs, including Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, who became owners in 2019.

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GeekWire

APRIL 13, 2021

Seeq’s software: Founded in 2012, Seeq’s analytics software is used by industrial manufacturers to collect and analyze data. It has close partnerships with Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. Seeq CEO Steve Sliwa. Seeq Photo). or, “How much of my product was manufactured under those conditions?”.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Microsoft says it was able to mitigate a 2.4Tbps Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack in August. The attack targeted an Azure customer in Europe, and was 140 percent higher than the highest attack bandwidth volume Microsoft recorded in 2020. Image: Microsoft. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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GeekWire

JUNE 9, 2021

Gert Drapers and Omri Gazitt have more than six decades of experience working in engineering and product leadership roles at companies including Microsoft, HP Cloud, Puppet, and Hulu. Now they’re teaming up on a new startup building authorization-as-a-service software. Aserto announced a $5.1

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Microsoft is in talks with Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe (CISPE) to settle the trade body’s complaint about its cloud software licensing practices in the European Union (EU). It is really key for Microsoft to try to limit both economic and reputational damage from a possible investigation.”

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

(GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser) OpenTug , Seattle-based makers of marine transportation logistics software, has raised $3.1 The fresh cash will be used to further develop OpenTug’s maritime marketplace and software platform and grow its network of shippers and service providers. We’re determined to help the U.S.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

For the past 10 months, Amazon Web Services has been running data through its cloud-based software platform on what’s arguably the world’s edgiest edge: a satellite in low Earth orbit. Axiom Space is also partnering with Microsoft Azure and LEOCloud on a separate project to put cloud infrastructure in orbit.).

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

The world’s largest and most northerly commercial satellite ground station, KSAT’s Svalbard Station in Norway’s Arctic archipelago, will be part of Microsoft’s Azure Orbital network. ” Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich at the GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit. Microsoft Graphic). KSAT Photo).

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GeekWire

APRIL 30, 2024

These servers inside a Microsoft data center in Quincy, Wash., Microsoft Photo / John Brecher) Analysts, investors, and the media are suddenly focused intensely on capital expenditures by tech giants including Microsoft, Meta, Google, and others to size up the industry’s bet on the cloud and artificial intelligence.

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The Verge

JUNE 4, 2020

The deal comes just as Slack faces increased competition from Microsoft Teams, and it will also see Slack migrate its voice and video calling features over to Amazon’s Chime platform alongside a broader adoption of Amazon Web Services (AWS). Slack has already started the migration, and it’s looking into new features.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Microsoft President Brad Smith discusses his book, Tools and Weapons, at a 2019 event in Seattle. Microsoft President Brad Smith says the U.S. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella convened a daily meeting with the company’s top security experts. A new paperback edition includes three new chapters. 11 attacks. .

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GeekWire

MAY 5, 2021

To alleviate India’s severe oxygen shortage, Microsoft worked with the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum to provide oxygen concentration devices to healthcare facilities in India. FedEx Photo via Microsoft). Taking action: In a blog post Wednesday, Kate Behncken, head of Microsoft Philanthropies, laid out what the Redmond, Wash.-based

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GeekWire

MAY 18, 2020

Microsoft and FedEx will work together to develop new products and services under a multiyear technology and logistics partnership announced Monday morning. The newly announced partnership will rely heavily on Microsoft Azure, the No. Microsoft shares are up about 1%. GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser).

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Microsoft has accused Google of building a lobby front in Europe to take action against Microsoft. 28, Rima Alaily, Microsoft corporate vice president and deputy general counsel, described the recently founded Open Cloud Coalition (OCC) , allegedly financed and controlled by Google, as an “astroturf group.”

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GeekWire

JULY 28, 2021

Microsoft has acquired Suplari , a Seattle startup that uses artificial intelligence to help companies understand and get a handle on their spending. The software serves as an alternative to compiling data in an app such as Excel or Tableau and having a team of analysts comb through the information themselves. Suplari Photo).

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Microsoft President Brad Smith. Microsoft announced a scholarship program for U.S. Altogether, the campaign aims to to train as many as 250,000 new cybersecurity workers in the country by 2025, most of whom will work for businesses other than Microsoft. GeekWire File Photo / Dan DeLong). government agencies.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

NFL fans will show up on a live “Fan Mosaic” during games this season thanks to a partnership with Microsoft. Microsoft Image). Microsoft is becoming the de-facto virtual fan enabler for sports leagues. Previously: I was a virtual NBA fan: What it’s like to cheer from the digital sidelines in Microsoft Teams.

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GeekWire

MAY 20, 2024

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella addresses a media briefing in Redmond on Monday morning. Microsoft showed new integrations between its Copilot artificial intelligence technologies and its Windows PC operating system, and previewed a new class of personal computers designed to further build AI capabilities into its longtime software platform.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 22, 2024

Microsoft has realized that every cloud, not just Microsoft Azure, has a silver lining, and that many clients use other cloud services, so it makes sense not to limit their market, UK-based analyst Phil Brunkard said today. However, even with these deals, Microsoft is still under the microscope, especially in Spain.”

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GeekWire

MARCH 14, 2022

(Photo by John Brecher for Microsoft). Microsoft says its researchers have found evidence of an exotic phenomenon that’s key to its plans to build general-purpose quantum computers. Microsoft has chosen a particularly exotic technological strategy, which involves inducing quantum states on topological superconducting wires.

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