“Already in AWS, while the majority of people are here in Seattle, we have teams all over the world,” he said. “We have teams in Virginia, we have teams in Boston, we have teams in Dublin, we have teams in Cape Town (South Africa). The original EC2 product (the basic cloud compute service) was built by a team in Cape Town.”
“Bosch,” Amazon’s first original hour-long drama, will be coming to Prime Instant Video on February 13, since nothing says “Happy Valentine’s Day” quite like a crime procedural. The show, which is based on Michael Connelly’s series of Harry Bosch detective novels, follows the titular character through solving crimes in Los Angeles.
“As a matter of fact, we’re going backwards,” she said, explaining that 36 percent of all tech jobs were held by women in 1991. That number is only 25 percent today, she said.
“But very few people come to voice their opinions in terms of politics. So if we don’t do it today, it’ll remain hard for our kids to make changes.
“CCP12 will continue to leverage its expertise to respond to regulatory initiatives, promote global industry best practices, and contribute to the development of the clearing industry.”
“Even if Netflix’s churn levels fall to record lows, we estimate that over 48MM out of 92MM residential broadband households (~53%) would need to watch Netflix over the next 12 months to meet our 2014E domestic sub forecast of 39MM. If monthly churn is closer Netflix’s long-term average of ~4%, the number of households would need to reach ~52MM (~57%).”
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“Amazon is the best thing that’s happened to Seattle since the Denny Party,” said Allison, referencing the city’s founding settlers who landed at Alki Point in 1851. “I think many of us have PTSD from the dot com crash, and to a lesser extent the Boeing turn-out-the-lights era, but Seattle now is recognized by national investors and companies less as a boom-bust town and into a permanent fixture on the scene, similar to a NYC, San Francisco, Boston and Chicago.”
“I think it’s fair to assume a high proportion of smart speaker demand is fueled by intrigue, novelty and certain gimmicky features which consumers tire of over time,” Bryant told GeekWire. And as the market has moved to the mainstream, Bryant said, there is less enthusiastic use of new consumer electronics. So the blend of ownership affects what’s most popular.
“Amazon is a fierce competitor,” he wrote. “If you work in the grocery business, you’re looking at what happened to bookstores, you’re looking at what’s happening to the retail industry, and you’re thinking, ‘Uh oh, I’m next.'”
“Grassroots mediators belong to the category of people who know best how each dispute arises,” he said, adding that they should be better trained to enhance capabilities to defuse and handle disputes at the earliest possible moment.