“With so many programs and attendants, they were like sand lost in the vast ocean and got very little notice” said Vivian Forrest, founder and CEO of China Gathering at SXSW. “SXSW wants to explore the China market and we started the China Gathering program last year.”
“This end of support milestone is a great opportunity for a lot of our customers to transform their applications and infrastructure,” said Arpan Shah, general manager for Azure Infrastructure Product Marketing at Microsoft. That opportunity, however, is also setting up a great competition among the cloud vendors this summer to be part of the “digital transformation” they love to trumpet.
“We respect the individual rights of our associates and have?an open-door policy that allows and encourages associates to bring their comments, questions and concerns directly to their management teams.?We?firmly believe this direct connection is the most effective way to understand and respond to the needs of our workforce and do not believe there is a need for third-party representation.?Amazon’s culture and business model are based on rapid innovation, flexibility and open lines of direct communication between managers and associates.??We are committed to providing not just competitive wages and comprehensive benefits, but also a network of support to ensure our employees succeed.”
“… I have a final piece of advice to Microsoft: Don’t look for inspiration for innovation on the enterprise. Innovation comes from Startups. Although the enterprise revenue probably is 100x the startup revenue for you, every piece of innovation in computer history came first from a startup…”
“With Amazon Music Unlimited, you get all of the great features and functionality of Prime Music…and a lot more,” Amazon notes.
“We have chosen London because it is a leading international foreign exchange hub with 40 percent of global foreign exchange trading,” said Cheng Leilei, general manager of the product development department at Shanghai Clearing House.
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“There’s not one customer profile where we say, ‘OK, that’s our person.’ We sort of cater to everyone. That has helped us sustain our business model for as long as we have because we cater to busy families, working professionals, people who work remotely or even abroad,” Naramore said as she offered GeekWire a recent tour of her expanding Greenwood location, which is doubling in size at 7511 Greenwood Ave. N.
“We just made history in beating Amazon and the Chamber of Commerce by winning my re-election to City Council as a member of Socialist Alternative,” the event page says. “Seattle’s voters have shown that they overwhelmingly support taxing large corporations to fund housing and vital services. With this historic mandate, it’s our movement’s responsibility to strike while the iron is hot.”
“We continue working hard on making the?Amazon?customer experience better and better,” said?Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of?Amazon.com. “We’ve recently introduced?Sunday?delivery coverage to 25% of the U.S. population, launched European cross-border Two-Day Delivery for Prime, launched Prime Music with over one million songs, created three original kids TV series, added world-class parental controls to Fire TV with FreeTime, and launched Kindle Unlimited, an eBook subscription service. For our AWS customers we launched Amazon Zocalo, T2 instances, an SSD-backed EBS volume, Amazon Cognito, Amazon Mobile Analytics, and the AWS Mobile SDK, and we substantially reduced prices. And today customers all over the U.S. will begin receiving their new Fire phones — including Firefly, Dynamic Perspective, and one full year of Prime — we can’t wait to get them in customers’ hands.”
“We believe that we should receive the federal grant but, if not, we are encouraged that several of our major employers are interested in helping fund the launch of the program,” said Alberg, an early Amazon investor who is stepping down from his longtime position on the Amazon board later this year.