Episode 284: That’s Mr. Jeff to you

This week we discuss Amazon’s new CEO, AWS & GCP Earnings and Facebook vs. Apple. Plus, should you sign up for Clubhouse…?

Rundown

• Bezos out, Jassy In, AWS Earnings
  • Email from Jeff Bezos to employees
  • Amazon's cloud division reports 28% revenue growth; AWS head Andy Jassy to succeed Bezos as Amazon CEO
  • Amazon earnings: Q4 sales topped $100 billion for the first time, Bezos to step down as CEO
  • Jeff Bezos to step down as Amazon CEO, Andy Jassy to take over in Q3
  • Amazon.com Announces Financial Results and CEO Transition
• GCP Earnings
  • Google’s cloud business lost more than $5.5 billion last year, but it’s growing fast
  • Charted: How Google Cloud stacks up to AWS
  • Google Cloud lost $5.61 billion on $13.06 billion revenue last year
• VC Money
  • Honeycomb Raises $20M to Define the Future of Observability
  • Databricks Raises $1 Billion Series G Investment at $28 Billion Valuation
• EOL’d
  • Google is shutting down its in-house Stadia game development studios
  • The writing’s on the wall for Google Stadia
  • IBM Blockchain Is a Shell of Its Former Self After Revenue Misses, Job Cuts: Sources
• Tim Cook May Have Just Ended Facebook
• Apple and Facebook
• Pentagon Hints It Could Abandon the JEDI Cloud Effort

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• A Brief History of Web Design Tools
• WeWork in Talks to Combine With SPAC or Raise Money Privately
• What went wrong with America’s $44 million vaccine data system?
• No Meetings, No Deadlines, No Full-Time Employees
• iCloud Passwords Chrome Windows extension now available
• Docker Hub and JFrog Partnership Removes Image Pull Limits for Artifactory Users
• Amazon Faces Familiar Opponent in Alabama Union Election
• Here’s Why We’re Co-Creating Our Future with Google
• Why You Should Also Switch to Linux
• Elon Musk: Neuralink enabled monkey to 'play video games using his mind'
• Ford and Google sign six-year deal for in-car connectivity and cloud services
• IBM cuts back on blockchain as COVID cuts hit
• Mask-wearers will be able to unlock their iPhone with the Apple Watch
• Azure Quantum is now in Public Preview - Microsoft Quantum
• Atos And DXC Technology Deal ‘Not For The Faint Of Heart:’ Analyst
• Tesla to recall more than 130,000 cars following regulators' pressure

Nonsense

• Refrigerators Are Finally Embracing the Good Ice
• AWS CEO fake Job Post
• 20,000 honey bees took over a tech company’s empty office during lockdown
• Battle Chess : Interplay : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

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