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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

Relevant to your interests

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Robinhood Raises $3.4 Billion to Fuel Record Customer Growth
Lawmakers Look at GameStop Furor and See a Populist Issue to Seize
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
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