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Report: Amazon’s HQ2 Search Grew Out of Jeff Bezos’s Tesla Envy

April 28, 2020 By ezcloud Leave a Comment

Getty Images Amazon’s doomed search for HQ2, its second headquarters, came about because Jeff Bezos was envious of the large incentive Elon Musk was able to command from Nevada for Tesla’s giant battery factory, a new report says. There’s a lesson there for every leader: Be careful of letting emotions, especially negative emotions, drive your business decisions.… Read more

A Cloud Guru Announces Acquisition of Linux Academy

April 27, 2020 By ezcloud Leave a Comment

Combined organization now represents THE school for the future of IT with the largest cloud computing training library in the world AUSTIN, TX – Today, A Cloud Guru announced the acquisition of Linux Academy, creating the largest and most effective cloud computing training platform in the world.… Read more

Amazon Just Announced It Will Pay Employees $10,000 and 3-Months Salary to Quit and Do This Instead

August 20, 2019 By ezcloud Leave a Comment

Amazon is breaking paradigms everywhere these days. They have competitors of all kinds reeling and are innovating on everything from retail store format to how a HQ location is selected. They’re at it again, announcing this week, of all things, a new program that incentivizes employees to quit their job.… Read more

A $3M gift to expand STEM talent

August 20, 2019 By ezcloud Leave a Comment

Seattle University announced today that Amazon has made a $3 million gift to the new Center for Science and Innovation. This gift supports the school’s commitment to increase access to computer science and STEM education, particularly for women and underrepresented minorities.… Read more

Microsoft tops $1 trillion as it predicts more cloud growth

August 17, 2019 By ezcloud Leave a Comment

(Reuters) – Microsoft Corp on Wednesday briefly topped $1 trillion in value for the first time after executives predicted continued growth for its cloud computing business. The Redmond, Washington-based company beat Wall Street estimates for quarterly profit and revenue, powered by an unexpected boost in Windows revenue and brisk growth in its cloud business which has reached tens of billions of dollars in sales.… Read more

Turns out Amazon buying Eero wasn’t the startup success story we thought

August 17, 2019 By ezcloud Leave a Comment

When Amazon bought mesh Wi-Fi router company Eero, our first reactions were of exhaustion, consternation and concern: why couldn’t a tiny company with an excellent privacy-minded product be left to its own devices, instead of getting snapped up by the big data giant from Seattle?… Read more