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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. The company announced they will pay two to three months salary and $10,000 in startup costs if an employee will quit their post and start a package delivery service.… 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. Seattle University has a deep history of educating women and underrepresented minorities in science and engineering.… 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. Microsoft shares rose 4.4%… 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? Now, we know why. … Read more

Ring’s latest smart doorbell installs on your door’s peephole and detects knocks

August 17, 2019 By ezcloud Leave a Comment

Unlike its parent company Amazon, Ring is going really big with public announcements at this year’s CES. The company is introducing 13 new products today, including a new doorbell, smart lights, smoke sensors, and more. It’s so many devices that it can be hard to keep track of them all, but the theme is that Ring is rounding out its ecosystem with products many of its users have been asking and waiting for.… Read more

Amazon has its most profitable quarter ever, but growth is slowing

August 16, 2019 By ezcloud Leave a Comment

Amazon wants to continue its dominance over e-commerce, but it can only grow so much. In its first quarter earnings posted today, Amazon revealed record-high profit, more than double what investors predicted, and revenue was in line with Wall Street expectations, at $59.7… Read more