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Microsoft’s Satya Nadella ranked as best CEO in US; Google’s Sundar Pichai, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos make top 10

April 18, 2019 By ezcloud Leave a Comment

Nadella joined the software company in 1992, holding leadership positions including Executive Vice President of Cloud and Enterprise before being named CEO in 2014. “Microsoft had thousands of employees partake in the study. (Nadella) had incredible scores from his team,” said Jason Nazar, Co-Founder and CEO of Comparably.… Read more

Why You Should Start a Business Only While You Have a Job

April 18, 2019 By ezcloud Leave a Comment

Many people that I meet tell me that they dream of starting their own business. I always ask them, “Then why don’t you?” They typically respond by saying that they have so many financial and personal responsibilities, that they can’t just quit their job to start a company, etc.… Read more

Top Patreon creators, of the ‘Intellectual Dark Web,’ say they’re launching an alternate crowdfunding platform not ‘susceptible to arbitrary censorship’

April 18, 2019 By ezcloud Leave a Comment

Jordan Peterson, a Canadian professor who has built a reputation for fighting ‘political correctness’ and ‘cultural Marxism,’ and the Libertarian comedian and pundit Dave Rubin announced Monday that they would launch an alternative to the crowdfunding website Patreon after the removal of several high-profile right-wing users of the service.… Read more

Google, Mozilla, and Opera react to Microsoft’s embrace of Chromium (updated)

April 16, 2019 By ezcloud Leave a Comment

Microsoft today announced it is embracing Chromium for Edge browser development on the desktop. The news includes plenty of exciting changes, including the decoupling of Edge from Windows 10, more frequent updates, and support for Chrome extensions. But we also wanted to find out what other major browser makers think of the news.… Read more

Jeff Bezos Tells New Amazon Employees There Isn’t a Work-Life Balance. Here’s What He Says Instead

April 13, 2019 By ezcloud Leave a Comment

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos isn’t a fan of the phrase “work-life balance.” At an April awards event hosted by Axel Springer and Business Insider US editor in chief Alyson Shontell, Bezos revealed the counterintuitive advice he offers new Amazon employees. Bezos believes that his new hires should stop attempting to achieve “balance” within their professional and personal lives, since that implies a strict trade-off between the two.… Read more

IBM spent $34 billion to take on Amazon. Can it succeed?

March 9, 2019 By ezcloud Leave a Comment

Earlier this year, there were signs that IBM really might pull off a turnaround. After more than five years of shrinking revenues, Big Blue reported three quarters of growth in a row. Sure, that growth wasn’t coming from new businesses, but from milking the upside in existing businesses.… Read more