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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

Apple’s cloud business is hugely dependent on Amazon

August 16, 2019 By ezcloud Leave a Comment

Apple’s future beyond the iPhone increasingly involves software services, ranging from Apple Music and iCloud to its new TV Plus video offering and its News Plus magazine subscription. Yet a big factor in helping those cloud-based services operate across its nearly 1.5… 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

Google Cloud is using Anthos and AutoML to differentiate itself from AWS and Azure

August 6, 2019 By ezcloud Leave a Comment

Google Cloud now is now using Anthos and AutoML to differentiate itself from market leaders Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure, chief AI scientist Andrew Moore and product management director Rajen Sheth told VentureBeat. “If I’m running a small business or startup that is depending on the cloud provider’s technology, if I go with Google I can actually sell to customers the ability to run their models on premise, or on GCP, or other clouds, so this huge flexibility helps,” Moore told VentureBeat in a conversation with reporters Thursday. Google Cloud got a lot more flexible this week with the introduction of Anthos, a hybrid cloud management system that connects with AWS and Azure.… Read more

Atlassian gives Confluence a makeover, acquires Good Software

August 6, 2019 By ezcloud Leave a Comment

Atlassian today announced a new version of Confluence, its collaboration platform. While the company has recently focused more on tools like Jira, Bitbucket and Trello, Confluence has continued to gain traction as a content collaboration tool for technical and non-technical teams.… Read more