by Sam | Jul 15, 2019 | AWS, Did You Know?
Amazon commits $700M to retrain 100k employees, acknowledging impact of tech on jobs Amazon is embarking on a $700 million effort to retrain its U.S. workforce, in a high-profile acknowledgment of the impact of technology and automation on jobs and the workforce. The...
by Sam | Jun 26, 2019 | Apple, AWS, Did You Know?, Facebook, Google, Women in Tech
The future of diversity and inclusion in tech Where the industry needs to go from here Silicon Valley is entering a new phase in its quest for diversity and inclusion in the technology industry. Some advocates call this part “the end of the beginning,” Code2040 CEO...
by Sam | Mar 13, 2019 | AWS, Cloud Computing, Healthcare, IoT, New Technology
Amazon fuels Harvard hospital's machine learning research program Amazon thinks the cloud can make hospitals run better. The company’s Amazon Web Services unit is sponsoring a program at Harvard’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) that applies machine...
by Sam | Feb 15, 2019 | AWS, Cloud Computing, Google, IBM, internet, Microsoft
Google and IBM still trying desperately to move cloud market-share needle When it comes to the cloud market, there are few known knowns. For instance, we know that AWS is the market leader with around 32 percent of market share. We know Microsoft is far back in second...
by Sam | Dec 27, 2018 | AWS, Cloud Computing, Did You Know?, internet, New Technology
Amazon announces a record-breaking holiday, 'tens of millions' of new Prime subscribers Amazon had another record-breaking holiday season, the retailer announced this morning. The company says it added “tens of millions” of people who signed up for Prime memberships,...
